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47
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Lionel Jarlan 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 Lionel Jarlan sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 205 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lionel Jarlan 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 Lionel Jarlan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Lionel Jarlan is affiliated with the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement in France. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on subfields including global and planetary change, environmental engineering, atmospheric science, water science and technology, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The main topics covered in Jarlan's work include plant water relations and carbon dynamics, soil moisture and remote sensing, hydrology and watershed management studies, precipitation measurement and analysis, climate change impacts on agriculture, remote sensing in agriculture, and irrigation practices and water management.

Jarlan has contributed to a variety of publication venues. Frequent outlets for their work include Remote Sensing, SSRN Electronic Journal, Remote Sensing of Environment, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, and Agricultural Water Management.

Some of their recent research papers are:

  • Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios, 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • A Review of Irrigation Information Retrievals from Space and Their Utility for Users, 2021, Remote Sensing
  • Monitoring of wheat crops using the backscattering coefficient and the interferometric coherence derived from Sentinel-1 in semi-arid areas, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Cereal Yield Forecasting with Satellite Drought-Based Indices, Weather Data and Regional Climate Indices Using Machine Learning in Morocco, 2021, Remote Sensing
  • Linkages between Rainfed Cereal Production and Agricultural Drought through Remote Sensing Indices and a Land Data Assimilation System: A Case Study in Morocco, 2020, Remote Sensing

Throughout their career, Jarlan has collaborated with several frequent coauthors, including Saïd Khabba, Michel Le Page, Jamal Ezzahar, Salah Er-Raki, and Nadia Ouaadi.

Their body of work integrates environmental monitoring with advanced remote sensing techniques, addressing agricultural water management and climate change effects on agroecosystems. This interdisciplinary approach combines field data, satellite observations, and machine learning methodologies to enhance understanding of drought impacts and irrigation practices.

Best Publications

  • Challenges for drought assessment in the Mediterranean region under future climate scenarios

    Yves Tramblay;Aristeidis Koutroulis;Luis Samaniego;Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano

  • Impact of a satellite-derived leaf area index monthly climatology in a global numerical weather prediction model

    Souhail Boussetta;Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anton Beljaars;Tomas Kral

  • The AMMA Land Surface Model Intercomparison Project (ALMIP)

    Aaron Boone;Patricia de Rosnay;Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anton Beljaars

  • From near-surface to root-zone soil moisture using different assimilation techniques

    Joaquín Muñoz Sabater;Lionel Jarlan;Jean-Christophe Calvet;François Bouyssel

  • A snow cover climatology for the Pyrenees from MODIS snow products

    Simon Gascoin;Olivier Hagolle;Mireille Huc;Lionel Jarlan

  • The AMMA-CATCH Gourma observatory site in Mali: Relating climatic variations to changes in vegetation, surface hydrology, fluxes and natural resources

    E. Mougin;P. Hiernaux;L. Kergoat;M. Grippa

  • Performance assessment of AquaCrop model for estimating evapotranspiration, soil water content and grain yield of winter wheat in Tensift Al Haouz (Morocco): Application to irrigation management

    J. Toumi;S. Er-Raki;J. Ezzahar;S. Khabba

  • A Review of Irrigation Information Retrievals from Space and Their Utility for Users

    Christian Massari;Sara Modanesi;Jacopo Dari;Alexander Gruber

  • Ability of the land surface model ISBA‐A‐gs to simulate leaf area index at the global scale: Comparison with satellites products

    Anne-Laure Gibelin;Jean-Christophe Calvet;Jean-Louis Roujean;Lionel Jarlan

  • Natural land carbon dioxide exchanges in the ECMWF integrated forecasting system: Implementation and offline validation

    Souhail Boussetta;Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anton Beljaars;Anna‐Agusti Panareda

  • Assessment of reference evapotranspiration methods in semi-arid regions: can weather forecast data be used as alternate of ground meteorological parameters?

    S. Er-Raki;A. Chehbouni;S. Khabba;V. Simonneaux

  • Evaluation of TRMM 3B42 V7 Rainfall Product over the Oum Er Rbia Watershed in Morocco

    Hamza Ouatiki;Abdelghani Boudhar;Yves Tramblay;Lionel Jarlan

  • Assessment of daily MODIS snow cover products to monitor snow cover dynamics over the Moroccan Atlas mountain range

    A. Marchane;L. Jarlan;L. Hanich;A. Boudhar

  • Intercomparison of four remote-sensing-based energy balance methods to retrieve surface evapotranspiration and water stress of irrigated fields in semi-arid climate.

    J. Chirouze;G. Boulet;L. Jarlan;R. Fieuzal

  • Remote Sensing of Water Resources in Semi-Arid Mediterranean Areas: the joint international laboratory TREMA

    L. Jarlan;S. Khabba;S. Er-Raki;M. Le Page

  • Climate change impacts on surface water resources in the Rheraya catchment (High Atlas, Morocco)

    Ahmed Marchane;Yves Tramblay;Lahoucine Hanich;Denis Ruelland

  • Water use efficiency and yield of winter wheat under different irrigation regimes in a semi-arid region

    Mohamed Hakim Kharrou;Salah Er-Raki;Ahmed Chehbouni;Benoit Duchemin

  • Assessing the impact of global climate changes on irrigated wheat yields and water requirements in a semi-arid environment of Morocco

    Elhoussaine Bouras;Lionel Jarlan;Said Khabba;Salah Er-Raki

  • Analysis of leaf area index in the ECMWF land surface model and impact on latent heat and carbon fluxes: Application to West Africa

    Lionel Jarlan;Gianpaolo Balsamo;Sébastien Lafont;Anton Beljaars

  • Joint assimilation of surface soil moisture and LAI observations into a land surface model

    Joaquín Muñoz Sabater;Christoph Rüdiger;Jean-Christophe Calvet;Noureddine Fritz

  • Assimilation of SPOT/VEGETATION NDVI data into a sahelian vegetation dynamics model

    L. Jarlan;S. Mangiarotti;E. Mougin;P. Mazzega

Frequent Co-Authors

Said Khabba
Said Khabba Cadi Ayyad University
Salah Er-Raki
Salah Er-Raki Cadi Ayyad University
Eric Mougin
Eric Mougin Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Olivier Merlin
Olivier Merlin Paul Sabatier University
Gilles Boulet
Gilles Boulet Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Mehrez Zribi
Mehrez Zribi Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Simon Gascoin
Simon Gascoin Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère
Aaron Boone
Aaron Boone Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Christophe Calvet
Jean-Christophe Calvet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Albert Olioso
Albert Olioso INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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