Dr Louis Clément

Biography

I study the physics of the ocean from the small-scale turbulent mixing to the large-scale ocean circulation. My research focuses on assessing the effects of the physical processes on the global circulation, and on the distribution of heat and biogeochemical tracers. I currently investigate submesoscale and convective processes in the Labrador Sea. I mostly use observations, such as autonomous underwater gliders, and numerical simulations.

 

I am a research scientist within the Marine Physics and Ocean Climate group. Prior to my current position, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, and I hold a PhD from the University of Southampton. 

Projects

ReBELS (Resolving Biological carbon Export in the Labrador Sea)

C-Streams (The Gulf Stream control of the North Atlantic carbon sink)

TERIFIC (Targeted Experiment to Reconcile Increased Freshwater with Increased Convection)

TICTOC (Transient tracer-based Investigation of Circulation and Thermal Ocean Change)

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Broullón, Espe ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6487-5792; Fernández Castro, Bieito; Naveira Garabato, Alberto C.; Clement, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; Oltmanns, Marilena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8959-4938; Williams, Richard G.. 2026 Isopycnal Stirring and Diapycnal Mixing in the Eastern North Atlantic Inferred from Argo Observations. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 56 (3). 627-641. 10.1175/JPO-D-25-0090.1

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2026

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Fernández Castro, Bieito; Groeskamp, Sjoerd; Broullón, Espe; Clement, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; Evans, D. Gwyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6328-4093; Naveira Garabato, Alberto C.; Williams, Richard G.. 2026 Global Observational Estimates of Thermohaline Transformations by Interior Ocean Mixing. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 10.1175/JPO-D-25-0265.1

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2026

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2026

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2026

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2026

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2025

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Gommenginger, Christine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6941-1671; McCann, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4428-700X; Martin, Adrien C.H.; Marquez Martinez, José; Lavender, Sam; Buckingham, Christian; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Clément, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; Josey, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1683-8831. 2025 An Early Warning System for Tipping Points in the Greenland Ice Sheet and the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre: Exploring the Edge of the Possible with AEROSTATS. [Other] In: ESA Living Planet Symposium 2025, Vienna, Austria, 23 - 27 June 2025. (Unpublished)

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2025

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Major, William ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9994-6944; Giering, Sarah L.C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3090-1876; Ainsworth, Joanna; Belcher, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9583-5910; Blackbird, Sabena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0942-6836; Bridger, Martin; Briggs, Nathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1549-1386; Carvalho, Filipa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8355-4329; Clément, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; Cook, Kathryn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8590-3011; Dumousseaud, Cynthia; Espinola, Benoit ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2412-9645; Evans, Claire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0569-7057; Fielding, Sophie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3152-4742; Hartmann, Manuela; Henson, Stephanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3875-6802; Iversen, Morten; Kiriakoulakis, Konstadinos; Lampitt, Richard; Lovecchio, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7183-4761; Martin, Adrian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1202-8612; Mayor, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1295-0041; Moore, Mark; Pabortsava, Katsiaryna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9808-012X; Pebody, Corinne; Peel, Kate; Preece, Calum; Poulton, Alex ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5149-6961; Rayne, Rachel; Saw, Kevin; Stinchcombe, Mark; Stowasser, Gabriele ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0595-0772; Tarling, Geraint A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3753-5899; Thomalla, Sandy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6802-520X; Villa-Alfageme, María ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7157-8588; Wolff, George A.; Sanders, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6884-7131. 2024 Active and passive organic carbon fluxes during a bloom in the Southern Ocean (South Georgia). Scientific Data, 11, 1392. 9, pp. 10.1038/s41597-024-04151-w

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2024

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Clément, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; Merckelbach, L.; Frajka‐Williams, E.. 2024 Turbulent Vertical Velocities in Labrador Sea Convection. Geophysical Research Letters, 51 (21). 10.1029/2024GL110318

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2024

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Lovecchio, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7183-4761; Clément, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; Evans, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0569-7057; Rayne, R.; Dumousseaud, C.; Roshan, S.; Giering, S. L. C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3090-1876; Martin, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1202-8612. 2023 Simultaneous estimation of the sinking, dissolved and active export components from in-situ data in the region of South Georgia. [Poster] In: 5th International Symposium on the Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Ocean, Bergen, Norway, 17 - 21 April 2023. (Unpublished)

