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  • 1999 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

H. Le Treut is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France, contributing extensively to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research primarily focuses on climate variability and models as well as meteorological phenomena and simulations.

Their recent publications cover a range of climate-related topics. Notable papers include:

  • "The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project: History, uses, and structural effects on climate research" (2020), Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • "Machine learning to optimize climate projection over China with multi-model ensemble simulations" (2021), Environmental Research Letters
  • "Projection and possible causes of summer precipitation in eastern China using self-organizing map" (2020), Climate Dynamics
  • "Projected precipitation changes over China for global warming levels at 1.5 °C and 2 °C in an ensemble of regional climate simulations: impact of bias correction methods" (2020), Climatic Change
  • "Attribution of summer 2022 extreme wildfire season in Southwest France to anthropogenic climate change" (2024), npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Le Treut frequently collaborates with other researchers, with regular co-authors including:

  • Laurent Li
  • Zhihong Jiang
  • Marine Lanet
  • Ludovic Touzé-Peiffer
  • Anouk Barberousse

The scientist has contributed multiple publications in several journals, notably:

  • Climatic Change
  • Comptes Rendus Géoscience
  • Annales des Mines - Responsabilité et environnement
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • Environmental Research Letters

Le Treut's work spans numerous subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, sociology and political science, management, monitoring, policy and law, and environmental engineering. This reflects a multidisciplinary approach to issues surrounding climate science and its societal impacts.

The scientific topics covered by their research include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • French urban and social studies
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Science and climate studies

H. Le Treut was recognized as a member of the Academia Europaea in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Intercomparison and interpretation of climate feedback processes in 19 atmospheric general circulation models

    R. D. Cess;G. L. Potter;J. P. Blanchet;G. J. Boer

  • THE CALIPSO MISSION: A Global 3D View of Aerosols and Clouds

    D. M. Winker;Jacques Pelon;J. A. Coakley;S. A. Ackerman

  • Interpretation of Cloud-Climate Feedback as Produced by 14 Atmospheric General Circulation Models

    R. D. Cess;G. L. Potter;J. P. Blanchet;G. J. Boer

  • The Seasonal Cycle over the Tropical Pacific in Coupled Ocean Atmosphere General Circulation Models

    C.R. Mechoso;A.W. Robertson;N. Barth;M.K. Davey

  • Potential impact of climate change on marine export production

    Laurent Bopp;Patrick Monfray;Olivier Aumont;Jean Louis Dufresne

  • On dynamic and thermodynamic components of cloud changes

    S. Bony;J.-L. Dufresne;H. Le Treut;J.-J. Morcrette

  • The ice-core record: climate sensitivity and future greenhouse warming

    C. Lorius;D. Raynaud;J. Jouzel;J. Hansen

  • STOIC: a study of coupled model climatology and variability in tropical ocean regions

    M. K. Davey;M. Huddleston;K. R. Sperber;P. Braconnot

  • Cloud feedback in atmospheric general circulation models: An update

    R. D. Cess;M. H. Zhang;W. J. Ingram;G. L. Potter

  • Historical Overview of Climate Change

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  • ENSIP: The El Niño simulation intercomparison project

    Mojib Latif;K. Sperber;J. Arblaster;P. Braconnot

  • Orbital forcing, climatic interactions, and glaciation cycles

    Hervé Le Treut;Michael Ghil

  • On the magnitude of positive feedback between future climate change and the carbon cycle

    J.-L. Dufresne;L. Fairhead;H. Le Treut;M. Berthelot

  • Interpretation of snow-climate feedback as produced by 17 general circulation models.

    R. D. Cess;G. L. Potter;M. H. Zhang;J. P. Blanchet

  • Some results from an intercomparison of the climates simulated by 14 atmospheric general circulation models

    G. J. Boer;K. Arpe;M. Blackburn;M. Déqué

  • A climate model with cryodynamics and geodynamics

    Michael Ghil;Hervé Le Treut

  • Evaluation of an ensemble of regional climate model simulations over South America driven by the ERA-Interim reanalysis: model performance and uncertainties

    Silvina A. Solman;E. Sanchez;P. Samuelsson;R. P. da Rocha

  • Physical Climate Processes and Feedbacks

    T.F. Stocker;G.K.C. Clarke;H. Le Treut;R.S. Lindzen

  • Uncertainties in carbon dioxide radiative forcing in atmospheric general circulation models.

    R. D. Cess;M.-H. Zhang;G. L. Potter;H. W. Barker

  • Evaluation of the impact of climate changes on water storage and groundwater recharge at the watershed scale

    F. Bouraoui;G. Vachaud;L. Z. X. Li;H. Le Treut

  • Precipitation and radiation modeling in a general circulation model: Introduction of cloud microphysical processes

    Olivier Boucher;Hervé Le Treut;Marcia B. Baker

  • Solar dynamics and its impact on solar irradiance and the terrestrial climate

    E. Nesme Ribes;E. N. Ferreira;R. Sadourny;H. Le Treut

  • The albedo of temperate and boreal forest and the Northern Hemisphere climate: a sensitivity experiment using the LMD GCM

    S Chalita;H Le Treut

Frequent Co-Authors

Erich Roeckner
Erich Roeckner Max Planck Society
David A. Randall
David A. Randall Colorado State University
Karl E. Taylor
Karl E. Taylor Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Laurent Li
Laurent Li École Normale Supérieure
Jean-Jacques Morcrette
Jean-Jacques Morcrette European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Xin-Zhong Liang
Xin-Zhong Liang University of Maryland, College Park
Michael Ghil
Michael Ghil École Normale Supérieure
Minghua Zhang
Minghua Zhang Stony Brook University
Robert D. Cess
Robert D. Cess Stony Brook University
Jean-Louis Dufresne
Jean-Louis Dufresne École Normale Supérieure

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