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Pierre Camberlin

Pierre Camberlin

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
41
Citations
6620
World Ranking
7701
National Ranking
339

Overview

Pierre Camberlin is affiliated with the University of Burgundy in France and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses on areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Water Science and Technology, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research covers a range of topics related to climate and weather phenomena, including Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Flood Risk Assessment and Management.

Some of the recent papers co-authored by Pierre Camberlin include:

  • The Precipitation Inferred from Soil Moisture (PrISM) Near Real-Time Rainfall Product: Evaluation and Comparison, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Identification of processes that control the stable isotope composition of rainwater in the humid tropical West-Central Africa, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Spatial and temporal variability of rainfall over the Republic of Djibouti from 1946 to 2017, 2020, International Journal of Climatology
  • Climate and Extreme Rainfall Events in the Mono River Basin (West Africa): Investigating Future Changes with Regional Climate Models, 2020, Water
  • Spatial patterns and trends of extreme rainfall over the southern coastal belt of West Africa, 2020, Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Nathalie Philippon, Benjamin Pohl, Vincent Moron, Raffael Aellig, and Andreas H. Fink.

Publications by Pierre Camberlin often appear in journals such as the International Journal of Climatology, Journal of Hydrology, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Remote Sensing, and Water. The International Journal of Climatology is among the most common venues, featuring four of their publications.

Best Publications

  • Seasonality and atmospheric dynamics of the teleconnection between African rainfall and tropical sea‐surface temperature: Atlantic vs. ENSO

    P. Camberlin;S. Janicot;I. Poccard

  • Insolation Cycles as a Major Control of Equatorial Indian Ocean Primary Production

    Luc Beaufort;Yves Lancelot;Yves Lancelot;Pierre Camberlin;Pierre Camberlin;Olivia Cayre;Olivia Cayre

  • The East African March–May Rainy Season: Associated Atmospheric Dynamics and Predictability over the 1968–97 Period

    P. Camberlin;N. Philippon

  • Rainfall Anomalies in the Source Region of the Nile and Their Connection with the Indian Summer Monsoon

    Pierre Camberlin

  • Determinants of the interannual relationships between remote sensed photosynthetic activity and rainfall in tropical Africa

    Pierre Camberlin;Nadège Martiny;Nathalie Philippon;Yves Richard

  • The onset and cessation of the ``long rains'' in eastern Africa and their interannual variability

    P. Camberlin;R. E. Okoola

  • Recent changes in dry spell and extreme rainfall events in Ethiopia

    Y. Seleshi;Pierre Camberlin

  • Components of rainy seasons variability in Equatorial East Africa : onset, cessation, rainfall frequency and intensity

    Pierre Camberlin;Vincent Moron;Vincent Moron;Vincent Moron;Raphael Okoola;Nathalie Philippon

  • Sea-surface temperature co-variability in the Southern Atlantic and Indian Oceans and its connections with the atmospheric circulation in the Southern Hemisphere

    N. Fauchereau;S. Trzaska;Y. Richard;P. Roucou

  • Comparison of rainfall structures between NCEP/NCAR reanalyses and observed data over tropical Africa

    I. Poccard;S. Janicot;P. Camberlin

  • Interannual variability of rainfall in the eastern horn of Africa and indicators of atmospheric circulation

    Gérard Beltrando;Pierre Camberlin

  • Compared regimes of NDVI and rainfall in semi‐arid regions of Africa

    Nadège Martiny;Pierre Camberlin;Yves Richard;Nathalie Philippon

  • Influence of the Madden-Julian Oscillation on East African rainfall. I: Intraseasonal variability and regional dependency

    Benjamin Pohl;Pierre Camberlin

  • The effects of the Southwest Indian Ocean tropical cyclones on Ethiopian drought

    Dula Shanko;Pierre Camberlin

  • Spatial Coherence of Tropical Rainfall at the Regional Scale

    Vincent Moron;Andrew W. Robertson;M. Neil Ward;Pierre Camberlin

  • June-september rainfall in north-eastern Africa and atmospheric signals over the tropics: A zonal perspective

    Pierre Camberlin

  • Influence of topography on monthly rainfall distribution over East Africa

    Pascal Oettli;Pierre Camberlin

  • Vegetation structure and greenness in Central Africa from Modis multi-temporal data

    Valéry Gond;Adeline Fayolle;Alexandre Pennec;Guillaume Cornu

  • Application of daily rainfall principal component analysis to the assessment of the rainy season characteristics in Senegal

    Pierre Camberlin;Mbaye Diop

  • Influence of the Madden–Julian Oscillation on East African rainfall: II. March–May season extremes and interannual variability

    Benjamin Pohl;Pierre Camberlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Moron
Vincent Moron Columbia University
Gil Mahé
Gil Mahé University of Montpellier
Philippe Drobinski
Philippe Drobinski PSL University
Nathalie Bréda
Nathalie Bréda INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury
Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement
Andrew W. Robertson
Andrew W. Robertson Columbia University
Eric Mougin
Eric Mougin Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Lionel Jarlan
Lionel Jarlan Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Serge Janicot
Serge Janicot Sorbonne University
Yan Zhao
Yan Zhao Wuhan University of Technology

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