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Environmental Sciences
France
2023

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Environmental Sciences

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71
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18151
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  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award

Overview

Jean-Christophe Calvet is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to several subfields including environmental engineering, atmospheric science, global and planetary change, civil and structural engineering, and soil science.

The scientist's work addresses key topics such as soil moisture and remote sensing, precipitation measurement and analysis, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, soil and unsaturated flow, climate change and permafrost, climate variability and models, and soil erosion and sediment transport.

Jean-Christophe Calvet has published extensively, with frequent appearances in several scientific venues. Notable publication venues include:

  • Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Remote Sensing
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Geoscientific model development

The scientist's recent papers include the following:

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade (2021), Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors? (2020), Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Validation of Soil Moisture Data Products From the NASA SMAP Mission (2021), IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
  • The Global Land Carbon Cycle Simulated With ISBA-CTRIP: Improvements Over the Last Decade (2020), Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Widespread occurrence of anomalous C-band backscatter signals in arid environments caused by subsurface scattering (2022), Remote Sensing of Environment

Jean-Christophe Calvet collaborates frequently with other researchers. Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Bertrand Bonan
  • Clément Albergel
  • Simon Munier
  • Wolfgang Wagner
  • Susan Steele-Dunne

Best Publications

  • The SURFEXv7.2 land and ocean surface platform for coupled or offline simulation of earth surface variables and fluxes

    V. Masson;P. Le Moigne;E. Martin;S. Faroux

  • L-band Microwave Emission of the Biosphere (L-MEB) Model: Description and calibration against experimental data sets over crop fields

    J.P. Wigneron;Y.H. Kerr;P. Waldteufel;K. Saleh

  • Assessment of the SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Product

    Steven K. Chan;Rajat Bindlish;Peggy E. O'Neill;Eni Njoku

  • Operational readiness of microwave remote sensing of soil moisture for hydrologic applications

    Wolfgang Wagner;Günter Blöschl;Paolo Pampaloni;Jean-Christophe Calvet

  • From near-surface to root-zone soil moisture using an exponential filter: an assessment of the method based on in-situ observations and model simulations

    Clement Albergel;Christoph Rudiger;Christoph Rudiger;Thierry Pellarin;Jean-Christophe Calvet

  • An interactive vegetation SVAT model tested against data from six contrasting sites

    Jean-Christophe Calvet;Joël Noilhan;Jean-Louis Roujean;Pierre Bessemoulin

  • Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product

    S. K. Chan;R. Bindlish;P. O'Neill;T. Jackson

  • Retrieving near-surface soil moisture from microwave radiometric observations: current status and future plans

    J.-P Wigneron;J.-C Calvet;T Pellarin;A.A Van de Griend

  • The International Soil Moisture Network: Serving Earth system science for over a decade

    Wouter Dorigo;Irene Himmelbauer;Daniel Aberer;Lukas Schremmer

  • Med-CORDEX initiative for Mediterranean climate studies

    Paolo M. Ruti;Samuel Somot;F. Giorgi;Clotilde Dubois

  • ERA-5 and ERA-Interim driven ISBA land surface model simulations: which one performs better?

    Clement Albergel;Emanuel Dutra;Simon Munier;Jean Christophe Calvet

  • A simple algorithm to retrieve soil moisture and vegetation biomass using passive microwave measurements over crop fields

    Jean-Pierre Wigneron;André Chanzy;Jean-Christophe Calvet;Nadine Bruguier

  • Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: what are (the) errors?

    A. Gruber;G. de Lannoy;C. Albergel;A. Al-Yaari

  • Inclusion of a Third Soil Layer in a Land Surface Scheme Using the Force–Restore Method

    Aaron Boone;Jean-Christophe Calvet;Joël Noilhan

  • A global water resources ensemble of hydrological models: The eartH2Observe Tier-1 dataset

    Jaap Schellekens;Emanuel Dutra;Emanuel Dutra;Alberto Martínez-de la Torre;Gianpaolo Balsamo

  • An evaluation of ASCAT surface soil moisture products with in-situ observations in Southwestern France

    Clement Albergel;Christoph Rudiger;Christoph Rudiger;Dominique Carrer;Jean-Christophe Calvet

  • An Intercomparison of ERS-Scat and AMSR-E Soil Moisture Observations with Model Simulations over France

    Christoph Rüdiger;Jean-Christophe Calvet;Claire Gruhier;Thomas R. H. Holmes

  • A new parameterization of the effective temperature for L band radiometry

    T. R. H. Holmes;T. R. H. Holmes;P. de Rosnay;R. de Jeu;R. J.-P. Wigneron

  • SMOSREX: A long term field campaign experiment for soil moisture and land surface processes remote sensing

    Patricia de Rosnay;Jean-Christophe Calvet;Yann Kerr;Jean-Pierre Wigneron

  • Two-Dimensional Microwave Interferometer Retrieval Capabilities over Land Surfaces (SMOS Mission)

    Jean-Pierre Wigneron;Philippe Waldteufel;Andre Chanzy;J.-C. Calvet

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Jean-Pierre Wigneron University of Rennes
Clément Albergel
Clément Albergel Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Yann Kerr
Yann Kerr Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
André Chanzy
André Chanzy University of Avignon
Albert Olioso
Albert Olioso INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jean-François Mahfouf
Jean-François Mahfouf Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Jean-Louis Roujean
Jean-Louis Roujean Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
P. de Rosnay
P. de Rosnay European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Bertrand Decharme
Bertrand Decharme Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Eric Martin
Eric Martin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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