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Overview

P. Ciais is affiliated with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a significant contribution to global and planetary change, atmospheric science, ecology, environmental engineering, and nature and landscape conservation. The scientist's work covers a range of interrelated subfields and main topics relevant to understanding Earth's environmental systems.

The main areas of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Their research topics focus on crucial environmental and atmospheric dynamics such as:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Fire Effects on Ecosystems
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

P. Ciais has published extensively, contributing to scientific knowledge in various respected publication venues. Frequent venues include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Global Change Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth System Science Data
  • Nature Climate Change

Recent publications attributed to or related with their work feature notable collaborative scientific efforts and include:

  • "The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017" (2020) in NOAA Institutional Repository
  • "Global Carbon Budget 2020" (2020) in Earth system science data
  • "A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks" (2020) in Nature
  • "Global Carbon Budget 2022" (2022) in Earth system science data
  • "Global Carbon Budget 2021" (2022) in Earth system science data

P. Ciais frequently collaborates with a number of other researchers, the most frequent co-authors being:

  • Frédéric Chevallier
  • Josep Peñuelas
  • Jean-Pierre Wigneron
  • Stephen Sitch
  • Ana Bastos

Best Publications

  • A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World’s Forests

    Yude Pan;Richard A. Birdsey;Jingyun Fang;Jingyun Fang;Richard Houghton

  • Global Carbon Budget 2016

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell;Stephen Sitch

  • The impacts of climate change on water resources and agriculture in China

    Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Yao Huang;Zehao Shen

  • Carbon and Other Biogeochemical Cycles

    P. Ciais;C. Sabine;G. Bala;L. Bopp

  • Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

    Christian Beer;Markus Reichstein;Enrico Tomelleri;Philippe Ciais

  • The global methane budget 2000–2017

    Marielle Saunois;Ann R. Stavert;Ben Poulter;Philippe Bousquet

  • Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates

    Chuang Zhao;Bing Liu;Shilong Piao;Xuhui Wang

  • Global Carbon Budget 2015

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;J. G. Canadell

  • Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO2 growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks

    Josep G. Canadell;Corinne Le Quéré;Michael R. Raupach;Christopher B. Field

  • Global carbon budget 2014

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;G. P. Peters

  • Global carbon budget 2013

    C. Le Quere;G.P. Peters;R.J. Andres;Robbie M Andrew

  • China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management

    Chi Chen;Taejin Park;Xuhui Wang;Shilong Piao

  • Global carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters

    Peter A. Raymond;Jens Hartmann;Ronny Lauerwald;Ronny Lauerwald;Sebastian Sobek

  • 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

  • Greening of the Earth and its drivers

    Zaichun Zhu;Zaichun Zhu;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Ranga B. Myneni;Mengtian Huang

  • Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

    Corinne Le Quéré;Corinne Le Quéré;Michael R. Raupach;Josep G. Canadell;Gregg Marland

  • Global Carbon Budget 2018

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

  • Three decades of global methane sources and sinks

    Stefanie Kirschke;Philippe Bousquet;Philippe Ciais;Marielle Saunois

  • Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

    Martin Jung;Markus Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;Sonia I. Seneviratne

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020

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

  • Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks.

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Ernst Detlef Schulze;Annett Börner;Alexander Knohl

  • Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

    Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Philippe Ciais;Dorothea Frank

  • Global Carbon Budget 2019

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

Frequent Co-Authors

F. Chevallier
F. Chevallier University of Paris-Saclay
Pierre Friedlingstein
Pierre Friedlingstein University of Exeter
Philippe Peylin
Philippe Peylin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Nicolas Viovy
Nicolas Viovy French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Peter Rayner
Peter Rayner University of Melbourne
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Martina Schmidt
Martina Schmidt Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Sebastiaan Luyssaert
Sebastiaan Luyssaert Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Fabienne Maignan
Fabienne Maignan French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

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