Over a decade ago, an analogy was drawn between the generation of large ocean waves
and the propagation of light fields in optical fibres. This analogy drove numerous …

In 2018 we celebrated 25 years of development of radar altimetry, and the progress
achieved by this methodology in the fields of global and coastal oceanography, hydrology …

Plastics and other artificial materials pose new risks to health of the ocean. Anthropogenic
debris travels across large distances and is ubiquitous in the water and on the shorelines …

With the increasing number of data produced by numerical ocean models, so increases the
need for efficient tools to analyse these data. One of these tools is Lagrangian ocean …

Floating microplastic in the oceans is known to accumulate in the subtropical ocean gyres,
but unclear is still what causes that accumulation. We investigate the role of various physical …

Coastal zones have large social, economic and environmental values. They are more
densely populated than the hinterland and concentrate large economic assets, critical …

During its periodic motion, a particle floating at the free surface of a water wave experiences
a net drift velocity in the direction of wave propagation, known as the Stokes drift (Stokes …

Internal gravity waves (IGWs) and balanced motions (BMs) with scales< 100‐km capture
most of the vertical velocity field in the upper ocean. They have, however, different impacts …

Sea state information is needed for many applications, ranging from safety at sea and on the
coast, for which real time data are essential, to planning and design needs for infrastructure …

Satellite observations of the last two decades have led to a major breakthrough emphasizing
the existence of a strongly energetic mesoscale turbulent eddy field in all the oceans. This …