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Sophie Cravatte is affiliated with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in France. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on various subfields including Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Climate variability and models
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis

The scientist's frequent publication venues reveal a strong presence in marine and earth sciences journals. These include:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Ocean Science
  • Science Advances
  • Fluids
  • Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers

Among their recent papers, notable work includes:

  • "Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 4" (2020) published in Journal of Operational Oceanography
  • "Mechanisms of tropical Pacific decadal variability" (2023) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Review on observational studies of western tropical Pacific Ocean circulation and climate" (2020) published in Journal of Oceanology and Limnology
  • "Ocean Integration: The Needs and Challenges of Effective Coordination Within the Ocean Observing System" (2022) published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "ENSO Oceanic Teleconnections" (2020) published in Geophysical Monograph

Collaborations are frequent with several researchers, including:

  • Christophe Menkès
  • Janet Sprintall
  • Frédéric Marin
  • Florent Gasparin
  • Antonietta Capotondi

Sophie Cravatte's body of work contributes data and analyses related to ocean circulation, climate variability, and the integration of ocean-observing systems within the broader Earth system sciences.

Best Publications

  • Influence of the state of the Indian Ocean Dipole on the following year’s El Niño

    Takeshi Izumo;Takeshi Izumo;Jérôme Vialard;Matthieu Lengaigne;Clément de Boyer Montegut;Clément de Boyer Montegut

  • Control of salinity on the mixed layer depth in the world ocean: 1. General description

    Clément de Boyer Montégut;Juliette Mignot;Alban Lazar;Sophie Cravatte

  • Observed freshening and warming of the western Pacific Warm Pool

    Sophie Cravatte;Thierry Delcroix;Dongxiao Zhang;Michael McPhaden

  • Control of salinity on the mixed layer depth in the world ocean: 2. Tropical areas

    Juliette Mignot;Clement de Boyer Montégut;Alban Lazar;Sophie Cravatte

  • Contrasting the flavors of El Niño-Southern Oscillation using sea surface salinity observations

    Awnesh Singh;Thierry Delcroix;Sophie Cravatte

  • 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

  • The Southwest Pacific Ocean circulation and climate experiment (SPICE)

    Alexandre Ganachaud;Sophie Cravatte;A. Melet;A. Melet;A. Schiller

  • About the role of Westerly Wind Events in the possible development of an El Niño in 2014

    Christophe E. Menkes;Matthieu Lengaigne;Matthieu Lengaigne;Jérôme Vialard;Martin Puy

  • Measuring currents, ice drift, and waves from space: the Sea surface KInematics Multiscale monitoring (SKIM) concept

    Fabrice Ardhuin;Yevgueny Aksenov;Alvise Benetazzo;Laurent Bertino

  • From the subtropics to the central equatorial Pacific Ocean: neodymium isotopic composition and rare earth element concentration variations

    Mélanie Grenier;Catherine Jeandel;François Lacan;Derek Vance

  • Decadal variations and trends in tropical Pacific sea surface salinity since 1970

    Thierry Delcroix;Sophie Cravatte;Michael J. McPhaden

  • A gridded sea surface salinity data set for the tropical Pacific with sample applications (1950-2008)

    Thierry Delcroix;Gael Alory;Sophie Cravatte;Thierry Corrège

  • Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report, Issue 4

    Karina von Schuckmann;Pierre-Yves Le Traon;Neville Smith;Ananda Pascual

  • Intermediate Zonal Jets in the Tropical Pacific Ocean Observed by Argo Floats

    Sophie Cravatte;William S. Kessler;Frédéric Marin

  • From the western boundary currents to the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent: Modeled pathways and water mass evolutions

    Mélanie Grenier;Sophie Cravatte;Bruno Blanke;Christophe E. Menkès

  • Second and first baroclinic Kelvin modes in the equatorial Pacific at intraseasonal timescales

    Sophie Cravatte;Joël Picaut;Gérard Eldin

  • Biological and physical influences on marine snowfall at the equator

    Rainer Kiko;Arne Biastoch;Peter Brandt;Peter Brandt;S. Cravatte

  • Mean circulation of the Coral Sea

    William S. Kessler;Sophie Cravatte;Sophie Cravatte

  • The French contribution to the voluntary observing ships network of sea surface salinity

    Gaël Alory;Thierry Delcroix;P. Téchiné;Denis Diverrès

  • Control of Salinity on the Mixed Layer Depth in the World Ocean

    C. D. Boyer Montegut;J. Mignot;A. Lazar;S. Cravatte

  • Influence of the state of the Indian Ocean Dipole on the following year's

    Takeshi Izumo;Jérôme Vialard;Matthieu Lengaigne

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet Sprintall
Janet Sprintall University of California, San Diego
William S. Kessler
William S. Kessler Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Thierry Delcroix
Thierry Delcroix Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Christophe E. Menkès
Christophe E. Menkès Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Peter Brandt
Peter Brandt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Susan Wijffels
Susan Wijffels Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Matthieu Lengaigne
Matthieu Lengaigne University of Montpellier
Bo Qiu
Bo Qiu University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ken Ridgway
Ken Ridgway Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jérôme Vialard
Jérôme Vialard Université Paris Cité

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