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Bernard Legras

Bernard Legras

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
52
Citations
8865
World Ranking
4536
National Ranking
195

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Bernard Legras is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, focusing extensively on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change as subfields.

Their main topics of study include:

  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics

Legras has contributed numerous papers to prominent publication venues. Their most frequent venues of publication include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Remote Sensing

Some recent publications authored or co-authored by Bernard Legras are:

  • "Stratospheric aerosol layer perturbation caused by the 2019 Raikoke and Ulawun eruptions and their radiative forcing" (2021) in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "The unexpected radiative impact of the Hunga Tonga eruption of 15th January 2022" (2022) in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Temperature and tropopause characteristics from reanalyses data in the tropical tropopause layer" (2020) in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Global perturbation of stratospheric water and aerosol burden by Hunga eruption" (2022) in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "The evolution and dynamics of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai sulfate aerosol plume in the stratosphere" (2022) in Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Legras has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Pasquale Sellitto
  • Aurélien Podglajen
  • Silvia Bucci
  • Corinna Kloss
  • Fabrice Jégou

In 2006, Bernard Legras was recognized as a Member of the Academia Europaea.

Best Publications

  • Weather Regimes: Recurrence and Quasi Stationarity

    Paul-Antoine Michelangeli;Robert Vautard;Bernard Legras

  • Persistent Anomalies, Blocking and Variations in Atmospheric Predictability

    B. Legras;Michael Ghil

  • A Study of Barotropic Model Flows: Intermittency, Waves and Predictability

    C. Basdevant;B. Legras;R. Sadourny;M. Béland

  • High-Resolution Numerical Experiments for Forced Two-Dimensional Turbulence

    B. Legras;P. Santangelo;R. Benzi

  • The generation of vortices in high‐resolution, two‐dimensional decaying turbulence and the influence of initial conditions on the breaking of self‐similarity

    P. Santangelo;R. Benzi;B. Legras

  • Vorticity and passive-scalar dynamics in two-dimensional turbulence

    Armando Babiano;Claude Basdevant;Bernard Legras;Robert Sadourny

  • The unexpected radiative impact of the Hunga Tonga eruption of 15th January 2022

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  • Relation between kinematic boundaries, stirring, and barriers for the Antarctic polar vortex

    Binson Joseph;Bernard Legras

  • Ammonium nitrate particles formed in upper troposphere from ground ammonia sources during Asian monsoons

    Michael Höpfner;Jörn Ungermann;Stephan Borrmann;Stephan Borrmann;Robert Wagner

  • Vortex stripping and the erosion of coherent structures in two‐dimensional flows

    Annarita Mariotti;Bernard Legras;David G. Dritschel

  • On the Source of Midlatitude Low-Frequency Variability. Part II: Nonlinear Equilibration of Weather Regimes

    Robert Vautard;Bernard Legras

  • Stratospheric aerosol layer perturbation caused by the 2019 Raikoke and Ulawun eruptions and their radiative forcing

    Corinna Kloss;Gwenaël Berthet;Pasquale Sellitto;Felix Ploeger;Felix Ploeger

  • Mixing and deformations in mantle plumes

    Cinzia G. Farnetani;Bernard Legras;Paul J. Tackley

  • Hyperbolic lines and the stratospheric polar vortex

    Tieh Yong. Koh;Bernard. Legras

  • Global perturbation of stratospheric water and aerosol burden by Hunga eruption

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  • Evaluating the advective Brewer-Dobson circulation in three reanalyses for the period 1979-2012

    Marta Abalos;Bernard Legras;Felix Ploeger;William J. Randel

  • The effect of small-scale inhomogeneities on ozone depletion in the Arctic

    S. Edouard;B. Legras;F. Lefèvre;R. Eymard

  • The diabatic heat budget of the upper troposphere and lower/mid stratosphere in ECMWF reanalyses

    Stephan Andreas Fueglistaler;B. Legras;A. Beljaars;J. J. Morcrette

  • Vortex stripping and the generation of high vorticity gradients in two-dimensional flows

    B. Legras;D. Dritschel

  • Water vapor transport and dehydration above convective outflow during Asian monsoon

    R. James;M. Bonazzola;B. Legras;K. Surbled

  • The life-cycle of tripoles in two-dimensional incompressible flows

    Xavier Carton;Bernard Legras

  • The 2019/20 Australian wildfires generated a persistent smoke-charged vortex rising up to 35 km altitude

    Sergey Khaykin;Bernard Legras;Silvia Bucci;Pasquale Sellitto

Frequent Co-Authors

Felix Ploeger
Felix Ploeger Forschungszentrum Jülich
Paul Konopka
Paul Konopka Forschungszentrum Jülich
Rolf Müller
Rolf Müller Forschungszentrum Jülich
Martin Riese
Martin Riese Forschungszentrum Jülich
Thomas Birner
Thomas Birner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Stephan Borrmann
Stephan Borrmann Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
David G. Dritschel
David G. Dritschel University of St Andrews
Giuseppe Salerno
Giuseppe Salerno National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Uriel Frisch
Uriel Frisch Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
Michael Höpfner
Michael Höpfner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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