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In the Atlantic Ocean at the top of the mast

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A glider plunging in the Pacific Ocean

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A Saildrone at Sea

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publications

The Sea State CCI dataset v1: towards a sea state climate data record based on satellite observations

Published in Earth System Science Data, 2020

This paper presents a new dataset that provides a long term record on the global scale of altimeters-derived sea state measurements

Recommended citation: Dodet G, Piolle JF, Quilfen Y, Abdalla S, Accensi M, Ardhuin F, Ash E, Bidlot JR, Gommenginger C, Marechal G, Passaro M. The Sea State CCI dataset v1: towards a sea state climate data record based on satellite observations. Earth System Science Data. 2020 Sep 2;12(3):1929-51.
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Surface Currents and Significant Wave Height Gradients: Matching Numerical Models and High‐Resolution Altimeter Wave Heights in the Agulhas Current Region

Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Ocean, 2021

This paper is about the impact of short scale current on the intensity of Significant Wave Height Gradients

Recommended citation: Marechal, G. and Ardhuin, F., 2021. Surface Currents and Significant Wave Height Gradients: Matching Numerical Models and High‐Resolution Altimeter Wave Heights in the Agulhas Current Region. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126(2), p.e2020JC016564.
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Variability of surface gravity wave field over a realistic cyclonic eddy

Published in Ocean Science Journal, 2022

This paper is about the impact of an isolated eddy on surface wave parameters

Recommended citation: Marechal G, de Marez C. Variability of surface gravity wave field over a realistic cyclonic eddy. Ocean Science. 2022 Sep 1;18(5):1275-92.
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Sea States across Current Fronts: a case study using Numerical Wave Models and CFOSAT-SWIM data across the Agulhas Current.

Published: February 01, 2020

I have presented results on the spatial variability of the dominant wave direction and the significant wave height observed by CFOSAT and simulated with spectral wave model in the Agulhas current.

Wave-current interactions: a new view of how surface currents influence wave properties using CFOSAT-SWIM data

Published: February 01, 2021

I have presented the signatures of surface currents on the sea state observed by the SWIM antenna onboard the CFOSAT satellite.

Observing and Modelling Sea State Gradients during the S-MODE Pilot campaign

Published: January 01, 2023

I have presented results on the evolution of the significant wave height observed and simulated in the California Current Region during the Pilot phase of the Submesoscale Ocean Dynamic Experiment.

Modeling, theory and observations of wave-current interactions

Published: November 01, 2023

Bia Villas Bôas and I presented the state of the art of effects of currents on wave.

Observing and Modeling Sea State Gradients in the Meso-to-Submesoscale Range during the Pilot Phase of the S-MODE Campaign

Published: November 01, 2023

I presented my work that I did under the Ocean Vector Wind NASA Grant.

Observing Sea States Gradients in the Meso-to-Submesoscale Range

Published: February 01, 2024

I have presented the effects of wave groups and surface currents on the sea state observed by Airborne Lidar. I have discussed the implications for the Surface Water Ocean Topography satellite.

Observing Sea States Gradients in the Meso-to-Submesoscale Range and Application for ODYSEA and SWOT

Published: March 01, 2024

I have presented the effects of wave groups and surface currents on the sea state observed by Airborne Lidar. I have discussed the implications for the Surface Water Ocean Topography satellite, the upper ocean dynamic, and the US-French-proposed ODYSEA mission.

Gwendal Marechal