Sarah Gille is a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography known for her research on the role of the Southern Ocean in the global climate system.
[1][2] Her Ph.D. research used satellites to measured spatial and temporal variability in sea surface heights in the Southern Ocean, including modeling of those data.
[3][4][5][non-primary source needed] After her doctoral work, Gille trained further as a postdoctoral investigator at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of East Anglia.[1][when?]
In 2000 she moved back to the University of California, San Diego where, as of 2024 she is jointly affiliated with Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
[9] Gille's research includes measuring winds from space using the QuickSCAT platform,[10] and assimilating tracer and float data from the Southern Ocean into global models.