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Béatrice Marticorena is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a substantial body of work addressing various subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Soil Science, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics of their research include atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, aeolian processes and effects, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, soil erosion and sediment transport, air quality and health impacts, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • CATENA
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications

Among recent publications associated with their research are:

  • Retrieving the global distribution of the threshold of wind erosion from satellite data and implementing it into the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory land-atmosphere model (GFDL AM4.0/LM4.0), 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Influence of Atmospheric Stability on the Size Distribution of the Vertical Dust Flux Measured in Eroding Conditions Over a Flat Bare Sandy Field, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Evaluation of natural aerosols in CRESCENDO Earth system models (ESMs): mineral dust, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Comparison Between Eddy-Covariance and Flux-Gradient Size-Resolved Dust Fluxes During Wind Erosion Events, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Stratospheric impacts on dust transport and air pollution in West Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean, 2022, Nature Communications

Their collaborative network includes frequent coauthors such as:

  • Jean-Louis Rajot
  • Christel Bouet
  • G. Bergametti
  • Mohamed Taieb Labiadh
  • Joseph M. Prospero

Best Publications

  • Modeling the atmospheric dust cycle: 1. Design of a soil-derived dust emission scheme

    Beatrice Marticorena;Gilles Bergametti

  • Parametrization of the increase of the aeolian erosion threshold wind friction velocity due to soil moisture for arid and semi-arid areas

    F. Fécan;B. Marticorena;G. Bergametti

  • Modeling the atmospheric dust cycle: 2. Simulation of Saharan dust sources

    Beatrice Marticorena;G. Bergametti;B. Aumont;Yann Callot

  • Satellite climatology of African dust transport in the Mediterranean atmosphere

    C. Moulin;C. E. Lambert;U. Dayan;V. Masson

  • Modeling mineral dust emissions from the Sahara desert using new surface properties and soil database

    B. Laurent;B. Marticorena;G. Bergametti;J. F. Léon

  • Factors controlling threshold friction velocity in semiarid and arid areas of the United States

    Beatrice Marticorena;Gilles Bergametti;Dale Gillette;Jayne Belnap

  • Overview of the Dust and Biomass-burning Experiment and African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis Special Observing Period-0

    Jim M. Haywood;Jacques Pelon;Paola Formenti;N. A. Bharmal

  • Development of a physically based dust emission module within the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model: Assessment of dust emission parameterizations and input parameters for source regions in Central and East Asia

    Kremena Darmenova;Irina N. Sokolik;Yaping Shao;Beatrice Marticorena

  • Modeling mineral dust emissions from Chinese and Mongolian deserts

    B. Laurent;B. Marticorena;G. Bergametti;F. Mei

  • Large-scale overview of the summer monsoon over West Africa during the AMMA field experiment in 2006

    S. Janicot;C. D. Thorncroft;A. Ali;N. Asencio

  • Temporal variability of mineral dust concentrations over West Africa: analyses of a pluriannual monitoring from the AMMA Sahelian Dust Transect

    B. Marticorena;B. Chatenet;J. L. Rajot;S. Traoré

  • Simulation of the mineral dust emission frequencies from desert areas of China and Mongolia using an aerodynamic roughness length map derived from the POLDER/ADEOS 1 surface products

    B. Laurent;B. Marticorena;G. Bergametti;P. Chazette

  • The AMMA field campaigns: multiscale and multidisciplinary observations in the West African region

    Thierry Lebel;Douglas J. Parker;Cyrille Flamant;Bernard Bourlès

  • Size resolved dust emission fluxes measured in Niger during 3 dust storms of the AMMA experiment.

    Mamadou Sow;Mamadou Sow;Stéphane Alfaro;Jean Louis Rajot;Beatrice Marticorena

  • Modeling saltation intermittency

    Sylvain Dupont;Gilles Bergametti;Beatrice Marticorena;Serge Simoëns

  • Geomorphologic approach for modelling the surface features of arid environments in a model of dust emissions: application to the Sahara desert

    Yann Callot;Béatrice Marticorena;Gilles Bergametti

  • Estimation of the aerodynamic roughness length in arid and semi-arid regions over the globe with the ERS scatterometer.

    Catherine Prigent;Ina Tegen;Filipe Aires;Béatrice Marticorena

  • Assessing the microped size distributions of desert soils erodible by wind

    B. Chatenet;B. Marticorena;L. Gomes;G. Bergametti

  • AMMA dust experiment: An overview of measurements performed during the dry season special observation period (SOP0) at the Banizoumbou (Niger) supersite

    Jean Louis Rajot;Paola Formenti;Stéphane Alfaro;Karine Desboeufs

  • Regional modeling of Saharan dust events using LM-MUSCAT: Model description and case studies

    B. Heinold;J. Helmert;J. Helmert;O. Hellmuth;R. Wolke

  • Temporal variability of mineral dust concentrations over West Africa: analyses of a pluriannual monitoring from the AMMA

    Sahelian Dust Transect;B. Marticorena;B. Chatenet;J. L. Rajot

  • Simulation of the mineral dust emission frequencies from desert areas of China and Mongolia using an aerodynamic roughness length map derived from the POLDER/ADEOS 1 surface products : Quantifying the radiative and biogeochemical impacts of mineral dust

    B. Laurent;B. Marticorena;G. Bergametti;P. Chazette

Frequent Co-Authors

Gilles Bergametti
Gilles Bergametti Université Paris Cité
Jean-Louis Rajot
Jean-Louis Rajot Université Paris Cité
Paola Formenti
Paola Formenti Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Eric Mougin
Eric Mougin Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand University of Lille
Thierry Lebel
Thierry Lebel Grenoble Alpes University
Patrick Chazette
Patrick Chazette French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Françoise Guichard
Françoise Guichard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Yves Balkanski
Yves Balkanski French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Samuel Albani
Samuel Albani University of Milano-Bicocca

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