Pierre Flament: publications
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2002 2001 2000 1997 1996 1995 1994 1985
2009
Chavanne, C., P. Flament, P. Klein, and K.-W. Gurgel, "Observations of
strong submesoscale anticyclone and associated frontogenesis
near an island", J. Phys. Ocean., 2009 (SOEST contribution no. 7759).
Chavanne, C., P. Flament, E. Zaron, G. Carter, M. Merrifield, D. Luther
and K.-W. Gurgel, "The surface expression of internal tides in
the Kauai Channel, Hawai`i. I: observations and numerical models",
J. Phys. Ocean., 2009 (submitted).
Chavanne, C., P. Flament, D. Luther and K.-W. Gurgel, "The surface
expression of internal tides in the Kauai Channel, Hawai`i. II:
interactions with mesoscale currents", J. Phys. Ocean., 2009
(submitted).
Zaron, E.,, C. Chavanne, G. Egbert and P. Flament, "Baroclinic Tidal
Generation in the Kauai Channel Inferred from High-Frequency
Radar Doppler Currents", Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans,
vol. 48 pp. 93-120, 2009 (SOEST contribution 7568).
2008
Pullen, J., J. D. Doyle, P. May, C. Chavanne, P. Flament, R. A. Arnone,
"Monsoon surges trigger oceanic eddy formation and propagation in
the lee of the Philippine Islands", Geophys. Res. Let., vol. 35,
L07604, 2008.
2007
Dutrieux, P., C. Menkes, J. Vialard, P. Flament, and B. Blanke,
Lagrangian study of Tropical Instability Vortices in the Atlantic
ocean, J. Phys. Ocean., vol. 38, pp. 400-417, 2007.
Chavanne, C., I. Janekovic, P. Flament, P.-M. Poulain, M. Kuzmic,
and K.-W. Gurgel, "Tidal currents in the northern Adriatic
sea: High Frequency Radar observations and numerical model
predictions", J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 112, C03S21, 2007.
2006
Aucan, J., M. Merrifield, D. Luther, and P. Flament, Tidal mixing events
on the deep flanks of Kaena ridge, Hawaii, J. Phys. Ocean., 2006.
2005
Lee, C.M.,, F. Askari, J. Books, S. Carniel, B. Cushman-Roisin,
C. Dorman, J. Doyle, P. Flament, and 13 other authors,
"Northern Adriatic response to a wintertime Bora wind event",
EOS, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, vol. 86, pp. 157,163,165, 2005.
Romeiser, R., H. Breit, M. Eineder, H. Runge, P. Flament, K. deJong,
and J. Vogelzand, "Currents measurements by SAR
along-track interferometry from a Space Shuttle",
I.E.E.E. Trans. Geosc. Remote Sensing, vol. 43, pp. 2315-2324,
2005 (front cover).
2002
Menkes, C., S. Kennan, P. Flament, Y. Dandonneau, S. Masson, Biessy,
E. Marchal, G. Eldin, J. Grelet, Y. Montel, Morliere,
A. Lebourges-Dhaussy, C. Moulin, Champalbert, and A. Herbland,
"A whirling ecosystem in the equatorial Atlantic ocean,"
Geophys. Res. Let., vol. 29, pp. 48.1-48.4, 2002 (SOEST
contr. 5935, JIMAR cont 02-340).
Chavanne, C., P. Flament, R. Lumpkin, B. Dousset, and A. Bentamy,
"Scatterometer observations of wind variations induced by oceanic
islands: implications for wind-driven ocean circulation,"
Can. J. Remote Sensing, vol. 28, pp. 466-474, 2002 (SOEST
contr. 5962, JIMAR cont 02-341).
Flament, P., "A state variable for characterizing water masses
and their diffusive stability: spiciness," Prog. Oceanog.,
vol. 54, pp. 493-501, 2002 (SOEST cont 5323).
Bentamy, A., Y. Quilfen, and P. Flament, "Scatterometer wind fields:
a new release over the decade 1991-2001," Can. J. Remote Sensing,
vol. 28, pp. 431-449, 2002.
2001
Flament, P., C. Lumpkin, J. Tournadre, and L. Armi, "Vortex pairing
in an anticylonic shear flow: discrete subharmonics of one
pendulum day," J. Fluid Mech., vol. 440, pp. 401-409, 2001
(SOEST contr. 5484, JIMAR cont 01-338).
Lumpkin, R. and P. Flament, "Lagrangian statistics in the central North
Pacific," J. Mar. Syst., vol. 29, pp. 141-155, 2001 (SOEST
contr. 5077, JIMAR contr. 00-333).
