Léon Chafik

Bolin Centre for Climate Research — Sweden

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes(63), Climate variability and models(50), Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics(29), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research(23), Geophysics and Gravity Measurements(14)

Publications100 total

Weather and Climate Extremes: Simplex, Dynamical Systems and Hull Clustering
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres·2026Open Access
Atlantic Water heat transport variability and trends into the Amerasian Basin: A first look using SODA4
2025Open Access
Supplementary material to "Heat transport to the Central Arctic is Reduced by the Barents Sea Cooling Machine"
2025Open Access
Heat transport to the Central Arctic is Reduced by the Barents Sea Cooling Machine
2025Open Access
The Time‐Mean Arctic Ocean Circulation as Seen Through Satellite Altimetry and Hydrography
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans·2025
New Global Mean Dynamic Topography CNES-CLS-22 Combining Drifters, Hydrography Profiles and High Frequency Radar Data
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Atlantic Water structure, variability, and fluxes into the Amerasian Basin: a first look using SODA4
2025Open Access
New Global Mean Dynamic Topography CNES-CLS-22 Combining Drifters, Hydrography Profiles and High Frequency Radar Data      
2025· 1 cited
The Nordic Seas overturning is modulated by northward-propagating thermohaline anomalies
Communications Earth & Environment·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
A Comparative Study of Velocity and Transport Estimates Along the Oleander Line Between Bermuda and New Jersey
Earth and Space Science·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Thank You to Our 2024 Peer Reviewers
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans·2025
New Global Mean Dynamic Topography CNES-CLS-22 Combining Drifters, Hydrography Profiles and High Frequency Radar Data      
2025· 4 citedOpen Access
When Simplification Leads to Ambiguity: A Look at Two Ocean Metrics for the Subpolar North Atlantic
Geophysical Research Letters·2025· 8 citedOpen Access
Lagrangian View of Atlantic Water Pathways toward the North Sea
Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography·2025Open Access
Interplay of atmosphere and ocean amplifies summer marine extremes in the Barents Sea at different timescales
Communications Earth & Environment·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Thank You to Our 2023 Peer Reviewers
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans·2024Open Access
The Irminger Gyre as a Key Driver of the Subpolar North Atlantic Overturning
Geophysical Research Letters·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Contrasting future changes in the North Atlantic and Nordic Seas overturning circulations
2024Open Access
Observed mechanisms activating the recent subpolar North Atlantic Warming since 2016
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
Detection and attribution of intra-annual mass component of sea-level variations along the Norwegian coast
Scientific Reports·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

T. Rossby(9), N. Penny Holliday(7), Gilles Reverdin(7), Hjálmar Hátún(5), Jan Even Øie Nilsen(5), Qiong Zhang(5), Johan Nilsson(5), Roshin P. Raj(4), Henrik Søiland(4), Karin Margretha Húsgarð Larsen(3), Héðinn Valdimarsson(3), Sönke Dangendorf(3), Sheldon Bacon(3), Sumant Nigam(3), Alfredo Ruiz‐Barradas(3), H. L. Johnson(3), Fabio Mangini(3), Laurent Bertino(3), Sara Broomé(3), Antonio Bonaduce(3)