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Environmental Sciences
France
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
77
Citations
22770
World Ranking
1127
National Ranking
35

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award

Overview

François-Marie Bréon is affiliated with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, contributing extensively to the understanding of atmospheric processes and global environmental change.

Their key fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these areas, they have concentrated on several subfields:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Pollution
  • Spectroscopy

Bréon's research topics highlight their expertise in:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • COVID-19 impact on air quality
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Spectroscopy and Laser Applications

The scientist has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Nature Communications
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Notable recent papers include:

  • "Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Carbon Monitor, a near-real-time daily dataset of global CO2 emission from fossil fuel and cement production," 2020, PubMed
  • "Author Correction: Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Local Anomalies in the Column-Averaged Dry Air Mole Fractions of Carbon Dioxide Across the Globe During the First Months of the Coronavirus Recession," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "The use of the 1.27 µm O2 absorption band for greenhouse gas monitoring from space and application to MicroCarb," 2020, Atmospheric measurement techniques

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bréon include:

  • Philippe Ciais
  • Grégoire Broquet
  • Yilong Wang
  • Bo Zheng
  • Frédéric Chevallier

Best Publications

  • Estimating PAR absorbed by vegetation from bidirectional reflectance measurements

    Jean-Louis Roujean;François-Marie Breon

  • Surface Urban Heat Island Across 419 Global Big Cities

    Shushi Peng;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • The POLDER mission: instrument characteristics and scientific objectives

    P.-Y. Deschamps;F.-M. Breon;M. Leroy;A. Podaire

  • The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission

    D Crisp;RM Atlas;FM Breon;LR Brown

  • Near-real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions reveals the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Zhu Liu;Philippe Ciais;Zhu Deng;Ruixue Lei

  • Remote sensing of aerosols over land surfaces from POLDER-ADEOS-1 polarized measurements

    J. L. Deuzé;F. M. Bréon;C. Devaux;P. Goloub

  • Aerosol effect on cloud droplet size monitored from satellite.

    Francois-Marie Bréon;Didier Tanré;Sylvia Generoso

  • Remote sensing of phytoplankton groups in case 1 waters from global SeaWiFS imagery

    Séverine Alvain;Cyril Moulin;Yves Dandonneau;Francois-Marie Breon

  • A synthesis of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel combustion

    R.J. Andres;T.A. Boden;F.-M. Bréon;P. Ciais

  • Inferring CO2 sources and sinks from satellite observations: Method and application to TOVS data

    F. Chevallier;M. Fisher;Philippe Peylin;S. Serrar

  • Contribution of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory to the estimation of CO2 sources and sinks: Theoretical study in a variational data assimilation framework

    Frédéric Chevallier;François-Marie Bréon;Peter J. Rayner

  • Bidirectional reflectance of Earth targets: evaluation of analytical models using a large set of spaceborne measurements with emphasis on the Hot Spot

    F Maignan;F.-M Bréon;R Lacaze

  • Retrieval of atmospheric properties and surface bidirectional reflectances over land from POLDER/ADEOS

    M. Leroy;J. L. Deuzé;F. M. Bréon;O. Hautecoeur

  • Remote sensing of aerosols by using polarized, directional and spectral measurements within the A-Train: the PARASOL mission

    D. Tanré;F. M. Bréon;J. L. Deuzé;O. Dubovik

  • Parameterization of surface polarized reflectance derived from POLDER spaceborne measurements

    F. Nadal;F.-M. Breon

  • Evaluation of aerosol indirect radiative forcing in MIRAGE

    Steven Ghan;Richard Easter;James Hudson;Francois‐Marie Bréon

  • Current systematic carbon-cycle observations and the need for implementing a policy-relevant carbon observing system

    P. Ciais;A. J. Dolman;A. Bombelli;R. Duren

  • Spaceborne observations of ocean glint reflectance and modeling of wave slope distributions

    F. M. Bréon;N. Henriot

  • Carbon Monitor, a near-real-time daily dataset of global CO2 emission from fossil fuel and cement production.

    Zhu Liu;Philippe Ciais;Zhu Deng;Steven J Davis

  • Injection height of biomass burning aerosols as seen from a spaceborne lidar

    Mathieu Labonne;François-Marie Bréon;Frédéric Chevallier

  • Application of the CALIOP layer product to evaluate the vertical distribution of aerosols estimated by global models: AeroCom phase I results

    Brigitte Koffi;Michael Schulz;Francois-Marie Bréon;Jan Griesfeller

  • Response to Comment on ``Surface Urban Heat Island Across 419 Global Big Cities''

    Shushi Peng;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Didier Tanré
Didier Tanré University of Lille
Maurice Herman
Maurice Herman University of Lille
Philippe Goloub
Philippe Goloub University of Lille
Olivier Boucher
Olivier Boucher Sorbonne University
F. Chevallier
F. Chevallier University of Paris-Saclay
Fabienne Maignan
Fabienne Maignan French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Zhuosen Wang
Zhuosen Wang University of Maryland, College Park
Pierre-Yves Deschamps
Pierre-Yves Deschamps University of Lille
P. Ciais
P. Ciais French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Eric Vermote
Eric Vermote Goddard Space Flight Center

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