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Boris Dewitte is affiliated with the Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones (CEAZA) in Chile. Their research primarily focuses on fields related to Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. The core subfields of their work include Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The scientist's research extensively covers topics such as Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate Variability and Models, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Marine and Coastal Plant Biology.

Boris Dewitte has authored numerous papers, including recent publications such as:

  • Climate impacts of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation on South America (2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • Changing El Niño-Southern Oscillation in a warming climate (2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment)
  • System controls of coastal and open ocean oxygen depletion (2021, Progress In Oceanography)
  • A Global Ocean Oxygen Database and Atlas for Assessing and Predicting Deoxygenation and Ocean Health in the Open and Coastal Ocean (2021, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies (2021, Science)

Frequent co-authors with whom Boris Dewitte has collaborated include Véronique Garçon, Ivonne Montès, Aurélien Paulmier, Carolina Parada, and Marcel Ramos.

The scientist's work is frequently published in several venues, notably:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • El Niño in a changing climate

    Sang Wook Yeh;Jong Seong Kug;Boris Dewitte;Min Ho Kwon

  • El Niño–Southern Oscillation complexity

    Axel Timmermann;Axel Timmermann;Soon Il An;Jong Seong Kug;Fei Fei Jin

  • Understanding ENSO Diversity

    Antonietta Capotondi;Andrew T. Wittenberg;Matthew Newman;Emanuele Di Lorenzo

  • ENSO regimes: Reinterpreting the canonical and Modoki El Niño

    Ken Takahashi;A. Montecinos;Katerina Goubanova;Boris Dewitte

  • Climate impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on South America

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Michael J. McPhaden;Alice M. Grimm;Regina R. Rodrigues

  • Increased variability of eastern Pacific El Niño under greenhouse warming

    Wenju Cai;Guojian Wang;Guojian Wang;Boris Dewitte;Lixin Wu

  • Changing El Niño–Southern Oscillation in a warming climate

    Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Agus Santoso;Agus Santoso;Matthew Collins;Boris Dewitte

  • Natural and human-induced hypoxia and consequences for coastal areas: synthesis and future development

    J. Zhang;D. Gilbert;A. Gooday;L. Levin

  • ENSO Atmospheric Teleconnections and Their Response to Greenhouse Gas Forcing

    Sang Wook Yeh;Wenju Cai;Wenju Cai;Seung Ki Min;Michael J. McPhaden

  • Eddy activity in the four major upwelling systems from satellite altimetry (1992-2007)

    Alexis Chaigneau;Gérard Eldin;Boris Dewitte

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • Coastal cooling and increased productivity in the main upwelling zone off Peru since the mid-twentieth century

    Dimitri Gutiérrez;Ioanna Bouloubassi;Abdelfettah Sifeddine;Abdelfettah Sifeddine;Sara Purca

  • Strong and moderate nonlinear El Niño regimes

    Ken Takahashi;Boris Dewitte

  • System controls of coastal and open ocean oxygen depletion

    Grant C. Pitcher;Arturo Aguirre-Velarde;Denise Breitburg;Jorge Cardich

  • A Global Ocean Oxygen Database and Atlas for Assessing and Predicting Deoxygenation and Ocean Health in the Open and Coastal Ocean

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  • Statistical downscaling of sea-surface wind over the Peru–Chile upwelling region: diagnosing the impact of climate change from the IPSL-CM4 model

    Katerina Goubanova;Vincent Echevin;Boris Dewitte;Francis Codron

  • Dynamics of seasonal and interannual variability of the Peru‐Chile Undercurrent

    Oscar Pizarro;Gary Shaffer;Boris Dewitte;Marcel Ramos

  • Regionalization of rainfall over the Peruvian Pacific slope and coast

    Pedro Rau;Luc Bourrel;David Labat;Pablo Melo

  • On the Relationship between the North Pacific Climate Variability and the Central Pacific El Niño

    Sang-Wook Yeh;Xin Wang;Chunzai Wang;Boris Dewitte

  • Is Precipitation a Good Metric for Model Performance

    Francisco J. Tapiador;Rémy Roca;Anthony Del Genio;Boris Dewitte

  • Change in El Niño flavours over 1958–2008: Implications for the long-term trend of the upwelling off Peru

    Boris Dewitte;J. Vazquez-Cuervo;Katerina Goubanova;Séréna Illig

  • Erratum: El Niño in a changing climate

    Sang Wook Yeh;Jong Seong Kug;Boris Dewitte;Min Ho Kwon

Frequent Co-Authors

Sang-Wook Yeh
Sang-Wook Yeh Hanyang University
Véronique Garçon
Véronique Garçon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ken Takahashi
Ken Takahashi University of Sydney
Wenju Cai
Wenju Cai Ocean University of China
Soon-Il An
Soon-Il An Yonsei University
Dimitri Gutiérrez
Dimitri Gutiérrez Cayetano Heredia University
Antonietta Capotondi
Antonietta Capotondi National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Fei-Fei Jin
Fei-Fei Jin University of Hawaii at Manoa
Frédéric Frappart
Frédéric Frappart Bordeaux Sciences Agro
Eric Guilyardi
Eric Guilyardi Université Paris Cité

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