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52
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7307
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4603
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200

Laurent Arnaud 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 Laurent Arnaud sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 171 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Laurent Arnaud 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 Laurent Arnaud sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Laurent Arnaud is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France, focusing on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Global and Planetary Change, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Their research explores several topics related to cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, photonic crystal and fiber optics, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Laurent Arnaud has contributed to various scientific publications, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Earth System Science Data
  • Remote Sensing
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Spectral albedo measurements over snow-covered slopes: theory and slope effect corrections, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Quantification of the radiative impact of light-absorbing particles during two contrasted snow seasons at Col du Lautaret (2058 m a.s.l., French Alps), 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Water Isotopic Signature of Surface Snow Metamorphism in Antarctica, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • The Microwave Snow Grain Size: A New Concept to Predict Satellite Observations Over Snow-Covered Regions, 2022, AGU Advances
  • Snow albedo sensitivity to macroscopic surface roughness using a new ray-tracing model, 2020, The Cryosphere

Laurent Arnaud frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Ghislain Picard, Florent Dominé, Marie Dumont, Thierry Robin, and Fanny Larue. Ghislain Picard has been a particularly frequent coauthor, with numerous joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Direct measurement of the single-metal-cluster optical absorption.

    A. Arbouet;D. Christofilos;N. Del Fatti;F. Vallée

  • OZCAR: The French Network of Critical Zone Observatories

    J. Gaillardet;I. Braud;F. Hankard;S. Anquetin

  • Influence of grain shape on light penetration in snow

    Q. Libois;Q. Libois;G. Picard;G. Picard;L. Arnaud;L. Arnaud

  • Size and composition dependence in the optical properties of mixed (transition metal/noble metal) embedded clusters

    M. Gaudry;E. Cottancin;M. Pellarin;J. Lermé

  • Modeling air movement and bubble trapping in firn

    C. M. Trudinger;I. G. Enting;D. M. Etheridge;R. J. Francey

  • Reconstructing recent atmospheric trace gas concentrations from polar firn and bubbly ice data by inverse methods

    Vincent Rommelaere;Laurent Arnaud;Jean-Marc Barnola

  • Inhibition of the positive snow-albedo feedback by precipitation in interior Antarctica

    G. Picard;F. Domine;F. Domine;G. Krinner;L. Arnaud

  • Determining snow specific surface area from near-infrared reflectance measurements: Numerical study of the influence of grain shape

    Ghislain Picard;Laurent Arnaud;Florent Domine;Michel Fily

  • Physical modeling of the densification of snow/firn and ice in the upper part of polar ice sheets

    Laurent Arnaud;Jean M. Barnola;Paul Duval

  • Implementation and evaluation of prognostic representations of the optical diameter of snow in the SURFEX/ISBA-Crocus detailed snowpack model

    C. M. Carmagnola;S. Morin;M. Lafaysse;F. Domine

  • Modeling time series of microwave brightness temperature at Dome C, Antarctica, using vertically resolved snow temperature and microstructure measurements

    Ludovic Brucker;Ghislain Picard;Laurent Arnaud;Jean-Marc Barnola

  • Correlation between the Extinction Spectrum of a Single Metal Nanoparticle and Its Electron Microscopy Image

    P. Billaud;S. Marhaba;E. Cottancin;L. Arnaud

  • Optical extinction spectroscopy of single silver nanoparticles

    P. Billaud;J.-R. Huntzinger;E. Cottancin;J. Lermé

  • Measurement of vertical profiles of snow specific surface area with a 1 cm resolution using infrared reflectance: instrument description and validation

    L. Arnaud;G. Picard;N. Champollion;Florent Domine

  • Continuous measurements of isotopic composition of water vapour on the East Antarctic Plateau

    Mathieu Casado;Amaelle Landais;Valérie Masson-Delmotte;Christophe Genthon;Christophe Genthon

  • Refinement of the ice absorption spectrum in the visible using radiance profile measurements in Antarctic snow

    Ghislain Picard;Ghislain Picard;Quentin Libois;Quentin Libois;Laurent Arnaud

  • Snow spectral albedo at Summit, Greenland: measurements and numerical simulations based on physical and chemical properties of the snowpack

    Carlo Carmagnola;Florent Domine;Florent Domine;Marie Dumont;Patrick Wright

  • In-situ monitoring of the time evolution of the effective thermal conductivity of snow

    S. Morin;S. Morin;F. Domine;L. Arnaud;G. Picard

  • Snow/atmosphere coupled simulation at Dome C, Antarctica

    Eric Brun;Delphine Six;Ghislain Picard;Vincent Vionnet

  • A multilayer physically based snowpack model simulating direct and indirect radiative impacts of light-absorbing impurities in snow

    Francois Tuzet;Marie Dumont;Matthieu Lafaysse;Ghislain Picard

  • Modeling the impact of snow drift on the decameter‐scale variability of snow properties on the Antarctic Plateau

    Quentin Libois;Quentin Libois;Ghislain Picard;Ghislain Picard;Laurent Arnaud;Laurent Arnaud;Samuel Morin

  • Archival processes of the water stable isotope signal in East Antarctic ice cores

    Mathieu Casado;Mathieu Casado;Mathieu Casado;Amaelle Landais;Ghislain Picard;Thomas Münch;Thomas Münch

  • Determination of gas diffusivity in polar firn: Comparison between experimental measurements and inverse modeling

    Adeline Fabre;Jean-Marc Barnola;Laurent Arnaud;Jerome Chappellaz

  • Vertical profile of the specific surface area and density of the snow at Dome C and on a transect to Dumont D'Urville, Antarctica – albedo calculations and comparison to remote sensing products

    J.-C. Gallet;J.-C. Gallet;F. Domine;F. Domine;L. Arnaud;L. Arnaud;G. Picard;G. Picard

Frequent Co-Authors

Ghislain Picard
Ghislain Picard Grenoble Alpes University
Marie Dumont
Marie Dumont Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Florent Domine
Florent Domine Université Laval
Michel Fily
Michel Fily Grenoble Alpes University
Samuel Morin
Samuel Morin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Amaelle Landais
Amaelle Landais Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Matthieu Lafaysse
Matthieu Lafaysse Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques
Michel Broyer
Michel Broyer Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Vincent Favier
Vincent Favier Grenoble Alpes University
Jean-Marc Barnola
Jean-Marc Barnola Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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