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Overview

Clément Albergel is affiliated with the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France. The researcher's body of work spans environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and environmental engineering. Their research also engages subfields such as ecology and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's publication record includes contributions to several notable journals and platforms, reflecting expertise in remote sensing and hydrological processes. Frequent publication venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Remote Sensing of Environment, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Remote Sensing, and Geoscientific Model Development.

Research topics are centered around soil moisture and remote sensing, climate variability and models, precipitation measurement and analysis, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, and remote sensing in agriculture.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by the researcher include the following:

  • ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications (2021) published in Earth System Science Data
  • Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios (2020) published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications - confronting product characteristics with user requirements (2020) published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors? (2020) published in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Comparing national greenhouse gas budgets reported in UNFCCC inventories against atmospheric inversions (2022) published in Earth System Science Data

Frequent collaborative partnerships have been established with several co-authors, including Philippe Ciais, Jean-Christophe Calvet, Ana Bastos, Stephen Sitch, and Jean-Pierre Wigneron. These collaborations indicate interdisciplinary efforts within environmental and atmospheric research domains.

Best Publications

  • ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications

    Joaquín Muñoz-Sabater;Emanuel Dutra;Emanuel Dutra;Anna Agustí-Panareda;Clément Albergel;Clément Albergel

  • ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding : State-of-the art and future directions

    Wouter Dorigo;Wolfgang Wagner;Clement Albergel;Franziska Albrecht

  • Evaluation of the ESA CCI soil moisture product using ground-based observations

    W.A. Dorigo;A. Gruber;R.A.M. De Jeu;W. Wagner

  • ERA-Interim/Land: a global land surface reanalysis data set

    G. Balsamo;C. Albergel;A. Beljaars;S. Boussetta

  • From near-surface to root-zone soil moisture using an exponential filter: an assessment of the method based on in-situ observations and model simulations

    Clement Albergel;Christoph Rudiger;Christoph Rudiger;Thierry Pellarin;Jean-Christophe Calvet

  • Evaluation of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture products using global ground-based in situ observations

    Clement Albergel;Patricia de Rosnay;Claire Gruhier;Joaquin Muñoz-Sabater

  • Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios

    Yves Tramblay;Aristeidis Koutroulis;Luis Samaniego;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano

  • ERA-5 and ERA-Interim driven ISBA land surface model simulations: which one performs better?

    Clement Albergel;Emanuel Dutra;Simon Munier;Jean Christophe Calvet

  • A simplified Extended Kalman Filter for the global operational soil moisture analysis at ECMWF

    Patricia de Rosnay;Matthias Drusch;Drasko Vasiljevic;Gianpaolo Balsamo

  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications ─ confronting product characteristics with user requirements

    Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Clement Albergel;Anna Balenzano;Luca Brocca

  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: what are (the) errors?

    A. Gruber;G. de Lannoy;C. Albergel;A. Al-Yaari

  • Skill and Global Trend Analysis of Soil Moisture from Reanalyses and Microwave Remote Sensing

    C. Albergel;W. Dorigo;R. H. Reichle;G. Balsamo

  • Global-scale evaluation of two satellite-based passive microwave soil moisture datasets (SMOS and AMSR-E) with respect to Land Data Assimilation System estimates

    A. Al-Yaari;A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;A. Ducharne;Y. Kerr

  • An evaluation of ASCAT surface soil moisture products with in-situ observations in Southwestern France

    Clement Albergel;Christoph Rudiger;Christoph Rudiger;Dominique Carrer;Jean-Christophe Calvet

  • Initialisation of Land Surface Variables for Numerical Weather Prediction

    Patricia de Rosnay;Gianpaolo Balsamo;Clément Albergel;Joaquín Muñoz-Sabater

  • Satellite and in situ observations for advancing global earth surface modelling: A review

    Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anna Agusti-Panareda;Clement Albergel;Gabriele Arduini

  • Soil Moisture Analyses at ECMWF: Evaluation Using Global Ground-Based In Situ Observations

    C. Albergel;P. de Rosnay;G. Balsamo;L. Isaksen

  • Sensitivity of Passive Microwave Observations to Soil Moisture and Vegetation Water Content: L-Band to W-Band

    Jean-Christophe Calvet;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Jeffrey Walker;Fatima Karbou

  • Verification of the new ECMWF ERA-Interim reanalysis over France

    C. Szczypta;J.-C. Calvet;C. Albergel;G. Balsamo

  • Sequential assimilation of satellite-derived vegetation and soil moisture products using SURFEX_v8.0: LDAS-Monde assessment over the Euro-Mediterranean area

    Clément Albergel;Simon Munier;Delphine Jennifer Leroux;Hélène Dewaele

  • Evaluation of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture products using global ground-based in situ observations

    C. Albergel;P. de Rosnay;C. Gruhier;J. Munoz-Sabater

  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications

    Jian Peng;Clement Albergel;Anna Balenzano;Luca Brocca

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Christophe Calvet
Jean-Christophe Calvet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Joaquin Munoz-Sabater
Joaquin Munoz-Sabater European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Emanuel Dutra
Emanuel Dutra Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Yann Kerr
Yann Kerr Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Gianpaolo Balsamo
Gianpaolo Balsamo European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Lars Isaksen
Lars Isaksen European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
P. de Rosnay
P. de Rosnay European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Jean-Pierre Wigneron University of Rennes
Mehrez Zribi
Mehrez Zribi Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Matthias Drusch
Matthias Drusch European Space Agency

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