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Jean-Louis Dufresne

Jean-Louis Dufresne

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Environmental Sciences
France
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
64
Citations
36501
World Ranking
2270
National Ranking
81

Jean-Louis Dufresne publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jean-Louis Dufresne sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 168 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Jean-Louis Dufresne D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jean-Louis Dufresne sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

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

  • Long-term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility

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

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

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

  • Presentation and evaluation of the IPSL‐CM6A‐LR climate model

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

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

    Sandrine Bony;Jean-Louis Dufresne

  • How Well Do We Understand and Evaluate Climate Change Feedback Processes

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

  • 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

  • Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

    Nicolas Bellouin;Johannes Quaas;Edward Gryspeerdt;Stefan Kinne

  • Spread in model climate sensitivity traced to atmospheric convective mixing

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

  • COSP: Satellite simulation software for model assessment

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

  • Potential impact of climate change on marine export production

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

  • 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

  • On dynamic and thermodynamic components of cloud changes

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

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

    Jean-Louis Dufresne;Sandrine Bony

  • How positive is the feedback between climate change and the carbon cycle

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

  • The GCM‐Oriented CALIPSO Cloud Product (CALIPSO‐GOCCP)

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

  • Positive feedback between future climate change and the carbon cycle

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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandrine Bony
Sandrine Bony Université Paris Cité
Olivier Boucher
Olivier Boucher Sorbonne University
Frédéric Hourdin
Frédéric Hourdin Université Paris Cité
Pascale Braconnot
Pascale Braconnot Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
Thierry Fichefet
Thierry Fichefet Université Catholique de Louvain
Yves Balkanski
Yves Balkanski French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Eric Guilyardi
Eric Guilyardi Université Paris Cité
Juliette Mignot
Juliette Mignot Université Paris Cité
Michael Schulz
Michael Schulz Norwegian Meteorological Institute

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