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Environmental Sciences
France
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
61
Citations
15377
World Ranking
2744
National Ranking
107

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Hervé Douville is affiliated with the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable specialization in global and planetary change as well as atmospheric science.

The scientist's work covers multiple interconnected subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Douville's research addresses various topics with an emphasis on climate systems, such as:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • "Advances in understanding large-scale responses of the water cycle to climate change," 2020, published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • "The CNRM Global Atmosphere Model ARPEGE-Climat 6.3: Description and Evaluation," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Drivers of the Northern Extratropical Eddy-Driven Jet Change in CMIP5 and CMIP6 Models," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "On the Effect of Historical SST Patterns on Radiative Feedback," 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Quantifying CMIP6 model uncertainties in extreme precipitation projections," 2022, Weather and Climate Extremes

Douville frequently collaborates with several researchers who have coauthored multiple papers with them. These coauthors include:

  • Richard P. Allan
  • Romain Roehrig
  • David Saint-Martin
  • Brian Medeiros
  • Aurélien Ribes

The scientist publishes often in several well-regarded venues such as:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Best Publications

  • Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

    H. Douville;K. Raghavan;J. Renwick;Richard Allan

  • The CNRM-CM5.1 global climate model: description and basic evaluation

    A. Voldoire;E. Sanchez-Gomez;D. Salas y Mélia;B. Decharme

  • Evaluation of CMIP6 DECK Experiments With CNRM-CM6-1

    A. Voldoire;D. Saint‐Martin;S. Sénési;B. Decharme

  • Advances in understanding large-scale responses of the water cycle to climate change

    Richard P. Allan;Mathew Barlow;Michael P. Byrne;Michael P. Byrne;Annalisa Cherchi

  • A new snow parameterization for the Météo-France climate model

    H. Douville;J. F. Royer;J. F. Mahfouf

  • Evaluation of forest snow processes models (SnowMIP2)

    Nick Rutter;Richard Essery;John Pomeroy;Nuria Altimir

  • The Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) contribution to CMIP6.

    Mark J. Webb;Timothy Andrews;Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo;Sandrine Bony

  • Influence of Soil Moisture on the Asian and African Monsoons. Part I: Mean Monsoon and Daily Precipitation

    H. Douville;F. Chauvin;H. Broqua

  • Sensitivity of the hydrological cycle to increasing amounts of greenhouse gases and aerosols

    H. Douville;F. Chauvin;S. Planton;J.-F. Royer

  • Evaluation of the Optimum Interpolation and Nudging Techniques for Soil Moisture Analysis Using FIFE Data

    Hervé Douville;Pedro Viterbo;Jean-François Mahfouf;Anton C. M. Beljaars

  • European temperatures in CMIP5: origins of present-day biases and future uncertainties

    Julien Cattiaux;Hervé Douville;Yannick Peings

  • Anthropogenic influence on multidecadal changes in reconstructed global evapotranspiration

    H. Douville;A. Ribes;B. Decharme;R. Alkama

  • Present-day and future Amazonian precipitation in global climate models: CMIP5 versus CMIP3

    E. Joetzjer;H. Douville;C. Delire;P. Ciais

  • Sensitivity of the Asian summer monsoon to an anomalous Eurasian snow cover within the Météo-France GCM

    H. Douville;J. F. Royer

  • Relevance of soil moisture for seasonal climate predictions: a preliminary study

    H. Douville;F. Chauvin

  • Modelling Freshwater Resources at the Global Scale: Challenges and Prospects

    Petra Doll;Herve Douville;Andreas Guntner;Hannes Muller Schmied

  • Human-induced greening of the northern extratropical land surface

    Jiafu Mao;Aurélien Ribes;Binyan Yan;Xiaoying Shi

  • A new snow parameterization for the Météo-France climate model: Part II: validation in a 3-D GCM experiment

    H. Douville;J. F. Royer;J. F. Mahfouf

  • Global off-line evaluation of the ISBA-TRIP flood model

    B. Decharme;R. Alkama;F. Papa;F. Papa;S. Faroux

  • Influence of Soil Moisture on the Asian and African Monsoons. Part II: Interannual Variability.

    H. Douville

Frequent Co-Authors

Bertrand Decharme
Bertrand Decharme Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ramdane Alkama
Ramdane Alkama Joint Research Center
Aurore Voldoire
Aurore Voldoire Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Gurvan Madec
Gurvan Madec Sorbonne University
Christophe Cassou
Christophe Cassou Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Michel Déqué
Michel Déqué Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Sophie Szopa
Sophie Szopa Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Christine Delire
Christine Delire Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Justin Sheffield
Justin Sheffield University of Southampton
P. Ciais
P. Ciais French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

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