I’m a physical oceanographer, expert in ocean equatorial dynamics and climate variability in the Tropical Pacific. My research interests are on oceanic circulation variability in the Tropical Pacific, on low-latitude western boundary currents, and on the equatorial current system dynamics. I'm currently leading research projects on Marine Heatwaves, and on fine-scale oceanic processes in the SouthWest Pacific. I’m mainly working with various observations, including satellite and in situ data, combined with numerical simulations.
Responsibilities
Community Services Commitments: Reports from TPOS2020:
Kessler W., Cravatte S. (2021). Final Report TPOS 2020. GOOS-268 . Available online at: https://tropicalpacific.org/tpos2020-project-archive/reports/
Kessler, W.S., S.E. Wijffels, S. Cravatte , N. Smith, and Contributing Authors, 2019: Second Report of TPOS 2020 [Available online at https://tropicalpacific.org/tpos2020-project-archive/reports/ ] Cravatte, S. , W. S . Kessler, N. Smith, S.E. Wijffels, and Contributing Authors, 2016: First Report of TPOS 2020.GOOS-215, 200 pp.[Available online at http://tpos2020.org/first-report/ .]
CLIVAR PRP (Pacific regional Panel) member (2020-2022); co-chair (2023-2025)NPOCE (Northwest Pacific Ocean Circulation Experiment) Scientific Steering Committee (2022-2025)MOI (Mercator-Ocean International) Scientific Board member (2020-present)IRD CSS1 (Earth Science Commission) vice-president (2016-2020)CNFH (Commission Nationale de la Flotte Hauturière), vice-president (2021-2022)
Publications
Link to ORCID (all publications with DOI and URL links)
Submitted, in revision…
Gasparin, F, S. Cravatte , J. Jouanno, A.C. Hans, E. Kestenare, M. Gevaudan, J. Llido and P. Brandt: Diurnal Oceanic Thermal Variability in the Atlantic Cold tongue: Dependence on Wind Speed and Background Conditions, in revision in Journal of Geophysical Research
Bendinger, A., S. Cravatte , L. Gourdeau, C. Vic and F. Lyard, Regional modeling of internal-tide dynamics around New Caledonia. Part 2: Tidal incoherence and implications for sea surface height observability, in revision in Ocean Sciences
Malan, N., A Sen Gupta, A. Schaeffer, S. Zhang, M. Doblin, G. Semolini Pilo, A. E. Kiss, J. Everett, E. Behrens, A.Capotondi, S. Cravatte, A. J. Hobday, N. J. Holbrook, J. B. Kajtar, C. M. Spillman et al, Lifting the lid on Marine Heatwaves, in revision in Progress in Oceanography
Sarthou, G et al.: Dissolved iron distribution and budget in the Solomon Sea, submitted for publication to Marine Chemistry
Lal, S., S. Cravatte , C. Menkes, J. Macdonald, R. Le Gendre, I. Mangolte, C. Dutheil, N. Holbrook and S. Nicol, Characterization of Past marine Heatwaves around South Pacific Island Countries: What really matters? Submitted for publication in Progress in Oceanography
Guo, Z., P. Lyu, F. Ling, L. Bai, J.-J. Luo, N. Boers, T. Yamagata, T. Izumo, S. Cravatte , A. Capotondi, and W. Ouyang, Data-driven Global Ocean Modeling for Seasonal to Decadal Prediction, in revision for Sciences Advances
Pagli, B., T. Izumo, S. Cravatte , M. Hopuare, S. Martinoni-Lapierre, V. Laurent, and C. Menkes, Interannual variations in Tropical cyclone activity in the Central South Pacific: is ENSO the whole story?”, in revision for Journal of Climate
Le Gendre, R., et al.: ReefTemps, the Pacific Islands Coastal temperature Network, in revision for Earth System Science Data (ESSD)
2025
Thierry, V. et al., Advancing Ocean Monitoring and Knowledge for Societal Benefit: The Urgency to Expand Argo to OneArgo by 2030, in press in Frontiers in Marine Science.
Spillman, C, A. J. Hobday, E. Behrens, M. Feng, A. Capotondi, S. Cravatte , N. J. Holbrook, A. Sen Gupta. : What makes a marine heatwave forecast useable, useful and used? Progress in Oceanography, Volume 234, 2025, 103464, ISSN 0079-6611, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2025.103464.