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2023

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2023

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Clement, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; Frajka-Williams, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8773-7838; von Oppeln-Bronikowski, N.; Goszczko, I.; de Young, B.. 2023 Cessation of Labrador Sea Convection triggered by distinct fresh and warm (Sub)mesoscale Flows. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 10.1175/JPO-D-22-0178.1

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2023

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Clement, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; McDonagh, E. L.; Gregory, J. M.; Wu, Q.; Marzocchi, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Zika, J. D.; Nurser, A. J. G.. 2022 Mechanisms of ocean heat uptake along and across isopycnals. Journal of Climate. 1-43. 10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0793.1

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2022

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Jones, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5218-1649; Simon-Lledó, Erik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9667-2917; Amon, Diva J.; Bett, Brian J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4977-9361; Caulle, Clémence; Clement, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; Connelly, Douglas P.; Dahlgren, Thomas G.; Durden, Jennifer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6529-9109; Drazen, Jeffrey C.; Felden, Janine; Gates, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2798-5044; Georgieva, Magdalena N.; Glover, Adrian G.; Gooday, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5661-7371; Hollingsworth, Anita L.; Horton, Tammy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4250-1068; James, Rachael H.; Jeffreys, Rachel M.; Laguionie-Marchais, Claire; Leitner, Astrid B.; Lichtschlag, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8281-2165; Menendez, Amaya; Paterson, Gordon L.J.; Peel, Kate; Robert, Katleen; Schoening, Timm; Shulga, Natalia A.; Smith, Craig R.; Taboada, Sergio; Thurnherr, Andreas M.; Wiklund, Helena; Young III, C. Robert; Huvenne, Veerle ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7135-6360. 2021 Environment, ecology, and potential effectiveness of an area protected from deep-sea mining (Clarion Clipperton Zone, abyssal Pacific). Progress in Oceanography, 197. 102653. 10.1016/j.pocean.2021.102653

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2021

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2021

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Clement, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; McDonagh, Elaine; Gregory, Jonathan; Wu, Quran; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Nurser, George. 2021 Absorption of ocean heat along and across Isopycnals in HadCM3. In: EGU General Assembly 2021, Online, 19-30 April 2021.

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2021

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Zika, Jan D.; Gregory, Jonathan M.; McDonagh, Elaine L.; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Clément, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455. 2021 Recent water mass changes reveal mechanisms of ocean warming. Journal of Climate. 1-52. 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0355.1

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2021

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Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Nurser, A. J. George; Clement, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; McDonagh, Elaine. 2020 Pathways and time scales of ocean heat uptake and high-latitude ventilation. In: Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, California, 16-21 February 2020.

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2020

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Clément, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; McDonagh, Elaine L.; Marzocchi, Alice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3430-3574; Nurser, A.J. George. 2020 Signature of ocean warming at the mixed layer base. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (1). 10.1029/2019GL086269

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2020

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Boeira Dias, Fabio; Fiedler, R.; Marsland, S. J.; Domingues, C. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5100-4595; Clement, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; Rintoul, S. R.; McDonagh, E. L.; Mata, M. M.; Savita, A.. 2020 Ocean heat storage in response to changing ocean circulation processes. Journal of Climate, 33 (21). 9065-9082. 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-1016.1

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2020

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Thurnherr, A.M.; Clément, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; Laurent, L. St.; Ferrari, R.; Ijichi, T.. 2020 Transformation and upwelling of bottom water in fracture zone valleys. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50 (3). 715-726. 10.1175/JPO-D-19-0021.1

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2020

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Clément, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; Thurnherr, Andreas M.. 2018 Abyssal upwelling in Mid-Ocean Ridge fracture zones. Geophysical Research Letters, 45 (5). 2424-2432. 10.1002/2017GL075872

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2018

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Clément, Louis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6935-9455; Thurnherr, Andreas M.; St. Laurent, Louis C.. 2017 Turbulent Mixing in a Deep Fracture Zone on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 47 (8). 1873-1896. 10.1175/JPO-D-16-0264.1

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2017

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2016

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2014

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