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Environmental Sciences
France
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
57
Citations
34640
World Ranking
3345
National Ranking
127

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award

Overview

Thierry Lebel is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France and primarily works within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research emphases include Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and several ecological subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Soil Science.

The scientist's research topics cover Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Climate change impacts on agriculture, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Thierry Lebel has published frequently in several journals, with a notable presence in Climate Dynamics, where they have contributed three papers. Additional publication venues include Environmental Research Letters, International Journal of Climatology, Atmosphere, and the Journal of Hydrometeorology.

  • Recent changes in the precipitation-driving processes over the southern tropical Andes/western Amazon, 2020, Climate Dynamics
  • A synthetic view of rainfall intensification in the West African Sahel, 2022, Environmental Research Letters
  • Stochastorm: A Stochastic Rainfall Simulator for Convective Storms, 2020, Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • A regional view of the linkages between hydro-climatic changes and deforestation in the Southern Amazon, 2021, International Journal of Climatology
  • A unified statistical framework for detecting trends in multi-timescale precipitation extremes: application to non-stationary intensity-duration-frequency curves, 2021, Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Their frequent collaborators include Gérémy Panthou and Théo Vischel, each with six coauthored works. Additional regular coauthors are Hans Segura, Jhan Carlo Espinoza, and Clémentine Junquas, contributing to several joint publications.

Best Publications

  • La recherche sur les changements globaux à l'épreuve de la Covid-19

    Wolfgang Cramer;Patrick Criqui;Jean-François Guégan;Hervé Le Treut

  • African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis: An International Research Project and Field Campaign

    Jean-Luc Redelsperger;Chris D. Thorncroft;Arona Diedhiou;Thierry Lebel

  • Recent trends in the Central and Western Sahel rainfall regime (1990–2007)

    Thierry Lebel;Abdou Ali

  • Rainfall Variability in West Africa during the Years 1950-90

    Luc Le Barbé;Thierry Lebel;Dominique Tapsoba

  • HAPEX-Sahel: A large-scale study of land-atmosphere interactions in the semi-arid tropics

    J.P. Goutorbe;Thierry Lebel;A. Tinga;P. Bessemoulin

  • Mesoscale Convective System Rainfall in the Sahel

    Vincent Mathon;Henri Laurent;Thierry Lebel

  • Rainfall climatology of the HAPEX-Sahel region during the years 1950–1990

    Luc Le Barbé;Thierry Lebel

  • Recent trends in the regime of extreme rainfall in the Central Sahel

    G. Panthou;G. Panthou;T. Vischel;T. Vischel;T. Lebel;T. Lebel

  • On the Accuracy of Areal Rainfall Estimation - a Case-study

    T. Lebel;Georges Bastin;C. Obled;Jd. Creutin

  • Spatio-temporal variability of hydrological regimes around the boundaries between Sahelian and Sudanian areas of West Africa: A synthesis

    Luc Descroix;Gil Mahé;Thierry Lebel;Guillaume Favreau

  • AMMA-CATCH studies in the Sahelian region of West-Africa: an overview

    Thierry Lebel;Bernard Cappelaere;Sylvie Galle;Niall Hanan

  • The Sahelian standardized rainfall index revisited

    Abdou Ali;Thierry Lebel

  • Seasonal cycle and interannual variability of the Sahelian rainfall at hydrological scales

    Thierry Lebel;Arona Diedhiou;Henri Laurent

  • OZCAR: The French Network of Critical Zone Observatories

    J. Gaillardet;I. Braud;F. Hankard;S. Anquetin

  • From GCM grid cell to agricultural plot: scale issues affecting modelling of climate impact

    Christian Baron;Benjamin Sultan;Maud Balme;Benoit Sarr

  • Progress in regional downscaling of west African precipitation

    Heiko Paeth;Nicholas M.J. Hall;Miguel Angel Gaertner;Marta Dominguez Alonso

  • Large-scale overview of the summer monsoon over West Africa during the AMMA field experiment in 2006

    S. Janicot;C. D. Thorncroft;A. Ali;N. Asencio

  • Observational Evidence of Persistent Convective-Scale Rainfall Patterns

    Christopher M. Taylor;Thierry Lebel

  • The AMMA-CATCH Gourma observatory site in Mali: Relating climatic variations to changes in vegetation, surface hydrology, fluxes and natural resources

    E. Mougin;P. Hiernaux;L. Kergoat;M. Grippa

  • Rain Measurement by Raingage-Radar Combination: A Geostatistical Approach

    J.D. Creutin;G. Delrieu;Thierry Lebel

  • An overview of HAPEX-Sahel: a study in climate and desertification.

    J.P. Goutorbe;T. Lebel;A.J. Dolman;J.H.C. Gash

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin Sultan
Benjamin Sultan Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Martial Bernoux
Martial Bernoux Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Eric Mougin
Eric Mougin Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Jan Polcher
Jan Polcher École Polytechnique
Jean-Luc Redelsperger
Jean-Luc Redelsperger University of Western Brittany
Laurent Kergoat
Laurent Kergoat Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Serge Janicot
Serge Janicot Sorbonne University
Jhan Carlo Espinoza
Jhan Carlo Espinoza Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Douglas J. Parker
Douglas J. Parker University of Leeds
Béatrice Marticorena
Béatrice Marticorena Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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