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Gilles Reverdin

Gilles Reverdin

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Earth Science

D-Index
59
Citations
13006
World Ranking
2011
National Ranking
129

Overview

Gilles Reverdin is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France. Their research spans several key fields including Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable contributions particularly in Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. Reverdin's work also covers specialized subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Climate variability and models
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Reverdin has contributed numerous articles to scientific journals, with frequently chosen publication venues including:

  • Earth system science data
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biogeosciences
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Among recent publications are the following:

  • Ocean circulation causes the largest freshening event for 120 years in eastern subpolar North Atlantic, 2020, Nature Communications
  • EUREC 4 A, 2021, Earth system science data
  • Satellite-Based Sea Surface Salinity Designed for Ocean and Climate Studies, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Ship- and island-based atmospheric soundings from the 2020 EUREC 4 A field campaign, 2021, Earth system science data
  • An integrative assessment of the plastic debris load in the Mediterranean Sea, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment

Reverdin has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, frequently working alongside Jacqueline Boutin, Léa Olivier, Jean-Luc Vergely, Fabien Lombard, and Emmanuel Boss.

Best Publications

  • Global high-resolution mapping of ocean circulation from TOPEX/Poseidon and ERS-1 and -2

    N. Ducet;P. Y. Le Traon;G. Reverdin

  • A Pilot Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA)

    Jacques Servain;Antonio J. Busalacchi;Michael J. McPhaden;Antonio D. Moura

  • Ocean circulation causes the largest freshening event for 120 years in eastern subpolar North Atlantic

    N. Penny Holliday;Manfred Bersch;Barbara Berx;Leon Chafik

  • Surprising return of deep convection to the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean in winter 2007-2008

    Kjetil Våge;Robert S. Pickart;Virginie Thierry;Gilles Reverdin

  • Seasonal cycle of velocity in the Atlantic North Equatorial Countercurrent as measured by surface drifters, current meters, and ship drifts

    P. L. Richardson;G. Reverdin

  • The CORA dataset: validation and diagnostics of in-situ ocean temperature and salinity measurements

    C. Cabanes;A. Grouazel;K. von Schuckmann;M. Hamon

  • North Atlantic Ocean surface currents

    Gilles Reverdin;Gilles Reverdin;P. P. Niiler;H. Valdimarsson

  • Seasonal variability in the surface currents of the equatorial Pacific

    Gilles Reverdin;Claude Frankignoul;Elodie Kestenare;Michael J. McPhaden

  • EUREC 4 A

    Bjorn Stevens;Sandrine Bony;David Farrell;Felix Ament

  • Animal-borne telemetry: An integral component of the ocean observing toolkit

    Rob Harcourt;Ana M. M. Sequeira;Xuelei Zhang;Fabien Roquet

  • Marine mammals exploring the oceans pole to pole: a review of the MEOP Consortium

    Anne Treasure;Anne Treasure;Fabien Roquet;Isabelle J. Ansorge;Marthán N. Bester

  • New SMOS Sea Surface Salinity with reduced systematic errors and improved variability

    Jacqueline Boutin;Jean-Luc Vergely;Stéphane Marchand;Francesco D'Amico

  • Deuterium excess in marine water vapor: Dependency on relative humidity and surface wind speed during evaporation

    Marion Benetti;Gilles Reverdin;Catherine Pierre;Liliane Merlivat

  • Near-Surface Salinity as Nature’s Rain Gauge to Detect Human Influence on the Tropical Water Cycle

    Laurent Terray;Lola Corre;Sophie Cravatte;Thierry Delcroix

  • Surface current distributions in the tropical Indian Ocean derived from compilations of surface buoy trajectories

    Robert L. Molinari;Donald Olson;Gilles Reverdin

  • A Southern Indian Ocean database of hydrographic profiles obtained with instrumented elephant seals

    Fabien Roquet;Guy D. Williams;Mark A. Hindell;Mark A. Hindell;Robert G. Harcourt

  • A freshwater jet on the east Greenland shelf

    Sheldon Bacon;Gilles Reverdin;Ignatius G. Rigor;Helen M. Snaith

  • Satellite and In Situ Salinity: Understanding Near-Surface Stratification and Subfootprint Variability

    J. Boutin;Y. Chao;W. E. Asher;Thierry Delcroix

  • Interannual and decadal variability of the oceanic carbon sink in the North Atlantic subpolar gyre

    Antoine Corbière;Nicolas Metzl;Gilles Reverdin;Christian Brunet

  • Interannual displacements of convection and surface circulation over the equatorial Indian Ocean

    Gilles Reverdin;Daniel L. Cadet;David Gutzler

  • Sea surface freshening inferred from SMOS and ARGO salinity: impact of rain

    Jacqueline Boutin;Nicolas Martin;Gilles Reverdin;Xiaoming Yin

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacqueline Boutin
Jacqueline Boutin Sorbonne University
Nicolas Reul
Nicolas Reul French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Mehrez Zribi
Mehrez Zribi Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Thierry Delcroix
Thierry Delcroix Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Guy Caniaux
Guy Caniaux Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jordi Font
Jordi Font Spanish National Research Council
Nicolas Metzl
Nicolas Metzl Sorbonne University
Are Olsen
Are Olsen University of Bergen
Sabrina Speich
Sabrina Speich École Normale Supérieure
Giovanni Aloisi
Giovanni Aloisi Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

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