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Overview

François Primeau is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant concentration in Environmental Science. Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields including Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology.

Their work addresses key topics such as Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Climate Variability and Models, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Primeau include Wei-Lei Wang, Tien-Yiao Hsu, Guðrún Magnúsdóttir, J. Keith Moore, and E. S. Saltzman. Such collaborations have contributed to several publications across a range of scientific venues.

Primeau has published extensively in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Biogeosciences, and Geophysical Research Letters.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Primeau include:

  • Global picophytoplankton niche partitioning predicts overall positive response to ocean warming, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Global ocean dimethyl sulfide climatology estimated from observations and an artificial neural network, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Biological carbon pump estimate based on multidecadal hydrographic data, 2023, Nature
  • Evaluation of Ocean Biogeochemistry and Carbon Cycling in CMIP Earth System Models With the International Ocean Model Benchmarking (IOMB) Software System, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Reduced CO2 uptake and growing nutrient sequestration from slowing overturning circulation, 2022, Nature Climate Change

Best Publications

  • Reconstruction of the history of anthropogenic CO(2) concentrations in the ocean.

    S. Khatiwala;F. Primeau;T. Hall

  • Strong latitudinal patterns in the elemental ratios of marine plankton and organic matter

    Adam C. Martiny;Chau T.A. Pham;Francois W. Primeau;Jasper A. Vrugt

  • The impact of remineralization depth on the air–sea carbon balance

    Eun Young Kwon;François Primeau;Jorge Louis Sarmiento

  • Sustained climate warming drives declining marine biological productivity.

    J. Keith Moore;Weiwei Fu;Francois Primeau;Gregory L. Britten

  • Recent increase in oceanic carbon uptake driven by weaker upper-ocean overturning

    Tim DeVries;Mark Holzer;Mark Holzer;Francois Primeau

  • Global estimate of submarine groundwater discharge based on an observationally constrained radium isotope model

    Eun Young Kwon;Guebuem Kim;Francois Primeau;Willard S. Moore

  • Convergent estimates of marine nitrogen fixation

    Wei-Lei Wang;J. Keith Moore;Adam C. Martiny;François W. Primeau

  • Northwestern Pacific typhoon intensity controlled by changes in ocean temperatures

    Wei Mei;Wei Mei;Shang-Ping Xie;François Primeau;James C. McWilliams

  • Taxonomic resolution, ecotypes and the biogeography of Prochlorococcus

    Adam C. Martiny;Adam C. Martiny;Amos P. K. Tai;Daniele Veneziano;François Primeau

  • Dynamically and Observationally Constrained Estimates of Water-Mass Distributions and Ages in the Global Ocean

    Tim DeVries;François Primeau

  • The sequestration efficiency of the biological pump

    Tim DeVries;Francois Primeau;Curtis Deutsch

  • The effect of translation speed upon the intensity of tropical cyclones over the tropical ocean

    Wei Mei;Claudia Pasquero;François Primeau

  • Characterizing Transport between the Surface Mixed Layer and the Ocean Interior with a Forward and Adjoint Global Ocean Transport Model

    François Primeau

  • Recent Changes in the Ventilation of the Southern Oceans

    Darryn W. Waugh;Francois Primeau;Tim DeVries;Mark Holzer

  • Global rates of water-column denitrification derived from nitrogen gas measurements

    Tim DeVries;Curtis Deutsch;François Primeau;Bonnie Chang

  • Regional variation in the particulate organic carbon to nitrogen ratio in the surface ocean

    A. C. Martiny;Jasper A. Vrugt;Francois W. Primeau;Michael W. Lomas

  • Global-scale variations of the ratios of carbon to phosphorus in exported marine organic matter

    Yi-Cheng Teng;François W. Primeau;J. Keith Moore;Michael W. Lomas

  • Marine denitrification rates determined from a global 3-D inverse model

    T. DeVries;C. Deutsch;P. A. Rafter;F. Primeau

  • Radiocarbon constraints on the glacial ocean circulation and its impact on atmospheric CO2.

    Luke Skinner;F Primeau;E Freeman;M de la Fuente

  • Ventilation of the deep ocean constrained with tracer observations and implications for radiocarbon estimates of ideal mean age

    S. Khatiwala;F. Primeau;M. Holzer;M. Holzer

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam C. Martiny
Adam C. Martiny University of California, Irvine
J. Keith Moore
J. Keith Moore University of California, Irvine
Keith Lindsay
Keith Lindsay National Center for Atmospheric Research
Curtis Deutsch
Curtis Deutsch Princeton University
James T. Randerson
James T. Randerson University of California, Irvine
Michael W. Lomas
Michael W. Lomas Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
James C. McWilliams
James C. McWilliams University of California, Los Angeles
Cindy Lee
Cindy Lee Stony Brook University
Karen L. Casciotti
Karen L. Casciotti Stanford University
Eric Deleersnijder
Eric Deleersnijder Université Catholique de Louvain

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