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Environmental Sciences
France
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
62
Citations
10160
World Ranking
2677
National Ranking
103

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Christophe E. Menkès is affiliated with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in France. Their research spans significant fields in environmental and earth sciences, with a focus on marine and climate-related topics.

The main fields of study for Menkès include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Subfields of research cover Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research interests are reflected in the main topics of work, which encompass:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Climate variability and models
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Menkès include Matthieu Lengaigne, Valérie Allain, Cyril Dutheil, Romain Le Gendre, and Swen Jullien.

Menkès has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most common publication outlets are Frontiers in Marine Science, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Journal of Climate, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), and Nature Sustainability.

Among the notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Menkès are:

  • "Pathways to sustaining tuna-dependent Pacific Island economies during climate change," 2021, Nature Sustainability
  • "Evidence that Pacific tuna mercury levels are driven by marine methylmercury production and anthropogenic inputs," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "ENSO Impact on Marine Fisheries and Ecosystems," 2020, Geophysical monograph
  • "Global decline of pelagic fauna in a warmer ocean," 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • "Temperature and transmission of chikungunya, dengue, and Zika viruses: A systematic review of experimental studies on Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus," 2023, Current Research in Parasitology and Vector-Borne Diseases

Best Publications

  • Mechanism of the Zonal Displacements of the Pacific Warm Pool: Implications for ENSO

    Joël Picaut;Mansour Ioualalen;Christophe E. Menkès;Thierry Delcroix

  • Interannual variability of the South Pacific Convergence Zone and implications for tropical cyclone genesis

    Emmanuel M. Vincent;Matthieu Lengaigne;Matthieu Lengaigne;Christophe E. Menkes;Christophe E. Menkes;Nicolas C. Jourdain

  • Climate-Based Models for Understanding and Forecasting Dengue Epidemics

    Elodie Descloux;Morgan Mangeas;Christophe Eugène Menkes;Matthieu Lengaigne

  • Triggering of El Niño by Westerly Wind Events in a Coupled General Circulation Model

    Matthieu Lengaigne;Eric Guilyardi;Jean-Philippe Boulanger;Christophe Menkes

  • A Model Study of Oceanic Mechanisms Affecting Equatorial Pacific Sea Surface Temperature during the 1997–98 El Niño

    Jérôme Vialard;Christophe E. Menkès;Jean-Philippe Boulanger;Pascale Delécluse

  • More extreme swings of the South Pacific convergence zone due to greenhouse warming

    Wenju Cai;Matthieu Lengaigne;Simon Borlace;Matthew Collins;Matthew Collins

  • Processes setting the characteristics of sea surface cooling induced by tropical cyclones

    Emmanuel M. Vincent;Matthieu Lengaigne;Gurvan Madec;Jérôme Vialard

  • Predicting skipjack tuna forage distributions in the equatorial Pacific using a coupled dynamical bio-geochemical model

    Patrick Lehodey;Jean-Michel André;Michel Bertignac;John Hampton

  • The trophodynamics of marine top predators: Current knowledge, recent advances and challenges

    Jock W. Young;Brian P.V. Hunt;Timothée R. Cook;Joel K. Llopiz

  • Nitrogen isotopic baselines and implications for estimating foraging habitat and trophic position of yellowfin tuna in the Indian and Pacific Oceans

    Anne Lorrain;Brittany S. Graham;Brian N. Popp;Valérie Allain

  • Cirene: Air—Sea Interactions in the Seychelles—Chagos Thermocline Ridge Region

    J. Vialard;J. P. Duvel;Michael J. McPhaden;P. Bouruet-Aubertot

  • Propagation and reflection of long equatorial waves in the Pacific Ocean during the 1992–1993 El Niño

    Jean-Philippe Boulanger;Christophe Menkes

  • Early determination of the reproductive number for vector‐borne diseases: the case of dengue in Brazil

    Charly Favier;Nicolas Dégallier;M. G. Rosa-Freitas;Jean-Philippe Boulanger

  • Influence of the oceanic biology on the tropical Pacific climate in a coupled general circulation model

    Matthieu Lengaigne;Christophe E. Menkès;Olivier Aumont;Thomas Gorgues

  • About the role of Westerly Wind Events in the possible development of an El Niño in 2014

    Christophe E. Menkes;Matthieu Lengaigne;Matthieu Lengaigne;Jérôme Vialard;Martin Puy

  • Comparison of tropical cyclogenesis indices on seasonal to interannual timescales

    Christophe E. Menkes;Christophe E. Menkes;Matthieu Lengaigne;Matthieu Lengaigne;Patrick Marchesiello;Nicolas C. Jourdain

  • Imported and autochthonous cases in the dynamics of dengue epidemics in Brazil

    Nicolas Degallier;Charly Favier;Jean-Philippe Boulanger;Christophe Menkes

  • Ocean response to the March 1997 Westerly Wind Event

    Matthieu Lengaigne;Jean-Philippe Boulanger;Christophe E. Menkès;Sébastien Masson

  • A model study of the seasonal variability and formation mechanisms of the barrier layer in the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean

    Sébastien Masson;Pascale Delécluse;Jean-Philippe Boulanger;Christophe E. Menkès

  • Socio-economic and Climate Factors Associated with Dengue Fever Spatial Heterogeneity: A Worked Example in New Caledonia.

    Magali Teurlai;Christophe Eugène Menkès;Virgil Cavarero;Nicolas Degallier

  • A Modeling Study of the Impact of Tropical Instability Waves on the Heat Budget of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific

    Christophe E. R. Menkes;Jérôme G. Vialard;Sean C. Kennan;Jean-Philippe Boulanger

  • Geosat-derived sea level and surface current anomalies in the equatorial Pacific during the 1986–1989 El Niño and La Niña

    Thierry Delcroix;Jean-Philippe Boulanger;François Masia;Christophe Menkes

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthieu Lengaigne
Matthieu Lengaigne University of Montpellier
Jérôme Vialard
Jérôme Vialard Université Paris Cité
Gurvan Madec
Gurvan Madec Sorbonne University
Patrick Marchesiello
Patrick Marchesiello Paul Sabatier University
Pascale Delecluse
Pascale Delecluse Sorbonne University
Nicolas C. Jourdain
Nicolas C. Jourdain Grenoble Alpes University
Anne Lorrain
Anne Lorrain Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Martine Rodier
Martine Rodier Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Olivier Aumont
Olivier Aumont Université Paris Cité
Serge Andréfouët
Serge Andréfouët Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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