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Environmental Sciences
France
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
63
Citations
14575
World Ranking
2467
National Ranking
93

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Climate change
  • Climatology
  • Meteorology

His main research concerns Climatology, Environmental science, Climate change, Precipitation and Sea surface temperature. His primary area of study in Climatology is in the field of Atmospheric circulation. His research investigates the connection between Climate change and topics such as Greenhouse gas that intersect with problems in Storm, Abrupt climate change, Effects of global warming and Climate commitment.

His research integrates issues of Global change and Water cycle in his study of Precipitation. His Climate model study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Atmospheric sciences, Forcing and Surface air temperature. His Atmosphere research includes elements of General Circulation Model, Seasonal cycle, Current and Intertropical Convergence Zone.

His most cited work include:

  • The Seasonal Cycle over the Tropical Pacific in Coupled Ocean Atmosphere General Circulation Models (460 citations)
  • Potential impact of climate change on marine export production (379 citations)
  • STOIC: a study of coupled model climatology and variability in tropical ocean regions (303 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Laurent Terray mainly focuses on Climatology, Environmental science, Climate change, Climate model and Atmospheric sciences. His study in Sea surface temperature, Forcing, North Atlantic oscillation, Atmospheric circulation and Anomaly is done as part of Climatology. His work in Environmental science incorporates the disciplines of Precipitation, Global warming, Downscaling, Greenhouse gas and Meteorology.

As part of the same scientific family, Laurent Terray usually focuses on Climate change, concentrating on Boundary current and intersecting with Sea level. The concepts of his Climate model study are interwoven with issues in General Circulation Model, Northern Hemisphere, Radiative forcing and Climate oscillation. The Rossby wave research Laurent Terray does as part of his general Atmospheric sciences study is frequently linked to other disciplines of science, such as Flux, therefore creating a link between diverse domains of science.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Climatology (80.95%)
  • Environmental science (76.19%)
  • Climate change (25.40%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2016-2020)?

  • Environmental science (76.19%)
  • Climatology (80.95%)
  • Climate model (21.43%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His primary areas of investigation include Environmental science, Climatology, Climate model, Atmospheric sciences and Model resolution. His Environmental science research encompasses a variety of disciplines, including Ocean heat content, Ocean gyre, Thermohaline circulation, Natural and Atmosphere. His Teleconnection and Forcing investigations are all subjects of Climatology research.

Laurent Terray interconnects Atmospheric circulation, Northern Hemisphere, Evapotranspiration and Precipitation in the investigation of issues within Climate model. His work in Atmospheric sciences addresses subjects such as Sea ice, which are connected to disciplines such as Turbulence. The various areas that he examines in his Model resolution study include Current, Geopotential height, General Circulation Model and Blocking.

Between 2016 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • Respective roles of direct GHG radiative forcing and induced Arctic sea ice loss on the Northern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation (49 citations)
  • Future summer mega-heatwave and record-breaking temperatures in a warmer France climate (28 citations)
  • Intrinsic and Atmospherically Forced Variability of the AMOC: Insights from a Large-Ensemble Ocean Hindcast (27 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Climate change
  • Statistics
  • Meteorology

Laurent Terray mostly deals with Environmental science, Climatology, Atmospheric sciences, Sea ice and Scale. Among his Environmental science studies, you can observe a synthesis of other disciplines of science such as Thermohaline circulation, Magnitude, Atlantic hurricane, Amplitude and Ocean current. His Climatology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Climate change and Ensemble simulation.

His study in Atmospheric sciences is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Ice-albedo feedback, Climate model, Internal variability and Arctic geoengineering. His work in Arctic dipole anomaly, Cryosphere, Arctic ice pack, Arctic sea ice decline and Drift ice is related to Sea ice. Throughout his Scale studies, Laurent Terray incorporates elements of other sciences such as Inverse, Rossby wave, Fourier analysis, Nonlinear system and Kinetic energy.

