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Fabrice Ardhuin is affiliated with the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea in France. Their research focuses extensively on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular concentration in Oceanography, which comprises the majority of their publications. Additional subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics primarily related to marine and atmospheric sciences. Notably, these topics include:

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

Their research outputs have been published in several notable venues, with recurring appearances in:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • Ocean Modelling

Among their recent papers are:

  • "The Sea State CCI dataset v1: towards a sea state climate data record based on satellite observations," 2020, Earth system science data
  • "Towards a coupled model to investigate wave-sea ice interactions in the Arctic marginal ice zone," 2020, The Cryosphere
  • "A global wave parameter database for geophysical applications. Part 3: Improved forcing and spectral resolution," 2021, Ocean Modelling
  • "Systematic Review Shows That Work Done by Storm Waves Can Be Misinterpreted as Tsunami-Related Because Commonly Used Hydrodynamic Equations Are Flawed," 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "The SARAL/AltiKa mission: A step forward to the future of altimetry," 2020, Advances in Space Research

Fabrice Ardhuin collaborates frequently with several researchers across the marine sciences community. Key frequent co-authors include:

  • Guillaume Dodet
  • Mickaël Accensi
  • Jean-Raymond Bidlot
  • Marcello Passaro
  • Marine De Carlo

Best Publications

  • User manual and system documentation of WAVEWATCH III R version 4.18

    Hendrik L. Tolman;Mickael Accensi;Henrique Alves;Fabrice Ardhuin

  • Semiempirical Dissipation Source Functions for Ocean Waves. Part I: Definition, Calibration, and Validation

    Fabrice Ardhuin;Erick Rogers;Alexander V. Babanin;Jean-Francois Filipot

  • Semi-empirical dissipation source functions for ocean waves: Part I, definition, calibration and validation

    Fabrice Ardhuin;Erick Rogers;Alexander Babanin;Jean-François Filipot

  • Wave Modelling - The State of the Art

    L. Cavaleri;Jose H. G. M. Alves;F. Ardhuin;Alexander V. Babanin

  • 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

  • A global wave parameter database for geophysical applications. Part 2: Model validation with improved source term parameterization

    Nicolas Rascle;Nicolas Rascle;Fabrice Ardhuin

  • Ocean wave sources of seismic noise

    Fabrice Ardhuin;Eleonore Stutzmann;Martin Schimmel;Anne Mangeney

  • Observation of swell dissipation across oceans

    Fabrice Ardhuin;Bertrand Chapron;Fabrice Collard

  • How ocean waves rock the Earth: two mechanisms explain microseisms with periods 3 to 300 s

    Fabrice Ardhuin;Lucia Gualtieri;Eléonore Stutzmann

  • Observation and estimation of Lagrangian, Stokes and Eulerian currents induced by wind and waves at the sea surface

    Fabrice Ardhuin;Louis Marié;Nicolas Rascle;Philippe Forget

  • Infragravity waves: From driving mechanisms to impacts

    Xavier Bertin;Anouk de Bakker;Ap van Dongeren;Giovanni Coco

  • Explicit wave-averaged primitive equations using a generalized Lagrangian mean

    Fabrice Ardhuin;Nicolas Rascle;Kostas Belibassakis

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

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

  • Comparison and validation of physical wave parameterizations in spectral wave models

    Justin E. Stopa;Fabrice Ardhuin;Alexander Babanin;Stefan Zieger

  • On the Interaction of Surface Waves and Upper Ocean Turbulence

    Fabrice Ardhuin;Alastair D. Jenkins

  • Swell Transformation across the Continental Shelf. Part I: Attenuation and Directional Broadening

    Fabrice Ardhuin;W. C. O'Reilly;T. H. C. Herbers;P. F. Jessen

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

    Fabrice Collard;Fabrice Ardhuin;Bertrand Chapron

  • Numerical Wave Modeling in Conditions with Strong Currents: Dissipation, Refraction, and Relative Wind

    Fabrice Ardhuin;Aron Roland;Franck Dumas;Anne-Claire Bennis

  • Comparison of wind and wave measurements and models in the Western Mediterranean Sea

    Fabrice Ardhuin;Luciana Bertotti;Jean-Raymond Bidlot;Luigi Cavaleri

  • Modelling secondary microseismic noise by normal mode summation

    L. Gualtieri;L. Gualtieri;E. Stutzmann;Yann Capdeville;F. Ardhuin

  • Corrigenda of ‘explicit wave-averaged primitive equations using a generalized Lagrangian Mean’

    Fabrice Ardhuin;Nicolas Rascle;K. A. Belibassakis

Frequent Co-Authors

Bertrand Chapron
Bertrand Chapron French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Eléonore Stutzmann
Eléonore Stutzmann Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Alexander V. Babanin
Alexander V. Babanin University of Melbourne
Martin Schimmel
Martin Schimmel Spanish National Research Council
Franck Dumas
Franck Dumas French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Craig Donlon
Craig Donlon European Space Agency
Philippe Bonneton
Philippe Bonneton University of Bordeaux
Bruno Blanke
Bruno Blanke University of Western Brittany
Jim Thomson
Jim Thomson University of Washington
Luigi Cavaleri
Luigi Cavaleri National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

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