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Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré is affiliated with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in France. Their research focuses on a range of topics within environmental science, earth and planetary sciences, and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work encompasses both broad and specialized fields, including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, as well as soil science.

The scientist's main research themes cover several interconnected areas:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2

Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré has contributed to multiple publications across notable scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Regional Environmental Change
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Journal of Climate
  • Geoscientific Model Development

Recent papers authored or coauthored by the scientist span the years 2020 to 2023 and focus on regional climate modeling, forestation impacts, and land use changes in Europe. Selected publications include:

  • Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community, 2020, Regional Environmental Change
  • Biogeophysical impacts of forestation in Europe: first results from the LUCAS (Land Use and Climate Across Scales) regional climate model intercomparison, 2020, Earth System Dynamics
  • The Opposing Effects of Reforestation and Afforestation on the Diurnal Temperature Cycle at the Surface and in the Lowest Atmospheric Model Level in the European Summer, 2020, Journal of Climate
  • Afforestation impact on soil temperature in regional climate model simulations over Europe, 2022, Geoscientific Model Development
  • High-resolution land use and land cover dataset for regional climate modelling: historical and future changes in Europe, 2023, Earth System Science Data

The scientist collaborates frequently with a core group of researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Eleni Katragkou
  • Édouard L. Davin
  • Diana Rechid
  • Rita M. Cardoso
  • Pedro M. M. Soares

The cumulative work of Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré intersects advanced climate modeling and biogeophysical assessments, particularly focusing on the effects of land use and vegetation changes on regional climate patterns in Europe. Their research contributes to understanding complex interactions within climate systems and the responses of terrestrial and atmospheric components under varying environmental conditions.

Best Publications

  • A dynamic global vegetation model for studies of the coupled atmosphere-biosphere system

    G. Krinner;Nicolas Viovy;Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré;Jérôme Ogée;Jérôme Ogée

  • Changes in climate and land use have a larger direct impact than rising CO2 on global river runoff trends.

    Shilong Piao;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Ciais;Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré

  • Climatic Impact of Global-Scale Deforestation: Radiative versus Nonradiative Processes

    Edouard Léopold Davin;Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré

  • Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: First results from the LUCID intercomparison study

    A. J. Pitman;N. de Noblet-Ducoudré;F. T. Cruz;E. L. Davin;E. L. Davin

  • The Land Use Model Intercomparison Project (LUMIP) contribution to CMIP6:rationale and experimental design

    David M. Lawrence;George C. Hurtt;Almut Arneth;Victor Brovkin

  • Determining Robust Impacts of Land-Use-Induced Land Cover Changes on Surface Climate over North America and Eurasia: Results from the First Set of LUCID Experiments

    N de Noblet-Ducoudre;J.P. Boisier;A. Pitman;G.B. Bonan

  • NONLINEARITIES, FEEDBACKS AND CRITICAL THRESHOLDS WITHIN THE EARTH'S CLIMATE SYSTEM

    José A. Rial;Roger A. Pielke;Martin Beniston;Martin Claussen

  • Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community

    Daniela Jacob;Claas Teichmann;Stefan Sobolowski;Eleni Katragkou

  • Effect of Anthropogenic Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes on Climate and Land Carbon Storage in CMIP5 Projections for the Twenty-First Century

    V. Brovkin;Lena R. Boysen;Vivek K. Arora;J. P. Boisier

  • Impact of climate variability and land use changes on global biogenic volatile organic compound emissions

    J. Lathière;D. A. Hauglustaine;A. D. Friend;N. De Noblet-Ducoudré

  • Spatiotemporal patterns of terrestrial carbon cycle during the 20th century

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein;Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré

  • Biophysical effects on temperature and precipitation due to land cover change

    Lucia Perugini;Luca Caporaso;Sergio Marconi;Sergio Marconi;Alessandro Cescatti

  • Hot European Summers and the Role of Soil Moisture in the Propagation of Mediterranean Drought

    Matteo Zampieri;Fabio D’Andrea;Robert Vautard;Philippe Ciais

  • Importance of background climate in determining impact of land-cover change on regional climate

    A. J. Pitman;F. B. Avila;G. Abramowitz;Y. P. Wang

  • An attempt to quantify the impact of changes in wetland extent on methane emissions on the seasonal and interannual time scales

    Bruno Ringeval;Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré;Philippe Ciais;Philippe Bousquet

  • Impact of land cover change on surface climate: Relevance of the radiative forcing concept

    E. L. Davin;N. de Noblet-Ducoudré;P. Friedlingstein

  • Past and future changes in biogenic volatile organic compound emissions simulated with a global dynamic vegetation model

    J. Lathière;D. A. Hauglustaine;N. De Noblet-Ducoudré;G. Krinner

  • Attributing the impacts of land-cover changes in temperate regions on surface temperature and heat fluxes to specific causes: Results from the first LUCID set of simulations

    J. P. Boisier;N. de Noblet-Ducoudré;A. J. Pitman;F. T. Cruz

  • Projections of climate change impacts on potential C4 crop productivity over tropical regions

    A. Berg;N. de Noblet-Ducoudre;Benjamin Sultan;Matthieu Lengaigne

  • Mid-Holocene greening of the Sahara: first results of the GAIM 6000 year BP Experiment with two asynchronously coupled atmosphere/biome models

    N. de Noblet-Ducoudré;Martin Claussen;C. Prentice

Frequent Co-Authors

Almut Arneth
Almut Arneth Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Eleni Katragkou
Eleni Katragkou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Nicolas Viovy
Nicolas Viovy French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Rita M. Cardoso
Rita M. Cardoso University of Lisbon
Pedro M. M. Soares
Pedro M. M. Soares University of Lisbon
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
Nadine Brisson
Nadine Brisson INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Benjamin Sultan
Benjamin Sultan Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Thomas A. M. Pugh
Thomas A. M. Pugh University of Birmingham

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