Pagli, B., T. Izumo, S. Cravatte, M. Hopuare, S. Martinoni-Lapierre, V. Laurent, C. Menkes, D. Monselesan, S. Auffray, The diverse impacts of El Niño and La Niña events over the South Pacific and in French Polynesia, in press in Journal of Climate
Foltz GR, Eddebbar YA, Sprintall J, Capotondi A, Cravatte S , Brandt P, Sutton AJ, Morris T, Hermes J, McMahon CR, McPhaden MJ, Looney LB, Tuchen FP, Roxy MK, Wang F, Chai F, Rodrigues RR, Rodriguez-Fonseca B, Subramanian AC, Dengler M, Stienbarger C, Bailey K and Yu W (2025) Toward an integrated pantropical ocean observing system. Front. Mar. Sci. 12:1539183. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2025.1539183
Balakrishnan, R., F. Gasparin, G. Ruggiero, E. Remy and S. Cravatte: On the intraseasonal oceanic processes constrained by data assimilation: a case study of the Tropical Pacific, 2025, Monthly Weather review, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-24-0027.1
2024
Dutheil, C. et al., The massive 2016 marine heatwave in the Southwest Pacific: An “El Niño–Madden-Julian Oscillation” compound event. Sci. Adv. 10 ,eadp2948 (2024). DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adp2948
Hans, A. C. , Brandt, P. , Gasparin, F. , Claus, M. , Cravatte, S .Horstmann, J. , & Reverdin, G. (2024 ). Observed diurnal cycles of near-surface shear and stratification in the equatorial Atlantic and their wind dependence . Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans , 129 , e2023JC020870. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC020870 Monselesan, D, J. S. Risbey, B. Legresy, S. Cravatte , B. Pagli, T. Izumo, C. C. Chapman, M. Freund, A. Hannachi, D. Irving, P. Jyoteeshkumar Reddy, D. Richardson, D. T. Squire, C. R. Tozer: On the archetypal `flavours’, indices and teleconnections of ENSO revealed by global sea surface temperatures, https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08694
Bendinger, A., Cravatte, S. , Gourdeau, L., Rainville, L., Vic, C., Sérazin, G., Durand, F., Marin, F., and Fuda, J.-L.: Internal tides vertical structure and steric sea surface height signature south of New Caledonia revealed by glider observations , Ocean Sci., 20, 945–964, 2024 https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-945-2024
Receveur, A., Menkes, C., Lengaigne, M. et al. A rare oasis effect for forage fauna in oceanic eddies at the global scale. Nature Commun 15 , 4834 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49113-3.
2023
Capotondi, A., McGregor, S., McPhaden, M.J., Cravatte S . et t al. Mechanisms of tropical Pacific decadal variability. Nature Rev Earth Environ 4 , 754–769 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00486-x
Bendinger, A., Cravatte, S ., Gourdeau, L., Brodeau, L., Albert, A., Tchilibou, M., Lyard, F., and Vic, C.: Regional modeling of internal-tide dynamics around New Caledonia – Part 1: Coherent internal-tide characteristics and sea surface height signature, Ocean Sci., 19, 1315–1338, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-19-1315-2023, 2023.
Gasparin, F., J.-M. Lellouche, S. Cravatte , G. Ruggiero, B Rohith, P.-Y. Le Traon, E. Remy, On the control of spatial and temporal oceanic scales by existing and future observing systems: an OSSE approach, Front. Mar. Sci., 31 January 2023, Sec. Ocean Observation, Volume 10 – 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1021650
Germineaud C, Volkov DL, Cravatte S , Llovel W. Forcing Mechanisms of the Interannual Sea Level Variability in the Midlatitude South Pacific during 2004–2020. Remote Sensing . 2023; 15(2):352. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15020352
2022
Révelard, A. et al., Ocean Integration: The Needs and Challenges of Effective Coordination Within the Ocean Observing System. Front. Mar. Sci. 8:737671. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.737671
Pham, V, C. Jeandel, M. Grenier, S. Cravatte , M. Belhadj, C. Germineaud and T. Van Vu, Neodymium Isotopic Composition and Rare Earth Element Concentrations variations in the Coral and Solomon Seas, Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvc.2022.803944
2021
Belmadani, A.; Auger, P.-A.; Maximenko, N.; Gomez, K.; Cravatte, S . Similarities and Contrasts in Time-Mean Striated Surface Tracers in Pacific Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems: The Role of Ocean Currents in Their Generation. Fluids 2021 , 6 , 455. https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids6120455
Germineaud, C., S. Cravatte, J. Sprintall, M. Alberty, M. Grenier, and A. Ganachaud, Deep Pacific Circulation: new insights on pathways through the Solomon Sea, Deep-sea Research Part I-oceanographic Research Papers , 171, 103510 (15p.). Publisher’s official version : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2021.103510 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00685/79704/
Gasparin, F., S. Cravatte , E. Greiner, C. Perruche, M. Hamon, S. VanGennip, J. M. Lellouche, Excessive productivity and heat content in tropical Pacific analyses: Disentangling the effects of in situ and altimetry assimilation, Ocean Modelling, Volume 160, 2021, 101768, ISSN 1463-5003, https://doi.org/10.1016 /j.ocemod.2021.101768 .
