Doisteau-Blutet Prize from the French Academy of Sciences (1979) CNRS Bronze Medal (1980) Knight of the National Order of Merit (1981) Doisteau-Blutet Prize from the French Academy of Sciences (1990) Kodak-Pathe Landucci Prize from the French Academy of Sciences (1996) Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) (1996) Officer of the National Order of Merit (1997) Vening Meinesz Medal of the European Geophysical Society (1999) Knight of the Legion of Honour (2000) Arthur Holmes Medal & Honorary Membership (2005)[8] Commander of the National Order of Merit (2007) Manley Bendall Prize, first Medal Albert of Monaco, the Oceanographic Institute (2008) Elected foreign member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2008) Officer of the Legion of Honour (2010) Prix Émile Girardeau the Naval Academy (2010) Elected to the Indian National Science Academy (2011) Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union (2012) Grand Officer of the National Order of Merit (2015) Prize Georges Lemaitre of the University Catholic of Louvain (2015) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2018) jointly with Jonathan M. Gregory and John A. Church