Earth observations for monitoring marine coastal hazards and their drivers

A Melet, P Teatini, G Le Cozannet, C Jamet… - Surveys in …, 2020 - Springer
Coastal zones have large social, economic and environmental values. They are more
densely populated than the hinterland and concentrate large economic assets, critical …

SKIM, a candidate satellite mission exploring global ocean currents and waves

F Ardhuin, P Brandt, L Gaultier, C Donlon… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Sea surface KInematics Multiscale monitoring (SKIM) satellite mission is designed to
explore ocean surface current and waves. This includes tropical currents, notably the poorly …

Beyond GOCE for the ocean circulation estimate: Synergetic use of altimetry, gravimetry, and in situ data provides new insight into geostrophic and Ekman currents

MH Rio, S Mulet, N Picot - Geophysical Research Letters, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate estimate of ocean surface currents is both a challenging issue and a growing end‐
users requirement. In this paper ocean currents are calculated at two levels (surface and 15 …

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

F Ardhuin, Y Aksenov, A Benetazzo, L Bertino… - Ocean …, 2018 - os.copernicus.org
We propose a satellite mission that uses a near-nadir Ka-band Doppler radar to measure
surface currents, ice drift and ocean waves at spatial scales of 40 km and more, with …

Ecological mechanisms and current systems shape the modular structure of the global oceans' prokaryotic seascape

F Milke, J Meyerjürgens, M Simon - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Major biogeographic features of the microbial seascape in the oceans have been
established and their underlying ecological mechanisms in the (sub) tropical oceans and the …

A modeling study of the processes of surface salinity seasonal cycle in the Bay of Bengal

VP Akhil, F Durand, M Lengaigne… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
In response to the Indian Monsoon freshwater forcing, the Bay of Bengal exhibits a very
strong seasonal cycle in sea surface salinity (SSS), especially near the mouths of the …

[HTML][HTML] Metapopulation tracking juvenile penguins reveals an ecosystem-wide ecological trap

RB Sherley, K Ludynia, BM Dyer, T Lamont… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Climate change and fisheries are transforming the oceans, but we lack a complete
understanding of their ecological impact [1–3]. Environmental degradation can cause …

An historical analysis of the California Current circulation using ROMS 4D-Var: System configuration and diagnostics

E Neveu, AM Moore, CA Edwards, J Fiechter, P Drake… - Ocean Modelling, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) 4-dimensional variational (4D-Var)
data assimilation tool has been used to compute two sequences of circulation analyses for …

Bay of Bengal Sea surface salinity variability using a decade of improved SMOS re-processing

VP Akhil, J Vialard, M Lengaigne, MG Keerthi… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Monsoon rain and rivers bring large freshwater input to the Northern Bay of Bengal (BoB),
yielding low Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) after the monsoon. The resulting sharp upper-ocean …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated observations of global surface winds, currents, and waves: requirements and challenges for the next decade

AB Villas Bôas, F Ardhuin, A Ayet… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Ocean surface winds, currents, and waves play a crucial role in exchanges of momentum,
energy, heat, freshwater, gases, and other tracers between the ocean, atmosphere, and ice …