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Lahouari Bounoua is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science. Their work focuses primarily on topics related to urban heat island mitigation, land use and ecosystem services, and the intersection of urban green space and health. The research spans multiple subfields including global and planetary change, environmental engineering, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, atmospheric science, and ecology.

The scientist's research output includes contributions to the following main topics:

  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Bounoua's work has been published in several venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Urban Science
  • Land
  • Scientific African
  • Microorganisms
  • Urban Climate

Recent papers include:

  • Delineation of vulnerable areas to water erosion in a mountain region using SDR-InVEST model: A case study of the Ourika watershed, Morocco, 2020, Scientific African
  • Assessment of Sustainability Development in Urban Areas of Morocco, 2020, Urban Science
  • Emerging and Re-Emerging Leishmaniases in the Mediterranean Area: What Can Be Learned from a Retrospective Review Analysis of the Situation in Morocco during 1990 to 2010?, 2020, Microorganisms
  • Remote monitoring of agricultural systems using NDVI time series and machine learning methods: a tool for an adaptive agricultural policy, 2020, Arabian Journal of Geosciences
  • The simulation of the impact of the spatial distribution of vegetation on the urban microclimate: A case study in Mostaganem, 2021, Urban Climate

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bounoua include:

  • Hicham Bahi
  • Joseph Nigro
  • Mohammed Messouli
  • Laila El Ghazouani
  • Mohamed Amine Lachkham

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • A Revised Land Surface Parameterization (SiB2) for Atmospheric GCMS. Part I: Model Formulation

    P.J. Sellers;D.A. Randall;G.J. Collatz;J.A. Berry

  • Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect across biomes in the continental USA

    Marc L. Imhoff;Ping Zhang;Robert E. Wolfe;Lahouari Bounoua

  • Global patterns in human consumption of net primary production

    Marc L. Imhoff;Lahouari Bounoua;Lahouari Bounoua;Taylor Ricketts;Taylor Ricketts;Colby Loucks

  • Comparison of radiative and physiological effects of doubled atmospheric CO2 on climate

    P. J. Sellers;L. Bounoua;G. J. Collatz;D. A. Randall

  • Combining satellite data and biogeochemical models to estimate global effects of human-induced land cover change on carbon emissions and primary productivity

    R. S. DeFries;C. B. Field;I. Fung;G. J. Collatz

  • The consequences of urban land transformation on net primary productivity in the United States

    Marc L. Imhoff;Lahouari Bounoua;Lahouari Bounoua;Ruth DeFries;William T. Lawrence

  • Effects of Land Cover Conversion on Surface Climate

    L. Bounoua;L. Bounoua;R. DeFries;G. J. Collatz;P. Sellers

  • A Global 9-yr Biophysical Land Surface Dataset from NOAA AVHRR Data

    Sietse O. Los;G. J. Collatz;P. J. Sellers;C. M. Malmström

  • Sensitivity of Climate to Changes in NDVI

    L. Bounoua;G. J. Collatz;S. O. Los;P. J. Sellers

  • Human modification of the landscape and surface climate in the next fifty years

    R. S. Defries;L Bounoua;G. J. Collatz

  • Global Interannual Variations in Sea Surface Temperature and Land Surface Vegetation, Air Temperature, and Precipitation

    Sietse O. Los;G. James Collatz;Lahouari Bounoua;Piers J. Sellers

  • Impact of urbanization on US surface climate

    Lahouari Bounoua;Ping Zhang;Ping Zhang;Georgy Mostovoy;Georgy Mostovoy;Kurtis Thome

  • Characterizing urban heat islands of global settlements using MODIS and nighttime lights products

    Ping Zhang;Marc L. Imhoff;Robert E. Wolfe;Lahouari Bounoua

  • A Revised Land Surface Parameterization (SiB2) for GCMS. Part III: The Greening of the Colorado State University General Circulation Model

    D.A. Randall;D.A. Dazlich;C. Zhang;A.S. Denning

  • Ambient air pollution by aromatic hydrocarbons in Algiers

    Rabah Kerbachi;Ménouèr Boughedaoui;Lahouari Bounoua;Malika Keddam

  • An Introduction to Numerical Weather Prediction Techniques

    T. N. Krishnamurti;Lahouari Bounoua

  • A mechanism for the influence of vegetation on the response of the diurnal temperature range to changing climate

    G. James Collatz;L. Bounoua;S. O. Los;D. A. Randall

  • Interactions between vegetation and climate: radiative and physiological effects of doubled atmospheric co2

    L. Bounoua;G. J. Collatz;P. J. Sellers;D. A. Randall

  • Linking Climate to Incidence of Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (L. major) in Pre-Saharan North Africa

    Lahouari Bounoua;Kholoud Kahime;Leila Houti;Tara Blakey

  • Exploring global patterns of net primary production carbon supply and demand using satellite observations and statistical data

    Marc L. Imhoff;Lahouari Bounoua

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc L. Imhoff
Marc L. Imhoff Goddard Space Flight Center
Piers J. Sellers
Piers J. Sellers Goddard Space Flight Center
Compton J. Tucker
Compton J. Tucker Goddard Space Flight Center
Sietse O. Los
Sietse O. Los Swansea University
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University
David A. Randall
David A. Randall Colorado State University
Joseph A. Berry
Joseph A. Berry Carnegie Institution for Science
Christopher B. Field
Christopher B. Field Stanford University
Jeffrey G. Masek
Jeffrey G. Masek Goddard Space Flight Center
Forrest G. Hall
Forrest G. Hall University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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