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Françoise Guichard is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focusing on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. The main specialties include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Aerospace Engineering, Oceanography, and Water Science and Technology.

Their scholarly work addresses multiple topics such as climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, precipitation measurement and analysis, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, hydrology and drought analysis, cryospheric studies and observations, and climate change and permafrost.

Guichard has contributed to numerous recent publications, including:

  • Uncertainties in the Annual Cycle of Rainfall Characteristics over West Africa in CMIP5 Models, 2020, Atmosphere
  • Tropical mesoscale convective system formation environments, 2023, Atmospheric Science Letters
  • Quantifying the Occurrence of Record Hot Years Through Normalized Warming Trends, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Global Three-Dimensional Water Vapor Feature-Tracking for Horizontal Winds Using Hyperspectral Infrared Sounder Data From Overlapped Tracks of Two Satellites, 2023, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Long-Term Seasonal Drought Trends in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, 2023, Climate

The frequent publication venues where Guichard's research appears include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Atmosphere
  • Atmospheric Science Letters
  • Climate

Collaboration is a marked feature of Guichard's scientific activity, with regular coauthors such as Xubin Zeng, Thomas J. Galarneau, Amir Ouyed, Hui Su, and Ismaïla Diallo.

Their work covers a broad range of complex environmental and atmospheric phenomena, often integrating data analysis and modeling to investigate climate-related processes on regional and global scales. This multidisciplinary approach reflects in the diverse subfields and topics represented in their publications.

Best Publications

  • A mass-flux convection scheme for regional and global models

    P. Bechtold;E. Bazile;F. Guichard;P. Mascart

  • Frequency of extreme Sahelian storms tripled since 1982 in satellite observations

    Christopher M. Taylor;Danijel Belušić;Françoise Guichard;Douglas J. Parker

  • Frequency of sahelian storm initiation enhanced over mesoscale soil-moisture patterns

    Christopher M. Taylor;Amanda Gounou;Françoise Guichard;Phil P. Harris

  • Explosive activity of the South Italian volcanoes during the past 80,000 years as determined by marine tephrochronology

    M. Paterne;F. Guichard;J. Labeyrie

  • Modelling the diurnal cycle of deep precipitating convection over land with cloud-resolving models and single-column models

    F Guichard;J C Petch;J L Redelsperger;P Bechtold

  • The past, present and future of African dust

    Amato T. Evan;Cyrille Flamant;Marco Gaetani;Françoise Guichard

  • Paleointensity of the geomagnetic field during the last 80,000 years

    Emmanuel Tric;Jean-Pierre Valet;Piotr Tucholka;Martine Paterne

  • The Present and Future of the West African Monsoon: A Process-Oriented Assessment of CMIP5 Simulations along the AMMA Transect

    Romain Roehrig;Dominique Bouniol;Francoise Guichard;Frédéric Hourdin

  • Pleistocene forced regressions and tidal sand ridges in the East China Sea

    Serge Berné;Pierre Vagner;François Guichard;Gilles Lericolais

  • A Late Quaternary palaeoecological record from the Banda Sea, Indonesia: patterns of vegetation, climate and biomass burning in Indonesia and northern Australia

    Sander van der Kaars;Xuan Wang;Peter Kershaw A Peter Kershaw;F Guichard

  • An intercomparison of cloud-resolving models with the atmospheric radiation measurement summer 1997 intensive observation period data

    Kuan Man Xu;Richard T. Cederwall;Leo J. Donner;Wojciech W. Grabowski

  • The BLLAST field experiment: Boundary-Layer Late Afternoon and Sunset Turbulence

    M. Lothon;F. Lohou;D. Pino;F. Couvreux

  • The AMMA Land Surface Model Intercomparison Project (ALMIP)

    Aaron Boone;Patricia de Rosnay;Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anton Beljaars

  • Tyrrhenian Sea tephrochronology of the oxygen isotope record for the past 60,000 years

    M Paterne;F Guichard;J Labeyrie;P.Y Gillot

  • The AMMA-CATCH Gourma observatory site in Mali: Relating climatic variations to changes in vegetation, surface hydrology, fluxes and natural resources

    E. Mougin;P. Hiernaux;L. Kergoat;M. Grippa

  • Coupling between the Atlantic cold tongue and the West African monsoon in boreal spring and summer

    Guy Caniaux;Hervé Giordani;Jean-Luc Redelsperger;Françoise Guichard

  • Recovery Processes and Factors Limiting Cloud-Top Height following the Arrival of a Dry Intrusion Observed during TOGA COARE

    J.-L. Redelsperger;D. B. Parsons;F. Guichard

  • Modeling soil moisture-precipitation feedback in the Sahel: Importance of spatial scale versus convective parameterization

    Christopher M. Taylor;Cathryn E. Birch;Cathryn E. Birch;Douglas J. Parker;Nick Dixon

  • Rare earths in barites: distribution and effects on aqueous partitioning

    François Guichard;Thomas M. Church;Michel Treuil;Henri Jaffrezic

  • An Approach for Convective Parameterization with Memory: Separating Microphysics and Transport in Grid-Scale Equations

    Jean-Marcel Piriou;Jean-Luc Redelsperger;Jean-François Geleyn;Jean-Philippe Lafore

  • A gcss model intercomparison for a tropical squall line observed during toga-coare. I: Cloud-resolving models

    J.-L. Redelsperger;P. R. A. Brown;F. Guichard;C. How

  • A Parameterization of Mesoscale Enhancement of Surface Fluxes for Large-Scale Models

    Jean-Luc Redelsperger;Françoise Guichard;Sylvain Mondon

  • Comparison of ground‐based GPS precipitable water vapour to independent observations and NWP model reanalyses over Africa

    Olivier Bock;Marie-Noëlle Bouin;A. Walpersdorf;Jean-Philippe Lafore

  • Afternoon rain more likely over drier soils

    C. Taylor;R. A. De Jeu;F. Guichard;P. Harris

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Luc Redelsperger
Jean-Luc Redelsperger University of Western Brittany
Jean-Philippe Lafore
Jean-Philippe Lafore Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Laurent Kergoat
Laurent Kergoat Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Olivier Bock
Olivier Bock Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Eric Mougin
Eric Mougin Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Peter Bechtold
Peter Bechtold European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Aaron Boone
Aaron Boone Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Douglas J. Parker
Douglas J. Parker University of Leeds
Cyrille Flamant
Cyrille Flamant Sorbonne University
Anna Agusti-Panareda
Anna Agusti-Panareda European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

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