Alain Protat

9.1k total citations
201 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Alain Protat is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Protat has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 196 papers in Atmospheric Science, 161 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 22 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Alain Protat's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (150 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (117 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (62 papers). Alain Protat is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (150 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (117 papers) and Precipitation Measurement and Analysis (62 papers). Alain Protat collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and France. Alain Protat's co-authors include Julien Delanoe͏̈, Dominique Bouniol, Peter T. May, Gerald G. Mace, Christopher R. Williams, Christian Jakob, Andrew J. Heymsfield, Simon P. Alexander, Vickal V. Kumar and Steven T. Siems and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

Alain Protat

192 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alain Protat Australia 39 4.1k 3.7k 376 339 281 201 4.5k
Ralf Bennartz United States 40 4.5k 1.1× 3.7k 1.0× 397 1.1× 317 0.9× 368 1.3× 146 5.0k
Julien Delanoe͏̈ France 32 3.1k 0.8× 3.0k 0.8× 135 0.4× 309 0.9× 87 0.3× 116 3.4k
Ewan O’Connor Finland 34 4.4k 1.1× 4.3k 1.2× 643 1.7× 260 0.8× 141 0.5× 103 4.9k
David B. Parsons United States 31 4.2k 1.0× 4.4k 1.2× 428 1.1× 193 0.6× 530 1.9× 74 5.2k
Ann M. Fridlind United States 33 3.4k 0.8× 3.2k 0.9× 172 0.5× 208 0.6× 81 0.3× 110 3.6k
Sandra E. Yuter United States 33 4.6k 1.1× 3.7k 1.0× 502 1.3× 120 0.4× 488 1.7× 89 4.9k
Ian M. Brooks United Kingdom 36 3.0k 0.7× 2.5k 0.7× 305 0.8× 212 0.6× 564 2.0× 107 3.6k
Véronique Ducrocq France 32 3.1k 0.8× 3.2k 0.9× 464 1.2× 335 1.0× 615 2.2× 109 4.1k
Adrian Lock United Kingdom 36 4.0k 1.0× 3.9k 1.0× 689 1.8× 74 0.2× 387 1.4× 73 4.5k
J. F. de Haan Netherlands 28 3.1k 0.7× 3.0k 0.8× 302 0.8× 212 0.6× 256 0.9× 74 3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Alain Protat

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alain Protat

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alain Protat

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alain Protat. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alain Protat based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alain Protat. Alain Protat is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Orr, Andrew, et al.. (2025). Simulation of Cloud Processes Over Offshore Coastal Antarctica Using the High‐Resolution Regional UK Met Office Unified Model With Interactive Aerosols. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 130(4). 1 indexed citations
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Mace, Gerald G., et al.. (2024). The Association Between Cloud Droplet Number over the Summer Southern Ocean and Air Mass History. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 129(12). 5 indexed citations
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Ackermann, Luis, et al.. (2024). Radar and environment-based hail damage estimates using machine learning. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 17(2). 407–422. 6 indexed citations
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Protat, Alain, et al.. (2023). A Novel Doppler Unfolding Technique Using Optical Flow. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 40(10). 1263–1276. 1 indexed citations
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Chanrion, Olivier, Torsten Neubert, Alain Protat, et al.. (2022). Analysis of Blue Corona Discharges at the Top of Tropical Thunderstorm Clouds in Different Phases of Convection. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(6). e2021GL095879–e2021GL095879. 16 indexed citations
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Fiddes, Sonya, Alain Protat, Marc Mallet, Simon P. Alexander, & Matthew T. Woodhouse. (2022). Southern Ocean cloud and shortwave radiation biases in a nudged climate model simulation: does the model ever get it right?. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(22). 14603–14630. 17 indexed citations
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Mróz, Kamil, Alessandro Battaglia, Cuong Nguyen, et al.. (2021). Triple-frequency radar retrieval of microphysical properties of snow. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(11). 7243–7254. 17 indexed citations
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Lang, Francisco, Yi Huang, Alain Protat, et al.. (2021). Shallow Convection and Precipitation Over the Southern Ocean: A Case Study During the CAPRICORN 2016 Field Campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(9). 23 indexed citations
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Naud, Catherine M., James F. Booth, Katia Lamer, et al.. (2020). On the Relationship Between the Marine Cold Air Outbreak M Parameter and Low‐Level Cloud Heights in the Midlatitudes. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 125(13). 20 indexed citations
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Uetake, Jun, Thomas C. J. Hill, Kathryn A. Moore, et al.. (2020). Airborne bacteria confirm the pristine nature of the Southern Ocean boundary layer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(24). 13275–13282. 57 indexed citations
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Warren, Robert A., Hamish A. Ramsay, Steven T. Siems, et al.. (2019). Radar‐based climatology of damaging hailstorms in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 146(726). 505–530. 25 indexed citations
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Guyot, Adrien, Alain Protat, R. Uijlenhoet, et al.. (2019). Effect of disdrometer type on rain drop size distribution characterisation: a new dataset for south-eastern Australia. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 23(11). 4737–4761. 33 indexed citations
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Protat, Alain, Christian Klepp, Valentin Louf, et al.. (2019). The Latitudinal Variability of Oceanic Rainfall Properties and Its Implication for Satellite Retrievals: 2. The Relationships Between Radar Observables and Drop Size Distribution Parameters. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(23). 13312–13324. 14 indexed citations
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McCarthy, Nicholas, Adrien Guyot, Alain Protat, Andrew Dowdy, & Hamish A. McGowan. (2019). Tracking Pyrometeors With Meteorological Radar Using Unsupervised Machine Learning. Geophysical Research Letters. 47(8). 12 indexed citations
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Protat, Alain, Christian Klepp, Valentin Louf, et al.. (2019). The Latitudinal Variability of Oceanic Rainfall Properties and Its Implication for Satellite Retrievals: 1. Drop Size Distribution Properties. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 124(23). 13291–13311. 23 indexed citations
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Jackson, Robert, et al.. (2018). A 17 year climatology of convective cloud top heights in Darwin. 1 indexed citations
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Rauniyar, Surendra, Alain Protat, & H. Kanamori. (2017). Uncertainties in TRMM‐Era multisatellite‐based tropical rainfall estimates over the Maritime Continent. Earth and Space Science. 4(5). 275–302. 31 indexed citations
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Yost, Christopher R., Kristopher M. Bedka, Patrick Minnis, et al.. (2017). A Prototype Method for Diagnosing High Ice Water Content Probability Using Satellite Imager Data. 1 indexed citations
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Gayet, J.‐F., Valéry Shcherbakov, Luca Bugliaro, et al.. (2014). Microphysical properties and high ice water content in continental and oceanic mesoscale convective systems and potential implications for commercial aircraft at flight altitude. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(2). 899–912. 8 indexed citations

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