Barton, E.D., P. Flament, H. Dodds, and E.G. Michelson-Jacob, "Mesoscale
structure viewed by SAR and AVHRR near the Canary Islands,"
Scientia Marina, vol. 65, p 167-175, 2001.
2000
Flament, P. and L. Armi, "The shear, convergence and thermohaline
structure of a front," J. Phys. Oceanog., vol. 30, pp. 51-66,
2000 (SOEST contr. 4898).
Kennan, S. and P. Flament, "Observations of a tropical instability vortex,"
J. Phys. Oceanog., vol. 30, pp. 2277-2301, 2000 (SOEST
contr. 4900).
Barton, E.D., G. Basterretxea, P. Flament, E.G. Michelson-Jacob, Jones,
J. Aristegui, and F. Herrera, "The lee region of Gran Canaria,"
J. Geophys. Res., vol. 105, pp. 17173-17193, 2000 (SOEST
contr. 5130).
Lumpkin, R., P. Flament, R. Kloosterziel, and L. Armi,
"Vortex Merging in a 1 1/2 layer fluid on an f-plane," J. Phys.
Oceanog., vol. 30, pp. 233-242, 2000 (SOEST cont 4897).
1997
Qiu, B., D.A. Koh, C. Lumpkin, and P. Flament, "On the
existence and formation mechanism for the north Hawaiian ridge
current," J. Phys. Oceanog., pp. 431-444, 1997 (SOEST contr. 4378)
1996
Flament, P. S.C. Kennan, R.A. Knox,
P.P. Niiler, and L. Bernstein, "The three-dimensional structure of
an upper ocean vortex in the tropical Pacific Ocean," Nature, vol.
383, pp. 610-613, 1996 (SOEST contr. 4243).
1995
Flament, P. and M. Sawyer, "Observations of the effect
of rain temperature on the surface heat flux in the Inter Tropical
Convergence Zone," Phys. Oceanog., vol. 25, pp. 413-419, 1995
(SOEST contr. 3586).
1994
Thomas, F.I.M., S.A. McCarthy, J. Bower, S.
Krothapalli, J. Atkinson, and P. Flament, "Response
characteristics of two oxygen sensors for oceanic CTDs,"
J. Atm. Ocean. Tech., pp. 687-690, 1995.
Flament, P., J. Firing, M. Sawyer, and C. Trefois,
"Amplitude and horizontal structure of a large diurnal sea surface
warming event during the Coastal Ocean Dynamics Experiment,"
J. Phys. Oceanog., vol. 24, pp. 124-139, 199 (SOEST contr. 3275)
1985
Armi, L. and P. Flament, "Cautionary remarks on the
spectral interpretation of turbulent flows," J. Geophys. Res.,
vol. 90, pp. 11,779-11,782 and 11,837-11,838, 1985.
Flament, P., L. Armi, and L. Washburn, "The evolving
structure of an upwelling filament," J. Geophys. Res., vol. 90,
pp. 11,765-11,778 and 11,835-11,836, 1985.
Seki, M.P., R. Lumpkin, and P. Flament, "Hawaii
cyclonic eddies and blue marlin catches: the case study of the
1995 Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament," J. Oceanogr.,
vol. 58, pp. 739-745, 2002 (SOEST cont 6001, JIMAR contr. 02-342).
Letelier, R.M., D.M. Karl, M.R. Abbott, P. Flament, M. Freilich, R. Lukas,
and T. Strub, "Role of late winter mesoscale events in the
biogeochemical variability of the upper water column of the
North Pacific Subtropical Gyre," J. Geophys. Res., vol. 105,
no. C12, pp. 28,723-28,740, 2000.
Bower, J.R., M.P. Seki, R.E. Young, K.A. Bigelow, J. Hirota, and Flament,
"Cephalopod paralarvae assemblages in Hawaiian Islands waters,"
Mar. Ecol. Progr. Series, vol. 185, pp. 203-212, 1999.
Harris, A.J.L., L. Keszthelyi, L. P. Flynn, P. J.
Mouginis-Mark, C. Thornber, J. Kauahikaua, D. Sherrod,
F. Trusdell,, M. W. Sawyer, and P. Flament, Chronology of the
Episode 54 eruption at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, from GOES-9
satellite data, Geophys. Res. Let., 24, pp. 3281-3284, 1997.