Cravatte, S. , Serazin, G., Penduff, T., and Menkes, C.: Imprint of chaotic ocean variability on transports in the southwestern Pacific at interannual timescales, Ocean Sci., 17, 487–507, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-487-2021, 2021. Delpech, A., C. Menesguen, Y. Morel, L. Thomas, F. Marin, S. Cravatte and S. Legentil, Intra-annual barotropic Rossby waves destabilization as a potential driver of Extra-Equatorial Jets, Journal of Physical Oceanography , 51 (2), 365-384.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-20-0180.1 Kessler W., Cravatte S. (2021). Final Report TPOS 2020. GOOS-268 . Available online at: https://tropicalpacific.org/tpos2020-project-archive/reports/
2020
Assene, F., Y. Morel, et al., From mixing to the basin-scale circulation: how the inverse cascade is involved in the formation of the subsurface currents in the equatorial Atlantic (2020), Fluids, doi:10.3390/fluids5030147 (special issue on submesoscale processes)
Behrens, M., K. Pahnke, S. Cravatte , F. Marin and C. Jeandel (2020), Trace element sources and fluxes in the near-surface zonal current system of the Tropical Western Pacific: evidence from combined rare earth element distributions and physical oceanographic observations, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 549 (2020) 116496, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116496 Serazin, G., F. Marin, L. Gourdeau, S. Cravatte , R. Morrow and M.-L. Dabat, Scale-dependent analysis of in-situ observations in the mesoscale to submesoscale range around New Caledonia, Ocean Sciences, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-2019-124
Hu, D., F. Wang, J. Sprintall, L. Wu, S. Riser, S. Cravatte , A. Gordon, L. Zhang, D. Chen, H. Zhou, K. Ando, J. Wang, J.-H. Lee, S. Hu, J. Wang, D. Zhangn J. Feng, L. Liu, C. Villanoy, C. Kaluwin, T. Qu, Y. Ma, Review on observational studies of western tropical Pacific Ocean Circulation and Climate, JOL, DOI:10.1007/s00343-020-0240-1
Greiner, E., N. Verbrugge, S. Cravatte, A. Valcarcel and B. Tranchant, Barrier Layer Thickness in the Pacific Ocean, chapter in “Copernicus Marine Service Ocean State Report”, by Van Schuckmann et al., Issue 4, Journal of Operational Oceanography, 13:sup1, S1-S172, DOI: 10.1080/1755876X.2020.1785097
Delpech, A., S. Cravatte , F. Marin, C. Menesguen, Y. Morel, Deep Eddy Kinetic Energy in the Tropical Pacific from Lagrangian floats, accepted for publication in JGR Oceans, 125,https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016313
Receveur, A. et al, Micronekton distribution in the southwest Pacific (New Caledonia) from shipboard-ADCP backscatter data, Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 2020, 103237, ISSN 0967-0637, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103237
Sprintall, J., S. Cravatte , B. Dewitte, Y. Du, A. Sen Gupta, “ENSO Oceanic Teleconnections”, El Niño Southern Oscillation in a Changing Climate , Vol. 253, Amer. Geophys. Union, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119548164.ch15 .
