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Overview

Florent Lyard is affiliated with Paul Sabatier University in France and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a primary focus on Oceanography. Their research spans diverse subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics related to oceanographic and atmospheric processes, with particular attention to ocean waves and remote sensing. Other notable subjects in their research include marine and coastal ecosystems, climate variability and models, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, geophysics and gravity measurements, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Florent Lyard has contributed extensively to scholarly literature, particularly within scientific journals focused on oceans and geosciences. Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Ocean science
  • Ocean Modelling
  • Geoscientific model development
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Polar Science

Selected recent papers by Florent Lyard demonstrate their involvement in ocean tide and internal tide studies. These include:

  • FES2014 global ocean tide atlas: design and performance, 2021, Ocean science
  • Accuracy assessment of global internal-tide models using satellite altimetry, 2021, Ocean science
  • Background stratification impacts on internal tide generation and abyssal propagation in the western equatorial Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay, 2021, Ocean science
  • Internal tides off the Amazon shelf during two contrasted seasons: interactions with background circulation and SSH imprints, 2022, Ocean science
  • Simultaneous estimation of ocean mesoscale and coherent internal tide sea surface height signatures from the global altimetry record, 2022, Ocean science

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Frequent co-authors include Loren Carrère, Michel Tchilibou, Mathilde Cancet, Clément Ubelmann, and Simon Barbot, indicating active engagement in collaborative oceanographic research.

Best Publications

  • Modelling the global ocean tides: modern insights from FES2004

    Florent Lyard;Fabien Lefevre;Thierry Letellier;Olivier Francis

  • Modeling the barotropic response of the global ocean to atmospheric wind and pressure forcing - comparisons with observations

    Loren Carrère;Florent Lyard

  • Accuracy assessment of global barotropic ocean tide models

    D. Stammer;R. D. Ray;Ole Baltazar Andersen;B. K. Arbic

  • FES2014 global ocean tide atlas: design and performance

    Florent H. Lyard;Damien J. Allain;Mathilde Cancet;Loren Carrère

  • Spectroscopy of the world ocean tides from a finite element hydrodynamic model

    C. Le Provost;M. L. Genco;F. Lyard;P. Vincent

  • A hydrodynamic ocean tide model improved by assimilating a satellite altimeter-derived data set

    C. Le Provost;F. Lyard;J. M. Molines;M. L. Genco

  • Altimetry for the future: building on 25 years of progress

    Saleh Abdalla;Abdolnabi Abdeh Kolahchi;Michaël Ablain;Susheel Adusumilli

  • FES99: A Global Tide Finite Element Solution Assimilating Tide Gauge and Altimetric Information

    Fabien Lefevre;Florent Lyard;C. Le Provost;Ernest J. O. Schrama

  • Coastal applications from nadir altimetry: Example of the X-TRACK regional products

    F. Birol;N. Fuller;F. Lyard;M. Cancet

  • Improved satellite altimetry in coastal systems: Case study of the Corsica Channel (Mediterranean Sea)

    S. Vignudelli;P. Cipollini;L. Roblou;F. Lyard

  • Detecting Change in the Indonesian Seas

    J Sprintall;AL Gordon;SE Wijffels;M Feng

  • How can we improve a global ocean tide model at a regional scale? A test on the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea

    F. Lefèvre;C. Le Provost;F. H. Lyard

  • Spreading of the Western Mediterranean Deep Water after winter 2005: Time scales and deep cyclone transport

    J. Beuvier;J. Beuvier;K. Béranger;C. Lebeaupin Brossier;C. Lebeaupin Brossier;C. Lebeaupin Brossier;S. Somot

  • Dynamics of the semi-diurnal and quarter-diurnal internal tides in the Bay of Biscay. Part 1: Barotropic tides

    Ivane Lilian Pairaud;Florent Lyard;Francis Auclair;Thierry Letellier

  • Assessment of the amount of cesium‐137 released into the Pacific Ocean after the Fukushima accident and analysis of its dispersion in Japanese coastal waters

    C. Estournel;E. Bosc;Michael Bocquet;Michael Bocquet;C. Ulses

  • FES 2014, a new tidal model on the global ocean with enhanced accuracy in shallow seas and in the Arctic region

    Loren Carrere;Florent Lyard;Mathilde Cancet;Amandine Guillot

  • An absolute calibration site for radar altimeters in the continental domain: Lake Issykkul in Central Asia

    Jean-François Crétaux;Stephane Calmant;Vladimir Romanovski;Anton Shabunin

  • Resolution issues in numerical models of oceanic and coastal circulation

    David A. Greenberg;Frédéric Dupont;Florent H. Lyard;Daniel R. Lynch

  • NEMO on the shelf: assessment of the Iberia-Biscay-Ireland configuration

    C. Maraldi;C. Maraldi;J. Chanut;B. Levier;N. Ayoub

  • Energetics of the M2 barotropic ocean tides: an estimate of bottom friction dissipation from a hydrodynamic model

    C.Le Provost;Florent Lyard

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Marsaleix
Patrick Marsaleix Paul Sabatier University
Paolo Cipollini
Paolo Cipollini Natural Environment Research Council
Brian K. Arbic
Brian K. Arbic University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard D. Ray
Richard D. Ray Goddard Space Flight Center
Richard Coleman
Richard Coleman University of Tasmania
Ole Baltazar Andersen
Ole Baltazar Andersen Technical University of Denmark
Jay F. Shriver
Jay F. Shriver United States Naval Research Laboratory
Jean-Paul Boy
Jean-Paul Boy University of Strasbourg
Rosemary Morrow
Rosemary Morrow Paul Sabatier University
Jérôme Benveniste
Jérôme Benveniste University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès

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