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Alain Royer is affiliated with Université de Sherbrooke in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Atmospheric Science. Their work spans several interconnected subfields including Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, and Ocean Engineering.

The primary topics of Royer's research include climate change and permafrost, cryospheric studies and observations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, landslides and related hazards, soil moisture and remote sensing, geophysical methods and applications, and tree-ring climate responses.

Royer has published in multiple reputable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues consist of:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • International Journal of Digital Earth
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Ecoscience

Selected recent papers highlight specific areas of their work:

  • "Improved Simulation of Arctic Circumpolar Land Area Snow Properties and Soil Temperatures", 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • "New northern snowpack classification linked to vegetation cover on a latitudinal mega-transect across northeastern Canada", 2021, Ecoscience
  • "The Microwave Snow Grain Size: A New Concept to Predict Satellite Observations Over Snow-Covered Regions", 2022, AGU Advances
  • "Arctic and subarctic snow microstructure analysis for microwave brightness temperature simulations", 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Characterizing tundra snow sub-pixel variability to improve brightness temperature estimation in satellite SWE retrievals", 2022, The Cryosphere

Their research collaborations include frequent coauthors such as:

  • Alexandre Langlois
  • Alexandre Roy
  • Ghislain Picard
  • Florent Dominé
  • Julien Meloche

Royer's contributions reflect a specialization in Arctic and subarctic environments focusing on snow properties, soil temperatures, and remote sensing techniques to improve understanding of cryospheric processes. Their work integrates observational data and modeling approaches to address environmental and climatic challenges in northern regions.

Best Publications

  • A Review of Antarctic Surface Snow Isotopic Composition : Observations, Atmospheric Circulation, and Isotopic Modeling

    V. Masson-Delmotte;S. Hou;A. Ekaykin;J. Jouzel

  • Modelling the Passive Microwave Signature from Land Surfaces: A Review of Recent Results and Application to the L-Band SMOS SMAP Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms

    J.-P. Wigneron;T.J. Jackson;P. O'Neill;G. De Lannoy

  • Ice age aerosol content from East Antarctic ice core samples and past wind strength

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  • Bimodal size distribution influences on the variation of Angstrom derivatives in spectral and optical depth space

    N. T. O'Neill;T. F. Eck;B. N. Holben;A. Smirnov

  • Retrieving landscape freeze/thaw state from Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radar and radiometer measurements.

    Chris Derksen;Xiaolan Xu;R. Scott Dunbar;Andreas Colliander

  • Simulation of the microwave emission of multi-layered snowpacks using the Dense Media Radiative transfer theory: the DMRT-ML model

    G. Picard;G. Picard;Ludovic Brucker;Ludovic Brucker;A. Roy;F. Dupont;F. Dupont;F. Dupont

  • Measuring Leaf Area Index with the Li‐Cor LAI‐2000 in Pine Stands

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  • Aerosol optical depth over the oceans: Analysis in terms of synoptic air mass types

    A. Smirnov;Y. Villevalde;N. T. O'Neill;A. Royer

  • Variability and change in the Canadian cryosphere

    C. Derksen;S.L. Smith;M. Sharp;L. Brown

  • Evaluation of Spaceborne L-Band Radiometer Measurements for Terrestrial Freeze/Thaw Retrievals in Canada

    Alexandre Roy;Alain Royer;Chris Derksen;Ludovic Brucker

  • Optical properties of boreal forest fire smoke derived from Sun photometry

    N. T. O'Neill;T. F. Eck;B. N. Holben;A. Smirnov

  • Analysis of Temperature Emissivity Separation (TES) algorithm applicability and sensitivity

    V. Payan;A. Royer

  • Characterization of Atmospheric Aerosols across Canada from a Ground-based Sunphotometer Network: AEROCAN

    A.I. Bokoye;A. Royer;N.T. O'Neil;P. Cliche

  • Land degradation and erosion risk mapping by fusion of spectrally-based information and digital geomorphometric attributes

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  • Atmospheric Correction Validation of casi Images Acquired over the Boreas Southern Study Area

    N. T. O'Neill;F. Zagolski;M. Bergeron;A. Royer

  • Validation of GlobSnow-2 snow water equivalent over Eastern Canada.

    Fanny Larue;Fanny Larue;Alain Royer;Danielle De Seve;Alexandre Langlois

  • A study of the link between synoptic air mass type and atmospheric optical parameters

    A. Smirnov;A. Royer;N. T. O'Neill;A. Tarussov

  • Multisensor analysis of integrated atmospheric water vapor over Canada and Alaska

    A. I. Bokoye;A. I. Bokoye;A. Royer;N. T. O'Neill;P. Cliche

  • A 30000 year record of physical and optical properties of microparticles from an East Antarctic ice core and implications for paleoclimate reconstruction models

    A. Royer;M. De Angelis;J. R. Petit

  • Brightness Temperature Simulations of the Canadian Seasonal Snowpack Driven by Measurements of the Snow Specific Surface Area

    Alexandre Roy;Ghislain Picard;Alain Royer;Benoit Montpetit

  • Snow water equivalent retrieval in a Canadian boreal environment from microwave measurements using the HUT snow emission model

    V. Roy;K. Goita;A. Royer;A.E. Walker

  • Snow Microwave Emission Modeling of Ice Lenses Within a Snowpack Using the Microwave Emission Model for Layered Snowpacks

    Benoit Montpetit;Alain Royer;Alexandre Roy;Alexandre Langlois

  • Improvement of springtime streamflow simulations in a boreal environment by incorporating snow-covered area derived from remote sensing data.

    Alexandre Roy;Alain Royer;Richard Turcotte

  • New shortwave infrared albedo measurements for snow specific surface area retrieval

    B. Montpetit;A. Royer;A. Langlois;P. Cliche

  • Improved simulation of Arctic circumpolar land area snow properties and soil temperatures

    Alain Royer;Ghislain Picard;Céline Vargel;Alexandre Langlois

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandre Langlois
Alexandre Langlois Université de Sherbrooke
Ludovic Brucker
Ludovic Brucker National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Chris Derksen
Chris Derksen Environment and Climate Change Canada
Ghislain Picard
Ghislain Picard Grenoble Alpes University
Michel Fily
Michel Fily Grenoble Alpes University
Aaron A. Berg
Aaron A. Berg University of Guelph
Arnaud Mialon
Arnaud Mialon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Juha Lemmetyinen
Juha Lemmetyinen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Oliver Sonnentag
Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal
Laurent Arnaud
Laurent Arnaud Grenoble Alpes University

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