Delpech, A., S. Cravatte , F. Marin, Y. Morel, E. Gronchi, and E. Kestenare , 2020 : Observed Tracer Fields Structuration by Middepth Zonal Jets in the Tropical Pacific. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 50 281–304, https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-19-0132.1
2019
Alberty, M., J. Sprintall, J. MacKinnon, G. Germineaud, S. Cravatte and A. Ganachaud, Moored Observations of Transport in the Solomon Sea, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans,124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015143
Kessler, W.S., S.E. Wijffels, S. Cravatte , N. Smith, and Contributing Authors, 2019: Second Report of TPOS 2020 [Available online at https://tropicalpacific.org/tpos2020-project-archive/reports/ ] Ardhuin, F., B. Chapron, C. Maes, R. Romeiser, C. Gommenginger, S. Cravatte, R. Morrow, C. Donlon, M. Bourassa, Satellite Doppler observations of the motions of the oceans, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 100 ES215–ES219, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0039.1
Pham V., M. Grenier, S. Cravatte , S. Michael, S. Jacquet, M. Belhadj, Y. Dachez, C. Germineaud and C. Jeandel, Dissolved Rare Earth Elements distribution in the Solomon Sea, Chemical Geology, 524, 11–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.05.012
Smith, N, W. S. Kessler, S. Cravatte , J. Sprintall, S. E. Wijffels, M. F. Cronin, A. J. Sutton, Y. L. Serra, B. Dewitte, P. Strutton, K.L. Hill, A. Sen Gupta, X. Lin, K. Takahashi Guevara, D. Chen and S. L. Brunner, Tropical Pacific Observing System, OO’19 CWP, Front. Mar. Sci. 6:31.doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00031.[pdf]
Ardhuin, F, Brandt P, Gaultier L, Donlon C, Battaglia A, Boy F, Casal T, Chapron B, Collard F, Cravatte S , Delouis J-M, DeWitte E, Dibarboure G, Engen G, Johnsen H, Lique C, Lopez-Dekker P, Maes C, Martin A, Marié L, Menemenlis D, Nouguier F, Peureux C, Rampal P, Ressler G, Rio M-H, Rommen B, Shutler JD, Suess M, Tsamados M, Ubelmann C, van Sebille E, van der Vorst M and Stammer D (2019) SKIM, a Candidate Satellite Mission Exploring Global Ocean Currents and Waves. Front. Mar. Sci. 6:209. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00209
Todd, R. F.P. Chavez, S. Clayton, S. Cravatte , M. Goes, M. Graco, X. Lin, J. Sprintall, N. V. Zilberman, and contributing authors, Gobal Perspectives on Observing Ocean Boundary Current Systems, OO’19 CWP, endorsed for publication in Frontiers.
Palmer, M., P. Durack, M. Paz Chidichimo, John Church, Sophie Cravatte , Katy Hill, Johnny Johannessen, Johannes Karstensen, Tony Lee, David Legler, Matt Mazloff, Eitarou Oka, Sarah Purkey, Ben Rabe, Jean-Baptiste Sallée, Bernadette Sloyan, Sabrina Speich, Karina von Schuckmann, Josh Willis and Susan Wijffel, Adequacy of the ocean observation system for quantifying regional heat and freshwater storage and change, Front. Mar. Sci. 6:416, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00416
Menesguen, C., A. Delpech, F. Marin, S. Cravatte , R. Schopp and Y. Morel, Observations and Mechanisms for the formation of Deep Equatorial and Tropical Circulation, Earth and Space Science . 2019 . http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018EA000438
2018
Keppler, L., Cravatte, S. , Chaigneau, A., Pegliasco, C., Gourdeau, L., & Singh, A. (2018 ). Observed characteristics and vertical structure of mesoscale eddies in the southwest tropical Pacific . Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans , 123 . https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JC013712
Ardhuin, F., et al.: Measuring currents, ice drift, and waves from space: the Sea Surface KInematics Multiscale monitoring (SKIM) concept, Ocean Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/os-2017-65 , accepted for publication.
2017
Gourdeau, L., Verron, J., Chaigneau, A., Cravatte, S. and Kessler, W. (2017), Complementary Use of Glider Data, Altimetry, and Model for Exploring Mesoscale Eddies in the Tropical Pacific Solomon Sea. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1002/2017JC013116
Kiko, R., A. Biastoch, P. Brandt, S. Cravatte , et al., Physical focusing and disintegration of marine snowfall feeds deep equatorial carbon export, Nature Geoscience 10 , 852–858 (2017), doi :10.1038/ngeo3042. See also : Actualité in french
Cravatte, S. , E. Kestenare, F. Marin, P. Dutrieux and E. Firing, Subthermocline and Intermediate Zonal Currents in the Tropical Pacific Ocean: paths and vertical structure, accepted for publication in JPO, https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-17-0043.1 DATA AVAILABLE HERE: ( https://doi.org/10.6096/01 ).Alberty, M., J. Sprintall, J. MacKinnon, A. Ganachaud, S. Cravatte , G. Eldin, C. Germineaud, and A. Melet (2017): Spatial patterns of mixing in the Solomon Sea, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans , 122 , doi:10.1002/2016JC012666 .
