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Environmental Sciences
France
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
66
Citations
18696
World Ranking
2059
National Ranking
73

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Laurent Li is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure in France and has contributed extensively to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research primarily focuses on climate variability, meteorological phenomena, and the interactions between plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Their work spans several subfields, including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, oceanography, plant science, and electrical and electronic engineering. The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Laurent Li's recent notable publications feature the following works:

  • "Presentation and Evaluation of the IPSL-CM6A-LR Climate Model" (2020) published in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • "Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world" (2021) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation" (2020) published in Science Advances
  • "Does CMIP6 Inspire More Confidence in Simulating Climate Extremes over China?" (2020) published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
  • "Global irrigation contribution to wheat and maize yield" (2021) published in Nature Communications

The frequent coauthors of Laurent Li include:

  • Philippe Ciais
  • Shilong Piao
  • Zhihong Jiang
  • Zhenzhong Zeng
  • Xuhui Wang

Their publications appear most often in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

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

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

  • The Beijing Climate Center Climate System Model (BCC-CSM): the main progress from CMIP5 to CMIP6

    Tongwen Wu;Yixiong Lu;Yongjie Fang;Xiaoge Xin

  • Afforestation in China cools local land surface temperature

    Shu-Shi Peng;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Zhenzhong Zeng;Philippe Ciais

  • The Mediterranean climate: An overview of the main characteristics and issues

    P Lionello;Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli;Roberta Boscolo;Pinhas Alpert

  • Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Anping Chen;Chris Huntingford

  • Evaporative cooling over the Tibetan Plateau induced by vegetation growth

    Miaogen Shen;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Su-Jong Jeong;Liming Zhou

  • Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades

    Zhenzhong Zeng;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Liming Zhou

  • Divergent hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China

    Yue Li;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Anping Chen

  • A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production

    Zhenzhong Zeng;Zhenzhong Zeng;Alan D. Ziegler;Timothy Searchinger;Long Yang

  • Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation.

    Xu Lian;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Laurent Z. X. Li;Yue Li

  • The Beijing Climate Center atmospheric general circulation model: description and its performance for the present-day climate

    Tongwen Wu;Rucong Yu;Fang Zhang;Zaizhi Wang

  • An overview of BCC climate system model development and application for climate change studies

    Tongwen Wu;Lianchun Song;Weiping Li;Zaizhi Wang

  • Does CMIP6 Inspire More Confidence in Simulating Climate Extremes over China

    Huanhuan Zhu;Zhihong Jiang;Juan Li;Wei Li

  • The contribution of China’s emissions to global climate forcing

    Bengang G. Li;Thomas Gasser;Philippe Ciais;Shilong L. Piao;Shilong L. Piao

  • Extremes in temperature and precipitation around the Mediterranean basin in an ensemble of future climate scenario simulations

    K. Goubanova;L. Li

  • Mediterranean water cycle changes: transition to drier 21st century conditions in observations and CMIP3 simulations

    Annarita Mariotti;Annarita Mariotti;Ning Zeng;Jin-Ho Yoon;Vincenzo Artale

  • Extreme Precipitation Indices over China in CMIP5 Models. Part I: Model Evaluation

    Zhihong Jiang;Wei Li;Jianjun Xu;Laurent Li

  • Future evolution of Marine Heatwaves in the Mediterranean Sea

    Sofia Darmaraki;Samuel Somot;Florence Sevault;Pierre Nabat

  • Global carbon budgets simulated by the Beijing Climate Center Climate System Model for the last century

    Tongwen Wu;Weiping Li;Jinjun Ji;Jinjun Ji;Xiaoge Xin

  • Probabilistic Projections of Climate Change over China under the SRES A1B Scenario Using 28 AOGCMs

    Weilin Chen;Zhihong Jiang;Laurent Li

  • Extreme climate events in China: IPCC-AR4 model evaluation and projection

    Zhihong Jiang;Jie Song;Jie Song;Laurent Li;Laurent Li;Weilin Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Zhenzhong Zeng
Zhenzhong Zeng Southern University of Science and Technology
Samuel Somot
Samuel Somot Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Florence Sevault
Florence Sevault Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Xuhui Wang
Xuhui Wang Peking University
Gianmaria Sannino
Gianmaria Sannino National Agency For New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Yves Balkanski
Yves Balkanski French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Sophie Bastin
Sophie Bastin French National Centre for Scientific Research
Daniela Jacob
Daniela Jacob Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Masa Kageyama
Masa Kageyama Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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