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of CMIP6 DECK Experiments With CNRM-CM6-1

    A. Voldoire;D. Saint‐Martin;S. Sénési;B. Decharme

  • Evaluation of CNRM Earth System Model, CNRM‐ESM2‐1: Role of Earth System Processes in Present‐Day and Future Climate

    Roland Séférian;Pierre Nabat;Martine Michou;David Saint‐Martin

  • The Seasonal Cycle over the Tropical Pacific in Coupled Ocean Atmosphere General Circulation Models

    C.R. Mechoso;A.W. Robertson;N. Barth;M.K. Davey

  • Statistical and dynamical downscaling of the Seine basin climate for hydro-meteorological studies

    J. Boé;L. Terray;F. Habets;E. Martin

  • Potential impact of climate change on marine export production

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

  • Tropical Atlantic Influence on European Heat Waves

    Christophe Cassou;Laurent Terray;Adam S. Phillips

  • STOIC: a study of coupled model climatology and variability in tropical ocean regions

    M. K. Davey;M. Huddleston;K. R. Sperber;P. Braconnot

  • Forced and Internal Components of Winter Air Temperature Trends over North America during the past 50 Years: Mechanisms and Implications*

    Clara Deser;Laurent Terray;Adam S. Phillips

  • North Atlantic winter climate regimes: Spatial asymmetry, stationarity with time, and oceanic forcing

    Christophe Cassou;Laurent Terray;James W. Hurrell;Clara Deser

  • ENSIP: The El Niño simulation intercomparison project

    Mojib Latif;K. Sperber;J. Arblaster;P. Braconnot

  • Impact of Model Resolution on Tropical Cyclone Simulation Using the HighResMIP–PRIMAVERA Multimodel Ensemble

    Malcolm John Roberts;Joanne Camp;Jon Seddon;Pier Luigi Vidale

  • Projected Future Changes in Tropical Cyclones Using the CMIP6 HighResMIP Multimodel Ensemble.

    Malcolm John Roberts;Joanne Camp;Jon Seddon;Pier Luigi Vidale

  • Application of regularised optimal fingerprinting to attribution. Part I: method, properties and idealised analysis

    Aurélien Ribes;Serge Planton;Laurent Terray

  • Interannual to Decadal Climate Predictability in the North Atlantic: A Multimodel-Ensemble Study

    Matthew Collins;M. Botzet;A. F. Carril;H. Drange

  • A simple statistical‐dynamical downscaling scheme based on weather types and conditional resampling

    J. Boé;L. Terray;F. Habets;E. Martin

  • Expected impacts of climate change on extreme climate events

    Serge Planton;Michel Déqué;Fabrice Chauvin;Laurent Terray

  • Projected changes in components of the hydrological cycle in French river basins during the 21st century

    Julien Boé;Julien Boé;Laurent Terray;Eric Martin;Florence Habets

  • Near-Surface Salinity as Nature’s Rain Gauge to Detect Human Influence on the Tropical Water Cycle

    Laurent Terray;Lola Corre;Sophie Cravatte;Thierry Delcroix

  • Representing El Niño in Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere GCMs: The Dominant Role of the Atmospheric Component

    Éric Guilyardi;Silvio Gualdi;Julia Slingo;Antonio Navarra

  • Sea surface temperature associations with the late Indian summer monsoon

    Pascal Terray;Pascale Delécluse;S. Labattu;Laurent Terray

  • Impact of Higher Spatial Atmospheric Resolution on Precipitation Extremes Over Land in Global Climate Models

    Margot Bador;Julien Boé;Laurent Terray;Lisa V. Alexander

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel Déqué
Michel Déqué Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Pascale Delecluse
Pascale Delecluse Sorbonne University
Thierry Penduff
Thierry Penduff Grenoble Alpes University
Bernard Barnier
Bernard Barnier Grenoble Alpes University
Gurvan Madec
Gurvan Madec Sorbonne University
Eric Guilyardi
Eric Guilyardi Université Paris Cité
Florence Habets
Florence Habets École Normale Supérieure
Eric Martin
Eric Martin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Christophe Cassou
Christophe Cassou Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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