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France
2023

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Citations
23773
World Ranking
4133
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Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

James C. Orr is affiliated with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers multiple main topics including Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, and Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborate extensively with James C. Orr, including:

  • Lester Kwiatkowski
  • Olivier Torres
  • Laurent Bopp
  • Olivier Aumont
  • Jens Terhaar

Notable recent publications feature a range of topics related to ocean and atmospheric dynamics, including:

  • "Twenty-first century ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, and upper-ocean nutrient and primary production decline from CMIP6 model projections" (2020, Biogeosciences)
  • "Characterizing Mean and Extreme Diurnal Variability of Ocean CO2 System Variables Across Marine Environments" (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • "Technical note: Interpreting pH changes" (2021, Biogeosciences)
  • "Arctic Ocean annual high in pCO2 could shift from winter to summer" (2022, Nature)
  • "Modified future diurnal variability of the global surface ocean CO2 system" (2022, Global Change Biology)

James C. Orr has contributed to publications in prominent scientific venues such as Biogeosciences, Geophysical Research Letters, Nature, Global Change Biology, and the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans.

Best Publications

  • Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms

    James C. Orr;Victoria J. Fabry;Olivier Aumont;Laurent Bopp

  • Impacts of ocean acidification on marine fauna and ecosystem processes

    Victoria J. Fabry;Brad A. Seibel;Richard A. Feely;James C. Orr

  • The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • Multiple stressors of ocean ecosystems in the 21st century: projections with CMIP5 models

    Laurent Bopp;L. Resplandy;James C. Orr;Scott C. Doney

  • Twenty-first century ocean warming, acidification, deoxygenation, and upper-ocean nutrient and primary production decline from CMIP6 model projections

    Lester Kwiatkowski;Olivier Torres;Laurent Bopp;Olivier Aumont

  • Potential impact of climate change on marine export production

    Laurent Bopp;Patrick Monfray;Olivier Aumont;Jean Louis Dufresne

  • A perturbation simulation of CO2 uptake in an ocean general circulation model

    Jorge L. Sarmiento;James C. Orr;Ulrich Siegenthaler

  • Will human-induced changes in seawater chemistry alter the distribution of deep-sea scleractinian corals?

    John M. Guinotte;John M. Guinotte;James G Orr;Stephen D. Cairns;André Freiwald

  • Positive feedback between future climate change and the carbon cycle

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Laurent Bopp;Philippe Ciais;Jean-Louis Dufresne

  • OMIP contribution to CMIP6: experimental and diagnostic protocol for the physical component of the Ocean Model Intercomparison Project

    Stephen M. Griffies;Gokhan Danabasoglu;Paul J. Durack;Alistair J. Adcroft

  • Estimates of anthropogenic carbon uptake from four three‐dimensional global ocean models

    James C. Orr;Ernst Maier-Reimer;Uwe Mikolajewicz;Patrick Monfray

  • Routine uncertainty propagation for the marine carbon dioxide system

    James C. Orr;Jean-Marie Epitalon;Andrew G. Dickson;Jean-Pierre Gattuso;Jean-Pierre Gattuso

  • Predicting suitable habitat for the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa (Scleractinia)

    Andrew J. Davies;Max Wisshak;James C. Orr;J. Murray Roberts

  • Three‐dimensional simulations of the impact of Southern Ocean nutrient depletion on atmospheric CO2 and ocean chemistry

    Jorge L. Sarmiento;James C. Orr

  • Evaluating Global Ocean Carbon Models: The Importance of Realistic Physics

    Scott C. Doney;Keith Lindsay;K. Caldeira;J.-M. Campin;J.-M. Campin

  • Impact of circulation on export production, dissolved organic matter, and dissolved oxygen in the ocean: Results from Phase II of the Ocean Carbon-cycle Model Intercomparison Project (OCMIP-2)

    Raymond G. Najjar;X. Jin;F. Louanchi;Olivier Aumont

  • Evaluation of ocean carbon cycle models with data-based metrics

    K. Matsumoto;Jorge L. Sarmiento;Robert M. Key;Olivier Aumont

  • Evaluation of ocean model ventilation with CFC-11: comparison of 13 global ocean models

    Jean-Claude Dutay;John L. Bullister;Scott C. Doney;James C. Orr

  • Biogeochemical protocols and diagnostics for the CMIP6 Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP)

    James C. Orr;Raymond G. Najjar;Olivier Aumont;Laurent Bopp

  • Interannual variability of the oceanic sink of CO2 from 1979 through 1997

    Corinne Le Quéré;James C. Orr;Patrick Monfray;Olivier Aumont

  • Recent and Future Changes in Ocean Carbonate Chemistry

    James C. Orr

Frequent Co-Authors

Fortunat Joos
Fortunat Joos University of Bern
Laurent Bopp
Laurent Bopp École Normale Supérieure
Patrick Monfray
Patrick Monfray Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Andrew Yool
Andrew Yool National Oceanography Centre
Ernst Maier-Reimer
Ernst Maier-Reimer Max Planck Society
Olivier Aumont
Olivier Aumont Université Paris Cité
Richard J. Matear
Richard J. Matear CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere
Scott C. Doney
Scott C. Doney University of Virginia
Marion Gehlen
Marion Gehlen French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Ken Caldeira
Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science

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