2026 Jean-Louis Dufresne: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	64	2270	2164	81	80	168	36501

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award

Overview

Jean-Louis Dufresne is a researcher affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure in France. Their work focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, contributing extensively to the understanding of climate systems and atmospheric processes.

Their main fields of study include:

Environmental Science
Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broader fields, their research encompasses several subfields, such as:

Global and Planetary Change
Atmospheric Science
Aerospace Engineering
Oceanography
Astronomy and Astrophysics

The scientist has contributed to several key topics related to climate and atmospheric dynamics, including:

Climate variability and models
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

Frequent co-authors in their research network include:

Oliviér Boucher
Jason N. S. Cole
Thorsten Mauritsen
Najda Villefranque
F. Hourdin

Their work is often published in specific scientific venues, with repeated contributions to:

Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Geophysical Research Letters
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Atmospheric chemistry and physics
Geoscientific model development

Some recent scholarly papers authored or co-authored by Jean-Louis Dufresne include:

Presentation and Evaluation of the IPSL-CM6A-LR Climate Model, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Effective radiative forcing and adjustments in CMIP6 models, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
Implementation of the CMIP6 Forcing Data in the IPSL-CM6A-LR Model, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
LMDZ6A: The Atmospheric Component of the IPSL Climate Model With Improved and Better Tuned Physics, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Enhanced warming constrained by past trends in equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature gradient, 2020, Nature Climate Change

Best Publications

Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis

Reinhard F. Stocker;D Qin;G.-K. Plattner;M Tignor

8449
Citations
Long-term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility

M. Collins;R. Knutti;J.M. Arblaster;J.-L. Dufresne

4409
Citations
Climate change projections using the IPSL-CM5 Earth System Model: From CMIP3 to CMIP5

Jean-Louis Dufresne;M. A. Foujols;S. Denvil;A. Caubel

1935
Citations
Presentation and evaluation of the IPSL‐CM6A‐LR climate model

Olivier Boucher;Jérôme Servonnat;Anna Lea Albright;Olivier Aumont

1549
Citations
Marine boundary layer clouds at the heart of tropical cloud feedback uncertainties in climate models

Sandrine Bony;Jean-Louis Dufresne

1478
Citations
How Well Do We Understand and Evaluate Climate Change Feedback Processes

Sandrine Bony;Robert Colman;Vladimir M. Kattsov;Richard P. Allan

1405
Citations
The LMDZ4 general circulation model: climate performance and sensitivity to parametrized physics with emphasis on tropical convection

Frédéric Hourdin;Ionela Musat;Sandrine Bony;Pascale Braconnot

986
Citations
Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

Nicolas Bellouin;Johannes Quaas;Edward Gryspeerdt;Stefan Kinne

875
Citations
Spread in model climate sensitivity traced to atmospheric convective mixing

Steven C. Sherwood;Sandrine Bony;Jean-Louis Dufresne

828
Citations
COSP: Satellite simulation software for model assessment

Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo;M Webb;S Bony;H Chepfer

749
Citations
Potential impact of climate change on marine export production

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

639
Citations
On the interpretation of inter-model spread in CMIP5 climate sensitivity estimates

Jessica Vial;Jessica Vial;Jean-Louis Dufresne;Jean-Louis Dufresne;Sandrine Bony;Sandrine Bony

537
Citations
On dynamic and thermodynamic components of cloud changes

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

530
Citations
An Assessment of the Primary Sources of Spread of Global Warming Estimates from Coupled Atmosphere–Ocean Models

Jean-Louis Dufresne;Sandrine Bony

514
Citations
How positive is the feedback between climate change and the carbon cycle

P. Friedlingstein;J. L. Dufresne;P. M. Cox;P. Rayner

487
Citations
The GCM‐Oriented CALIPSO Cloud Product (CALIPSO‐GOCCP)

H. Chepfer;S. Bony;D. Winker;G. Cesana

455
Citations
Positive feedback between future climate change and the carbon cycle

Pierre Friedlingstein;Laurent Bopp;Philippe Ciais;Jean-Louis Dufresne

449
Citations
Evaluation of cloud and water vapor simulations in CMIP5 climate models using NASA “A-Train” satellite observations

Jonathan H. Jiang;Hui Su;Chengxing Zhai;Vincent S. Perun

418
Citations
The 'too few, too bright' tropical low-cloud problem in CMIP5 models

Christine Nam;Sandrine Bony;Jean-Louis Dufresne;H. Chepfer

407
Citations
Impact of soil moisture-climate feedbacks on CMIP5 projections: First results from the GLACE-CMIP5 experiment

Sonia I. Seneviratne;Micah Wilhelm;Tanja Stanelle;Bart van den Hurk

394
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandrine Bony Université Paris Cité

Olivier Boucher Sorbonne University

Frédéric Hourdin Université Paris Cité

Pascale Braconnot Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter

Thierry Fichefet Université Catholique de Louvain

Yves Balkanski French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

Eric Guilyardi Université Paris Cité

Juliette Mignot Université Paris Cité

Michael Schulz Norwegian Meteorological Institute

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