Bertrand Chapron

19.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
457 papers, 12.4k citations indexed

About

Bertrand Chapron is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Bertrand Chapron has authored 457 papers receiving a total of 12.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 392 papers in Oceanography, 238 papers in Atmospheric Science and 119 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Bertrand Chapron's work include Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (332 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (265 papers) and Coastal and Marine Dynamics (115 papers). Bertrand Chapron is often cited by papers focused on Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (332 papers), Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (265 papers) and Coastal and Marine Dynamics (115 papers). Bertrand Chapron collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Russia. Bertrand Chapron's co-authors include Doug Vandemark, Vladimir Kudryavtsev, Fabrice Collard, Fabrice Ardhuin, T. Elfouhaily, Alexis Mouche, Yves Quilfen, Nicolás Reul, Johnny A. Johannessen and K. B. Katsaros and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Bertrand Chapron

432 papers receiving 11.9k citations

Hit Papers

A unified directional spectrum for long and short wind‐dr... 1997 2026 2006 2016 1997 2019 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A unified directional spectrum for long and short wind‐driven waves
    1997 878 citations Bertrand Chapron et al. profile →
  2. Global Observations of Fine-Scale Ocean Surface Topography With the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission
    2019 303 citations Fabrice Ardhuin, Bertrand Chapron et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bertrand Chapron France 56 10.8k 6.1k 3.3k 1.8k 1.4k 457 12.4k
Peter P. Sullivan United States 50 3.9k 0.4× 5.6k 0.9× 1.5k 0.4× 3.5k 2.0× 2.8k 2.0× 145 8.9k
Mark A. Donelan United States 43 7.8k 0.7× 5.1k 0.8× 3.9k 1.2× 1.1k 0.6× 456 0.3× 109 8.9k
William Perrie Canada 40 4.0k 0.4× 3.1k 0.5× 1.5k 0.5× 897 0.5× 364 0.3× 289 5.3k
C. W. Fairall United States 66 8.5k 0.8× 12.8k 2.1× 1.8k 0.5× 10.5k 5.9× 1.6k 1.1× 272 17.1k
George L. Mellor United States 51 8.7k 0.8× 9.4k 1.5× 2.0k 0.6× 6.9k 3.9× 2.2k 1.5× 129 15.4k
Fabrice Ardhuin France 52 6.6k 0.6× 4.4k 0.7× 3.5k 1.1× 758 0.4× 286 0.2× 202 9.2k
Ad Stoffelen Netherlands 42 4.8k 0.4× 5.2k 0.8× 1.5k 0.5× 1.8k 1.0× 1.7k 1.2× 225 7.3k
Werner Alpers Germany 43 6.1k 0.6× 1.9k 0.3× 2.0k 0.6× 516 0.3× 361 0.3× 168 7.0k
Doug Vandemark United States 37 4.2k 0.4× 2.1k 0.3× 1.1k 0.3× 914 0.5× 695 0.5× 155 4.9k
O. M. Phillips United States 40 6.2k 0.6× 2.9k 0.5× 3.7k 1.1× 550 0.3× 938 0.7× 81 9.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bertrand Chapron

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chapron, Bertrand, et al.. (2025). Density-Induced Variations of Local Dimension Estimates for Absolutely Continuous Random Variables. Journal of Statistical Physics. 192(2). 34–34. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Chen, Xiao‐Ming Li, Lijian Shi, et al.. (2025). Sentinel-1 wave mode SAR monitoring of icebergs around Antarctica. Remote Sensing of Environment. 332. 115094–115094.
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Ouala, Said, et al.. (2024). Online calibration of deep learning sub-models for hybrid numerical modeling systems. Communications Physics. 7(1). 1 indexed citations
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Заболотских, Е. В. & Bertrand Chapron. (2024). Estimation of Atmospheric Microwave Radiation Parameters Over the Arctic Sea Ice From the AMSR2 Data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–11.
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Ouala, Said, Steven L. Brunton, Bertrand Chapron, et al.. (2023). Bounded nonlinear forecasts of partially observed geophysical systems with physics-constrained deep learning. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena. 446. 133630–133630. 7 indexed citations
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Mouche, Alexis, et al.. (2023). Obukhov Length Estimation From Spaceborne Radars. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(15). 2 indexed citations
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Wang, He, Alexis Mouche, Romain Husson, et al.. (2022). Quantifying Uncertainties in the Partitioned Swell Heights Observed From CFOSAT SWIM and Sentinel-1 SAR via Triple Collocation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–16. 7 indexed citations
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Kudryavtsev, Vladimir, Maria Yurovskaya, & Bertrand Chapron. (2021). Self‐Similarity of Surface Wave Developments Under Tropical Cyclones. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(4). 23 indexed citations
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Ciani, Daniele, et al.. (2021). Effect of Subsurface Mediterranean Water Eddies on Sound Propagation Using ROMS Output and the Bellhop Model. Water. 13(24). 3617–3617. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Huimin, Danièle Hauser, Bertrand Chapron, et al.. (2021). Up-to-Downwave Asymmetry of the CFOSAT SWIM Fluctuation Spectrum for Wave Direction Ambiguity Removal. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–12. 5 indexed citations
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Fablet, Ronan, et al.. (2021). END-TO-END PHYSICS-INFORMED REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR SATELLITE OCEAN REMOTE SENSING DATA: APPLICATIONS TO SATELLITE ALTIMETRY AND SEA SURFACE CURRENTS. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. V-3-2021. 295–302. 14 indexed citations
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Fablet, Ronan, Bertrand Chapron, Lucas Drumetz, et al.. (2021). Jointly learning variational data assimilation models and solvers for geophysical dynamics. 3 indexed citations
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Mironov, Alexey, et al.. (2021). Monitoring the Greater Agulhas Current With AIS Data Information. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(5). 6 indexed citations
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Rascle, Nicolas, Bertrand Chapron, Jeroen Molemaker, et al.. (2020). Monitoring Intense Oceanic Fronts Using Sea Surface Roughness: Satellite, Airplane, and In Situ Comparison. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 125(8). 14 indexed citations
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Marié, Louis, Fabrice Collard, Frédéric Nouguier, et al.. (2020). Measuring ocean total surface current velocity with the KuROS and KaRADOC airborne near-nadir Doppler radars: a multi-scale analysis in preparation for the SKIM mission. Ocean science. 16(6). 1399–1429. 15 indexed citations
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Reul, Nicolás, Bertrand Chapron, Semyon A. Grodsky, et al.. (2020). Satellite Observations of the Sea Surface Salinity Response to Tropical Cyclones. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(1). 37 indexed citations
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Holding, Thomas, Ian Ashton, Jamie D. Shutler, et al.. (2019). The FluxEngine air–sea gas flux toolbox: simplified interface and extensions for in situ analyses and multiple sparingly soluble gases. Ocean science. 15(6). 1707–1728. 15 indexed citations
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Pascual, Ananda, et al.. (2019). Analog Data Assimilation of Along-Track Nadir and Wide-Swath SWOT Altimetry Observations in the Western Mediterranean Sea. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 12(7). 2530–2540. 7 indexed citations
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Заболотских, Е. В. & Bertrand Chapron. (2018). New Geophysical Model Function for Ocean Emissivity at 89 GHz Over Arctic Waters. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 16(4). 573–577. 6 indexed citations
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Chapron, Bertrand, et al.. (2016). Surveying sea surface effect in satellite altimeter-derived wind speed. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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