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Overview

Catherine Prigent is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans multiple fields related to Earth and environmental sciences, with a primary focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. They have significant contributions in Environmental Engineering, Oceanography, and Water Science and Technology as well.

Their main areas of study include diverse topics such as Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Cryospheric studies and observations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements.

Frequent publication venues for their work demonstrate a strong presence in scientific literature, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Remote Sensing
  • Earth and Space Science
  • Earth system science data

Catherine Prigent has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, highlighting a network of frequent research partnerships. These include Zhen Zhang, Benjamin Poulter, Carlos Jiménez, Shushi Peng, and Philippe Ciais.

Recent significant publications include:

  • "The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017" (2020), NOAA Institutional Repository
  • "Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries" (2023), Nature
  • "Development of the global dataset of Wetland Area and Dynamics for Methane Modeling (WAD2M)" (2021), Earth system science data
  • "Mineral dust cycle in the Multiscale Online Nonhydrostatic AtmospheRe CHemistry model (MONARCH) Version 2.0" (2021), Geoscientific model development
  • "Trade-off between tree planting and wetland conservation in China" (2022), Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • The global methane budget 2000–2017

    Marielle Saunois;Ann R. Stavert;Ben Poulter;Philippe Bousquet

  • Contribution of anthropogenic and natural sources to atmospheric methane variability

    P. Bousquet;P. Bousquet;P. Ciais;J. B. Miller;J. B. Miller;E. J. Dlugokencky

  • The global methane budget 2000–2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries

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  • Global inundation dynamics inferred from multiple satellite observations, 1993–2000

    C. Prigent;F. Papa;F. Aires;W. B. Rossow

  • Global intercomparison of 12 land surface heat flux estimates

    C. Jiménez;C. Prigent;B. Mueller;S. I. Seneviratne

  • Interannual variability of surface water extent at the global scale, 1993–2004

    F. Papa;Christophe Prigent;F. Aires;Chloé Jimenez

  • A new neural network approach including first guess for retrieval of atmospheric water vapor, cloud liquid water path, surface temperature, and emissivities over land from satellite microwave observations

    F. Aires;C. Prigent;W. B. Rossow;M. Rothstein

  • New permittivity measurements of seawater

    W. Ellison;A. Balana;G. Delbos;K. Lamkaouchi

  • Remote sensing of global wetland dynamics with multiple satellite data sets

    Catherine Prigent;Elaine Matthews;Filipe Aires;William B. Rossow

  • Microwave land surface emissivities estimated from SSM/I observations

    Catherine Prigent;William B. Rossow;Elaine Matthews

  • Altimetry for the future: building on 25 years of progress

    Saleh Abdalla;Abdolnabi Abdeh Kolahchi;Michaël Ablain;Susheel Adusumilli

  • Changes in land surface water dynamics since the 1990s and relation to population pressure

    Christophe Prigent;F. Papa;F. Aires;Chloé Jimenez

  • Mineral dust aerosols in the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences ModelE atmospheric general circulation model

    R. L. Miller;R. L. Miller;R. V. Cakmur;R. V. Cakmur;J. Perlwitz;J. Perlwitz;I. V. Geogdzhayev;I. V. Geogdzhayev

  • An attempt to quantify the impact of changes in wetland extent on methane emissions on the seasonal and interannual time scales

    Bruno Ringeval;Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré;Philippe Ciais;Philippe Bousquet

  • Global wetland contribution to 2000–2012 atmospheric methane growth rate dynamics

    Benjamin Poulter;Philippe Bousquet;Josep G. Canadell;Philippe Ciais

  • Present state of global wetland extent and wetland methane modelling: methodology of a model inter-comparison project (WETCHIMP)

    Rita Wania;Joe Melton;Joe Melton;EL Hodson;B Poulter

  • A Tool to Estimate Land-Surface Emissivities at Microwave frequencies (TELSEM) for use in numerical weather prediction

    Filipe Aires;Filipe Aires;Catherine Prigent;Frédéric Bernardo;Carlos Jiménez

  • MERLIN: A French-German Space Lidar Mission Dedicated to Atmospheric Methane

    Gerhard Ehret;Philippe Bousquet;Clémence Pierangelo;Matthias Alpers

  • Surface freshwater storage and dynamics in the Amazon basin during the 2005 exceptional drought

    Frédéric Frappart;Fabrice Papa;Joecila Santos da Silva;Guillaume Ramillien

  • Land Surface Microwave Emissivities over the Globe for a Decade

    Catherine Prigent;Filipe Aires;William B. Rossow

  • Global Methane Budget 2000-2012

    M. Saunois;P. Bousquet;B. Poulter;A. Peregon

Frequent Co-Authors

Filipe Aires
Filipe Aires Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Fabrice Papa
Fabrice Papa Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales
William B. Rossow
William B. Rossow City College of New York
Frédéric Frappart
Frédéric Frappart Bordeaux Sciences Agro
Stéphane Calmant
Stéphane Calmant Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Sander Houweling
Sander Houweling Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ray L. Langenfelds
Ray L. Langenfelds Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jean-Pierre Chaboureau
Jean-Pierre Chaboureau Laboratoire d'Aérologie
Apostolos Voulgarakis
Apostolos Voulgarakis Imperial College London
Edward J. Dlugokencky
Edward J. Dlugokencky National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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