Publications

De Verneil, A.,  Lachkar, Z., Smith, S., Levy, M., Evaluating the Arabian Sea as a regional source of atmospheric CO2: seasonal variability and drivers, Biogeosciences Discuss., submitted.

Vallivattathillam, P., Suresh, I., Lengaigne, M., Vialard, J., Izumo, T., Sadhvi, K.,  Lachkar, Z. , and Uskaikar, H., Mechanisms of the Southern Arabian Sea summer Primary Productivity weakening in response to anthropogenic forcing in CMIP5 models, Journal of Geophysical Research, Biogeosciences, submitted. 

Shinoda, T., Jensen, T., G.,  Lachkar, Z. , Masumoto, Y., Seo, H., Modeling the Indian Ocean, Chapter in The Indian Ocean and its role in the global climate system, Elsevier, submitted.

Hood, R., R., Rixen, T., Levy, M., Hansell, D.,  Lachkar, Z. , Huggett, J., Indian Ocean Biogeochemistry and pH variability, Chapter in The Indian Ocean and its role in the global climate system, Elsevier, submitted.

Levy, M., Resplandy, L., Palter, J., B., Couespel, D. and  Lachkar Z. , The crucial contribution of mixing to present and future ocean oxygen distribution, Chapter in Ocean mixing - Drivers, Mechanisms and Impacts, Elsevier, accepted.

Lachkar, Z., Mehari, M., Al Azhar ,  M., M. Levy and Smith, S., Fast local warming of sea-surface is the main factor of recent deoxygenation in the Arabian Sea, Biogeosciences Discuss., doi: 10.5194/bg-2020-325, 2020.

Rixen, T., Cowie, G., Gaye, B., Goes, J., do Rosario Gomes, H., Hood, R., R., Lachkar, Z., Schmidt, H., Segschneider, J., and Singh, A., Reviews and syntheses: Present, past, and future of the oxygen minimum zone in the northern Indian Ocean, Biogeosciences, 17, 6051-6080, doi:10.5194/bg-17-6051-2020, 2020.

Hailegeorgis D., Lachkar Z.  Rieper C., and N. Gruber, A Lagrangian study of the contribution of the Canary upwelling to the nitrogen budget of the open North Atlantic, Biogeosciences, doi:10.5194/bg-17-1-2020, 2020.

Guieu, C., Al Azhar, M., Aumont, O., Mahowald, N., Levy, M., Ethé, C., & Lachkar, Z. ( 2019). Major impact of dust deposition on the productivity of the Arabian Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 6736– 6744. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082770

Lachkar, Z., Lévy, M., & Smith, K. S. ( 2019). Strong intensification of the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone in response to Arabian Gulf warming. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 5420– 5429.

Lachkar, Zouhair, Marina Lévy, and Shafer Smith. "Intensification and deepening of the Arabian Sea Oxygen Minimum Zone in response to increase in Indian monsoon wind intensity." Biogeosciences 15, no. 1 (2018): 159.

Al Azhar, Muchamad, Zouhair Lachkar, Marina Lévy, and Shafer Smith. "Oxygen minimum zone contrasts between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal implied by differences in remineralization depth." Geophysical Research Letters 44, no. 21 (2017).

Lovecchio, Elisa, Nicolas Gruber, Matthias Münnich, and Zouhair Lachkar. "On the long-range offshore transport of organic carbon from the Canary Upwelling System to the open North Atlantic." Biogeosciences 14, no. 13 (2017): 3337.

Sandeep, S., and R. S. Ajayamohan. "Modulation of winter precipitation dynamics over the Arabian Gulf by ENSO." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Lachkar, Zouhair, Shafer Smith, Marina Lévy, and Olivier Pauluis. "Eddies reduce denitrification and compress habitats in the Arabian Sea." Geophysical Research Letters 43, no. 17 (2016): 9148-9156.

Turi, Giuliana, Zouhair Lachkar, Nicolas Gruber, and Martin Münnich. "Climatic modulation of recent trends in ocean acidification in the California Current System." Environmental Research Letters 11, no. 1 (2016): 014007.

