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Frédéric Frappart

Frédéric Frappart

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Earth Science

D-Index
58
Citations
10820
World Ranking
2186
National Ranking
147

Overview

Frédéric Frappart is affiliated with Bordeaux Sciences Agro in France. Their research is situated primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Oceanography.

Their work encompasses a range of main topics such as Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis.

Frappart has contributed to various publications, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Remote Sensing
  • Frontiers in Remote Sensing
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Water

Among their recent papers are:

  • Global Monitoring of the Vegetation Dynamics from the Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD): A Review, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management, 2022, Nature
  • SMOS-IC data record of soil moisture and L-VOD: Historical development, applications and perspectives, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The Lake Chad hydrology under current climate change, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Global-scale assessment and inter-comparison of recently developed/reprocessed microwave satellite vegetation optical depth products, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment

Frequent co-authors with whom Frappart has collaborated extensively include Jean-Pierre Wigneron, Lei Fan, Xiaojun Li, Xiangzhuo Liu, and Philippe Ciais.

Best Publications

  • Preliminary results of ENVISAT RA-2-derived water levels validation over the Amazon basin

    Frédéric Frappart;Stéphane Calmant;Mathilde Cauhopé;Frédérique Seyler

  • The challenge of unprecedented floods and droughts in risk management

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  • Large‐scale hydrologic and hydrodynamic modeling of the Amazon River basin

    Rodrigo Cauduro Dias de Paiva;Rodrigo Cauduro Dias de Paiva;Diogo Costa Buarque;Walter Collischonn;Marie-Paule Bonnet

  • Monitoring Groundwater Storage Changes Using the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) Satellite Mission: A Review

    Frédéric Frappart;Guillaume Ramillien

  • Floodplain water storage in the Negro River basin estimated from microwave remote sensing of inundation area and water levels

    Frédéric Frappart;Frédérique Seyler;Jean-Michel Martinez;Juan Gabriel Leon

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

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

  • Modeling large-scale inundation of Amazonian seasonally flooded wetlands

    Matthew Wilson;Paul Bates;Doug Alsdorf;Bruce Forsberg

  • SMOS-IC data record of soil moisture and L-VOD: Historical development, applications and perspectives

    Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Xiaojun Li;Frédéric Frappart;Lei Fan

  • Time variations of land water storage from an inversion of 2 years of GRACE geoids

    Guillaume Ramillien;Frédéric Frappart;Anny Cazenave;Andreas Güntner

  • Rating curves and estimation of average water depth at the upper Negro River based on satellite altimeter data and modeled discharges

    Juan Gabriel Leon;Stéphane Calmant;F. Seyler;Marie-Paule Bonnet

  • Global Monitoring of the Vegetation Dynamics from the Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD): A Review

    Frédéric Frappart;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Xiaojun Li;Xiangzhuo Liu

  • Time variations of the regional evapotranspiration rate from Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite gravimetry

    Guillaume Ramillien;Frédéric Frappart;Andreas Güntner;Thanh Ngo-Duc

  • 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

  • WATER VOLUME CHANGE IN THE LOWER MEKONG FROM SATELLITE ALTIMETRY AND IMAGERY DATA

    F. Frappart;K. Do Minh;J. L'Hermitte;A. Cazenave

  • The major floods in the Amazonas River and tributaries (Western Amazon Basin) during the 1970–2012 period: A focus on the 2012 flood

    Jhan Carlo Espinoza;Josyane Ronchail;Frédéric Frappart;Waldo Lavado

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

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

  • The Lake Chad hydrology under current climate change

    Binh Pham-Duc;Binh Pham-Duc;Florence Sylvestre;Fabrice Papa;Fabrice Papa;Frédéric Frappart

  • A new SMAP soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product (SMAP-IB): Algorithm, assessment and inter-comparison

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  • Interannual variations of river water storage from a multiple satellite approach: A case study for the Rio Negro River basin

    Frédéric Frappart;Fabrice Papa;James S. Famiglietti;Catherine Prigent

  • Global-scale assessment and inter-comparison of recently developed/reprocessed microwave satellite vegetation optical depth products

    Xiaojun Li;Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Frédéric Frappart;Lei Fan

  • A first assessment of satellite and reanalysis estimates of surface and root-zone soil moisture over the permafrost region of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    Zanpin Xing;Lei Fan;Lei Fan;Lin Zhao;Lin Zhao;Gabrielle De Lannoy

  • Requirements for a Coastal Hazards Observing System

    Jérôme Benveniste;Anny Cazenave;Stefano Vignudelli;Luciana Fenoglio-Marc

  • Sea level monitoring and sea state estimate using a single geodetic receiver

    Nicolas Roussel;Guillaume Ramillien;Frédéric Frappart;José Darrozes

  • Regionalization of rainfall over the Peruvian Pacific slope and coast

    Pedro Rau;Luc Bourrel;David Labat;Pablo Melo

Frequent Co-Authors

Guillaume Ramillien
Guillaume Ramillien Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Fabrice Papa
Fabrice Papa Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales
Eric Mougin
Eric Mougin Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Stéphane Calmant
Stéphane Calmant Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Vincent Marieu
Vincent Marieu University of Bordeaux
Anny Cazenave
Anny Cazenave Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales
Marie-Paule Bonnet
Marie-Paule Bonnet Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Andreas Güntner
Andreas Güntner University of Potsdam
Boris Dewitte
Boris Dewitte Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones (CEAZA)
Catherine Prigent
Catherine Prigent Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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