Gurvan Madec

32.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
211 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

Gurvan Madec is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gurvan Madec has authored 211 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 173 papers in Oceanography, 142 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 138 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Gurvan Madec's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (160 papers), Climate variability and models (136 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (53 papers). Gurvan Madec is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (160 papers), Climate variability and models (136 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (53 papers). Gurvan Madec collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and United States. Gurvan Madec's co-authors include Daniele Iudicone, Clément de Boyer Montégut, Alban Lazar, Albert Fischer, Matthieu Lengaigne, Sébastien Masson, Jérôme Vialard, Éric Guilyardi, Olivier Aumont and Maurice Imbard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Gurvan Madec

206 papers receiving 15.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Mixed layer depth over the global ocean: An examination of profile data and a profile‐based climatology

2004 2.4k citations Clément de Boyer Montégut, Gurvan Madec et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
Impact of partial steps and momentum advection schemes in a global ocean circulation model at eddy-permitting resolution

2006 584 citations Bernard Barnier, Gurvan Madec et al. profile →
Global Seasonal forecast system version 5 (GloSea5): a high‐resolution seasonal forecast system

2014 559 citations Gurvan Madec et al. profile →
NEMO ocean engine

2017 224 citations Gurvan Madec et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gurvan Madec France	69	12.3k	10.1k	9.0k	1.2k	1.1k	211	15.9k
Gregory C. Johnson United States	56	8.9k 0.7×	6.0k 0.6×	5.6k 0.6×	728 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	163	11.6k
Bo Qiu United States	64	12.7k 1.0×	9.6k 0.9×	6.9k 0.8×	485 0.4×	1.0k 1.0×	236	14.7k
Sydney Levitus United States	43	9.0k 0.7×	7.6k 0.7×	5.9k 0.7×	773 0.7×	1.6k 1.5×	98	12.1k
John M. Toole United States	59	8.3k 0.7×	4.6k 0.5×	6.8k 0.8×	1.7k 1.4×	413 0.4×	165	10.7k
William G. Large United States	47	12.2k 1.0×	9.7k 1.0×	10.0k 1.1×	757 0.6×	744 0.7×	90	16.1k
Uwe Mikolajewicz Germany	53	4.2k 0.3×	5.4k 0.5×	6.8k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	146	10.0k
Claus W. Böning Germany	47	6.3k 0.5×	5.5k 0.5×	4.2k 0.5×	656 0.6×	424 0.4×	126	7.8k
E. Maier‐Reimer Germany	56	5.8k 0.5×	4.6k 0.5×	5.2k 0.6×	1.6k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	129	9.9k
Arne Biastoch Germany	43	5.1k 0.4×	4.5k 0.4×	3.5k 0.4×	753 0.6×	748 0.7×	147	7.0k
Dimitris Menemenlis United States	51	5.3k 0.4×	4.0k 0.4×	5.2k 0.6×	732 0.6×	524 0.5×	183	8.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Vancoppenolle, Martin, et al.. (2025). Local Drivers of Antarctic Spring Sea Ice Retreat. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(10).

Roquet, Fabien, et al.. (2024). Impacts of Vertical Convective Mixing Schemes and Freshwater Forcing on the 2016–2017 Maud Rise Polynya Openings in a Regional Ocean Simulation. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(5).

Lemarié, Florian, et al.. (2021). A simplified atmospheric boundary layer model for an improved representation of air–sea interactions in eddying oceanic models: implementation and first evaluation in NEMO (4.0). Geoscientific model development. 14(1). 543–572. 7 indexed citations

Hausmann, Ute, Jean‐Baptiste Sallée, Nicolas C. Jourdain, et al.. (2019). Interannual tidal signatures in iceshelf melt in a new NEMO-LIM3 configuration of the southwestern Weddell Gyre, its shelves and sub-iceshelf seas. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11360. 1 indexed citations

Vancoppenolle, Martin, et al.. (2019). Arctic sea-ice-free season projected to extend into autumn. The cryosphere. 13(1). 79–96. 24 indexed citations

Vancoppenolle, Martin, et al.. (2018). Arctic sea ice-free season projected to extend into fall. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 1 indexed citations

Mathiot, Pierre, Adrian Jenkins, Christopher M. Harris, & Gurvan Madec. (2017). Explicit representation and parametrised impacts of under ice shelf seas in the z ^∗ coordinate ocean model NEMO 3.6. Geoscientific model development. 10(7). 2849–2874. 90 indexed citations

Rousset, Clément, Martin Vancoppenolle, Gurvan Madec, et al.. (2015). The Louvain-La-Neuve sea ice model LIM3.6: global and regional capabilities. Geoscientific model development. 8(10). 2991–3005. 181 indexed citations

Barthélemy, Antoine, Thierry Fichefet, Hugues Goosse, & Gurvan Madec. (2015). Modelling the interplay between sea ice formation and the oceanic mixed layer: limitations of simple brine rejection parameterizations. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9581. 1 indexed citations

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Rodgers, Keith B., Olivier Aumont, S. E. Mikaloff Fletcher, et al.. (2014). Strong sensitivity of Southern Ocean carbon uptake and nutrient cycling to wind stirring. Biogeosciences. 11(15). 4077–4098. 32 indexed citations

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Tréguier, Anne‐Marie, Julie Deshayes, Julien Le Sommer, et al.. (2014). Meridional transport of salt in the global ocean from an eddy-resolving model. Ocean science. 10(2). 243–255. 53 indexed citations

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Hirschi, Joël, Adam T. Blaker, Bablu Sinha, et al.. (2013). Chaotic variability of the meridional overturning circulation on subannual to interannual timescales. Ocean science. 9(5). 805–823. 37 indexed citations

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Vannière, Benoît, Éric Guilyardi, Gurvan Madec, Francisco J. Doblas‐Reyes, & Steven J. Woolnough. (2012). Using seasonal hindcasts to understand the origin of the equatorial cold tongue bias in CGCMs and its impact on ENSO. Climate Dynamics. 40(3-4). 963–981. 60 indexed citations

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Penduff, Thierry, Mélanie Juza, Laurent Brodeau, et al.. (2010). Impact of global ocean model resolution on sea-level variability with emphasis on interannual time scales. Ocean science. 6(1). 269–284. 108 indexed citations

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Emile‐Geay, Julien & Gurvan Madec. (2009). Geothermal heating, diapycnal mixing and the abyssal circulation. Ocean science. 5(2). 203–217. 59 indexed citations

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Williams, Paul D., Éric Guilyardi, Gurvan Madec, Silvio Gualdi, & Enrico Scoccimarro. (2009). The role of mean ocean salinity in climate. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 285. 1 indexed citations

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Tréguier, Anne‐Marie, Matthew H. England, Stephen R. Rintoul, et al.. (2007). Southern Ocean overturning across streamlines in an eddying simulation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Ocean science. 3(4). 491–507. 60 indexed citations

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Penduff, Thierry, Julien Le Sommer, Bernard Barnier, et al.. (2007). Influence of numerical schemes on current-topography interactions in 1/4° global ocean simulations. Ocean science. 3(4). 509–524. 85 indexed citations

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Montégut, Clément de Boyer, Gurvan Madec, Albert Fischer, Alban Lazar, & Daniele Iudicone. (2004). Mixed layer depth over the global ocean: An examination of profile data and a profile‐based climatology. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 109(C12). 2377 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lengaigne, Matthieu, J. P. Boulanger, Christophe Menkès, et al.. (2001). Ocean Response to the March 1997 Westerly Wind Event. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2001. 2 indexed citations

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