Ganachaud, A., S. Cravatte , Sprintall J, Germineaud C, Alberty M, Jeandel C, et al.. The Solomon Sea: its circulation, chemistry, geochemistry and biology explored during two oceanographic cruises. Elem Sci Anth. 2017;5:33. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.221
2016
Cravatte, S. , W. S . Kessler, N. Smith, S.E. Wijffels, and Contributing Authors, 2016: First Report of TPOS 2020.GOOS-215, 200 pp.[Available online at http://tpos2020.org/first-report/ .]Cyril Germineaud, Alexandre Ganachaud, Janet Sprintall, S. Cravatte , Gérard Eldin, Marion S. Alberty, and Emilien Privat , 2016 : Pathways and Water Mass Properties of the Thermocline and Intermediate Waters in the Solomon Sea. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 46 3031–3049, doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-16-0107.1.
2015
Cravatte, S, A. Ganachaud, B. Dewitte, F. Hernandez (2015) TPOS2020: TROPICAL PACIFIC OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR 2020, Newsletter #52: Special Issue jointly coordinated by Mercator Ocean and Coriolis focusing on Ocean ObservationSmith, N.R., A. Kumar, K. Takahashi, H. Hendon, S. Cravatte , D. Chen, T. Farrar, Cronin, K. Ando, W. Yu, and W.S. Kessler (2015): The Tropical Pacific Observing System 2020 Project: The role of research and innovation. CLIVAR Exchanges, 19(2), No. 67. Bonnet, S., M. Rodier, K. A. Turk-Kubo, C. Germineaud, C. Menkes, A. Ganachaud, S. Cravatte , P. Raimbault, E. Campbell, F. Quéroué (2015), Contrasted geographical distribution of N2 fixation rates and nifH phylotypes in the Coral and Solomon Seas (southwestern Pacific) during austral winter conditions, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 29, 1874–1892, doi:10.1002/2015GB005117.
Cravatte, S ., E. Kestenare, G. Eldin, A. Ganachaud, J. Lefevre, F. Marin, C. Menkes, and J. Aucan (2015), Regional circulation around New Caledonia from two decades of observations, Journal of Marine Systems, 148, 249-271.Alory, G., T. Delcroix, P. Téchiné, D. Diverrès, D. Varillon, S. Cravatte , Y. Gouriou, J. Grelet, S. Jacquin, E. Kestenare, C. Maes, R. Morrow, J. Perrier, G. Reverdin, F. Roubaud (2015), The French contribution to the voluntary observing ships network of sea surface salinity, Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, Volume 105, November 2015, Pages 1-18, ISSN 0967-0637, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2015.08.005 .
2014
Ganachaud, A., Cravatte, S ., Melet, A., Schiller, A., Holbrook, N., Sloyan, B., Widlansky, M., Bowen, M., Verron, J., et al. (2014). Ocean circulation of the Southwest Pacific: new insights from the Southwest Pacific Ocean and Climate Experiment (SPICE). Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, « Western Pacific Ocean Circulation and Climate » spécial number.119(11), 7660-7686.
Roemmich, D., S. Cravatte , T. Delcroix, F. Gasparin, D. Hu, G.C. Johnson, W.S. Kessler, R. Lumpkin, G. Reverdin, J. Sprintall, and S. Wijffels, 2014: White Paper #10 – In situ temperature, salinity, and velocity observations. Report of the Tropical Pacific Observing System 2020 Workshop (TPOS 2020), La Jolla, United States, 27-30 January 2014, GCOS report 184, vol. 2, 243-171. Cravatte S., F. Marin and W. S. Kessler (2014), Zonal jets at 1000m in the tropics observed from Argo float’s drifts, Mercator-Coriolis Newsletter, Avril-Mai 2014.Menkes, C. E., M. Lengaigne, J. Vialard, M. Puy, P. Marchesiello, S. Cravatte , and G. Cambon (2014), About the role of Westerly Wind Events in the possible development of an El Nino in 2014, Geophysical Research Letters, 41(18), 6476-6483.