Nagai, Takeyoshi, Nicolas Gruber, Hartmut Frenzel, Zouhair Lachkar, James C. McWilliams, and Gian‐Kasper Plattner. "Dominant role of eddies and filaments in the offshore transport of carbon and nutrients in the California Current System." Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 120, no. 8 (2015): 5318-5341.

Levin, Lisa A., Kon-Kee Liu, Kay-Christian Emeis, Denise L. Breitburg, James Cloern, Curtis Deutsch, Michele Giani et al. "Comparative biogeochemistry–ecosystem–human interactions on dynamic continental margins." Journal of Marine Systems 141 (2015): 3-17.

Vogt, M., M. R. Payne, Z. Lachkar, N. Gruber, A. Salmanmahiny, and Seyyed Abbas Hosseini. "Biogeographic classification of the Caspian Sea." Biogeosciences 11, no. 22 (2014): 6451.

Lachkar, Zouhair. "Effects of upwelling increase on ocean acidification in the California and Canary Current systems." Geophysical Research Letters 41, no. 1 (2014): 90-95.

Turi, G., Z. Lachkar, and N. Gruber. "Spatiotemporal variability and drivers of pCO 2 and air–sea CO 2 fluxes in the California Current System: an eddy-resolving modeling study." Biogeosciences 11, no. 3 (2014): 671-690.

Salihoglu, B., S. Neuer, S. Painting, R. Murtugudde, E. E. Hofmann, J. H. Steele, R. R. Hood et al. "Bridging marine ecosystem and biogeochemistry research: lessons and recommendations from comparative studies." Journal of Marine Systems 109 (2013): 161-175.

Lachkar, Zouhair, and Nicolas Gruber. "Response of biological production and air–sea CO 2 fluxes to upwelling intensification in the California and Canary Current Systems." Journal of Marine Systems 109 (2013): 149-160.

Hauri, Claudine, Nicolas Gruber, Meike Vogt, Scott C. Doney, Richard A. Feely, Z. Lachkar, A. Leinweber, Andrew MP McDonnell, M. Munnich, and G-K. Plattner. "Spatiotemporal variability and long-term trends of ocean acidification in the California Current System." Biogeosciences 10, no. 1 (2013): 193-216.

Lachkar, Zouhair, and Nicolas Gruber. "A comparative study of biological production in eastern boundary upwelling systems using an artificial neural network." Biogeosciences 9, no. 1 (2012): 293-308.

Gruber, Nicolas, Zouhair Lachkar, Hartmut Frenzel, Patrick Marchesiello, Matthias Münnich, James C. McWilliams, Takeyoshi Nagai, and Gian-Kasper Plattner. "Eddy-induced reduction of biological production in eastern boundary upwelling systems." Nature geoscience 4, no. 11 (2011): 787-792.

Lachkar, Z., and N. Gruber. "What controls biological production in coastal upwelling systems? Insights from a comparative modeling study." Biogeosciences 8, no. 10 (2011): 2961.

Lachkar, Zouhair, James C. Orr, Jean-Claude Dutay, and Pascale Delecluse. "On the role of mesoscale eddies in the ventilation of Antarctic intermediate water." Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 56, no. 6 (2009): 909-925.

Lachkar, Z., J. C. Orr, and J-C. Dutay. "Seasonal and mesoscale variability of oceanic transport of anthropogenic CO 2." Biogeosciences 6, no. 11 (2009): 2509-2523.

Leloup, Julie A., Zouhair Lachkar, Jean-Philippe Boulanger, and Sylvie Thiria. "Detecting decadal changes in ENSO using neural networks." Climate dynamics 28, no. 2-3 (2007): 147-162.

Lachkar, Z., J. C. Orr, J-C. Dutay, and P. Delecluse. "Effects of mesoscale eddies on global ocean distributions of CFC-11, CO 2, and? 14 C." Ocean Science 3, no. 4 (2007): 461-482.