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Overview

Mathieu Vrac is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily spans fields related to Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science.

Their work covers a range of subfields and topics, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Oceanography
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Ecology

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Vrac has published frequently in several scientific venues, including:

  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Weather and Climate Dynamics

Among their recent papers are:

  • Multivariate bias corrections of climate simulations: which benefits for which losses? (2020, Earth System Dynamics)
  • Advancing research on compound weather and climate events via large ensemble model simulations (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Analyses of the Northern European Summer Heatwave of 2018 (2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • Brief communication: The role of using precipitation or river discharge data when assessing global coastal compound flooding (2020, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences)
  • Atmospheric circulation compounds anthropogenic warming and impacts of climate extremes in Europe (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Their research collaborations frequently involve coauthors including Pascal Yiou, Soulivanh Thao, Davide Faranda, Yoann Robin, and Aglaé Jézéquel. The volume of joint publications with these researchers indicates ongoing partnerships contributing to the study of climate phenomena and environmental sciences.

Best Publications

  • Precipitation downscaling under climate change: Recent developments to bridge the gap between dynamical models and the end user

    Douglas Maraun;Douglas Maraun;F. Wetterhall;A. M. Ireson;R. E. Chandler

  • Higher probability of compound flooding from precipitation and storm surge in Europe under anthropogenic climate change.

    E. Bevacqua;D. Maraun;M. I. Vousdoukas;E. Voukouvalas

  • Probabilistic downscaling approaches: Application to wind cumulative distribution functions

    P.-A. Michelangeli;M. Vrac;H. Loukos

  • Multivariate statistical modelling of compound events via pair-copula constructions: analysis of floods in Ravenna (Italy)

    Emanuele Bevacqua;Douglas Maraun;Ingrid Hobæk Haff;Martin Widmann

  • Statistical precipitation downscaling for small-scale hydrological impact investigations of climate change

    Patrick Willems;Patrick Willems;Patrick Willems;M Vrac

  • Extreme events: dynamics, statistics and prediction

    M. Ghil;P. Yiou;Stephane Hallegatte;B. D. Malamud

  • An intercomparison of a large ensemble of statistical downscaling methods over Europe: Results from the VALUE perfect predictor cross-validation experiment

    J. M. Gutiérrez;D. Maraun;M. Widmann;R. Huth;R. Huth

  • Assessing climate change impacts on European wind energy from ENSEMBLES high-resolution climate projections

    Isabelle Tobin;Robert Vautard;Irena Balog;François-Marie Bréon

  • Stochastic downscaling of precipitation: From dry events to heavy rainfalls

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  • Multivariate—Intervariable, Spatial, and Temporal—Bias Correction*

    Mathieu Vrac;Petra Friederichs

  • Increased probability of compound long-duration dry and hot events in Europe during summer (1950–2013)

    Colin Manning;Martin Widmann;Emanuele Bevacqua;Anne F Van Loon

  • Dynamical and statistical downscaling of the French Mediterranean climate: uncertainty assessment

    Mathieu Vrac;Philippe Drobinski;Anthony Merlo;Anthony Merlo;Marine Herrmann

  • A general method for validating statistical downscaling methods under future climate change

    M. Vrac;M. L. Stein;K. Hayhoe;K. Hayhoe;X.-Z. Liang

  • Statistical downscaling of river flows

    Clement Tisseuil;Mathieu Vrac;Sovan Lek;Andrew J. Wade

  • Intercomparison of statistical and dynamical downscaling models under the EURO- and MED-CORDEX initiative framework: present climate evaluations

    Pradeebane Vaittinada Ayar;Mathieu Vrac;Sophie Bastin;Sophie Bastin;Julie Carreau

  • Multivariate bias corrections of climate simulations: which benefits for which losses?

    Bastien François;Mathieu Vrac;Alex J. Cannon;Yoann Robin

  • LSCE-FFNN-v1: a two-step neural network model for the reconstruction of surface ocean p CO 2 over the global ocean

    Anna Denvil-Sommer;Marion Gehlen;Mathieu Vrac;Carlos Mejia

  • Statistical downscaling of precipitation through nonhomogeneous stochastic weather typing

    M. Vrac;M. Stein;K. Hayhoe

  • Soil Moisture Drought in Europe: A Compound Event of Precipitation and Potential Evapotranspiration on Multiple Time Scales

    Colin Manning;Martin Widmann;Emanuele Bevacqua;Anne F. Van Loon

  • Advancing research on compound weather and climate events via large ensemble model simulations

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  • Statistical downscaling of sea-surface wind over the Peru–Chile upwelling region: diagnosing the impact of climate change from the IPSL-CM4 model

    Katerina Goubanova;Vincent Echevin;Boris Dewitte;Francis Codron

  • Statistical downscaling of near-surface wind over complex terrain in southern France

    T. Salameh;P. Drobinski;M. Vrac;P. Naveau

  • Clustering of Maxima: Spatial Dependencies among Heavy Rainfall in France

    Elsa Bernard;Philippe Naveau;Mathieu Vrac;Olivier Mestre

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas Maraun
Douglas Maraun University of Graz
Pascal Yiou
Pascal Yiou French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Robert Vautard
Robert Vautard École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Philippe Drobinski
Philippe Drobinski PSL University
Benjamin Sultan
Benjamin Sultan Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Sophie Bastin
Sophie Bastin French National Centre for Scientific Research
Didier M. Roche
Didier M. Roche Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
José M. Gutiérrez
José M. Gutiérrez Spanish National Research Council
Pedro M. M. Soares
Pedro M. M. Soares University of Lisbon
Sovan Lek
Sovan Lek Paul Sabatier University

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