Grenier, M., C. Jeandel and S. Cravatte (2014), From the subtropics to the Equator in the Southwest Pacific: continental material fluxes quantified using neodymium parameters along modeled thermocline water pathways, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 119, 3948– 3966, doi:10.1002/2013JC009670 .
Delcroix T., M. H. Radenac, S. Cravatte , G. Alory, L. Gourdeau, F. Léger, A. Singh and D. Varillon (2014). Sea surface temperature and salinity seasonal changes in the western Solomon and Bismarck Seas. J. Geophys. Res., « Western Pacific Ocean Circulation and Climate » Special Number, 119, doi:10.1002/2013JC009733.
2013
Kessler, W. S. and S. Cravatte (2013), ENSO and short term variability of the South Equatorial Current entering the Coral Sea, J. Phys. Oceanogr. , 43 , 956–969.
Kessler, W. S., and S. Cravatte (2013), Mean circulation of the Coral Sea, Journal of Geophysical Research. Oceans, 118(12), 6385-6410.
Brown, J., C. Maes, A. Sen Gupta, R. Matear, S. Cravatte, C. Langlais, and others workshop participants, Reinvigorating Research on the Western Pacific Warm Pool, CLIVAR Exchanges , 2013, 18 (63), p. 34-35. ISSN 1026-0471 Ceccarelli, et al., (2013) The Coral Sea: Physical Environment, Ecosystem Status and Biodiversity Assets In Michael Lesser, editor: Advances in Marine Biology, Vol. 66, AMB, UK: Academic Press, 2013, pp. 213-290.
Grenier, M., C. Jeandel , F. Lacan , D. Vance , C. Venchiarutti , A. Cros, and S. Cravatte (2013), From the subtropics to the central equatorial Pacific Ocean: neodymium isotopic composition and rare earth element concentration variations, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 118, 592–618, doi:10.1029/2012JC008239.
Eldin Gérard , Ganachaud Alexandre , Cravatte S. Jeandel C. CLIVAR Exchanges , 2013, 18 (61; 1), p. 24-25. ISSN 1026-0471Ganachaud Alexandre , Bowen M. , Brassington G. , Cai W. , Cravatte S. , Davis R. , Gourdeau Lionel , Hasegawa T. , Hill K. , Holbrook N. , Kessler W. , Maes Christophe , Melet A. , Qiu B. , Ridgway K. , Roemmich D. , Schiller A. , Send U. , Sloyan B. , Sprintall J. , Steinberg C. , Sutton P. , Verron J. , Widlansky M. , Wiles P. CLIVAR Exchanges , 2013, 18 (61; 1), p. 16-23. ISSN 1026-0471
2012
Cravatte, S. , W. S. Kessler, and F. Marin, 2012: Intermediate Zonal Jets in the Tropical Pacific Ocean Observed by Argo floats. Journal of Physical Oceanography , http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-11-0206.1 Terray, L., L. Corre, S. Cravatte , T. Delcroix, G. Reverdin and A. Ribes, 2012: Near-surface salinity as Nature’s rain gauge to detect human influence on the water cycle, Journal of Climate, 25, 958-977.
SPICE community, 2012. Naming a western boundary current from Australia to the Solomon Sea. CLIVAR Newsletter Exchanges 58, 28
2011
Grenier, M., S. Cravatte , B. Blanke, C. Menkes, A. Koch-Larrouy, F. Durand, A. Melet, and C. Jeandel (2011), From the western boundary currents to the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent: Modeled pathways and water mass evolutions, Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 116.
Singh, A., T. Delcroix, and S. Cravatte (2011), Contrasting the flavors of El Niño-Southern Oscillation using sea surface salinity observations, J. Geophys. Res., 116, C06016, doi:10.1029/2010JC006862.
Delcroix, T., G. Alory, S. Cravatte , T. Correge, and M. J. McPhaden, 2011: A gridded sea surface salinity data set for the tropical Pacific with sample applications (1950-2008). Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 58, 38-48.
Cravatte, S ., A. Ganachaud, Q.-P. Duong, W. Kessler, G. Eldin and P. Dutrieux (2011), Observed circulation in the Solomon Sea from SADCP data, Progress in Oceanography, 88(1-4), 116-130.
