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Virginie Thierry is affiliated with the French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea in France and has a research focus within the Earth and Planetary Sciences domain. Their scholarly output includes 49 publications in this main field, with significant specialization in the subfields of Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, General Health Professions, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics are diverse, centering mainly on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, and Climate Variability and Models. Other topics covered include Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses.

Several journals and scientific platforms have frequently published their work. These include:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Archimer (Ifremer)
  • Earth System Science Data

Among the most cited papers by Virginie Thierry are the following:

  • "Argo Data 1999-2019: Two Million Temperature-Salinity Profiles and Subsurface Velocity Observations From a Global Array of Profiling Floats" (2020, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • "Ocean circulation causes the largest freshening event for 120 years in eastern subpolar North Atlantic" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "A Global Ocean Oxygen Database and Atlas for Assessing and Predicting Deoxygenation and Ocean Health in the Open and Coastal Ocean" (2021, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • "Contributions of Altimetry and Argo to Non-Closure of the Global Mean Sea Level Budget Since 2016" (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • "Argo-Two Decades: Global Oceanography, Revolutionized" (2021, Annual Review of Marine Science)

Virginie Thierry has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including Herlé Mercier, Nicolas Kolodziejczyk, Gregory C. Johnson, C. Cabanes, and Damien Desbruyères. These collaborations indicate a network of researchers active in marine and earth sciences.

Best Publications

  • A sea change in our view of overturning in the subpolar North Atlantic

    M. S. Lozier;F. Li;S. Bacon;F. Bahr

  • On the Future of Argo: A Global, Full-Depth, Multi-Disciplinary Array

    Dean Roemmich;Matthew H. Alford;Hervé Claustre;Kenneth Johnson

  • Argo Data 1999–2019: Two Million Temperature-Salinity Profiles and Subsurface Velocity Observations From a Global Array of Profiling Floats

    Annie P.S. Wong;Susan E. Wijffels;Stephen C. Riser;Sylvie Pouliquen

  • 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

  • Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program: A New International Ocean Observing System

    M. Susan Lozier;Sheldon Bacon;Amy S. Bower;Stuart A. Cunningham

  • In Situ-Based Reanalysis of the Global Ocean Temperature and Salinity with ISAS: Variability of the Heat Content and Steric Height

    Fabienne Gaillard;Thierry Reynaud;Virginie Thierry;Nicolas Kolodziejczyk

  • The northern North Atlantic Ocean mean circulation in the early 21st Century

    Nathalie Daniault;Herlé Mercier;Pascale Lherminier;Artem Sarafanov

  • Variability of the meridional overturning circulation at the Greenland-Portugal OVIDE section from 1993 to 2010

    Herlé Mercier;Pascale Lherminier;Artem Sarafanov;Fabienne Gaillard

  • A BGC-Argo guide: Planning, deployment, data handling and usage

    Henry C. Bittig;Tanya L. Maurer;Joshua N. Plant;Catherine Schmechtig

  • Quality Control of Large Argo Datasets

    Fabienne Gaillard;Emmanuelle Autret;Virginie Thierry;Philippe Galaup

  • A Global Ocean Oxygen Database and Atlas for Assessing and Predicting Deoxygenation and Ocean Health in the Open and Coastal Ocean

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  • Global and Full-Depth Ocean Temperature Trends during the Early Twenty-First Century from Argo and Repeat Hydrography

    Damien Desbruyeres;Elaine L. McDonagh;Brian A. King;Virginie Thierry

  • Contributions of Altimetry and Argo to Non-Closure of the Global Mean Sea Level Budget Since 2016

    Anne Barnoud;Julia Pfeffer;Adrien Guérou;Marie-Laure Frery

  • Argo-Two Decades: Global Oceanography, Revolutionized.

    Gregory C. Johnson;Shigeki Hosoda;Steven R. Jayne;Peter R. Oke

  • Subpolar North Atlantic western boundary density anomalies and the Meridional Overturning Circulation

    F. Li;F. Li;M. S. Lozier;S. Bacon;A. S. Bower

  • ARGO - a decade of progress

    Howard Freeland;Dean Roemmich;Silvia L. Garzoli;Pierre-Yves Le Traon

  • Interannual variability of the Subpolar Mode Water properties over the Reykjanes Ridge during 1990–2006

    V. Thierry;E. de Boisséson;H. Mercier

  • Gyre scale deep convection in the subpolar North-Atlantic Ocean during winter 2014–2015

    Anne Piron;Virginie Thierry;Herle Mercier;G. Caniaux

  • Argo float observations of basin-scale deep convection in the Irminger sea during winter 2011-2012

    Anne Piron;Virginie Thierry;Herlé Mercier;Guy Caniaux

  • The Origin of Deep Zonal Flows in the Brazil Basin

    Anne-Marie Tréguier;N. G. Hogg;M. Maltrud;K. Speer

  • Numerical study of the annual and semi-annual fluctuations in the deep equatorial Atlantic Ocean

    Virginie Thierry;Anne-Marie Treguier;Herlé Mercier

Frequent Co-Authors

Herlé Mercier
Herlé Mercier French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Fabrizio D'Ortenzio
Fabrizio D'Ortenzio Université Paris Cité
Hervé Claustre
Hervé Claustre Université Paris Cité
Guy Caniaux
Guy Caniaux Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Marcel Babin
Marcel Babin Université Laval
Brian A. King
Brian A. King National Oceanography Centre
Robert S. Pickart
Robert S. Pickart Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Gilles Reverdin
Gilles Reverdin Sorbonne University
Igor Yashayaev
Igor Yashayaev Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Mark Inall
Mark Inall Scottish Association For Marine Science

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