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76
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Bertrand Chapron publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bertrand Chapron sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 551 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Bertrand Chapron D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bertrand Chapron sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award

Overview

Bertrand Chapron is affiliated with the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea in France. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant body of work in Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Earth-Surface Processes, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The main topics of Bertrand Chapron's research include:

  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Recent notable papers by Bertrand Chapron cover various aspects of oceanography and remote sensing, and include:

  • The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris (2020), Environmental Research Letters
  • Sea surface salinity estimates from spaceborne L-band radiometers: An overview of the first decade of observation (2010-2019) (2020), Remote Sensing of Environment
  • New Observations From the SWIM Radar On-Board CFOSAT: Instrument Validation and Ocean Wave Measurement Assessment (2020), IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 4 (2020), Journal of Operational Oceanography
  • Extensive High-Resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data Analysis of Tropical Cyclones: Comparisons with SFMR Flights and Best Track (2020), Monthly Weather Review

Bertrand Chapron frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters

They have also contributed to book publications under Springer International Publishing, including:

  • Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics (2022)
  • Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics II (2023)

Bertrand Chapron collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Alexis Mouche
  • Vladimir Kudryavtsev
  • Ronan Fablet
  • Fabrice Collard
  • Étienne Mémin

Best Publications

  • A unified directional spectrum for long and short wind-driven waves

    T. Elfouhaily;B. Chapron;K. Katsaros;D. Vandemark

  • The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

    Erik van Sebille;Stefano Aliani;Kara Lavender Law;Nikolai Maximenko

  • Global Observations of Fine-Scale Ocean Surface Topography With the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission

    Rosemary Morrow;Lee-Lueng Fu;Fabrice Ardhuin;Mounir Benkiran

  • Direct measurements of ocean surface velocity from space: Interpretation and validation

    Bertrand Chapron;Fabrice Collard;Fabrice Ardhuin

  • Observation of tropical cyclones by high-resolution scatterometry

    Yves Quilfen;Bertrand Chapron;Tanos Elfouhaily;Kristina Katsaros

  • Observation of swell dissipation across oceans

    Fabrice Ardhuin;Bertrand Chapron;Fabrice Collard

  • A semiempirical model of the normalized radar cross‐section of the sea surface 1. Background model

    Vladimir Kudryavtsev;Vladimir Kudryavtsev;Danièle Hauser;Gérard Caudal;Bertrand Chapron

  • A Global View of Swell and Wind Sea Climate in the Ocean by Satellite Altimeter and Scatterometer

    G. E. Chen;Bertrand Chapron;Robert Ezraty;Douglas Vandemark

  • On radar imaging of current features: 1. Model and comparison with observations

    Vladimir Kudryavtsev;D. Akimov;Johnny A. Johannessen;Johnny A. Johannessen;B. Chapron

  • On the Use of Doppler Shift for Sea Surface Wind Retrieval From SAR

    A. A. Mouche;F. Collard;B. Chapron;K. Dagestad

  • Analysis of ERS-1/2 synthetic aperture radar wave mode imagettes

    Vincent Kerbaol;Bertrand Chapron;Paris W. Vachon

  • Coupled sea surface-atmosphere model: 2. Spectrum of short wind waves

    V. N. Kudryavtsev;V. K. Makin;B. Chapron

  • Small-scale open-ocean currents have large effects on wind-wave heights

    Fabrice Ardhuin;Sarah T. Gille;Dimitris Menemenlis;Cesar B. Rocha

  • Direct ocean surface velocity measurements from space: Improved quantitative interpretation of Envisat ASAR observations

    J. A. Johannessen;J. A. Johannessen;B. Chapron;F. Collard;V. Kudryavtsev

  • New Observations From the SWIM Radar On-Board CFOSAT: Instrument Validation and Ocean Wave Measurement Assessment

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  • Sea surface salinity estimates from spaceborne L-band radiometers: An overview of the first decade of observation (2010–2019)

    Nicolás Reul;S.A. Grodsky;Manuel Arias;Jacqueline Boutin

  • Combined Co- and Cross-Polarized SAR Measurements Under Extreme Wind Conditions

    Alexis A. Mouche;Bertrand Chapron;Biao Zhang;Romain Husson

  • Monitoring and analysis of ocean swell fields from space: New methods for routine observations

    Fabrice Collard;Fabrice Ardhuin;Bertrand Chapron

  • Potential use of microwave sea surface temperatures for the estimation of ocean currents

    Jordi Isern-Fontanet;Bertrand Chapron;Guillaume Lapeyre;Patrice Klein

  • A two-parameter wind speed algorithm for Ku-band altimeters

    J. Gourrion;D. Vandemark;S. Bailey;B. Chapron

  • SMOS satellite L-band radiometer: A new capability for ocean surface remote sensing in hurricanes

    Nicolas Reul;Joseph Tenerelli;Bertrand Chapron;Doug Vandemark

  • Sea Surface Salinity Observations from Space with the SMOS Satellite: A New Means to Monitor the Marine Branch of the Water Cycle

    Nicolas Reul;Séverine Fournier;Jacqueline Boutin;Olga Hernandez

  • The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission

    Lee-Lueng Fu

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas Vandemark
Douglas Vandemark University of New Hampshire
Nicolas Reul
Nicolas Reul French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Johnny A. Johannessen
Johnny A. Johannessen Naval Postgraduate School
Fabrice Ardhuin
Fabrice Ardhuin French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Craig Donlon
Craig Donlon European Space Agency
Etienne Mémin
Etienne Mémin French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Ananda Pascual
Ananda Pascual National Research Council (CNR)
Kristina B. Katsaros
Kristina B. Katsaros University of Miami
Jacqueline Boutin
Jacqueline Boutin Sorbonne University
Alexander V. Babanin
Alexander V. Babanin University of Melbourne

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