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59
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22816
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117

Overview

Nicolas Vuichard is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France and focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Economics and Econometrics, and Plant Science.

The scientist's research encompasses multiple topics such as Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Climate Change Policy and Economics, and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020, 2020, Earth System Science Data
  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks, 2020, Nature
  • Presentation and Evaluation of the IPSL-CM6A-LR Climate Model, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Global Carbon Budget 2021, 2022, Earth System Science Data

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nicolas Vuichard include:

  • Hanqin Tian
  • Atul K. Jain
  • Sönke Zaehle
  • Sebastian Lienert
  • Stephen Sitch

The scientist regularly publishes in several key venues, reflecting the fields of study and topics engaged with. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Biogeosciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth System Dynamics
  • Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael O'Sullivan;Matthew W. Jones;Robbie M. Andrew

  • Climate change projections using the IPSL-CM5 Earth System Model: From CMIP3 to CMIP5

    Jean-Louis Dufresne;M. A. Foujols;S. Denvil;A. Caubel

  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

    Hanquin Tian;Rongting Xu;Josep G. Canadell;Rona L. Thompson

  • Global Carbon Budget 2019

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Matthew W. Jones;Michael O'Sullivan;Robbie Andrew

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

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

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

  • Global Carbon Budget 2017

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch

  • Carbon cycling and sequestration opportunities in temperate grasslands

    J.-F. Soussana;P. Loiseau;N. Vuichard;E. Ceschia

  • Carbon residence time dominates uncertainty in terrestrial vegetation responses to future climate and atmospheric CO2

    Andrew D. Friend;Wolfgang Lucht;Wolfgang Lucht;Tim T. Rademacher;Rozenn Keribin

  • Recent global decline of CO2 fertilization effects on vegetation photosynthesis

    Songhan Wang;Songhan Wang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Yongguang Zhang;Weimin Ju;Weimin Ju;Jing M. Chen;Jing M. Chen

  • Importance of methane and nitrous oxide for Europe's terrestrial greenhouse-gas balance

    E. D. Schulze;S. Luyssaert;S. Luyssaert;P. Ciais;A. Freibauer

  • Global soil nitrous oxide emissions since the preindustrial era estimated by an ensemble of terrestrial biosphere models: Magnitude, attribution, and uncertainty.

    Hanqin Tian;Hanqin Tian;Jia Yang;Jia Yang;Rongting Xu;Chaoqun Lu

  • Impacts of climate and CO2 changes on the vegetation growth and carbon balance of Qinghai-Tibetan grasslands over the past five decades

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Kun Tan;Huijuan Nan;Philippe Ciais

  • Implementation of the CMIP6 Forcing Data in the IPSL-CM6A-LR Model

    Thibaut Lurton;Yves Balkanski;Vladislav Bastrikov;Slimane Bekki

  • The Plumbing of Land Surface Models: Benchmarking Model Performance

    M.J. Best;G. Abramowitz;H.R. Johnson;A.J. Pitman

  • The European carbon balance. Part 2: croplands

    P. Ciais;M. Wattenbach;N. Vuichard;P. Smith

  • Challenges in quantifying biosphere–atmosphere exchange of nitrogen species

    M.A. Sutton;E. Nemitz;J.W Erisman;C. Beier

  • The Global N2O Model Intercomparison Project

    Hanqin Tian;Jia Yang;Chaoqun Lu;Rongting Xu

  • Global forest carbon uptake due to nitrogen and phosphorus deposition from 1850 to 2100

    Rong Wang;Rong Wang;Rong Wang;Daniel Goll;Daniel Goll;Yves Balkanski;Yves Balkanski;Didier Hauglustaine;Didier Hauglustaine

  • Global Carbon Budget 2017 (in open review for Earth System Science Data). doi: 10.5194/essd-2017-123

    C. Le Quéré;R. M. Andrew;P. Friedlingstein;S. Sitch

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolas Viovy
Nicolas Viovy French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Jean-François Soussana
Jean-François Soussana INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jinfeng Chang
Jinfeng Chang Zhejiang University
Philippe Peylin
Philippe Peylin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Daniel S. Goll
Daniel S. Goll Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ivan A. Janssens
Ivan A. Janssens University of Antwerp
Hanqin Tian
Hanqin Tian Auburn University
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Sönke Zaehle
Sönke Zaehle Max Planck Society

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