Bertrand Chapron

TL;DR: In this article, a two-dimensional wave spectral model is proposed for the high and low-wavenumber regimes, which is based on the Joint North Sea Wave Project (JONSWAP) in the long-wave regime and on the work of Phillips [1985] and Kitaigorodskii [1973] at the high-wavenumbers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors comprehensively discuss what is known about the different processes that govern the transport of floating marine plastic debris in both the open ocean and the coastal zones, based on the published literature and referring to insights from neighbouring fields such as oil spill dispersion, marine safety recovery, plankton connectivity, and others.

TL;DR: Ardhuin et al. as discussed by the authors used satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar data to estimate the dissipation of swell energy for a number of storms, and interpreted the increase of dissipation rate in dissipation with swell steepness as a laminar to turbulent transition of the boundary layer.

TL;DR: In this paper, the median Doppler shift of radar echoes is analyzed in measurements by ENVISAT's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) over the ocean, and a simple quantitative forward model is proposed, based on a practical two-scale decomposition of the surface geometry and kinematics.

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive analysis of the backscattering measurements in the case of high winds and high sea states obtained within TCs is proposed in order to refine the interpretation of the wind vector derived from a backscatter model that is currently only calibrated up to moderate winds (< 20 m/s) in neutral conditions.