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Yves Brunet is affiliated with INRAE (Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement) in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with specific contributions in global and planetary change, ecological modeling, atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, and plant science.

The scientist has produced work addressing multiple key topics, including:

  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Horticultural and viticultural research
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Climate variability and models

Among the recent publications involving Yves Brunet, notable papers include:

  • Turbulent Flow in Plant Canopies: Historical Perspective and Overview (2020, Boundary-Layer Meteorology)
  • Simulating the Effects of Regional Forest Cover and Windthrow-Induced Cover Changes on Mid-Latitude Boundary-Layer Clouds (2023, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)
  • Decametric-scale buffering of climate extremes in forest understory within a riparian microrefugia: the key role of microtopography (2024, Research Square)
  • Decametric-scale buffering of climate extremes in forest understory within a riparian microrefugia: the key role of microtopography (2024, International Journal of Biometeorology)
  • Outils de simulation et d'évaluation des risques tempêtes pour les forêts: les progrès acquis dans les différentes disciplines (2023, HAL)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Yves Brunet include:

  • Jérôme Ogée
  • Marion Walbott
  • Adrià Barbeta
  • Emmanuel Corcket
  • Gaëtan Noual

Brunet's research has been published in a variety of venues such as Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Research Square, International Journal of Biometeorology, and HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe).

Best Publications

  • Coherent eddies and turbulence in vegetation canopies: The mixing-layer analogy

    M. R. Raupach;J. J. Finnigan;Y. Brunet

  • A wind tunnel study of air flow in waving wheat: Two-point velocity statistics

    R. H. Shaw;Y. Brunet;J. J. Finnigan;M. R. Raupach

  • Surface renewal analysis: a new method to obtain scalar fluxes

    Kyaw Tha Paw U;Jie Qiu;Hong-Bing Su;Tomonori Watanabe

  • Flux-gradient relationships above tall plant canopies

    P. Cellier;Y. Brunet

  • Quality control of CarboEurope flux data. Part 1: Coupling footprint analyses with flux data quality assessment to evaluate sites in forest ecosystems

    Mathias Göckede;Mathias Göckede;Thomas Foken;Marc Aubinet;Mika Aurela

  • Detection of turbulent coherent motions in a forest canopy part I: Wavelet analysis

    Serge Collineau;Yves Brunet

  • An experimental study of angular effects on surface temperature for various plant canopies and bare soils

    J.P. Lagouarde;Y.H. Kerr;Y. Brunet

  • Bridging the gap between atmospheric concentrations and local ecosystem measurements

    T. Lauvaux;B. Gioli;C. Sarrat;P.J. Rayner

  • Edge Flow and Canopy Structure: A Large-Eddy Simulation Study

    Sylvain Dupont;Yves Brunet

  • A wind tunnel study of air flow in waving wheat: Single-point velocity statistics

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  • Coherent structures in canopy edge flow: a large-eddy simulation study

    S. Dupont;Y. Brunet

  • Turbulent Flow in Plant Canopies: Historical Perspective and Overview

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  • Detection of turbulent coherent motions in a forest canopy part II: Time-scales and conditional averages

    Serge Collineau;Yves Brunet

  • Influence of foliar density profile on canopy flow: A large-eddy simulation study

    Sylvain Dupont;Yves Brunet

  • Partitioning forest carbon fluxes with overstory and understory eddy-covariance measurements: A synthesis based on FLUXNET data

    Laurent Misson;D.D. Baldocchi;T.A. Black;P.D. Blanken

  • On coherent structures in turbulence above and within agricultural plant canopies

    Kyaw Tha Paw U;Yves Brunet;Serge Collineau;Roger H. Shaw

  • MuSICA, a CO2, water and energy multilayer, multileaf pine forest model: evaluation from hourly to yearly time scales and sensitivity analysis

    J. Ogée;Y. Brunet;D. Loustau;P. Berbigier

  • Evaporation over land-surfaces: First results from HAPEX-MOBILHY special observing period

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  • A forest floor model for heat and moisture including a litter layer

    J. Ogée;Y. Brunet

  • Wind and Trees: Turbulent airflow in forests on flat and hilly terrain

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  • The control of coherent eddies in vegetation canopies: streamwise structure spacing, canopy shear scale and atmospheric stability.

    Y. Brunet;M. R. Irvine

  • Ozone fluxes above and within a pine forest canopy in dry and wet conditions

    E. Lamaud;A. Carrara;Y. Brunet;A. Lopez

  • Partitioning net ecosystem carbon exchange into net assimilation and respiration with canopy‐scale isotopic measurements: An error propagation analysis with 13CO2 and CO18O data

    J. Ogée;J. Ogée;P. Peylin;M. Cuntz;M. Cuntz;T. Bariac

  • Large-eddy simulation of turbulent flow over a forested hill: Validation and coherent structure identification

    S. Dupont;Y. Brunet;J. J. Finnigan

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan A. Elbers
Jan A. Elbers Wageningen University & Research
André Granier
André Granier INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Denis Loustau
Denis Loustau International Sleep Products Association
Jérôme Ogée
Jérôme Ogée INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Eric Ceschia
Eric Ceschia Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
María José Sanz
María José Sanz Basque Centre for Climate Change
Franco Miglietta
Franco Miglietta National Research Council (CNR)
Beniamino Gioli
Beniamino Gioli National Research Council (CNR)
Paul Berbigier
Paul Berbigier INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Christoph Gerbig
Christoph Gerbig Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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