Archer, D., J. Aiken, W. Balch, D. Barber, J. Dunne,
P. Flament, W. Gardner, C. Garside, C. Goyet, E. Johnson,
D. Kirchman, M. McPhaden, J. Newton, E. Peltzer, L. Welling,
J. White, and J. Yoder, "A meeting place of great ocean currents:
shipboard observations of a convergent front at 2 N in the
Pacific", Deep Sea Res., vol. 44, pp. 1827-1850, 1997.
Johnson, D., P. Flament, and R. Bernstein, "High reso-
lution satellite imagery for mesoscale meteorological studies,"
Bul. Am. Met. Soc., vol. 75, pp. 5-33, 1994.
Mouginis-Mark, P.J., H. Garbeil, and P. Flament, "Effects of viewing
geometry on AVHRR observations of volcanic thermal anomalies,"
Remote Sens. Env., pp. 51-60, 1994.
Yoder, J.A., S.G. Ackleson, R.T. Barber, P. Flament, and M. Balch,
"A line in the sea," Nature, vol. 371, pp. 689-692, 1994.
Dousset, B., P. Flament, and R. Bernstein, "Los Angeles
fires seen from space," EOS, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, vol. 74,
pp. 33,37-38, 1993.
Chavanne, C., P. Flament and K-W. Gurgel, "Observations of vortices and vortex
Rossby waves in the lee of an island", Proc. 18e Congres Francais
de Mecanique, Grenoble, 2007.
Romeiser, R., H. Breit, M. Eineder, H. Runge, P. Flament, K. deJong,
and J. Vogelzand, "Validation of SRTM-derived surface currents
off the Dutch coast by numerical circulation model
results," in Proc. IGARSS 2003, pp. 3085-3087, I.E.E.E,
Piscataway, N.J. (2003).
Romeiser, R., H. Runge, H. Breit, M. Eineder, and P. Flament,
"Towards an operational spaceborne system for
high-resolution current measurements in coastal areas," in
Proc. Oceans 2003, pp. 1524-1530, I.E.E.E., Piscataway, N.J.
(2003).
Romeiser, R., H. Breit, M. Eineder, H. Runge, P. Flament, K. deJong,
and J. Vogelzand, "On the suitability of TerraSAR-X split
antenna mode for current measurements by along-track
interferometry," in Proc. IGARSS 2003, pp. 1320-1322, I.E.E.E,
Piscataway, N.J. (2003).
Seki, M., R. Bidigare, R. Lumpkin, J. Polovina, D.
Kobayashi, P. Flament, and D. Foley, "Mescoscale eddies and
pelagic fisheries in Hawaiian waters," in Proc. Oceans
2001, pp. 1524-1530, I.E.E.E. (2001).
Tournadre, J., H. Mercier, and P. Flament, "Agulhas ring
trajectories and evolution from altimeter data," in
Proceedings of IGARSS'2000, pp. 3193-3195, I.E.E.E.
(2000).
Tournadre, J., H. Mercier, and P. Flament, "Agulhas ring
trajectories and evolution from altimeter data," in
Proceedings of PROSEC (2002).
Flament, P., R. Carande, B. Holt, and R. Bernstein, "Multi-
frequency and interferometric SAR mapping of wind-driven
mesoscale oceanic processes off Northern Cali-fornia and
in the lee of the island of Hawaii," in Proceedings of
IGARSS'95, ed. T.L. Stein, pp. 1120-1122, I.E.E.E., New
York (1995).
Flament, P. and B. Holt, "SIR-C/X-SAR observations of convergent
fronts in the Central Equatorial Pacific," in Proceedings of
IGARSS'95, ed. T.L. Stein, pp. 1323-1324, I.E.E.E., New
York (1995).
Flament, P., P.M. Kosro, and A. Huyer, "Mesoscale variability of
the California Current as seen by the GEOSAT altimeter," in
Proc. IGARSS 1989, pp. 1063-1068, I.E.E.E., Vancouver
(1989).
Flament, P., "AVHRR observations of the horizontal structure of
the surface layer of the ocean under low wind conditions,"
in Proc. IGARSS 1989, pp. 318-322, I.E.E.E., Vancouver
(1989).
Vachon, P. and P. Flament, "Remote sensing of marine
winds," Can. J. Remote Sensing, vol. 28, pp. iii-iv, 2002.
The HOME group, "Ocean mixing studied near the Hawaiian ridge," EOS,
Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, p. 545,553, 2000.
Flament, P., S.C. Kennan, C.R Lumpkin, and E.D. Stroup,
"The ocean," in The Atlas of Hawai'i, edited by Juvik and Juvik,
pp. 82-86, University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 1998.