Publications
      In preparation or submitted articles
    1. Le Sommer, J., Iudicone, D., Madec, G., & England, M. Diagnosing neutral density and its associated Ertel potential vorticity in ocean climate models. in preparation for Journal of Physical Oceanography.
    2. Treguier A.-M., J. Le Sommer, J.-M. Molines and B. De Cuevas. Response of the Southern Ocean to the Southern Annular Mode: interannual variability and multidecadal trend. submitted to Journal of Physical Oceanography, pdf.
    3. Dufour C., J. Le Sommer, T. Penduff, B. Barnier and M. England. Is there a Pulsation Mode in the Antarctic Circumpolar current South of Australia? submitted to Journal of Physical Oceanography. (in revision)
     Published or accepted articles

    1. Lenton, A.; Codron, F.; Bopp L.; Metzl, L; Cadule, P.; Taglabue, A.; and Le Sommer, J. (2009). Stratospheric ozone depletion reduces ocean carbon uptake and enhances ocean acidification. Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L12606.
    2. Le Sommer, J., Penduff, T., Theetten, S., Madec, G., & Barnier, B. (2009). How momentum advection schemes influence current-topography interactions at eddy-permitting resolution. Ocean Modelling, 29(1), pp. 1-14.
    3. Treguier A.M., England M., Rintoul S.R., Madec G., Le Sommer J. and Molines J.M. (2007). Southern Ocean overturning across streamlines in an eddying simulation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Ocean Science, 3(4), pp.491-507.
    4. Le Sommer J., Barnier B., Brodeau L., Duchez A., Juza M., Madec G., Mathiot P., Molines J.M., Penduff T. and Treguier A.M. (2007). Southern Ocean processes and climate variability in the DRAKKAR hierarchy of ocean/sea-ice models. Quarterly Mercator Newsletter, 27. 
    5. Penduff, T., Le Sommer, J., Barnier, B., Molines, J.-M., & Madec, G. (2007). Influence of numerical schemes on current-topography interaction in a 1/4° global ocean simulations. Ocean Science, 3(4), pp.509-524
    6. Le Sommer, J., Scherer, E., & Zeitlin, V. (2006). Inertial motions during the transient adjustment of a density anomaly in the equatorial ocean : application to the western pacific warm pool. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 12, 2283-2295. abstract, pdf.
    7. Le Sommer, J., Teitelbaum, H., & Zeitlin, V. (2006). Global estimates of inertia-gravity wave activity in the stratosphere inferred from ERA40 reanalysis. Geophysical research letters, 33. abstract, pdf.
    8. Barnier, B., Madec, G., Penduff, T., Molines, J.-M., Treguier, A.-M., Le Sommer, J., Beckmann, A., Biastoch, A., Böning, C., Dengg, J., Gulev, S., Derval, C., Durand, E., Remy, E., Talandier, C., Thetten, S., Maltrud, M., McLean, J., & de Cuevas, B. (2006). Impact of partial steps and momentum advections schemes in a global ocean circulation model at eddy permitting resolution. Ocean Dynamics, 56(5-6), 543-567. abstract, pdf.
    9. Bouchut, F., Le Sommer, J., & Zeitlin, V. (2005). Breaking of balanced and unbalanced equatorial waves. Chaos, 15. abstract, pdf.
    10. Le Sommer, J., & Zeitlin, V. (2005). Tracer adjustment during the geostrophic adjustment in the equatorial ocean. Chaotic dynamics and transport in classical and quantum systems, 413-429. abstract, pdf.
    11. Le Sommer, J., Reznik, G., & Zeitlin, V. (2004). Nonlinear geostrophic adjustment and long-wave disturbances in the shallow water model on the equatorial beta-plane. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 515, 135-170. abstract, pdf.
    12. Bouchut, F., Le Sommer, J., & Zeitlin, V. (2004). Frontal geostrophic adjustment and nonlinear wave phenomena in 1D-rotating shallow water. part II: high resolution numerical simulation.. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 514, 35-63. abstract, pdf.
    13. Le Sommer, J., Medvedev, S., Plougonven, R., & Zeitlin, V. (2003). Singularity formation during the relaxation of jets and fronts towards the state of geostrophic equilibrium. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 8(3-4), 415-442. abstract, pdf.
    updated : 12/2008