Sandrine Bony Explained

Sandrine Bony-Léna
Birth Name:	Sandrine Bony
Nationality:	French
Alma Mater:	Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Diplôme national de doctorat)
Doctoral Advisor:	Hervé Le Treut
Discipline:	Climatologist, physicist
Workplaces:	The Sorbonne, Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Main Interests:	Clouds, human-induced climate change

Sandrine Bony-Léna, née Bony, is a French-born climatologist who is currently Director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at Sorbonne University, Paris. Bony was notably a lead author of the Nobel Prize-winning (2007) Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.^[1]

Distinctions

• 2012: the Bernard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture prize awarded by the American Meteorological Society (AMS).^[2]
• 2017: the Gérard-Mégie prize of the Académie des Sciences.^{[3] [4] [5]}
• 2017: Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.^[6]
• 2018: CNRS Silver Medal.^{[7] [8]}
• 2023: Buys Ballot Medal

Selected works

• Marine boundary layer clouds at the heart of tropical cloud feedback uncertainties in climate models . Geophysical Research Letters . Bony . Sandrine . 32 . L20806 . Dufresne . Jean-Louis . 20 . 10.1029/2005GL023851 . 2005. 2005GeoRL..3220806B . 18266199 . free .
• On dynamic and thermodynamic components of cloud changes . Climate Dynamics . Bony . Sandrine . 22 . 71–86 . Dufresne . Jean-Louis . 2–3 . 10.1007/s00382-003-0369-6 . 2004 . XX. 2004ClDy...22...71B . 56077074 . 2.
• On the role of moist processes in tropical intraseasonal variability: Cloud-radiation and moisture-convection feedbacks . Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences . Bony . Sandrine . 62 . 2770–2789 . Emanuel . Kerry A . 8 . 10.1175/JAS3506.1 . 2005. 2005JAtS...62.2770B . free .
• Thermodynamic control of anvil cloud amount . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . Bony . Sandrine . 113 . 8927–8932 . Stevens . Bjorn . 32 . 10.1073/pnas.1601472113 . 2016 . 2 . XX. 27412863 . 4987798 . 2016PNAS..113.8927B . free .
• EUREC(4)A: A Field Campaign to Elucidate the Couplings Between Clouds, Convection and Circulation . Surveys in Geophysics . Bony . Sandrine . 38 . 1529–1568 . Stevens . Bjorn . 6 . 10.1007/s10712-017-9428-0 . 2017 . XX . 31997845 . 6956937 . 2017SGeo...38.1529B . 2.
• Marotzke. Jochem. Jakob. Christian. Bony. Sandrine. Dirmeyer. Paul A.. O'Gorman. Paul A.. Hawkins. Ed. Perkins-Kirkpatrick. Sarah. Quéré. Corinne Le. Nowicki. Sophie. Paulavets. Katsia. Seneviratne. Sonia I.. February 2017. Climate research must sharpen its view. Nature Climate Change. en. 7. 2. 89–91. 10.1038/nclimate3206. 29599824 . 5871430 . 2017NatCC...7...89M . 1758-6798. free.
• Bony. Sandrine. Stevens. Bjorn. Frierson. Dargan M. W.. Jakob. Christian. Kageyama. Masa. Pincus. Robert. Shepherd. Theodore G.. Sherwood. Steven C.. Siebesma. A. Pier. Sobel. Adam H.. Watanabe. Masahiro. April 2015. Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity. Nature Geoscience. en. 8. 4. 261–268. 10.1038/ngeo2398. 2015NatGe...8..261B . 29427100 . 1752-0908.
• Sherwood. Steven C.. Bony. Sandrine. Dufresne. Jean-Louis. January 2014. Spread in model climate sensitivity traced to atmospheric convective mixing. Nature. en. 505. 7481. 37–42. 10.1038/nature12829. 24380952 . 2014Natur.505...37S . 205236718 . 1476-4687.
• Overpeck. Jonathan T.. Meehl. Gerald A.. Bony. Sandrine. Easterling. David R.. 2011-02-11. Climate Data Challenges in the 21st Century. Science. en. 331. 6018. 700–702. 10.1126/science.1197869. 0036-8075. 21311006. 2011Sci...331..700O . 206529954 .

Sources

• https://www.ipcc.ch/
• La prévision du climat est-elle fiable ? (lemonde.fr) 02 juin 2013

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frontiers of Knowledge Awards. www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es. 8 February 2021.
2. Web site: 2012. PRIX & DISTINCTIONS SCIENTIFIQUES ET PÉDAGOGIQUES 2012. www.univ-paris-est.fr. fr.
3. Web site: fr-fr. Lauréate 2017 du prix Gérard Mégie : Sandrine Bony Lauréats Prix et médailles Encourager la vie scientifique. www.academie-sciences.fr. 1 May 2018.
4. Web site: Académie des sciences. Lauréate 2017 du prix Gérard Mégie : Sandrine Bony. . 20 December 2017. 1 May 2018.
5. Web site: fr. Sandrine Bony ENS. www.ens.fr. 1 May 2018.
6. Web site: fr. Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur. Légifrance.
7. Web site: ARTIFICA. 82 nouveaux Talents du CNRS – Communiqués et dossiers de presse -CNRS. 27 April 2018. www2.cnrs.fr. fr.
8. Web site: Sandrine Bony CNRS. 28 April 2018. www.cnrs.fr. fr.