William Llovel

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

William Llovel is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William Llovel has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Oceanography, 36 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 11 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in William Llovel's work include Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (43 papers), Climate variability and models (35 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (32 papers). William Llovel is often cited by papers focused on Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (43 papers), Climate variability and models (35 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (32 papers). William Llovel collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and United Kingdom. William Llovel's co-authors include Anny Cazenave, M. Becker, Benoît Meyssignac, Anny Cazenave, Ichiro Fukumori, Thierry Delcroix, S. Guinehut, Michäel Ablain, Guillaume Ramillien and Tong Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing of Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

William Llovel

49 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

  1. Applications and Challenges of GRACE and GRACE Follow-On Satellite Gravimetry
    2022 150 citations Jianli Chen, Anny Cazenave et al. Surveys in Geophysics profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
William Llovel 2.0k 1.2k 740 297 288 52 2.6k
Michäel Ablain 2.8k 1.4× 1.2k 1.0× 1000 1.4× 371 1.2× 581 2.0× 65 3.3k
Florent Lyard 3.1k 1.5× 1.1k 1.0× 1.2k 1.6× 267 0.9× 473 1.6× 82 3.7k
C. Le Provost 2.3k 1.2× 1.0k 0.9× 974 1.3× 190 0.6× 221 0.8× 59 2.7k
Anny Cazenave 1.9k 1.0× 1.2k 1.0× 905 1.2× 376 1.3× 430 1.5× 63 3.2k
B. D. Beckley 1.6k 0.8× 762 0.7× 598 0.8× 264 0.9× 421 1.5× 47 2.3k
Shuang Yi 1.1k 0.5× 1.1k 1.0× 1.2k 1.6× 224 0.8× 289 1.0× 53 2.8k
Benoît Meyssignac 2.4k 1.2× 1.7k 1.5× 1.3k 1.8× 299 1.0× 354 1.2× 97 3.8k
Jérôme Benveniste 1.9k 1.0× 900 0.8× 1.0k 1.4× 136 0.5× 370 1.3× 132 2.9k
Denise Dettmering 1.2k 0.6× 808 0.7× 367 0.5× 349 1.2× 506 1.8× 105 2.0k
Florian Seitz 1.0k 0.5× 733 0.6× 305 0.4× 315 1.1× 366 1.3× 119 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Llovel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Llovel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William Llovel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William Llovel based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with William Llovel. William Llovel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Barnoud, Anne, Chunxue Yang, Andrea Storto, et al.. (2025). Regional sea level trend budget over 2004–2022. Ocean science. 21(4). 1425–1440.
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Zilberman, Nathalie, et al.. (2025). Deep Ocean Steric Sea Level Change in the Subtropical Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(16).
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Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas, et al.. (2025). Mechanisms of Tropical Sea Surface Salinity Variations at Seasonal Timescales. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 130(2).
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Llovel, William, et al.. (2024). Simulated Impact of Time‐Varying River Runoff and Greenland Freshwater Discharge on Sea Level Variability in the Beaufort Gyre Over 2005–2018. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 129(9). 4 indexed citations
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Berthet, Sarah, Julien Jouanno, Roland Séférian, Marion Gehlen, & William Llovel. (2023). How does the phytoplankton–light feedback affect the marine N 2 O inventory?. Earth System Dynamics. 14(2). 399–412. 3 indexed citations
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Llovel, William, et al.. (2023). Sources and Sinks of Interannual Steric Sea Level Variability. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(4). 6 indexed citations
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Chen, Jianli, Anny Cazenave, Christoph Dahle, et al.. (2022). Applications and Challenges of GRACE and GRACE Follow-On Satellite Gravimetry. Surveys in Geophysics. 43(1). 305–345. 150 indexed citations breakdown →
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Barnoud, Anne, Julia Pfeffer, Marie‐Laure Frery, et al.. (2021). Contributions of Altimetry and Argo to Non‐Closure of the Global Mean Sea Level Budget Since 2016. Geophysical Research Letters. 48(14). 50 indexed citations
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Llovel, William, et al.. (2021). Atmospherically Forced and Chaotic Interannual Variability of Regional Sea Level and Its Components Over 1993–2015. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(4). 11 indexed citations
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Llovel, William, et al.. (2019). Contribution of the Amazon River Discharge to Regional Sea Level in the Tropical Atlantic Ocean. Water. 11(11). 2348–2348. 20 indexed citations
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Llovel, William, Thierry Penduff, Benoît Meyssignac, et al.. (2018). Contributions of Atmospheric Forcing and Chaotic Ocean Variability to Regional Sea Level Trends Over 1993–2015. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(24). 22 indexed citations
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Sérazin, Guillaume, Stéphanie Leroux, Thierry Penduff, et al.. (2017). A global probabilistic study of the ocean heat content low‐frequency variability: Atmospheric forcing versus oceanic chaos. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(11). 5580–5589. 37 indexed citations
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Llovel, William, Ichiro Fukumori, & Benoît Meyssignac. (2012). Depth-dependent temperature change contributions to global mean thermosteric sea level rise from 1960 to 2010. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations
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Meyssignac, Benoît, D. Salas y Mélia, M. Becker, William Llovel, & Anny Cazenave. (2012). Tropical Pacific spatial trend patterns in observed sea level: internal variability and/or anthropogenic signature?. Climate of the past. 8(2). 787–802. 74 indexed citations
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Becker, M., William Llovel, Anny Cazenave, Andreas Güntner, & Jean-François Crétaux. (2010). Recent hydrological behavior of the East African great lakes region inferred from GRACE, satellite altimetry and rainfall observations. Comptes Rendus Géoscience. 342(3). 223–233. 97 indexed citations
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Llovel, William, et al.. (2010). Global land water storage change from GRACE over 2002–2009; Inference on sea level. Comptes Rendus Géoscience. 342(3). 179–188. 52 indexed citations
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Llovel, William, et al.. (2009). Two-dimensional reconstruction of past sea level (1950–2003) from tide gauge data and an Ocean General Circulation Model. Climate of the past. 5(2). 217–227. 39 indexed citations
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Hébrard, Éric, William Llovel, Anny Cazenave, & P. Rogel. (2008). Interannual to multidecadal variability of the mean sea level. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations
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Cazenave, Anny, A. Lombard, & William Llovel. (2008). Present-day sea level rise: A synthesis. Comptes Rendus Géoscience. 340(11). 761–770. 68 indexed citations
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Birol, Florence, L. Roblou, Florent Lyard, et al.. (2006). Towards Using Satellite Altimetry for the Observation of Coastal Dynamics. ESASP. 614. 23. 10 indexed citations

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