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Filipe Aires is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans several areas within environmental and earth sciences, with a significant focus on hydrology, flood risk, and climate variability.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work often addresses global and planetary change, atmospheric science, water science and technology, environmental engineering, and ecology.

Main topics of study in their research include:

  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Filipe Aires frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Victor Pellet
  • Catherine Prigent
  • Etienne Fluet-Chouinard
  • Fabrice Papa
  • Dai Yamazaki

The scientist has published in a variety of journals, with recurring contributions to:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Water Resources Research
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent significant papers by Filipe Aires include:

  • Extensive global wetland loss over the past three centuries, 2023, Nature
  • Amazon Hydrology From Space: Scientific Advances and Future Challenges, 2021, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Closing the Water Cycle from Observations across Scales: Where Do We Stand?, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • How much inundation occurs in the Amazon River basin?, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Trade-Offs Between 1-D and 2-D Regional River Hydrodynamic Models, 2020, Water Resources Research

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • A Regularized Neural Net Approach for Retrieval of Atmospheric and Surface Temperatures with the Iasi Instrument

    Filipe Aires;Alain Chédin;Noëlle A. Scott;William B. Rossow

  • 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

  • Water, Energy, and Carbon with Artificial Neural Networks (WECANN): a statistically based estimate of global surface turbulent fluxes and gross primary productivity using solar-induced fluorescence

    Seyed Hamed Alemohammad;Bin Fang;Alexandra G. Konings;Filipe Aires

  • Land Surface Microwave Emissivities over the Globe for a Decade

    Catherine Prigent;Filipe Aires;William B. Rossow

  • Soil Moisture Retrieval Using Neural Networks: Application to SMOS

    Nemesio J. Rodriguez-Fernandez;Filipe Aires;Philippe Richaume;Yann H. Kerr

  • Surface Water Monitoring within Cambodia and the Vietnamese Mekong Delta over a Year, with Sentinel-1 SAR Observations

    Binh Pham-Duc;Catherine Prigent;Filipe Aires

  • Amazon Hydrology From Space: Scientific Advances and Future Challenges

    Alice César Fassoni-Andrade;Alice César Fassoni-Andrade;Alice César Fassoni-Andrade;Ayan Santos Fleischmann;Fabrice Papa;Fabrice Papa;Rodrigo Cauduro Dias de Paiva

  • A new river flooding scheme for global climate applications: Off-line evaluation over South America

    B. Decharme;H. Douville;C. Prigent;F. Papa

  • Sensitivity of satellite microwave and infrared observations to soil moisture at a global scale: Relationship of satellite observations to in situ soil moisture measurements

    Catherine Prigent;Filipe Aires;Filipe Aires;William B. Rossow;Alan Robock

  • 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

  • Expected Performances of the Copernicus Imaging Microwave Radiometer (CIMR) for an All-Weather and High Spatial Resolution Estimation of Ocean and Sea Ice Parameters

    Lise Kilic;Catherine Prigent;Filipe Aires;Jacqueline Boutin

  • An Evaluation of Microwave Land Surface Emissivities Over the Continental United States to Benefit GPM-Era Precipitation Algorithms

    R. R. Ferraro;C. D. Peters-Lidard;C. Hernandez;F. J. Turk

  • Temporal interpolation of global surface skin temperature diurnal cycle over land under clear and cloudy conditions

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

  • Land surface skin temperatures from a combined analysis of microwave and infrared satellite observations for an all-weather evaluation of the differences between air and skin temperatures

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

  • Remote sensing from the infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer instrument 2. Simultaneous retrieval of temperature, water vapor, and ozone atmospheric profiles

    F. Aires;W. B. Rossow;N. A. Scott;A. Chédin

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine Prigent
Catherine Prigent 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
Pierre Gentine
Pierre Gentine Columbia University
Yann Kerr
Yann Kerr Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Philippe Richaume
Philippe Richaume Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Alain Chédin
Alain Chédin École Polytechnique
Dai Yamazaki
Dai Yamazaki University of Tokyo
Jean-Pierre Chaboureau
Jean-Pierre Chaboureau Laboratoire d'Aérologie
Cathy Clerbaux
Cathy Clerbaux Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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