2010
Izumo, T., Vialard, J., Lengaigne, M., Montegut, C.D., Behera, S.K., Luo, J.J., Cravatte, S., Masson, S., & Yamagata, T. (2010) Influence of the state of the Indian Ocean Dipole on the following year’s El Nino. Nature Geoscience, 3, 168-172.
Marin, F., Kestenare, E., Delcroix, T., Durand, F., Cravatte, S., Eldin, G., & Bourdalle-Badie, R. (2010) Annual Reversal of the Equatorial Intermediate Current in the Pacific: Observations and Model Diagnostics. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 40, 915-933.
2009
Cravatte, S ., C. Menkes (2009), Sensitivity of mixed layer heat budgets to wind forcing: A Case study for the Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue, Ocean Modell. doi:10.1016/ j.ocemod.2009.04.005 .Cravatte, S ., T. Delcroix, D. Zhang, M. McPhaden and J. Leloup (2009 ), Observed Freshening of the Warming Western Tropical Pacific and extension of the Warm/Fresh Pool in recent decades, Climate Dynamics, doi : 10.1007/s00382-009-0526-7Delcroix, T., et S. Cravatte (2009), Le changement climatique: une réalité pour l’outre-mer français. La Météorologie, vol. 65, 33-38.
2008
Ganachaud, A., W. Kessler, G. Brassington, C.R. Mechoso, S. Wijffels, K. Ridgway, W. Cai, N. Holbrook, P. Sutton, M. Bowen, B. Qiu, A. Timmermann, D. Roemmich, J. Sprintall, D. Neelin, B. Lintner, H. Diamond, S. Cravatte, L. Gourdeau, P. Eastwood, and T. Aung (2008): The Southwest Pacific Ocean Circulation and Climate Experiment: a new CLIVAR programme. CLIVAR Exchanges newsletter no 47, 13, 3-6 (www.clivar.org). Ganachaud, A., G. Brassington, W. Kessler, C.R. Mechoso, S. Wijffels, K. Ridgway, W. Cai, N. Holbrook, P. Sutton, M. Bowen, B. Qiu, A. Timmermann, D. Roemmich, J. Sprintall, D. Neelin, B. Lintner, H. Diamond, S. Cravatte, L. Gourdeau, P. Eastwood, and T. Aung (2008): Southwest Pacific Ocean Circulation and Climate Experiment—Part II. Implementation plan. International CLIVAR Project Office, CLIVAR Publication Series No. 133, NOAA OAR Special Report, 36 pp.
2007
Delcroix, T., S. Cravatte , and M. McPhaden (2007 ) Decadal variations and trends in tropical Pacific sea surface salinity since 1970. J. Geophys. Res., 112, C03012, doi:10.1029/2006JC003801.
Mignot, J., C. D. Montegut, A. Lazar, and S. Cravatte (2007 ), Control of salinity on the mixed layer depth in the world ocean Part II: Tropical areas, J. Geophys. Res., 112, C10010, doi:10.1029/2006JC003954.
Montegut, C. D., J. Mignot, A. Lazar, and S. Cravatte (2007 ), Control of salinity on the mixed layer depth in the world ocean. Part I: General description, Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 112, C06011 doi:10.1029/2006JC00395.3
Cravatte, S ., G. Madec, T. Izumo, C. Menkes, and A. Bozec (2007 ), Progress in the 3-D circulation of the eastern equatorial Pacific in a climate ocean model, Ocean Modelling, 17(1), 28-48.
Previous publications
Alory, G. L., S. Cravatte , T. Izumo, and K. B. Rodgers (2005 ), Validation of a decadal OGCM simulation for the tropical Pacific, Ocean Modelling, 10(3-4), 272-282.
Cravatte , S., J. P. Boulanger, and J. Picaut (2004), Reflection of intraseasonal equatorial Rossby waves at the western boundary of the Pacific Ocean, Geophysical Research Letters, 31(10).Boulanger, J. P., S. Cravatte , and C. Menkes (2003), Reflected and locally wind-forced interannual equatorial Kelvin waves in the western Pacific Ocean, J Geophys Res, 108(C10), 3311.
Cravatte , S., J. Picaut, and G. Eldin (2003), Second and first baroclinic Kelvin modes in the equatorial Pacific at intraseasonal timescales, Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 108(C8).
