Alban Lazar

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Alban Lazar is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alban Lazar has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Oceanography, 40 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 30 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Alban Lazar's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (47 papers), Climate variability and models (39 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (17 papers). Alban Lazar is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (47 papers), Climate variability and models (39 papers) and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (17 papers). Alban Lazar collaborates with scholars based in France, Senegal and United States. Alban Lazar's co-authors include Clément de Boyer Montégut, Gurvan Madec, Daniele Iudicone, Albert Fischer, Emmanuel Mignot, Sophie Cravatte, Belén Rodríguez‐Fonseca, Irene Polo, Amadou Thierno Gaye and Marta Martín‐Rey and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing of Environment and Journal of Climate.

In The Last Decade

Alban Lazar

56 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Mixed layer depth over the global ocean: An examination of profile data and a profile‐based climatology

2004 2.4k citations Clément de Boyer Montégut, Gurvan Madec et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alban Lazar France	22	3.4k	2.4k	1.7k	438	166	57	3.9k
Hideyuki Nakano Japan	27	1.7k 0.5×	1.8k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	259 0.6×	160 1.0×	81	2.8k
Bernadette M. Sloyan Australia	30	2.6k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	352 0.8×	190 1.1×	83	3.1k
V. S. N. Murty India	33	3.4k 1.0×	2.5k 1.0×	2.2k 1.3×	258 0.6×	96 0.6×	99	3.9k
Stuart A. Cunningham United Kingdom	31	4.3k 1.3×	3.9k 1.6×	3.1k 1.9×	262 0.6×	259 1.6×	92	5.2k
Cathy Stephens United States	5	1.5k 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	458 1.0×	174 1.0×	10	2.2k
N. Penny Holliday United Kingdom	32	2.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	392 0.9×	336 2.0×	79	2.6k
Kristofer Döös Sweden	25	1.6k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	227 0.5×	145 0.9×	75	2.2k
S. S. C. Shenoi India	36	3.9k 1.1×	2.4k 1.0×	2.0k 1.2×	468 1.1×	162 1.0×	88	4.7k
Óscar Pizarro Chile	27	1.9k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	741 0.4×	475 1.1×	136 0.8×	61	2.4k
S. Prasanna Kumar India	19	2.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	900 0.5×	628 1.4×	227 1.4×	40	2.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lazar, Alban, et al.. (2024). Vertical Velocity 3D Estimates from the Linear Vorticity Balance in the North Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 54(10). 2185–2203.

Boutin, Jacqueline, et al.. (2024). Influence of river runoff and precipitation on the seasonal and interannual variability of sea surface salinity in the eastern North Tropical Atlantic. Ocean science. 20(6). 1547–1566. 1 indexed citations

Coëtlogon, Gaëlle de, et al.. (2023). Atmospheric response to seasonal changes in sea surface temperature during the boreal summer in the Tropical Atlantic. Climate Dynamics. 62(3). 1597–1612. 3 indexed citations

Martín‐Rey, Marta, Irene Polo, Belén Rodríguez‐Fonseca, Alban Lazar, & Teresa Losada. (2019). Ocean Dynamics Shapes the Structure and Timing of Atlantic Equatorial Modes. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 124(11). 7529–7544. 13 indexed citations

Machu, Éric, Xavier Capet, P. Estrade, et al.. (2019). First Evidence of Anoxia and Nitrogen Loss in the Southern Canary Upwelling System. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(5). 2619–2627. 11 indexed citations

Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas, Pierre Testor, Alban Lazar, et al.. (2018). Subsurface Fine‐Scale Patterns in an Anticyclonic Eddy Off Cap‐Vert Peninsula Observed From Glider Measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(9). 6312–6329. 6 indexed citations

Martín‐Rey, Marta, Irene Polo, Belén Rodríguez‐Fonseca, Teresa Losada, & Alban Lazar. (2017). Is There Evidence of Changes in Tropical Atlantic Variability Modes under AMO Phases in the Observational Record?. Journal of Climate. 31(2). 515–536. 65 indexed citations

Carré, Matthieu, Paul Zaharias, M. Wade, et al.. (2016). Precipitation variability in the Sahel during the last 2000 years revealed by archaeological shell middens in Senegal. Quaternary International. 404. 191–191. 1 indexed citations

Menna, Milena, Pierre‐Marie Poulain, Luca Centurioni, et al.. (2016). Upwelling features off the coast of north-western Africa in 2009-2013. 6 indexed citations

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Diakhaté, Moussa, Gaëlle de Coëtlogon, Alban Lazar, Malick Wade, & Amadou Thierno Gaye. (2015). Intraseasonal variability of tropical Atlantic sea‐surface temperature: air–sea interaction over upwelling fronts. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 142(694). 372–386. 9 indexed citations

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Capet, Xavier, P. Estrade, Bamol Ali Sow, et al.. (2014). SST patterns and dynamics of the southern Senegal‐Gambia upwelling center. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 119(12). 8315–8335. 40 indexed citations

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Kolodziejczyk, Nicolas, Gilles Reverdin, & Alban Lazar. (2014). Interannual Variability of the Mixed Layer Winter Convection and Spice Injection in the Eastern Subtropical North Atlantic. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 45(2). 504–525. 17 indexed citations

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Eymard, Laurence, et al.. (2014). Analysis of Strengthening and Dissipating Mesoscale Convective Systems Propagating off the West African Coast. Monthly Weather Review. 142(12). 4600–4623. 16 indexed citations

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Brandt, Peter, Moacyr Araújo, Bernard Bourlès, et al.. (2013). Tropical Atlantic climate experiment (TACE). 18. 26–31. 2 indexed citations

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Carré, Matthieu, Brian Chase, Abdoulaye Dème, et al.. (2012). Positive precipitation–evaporation budget from AD 460 to 1090 in the Saloum Delta (Senegal) indicated by mollusk oxygen isotopes. Global and Planetary Change. 98-99. 54–62. 15 indexed citations

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Brandt, Peter, Guy Caniaux, Bernard Bourlès, et al.. (2010). Equatorial upper‐ocean dynamics and their interaction with the West African monsoon. Atmospheric Science Letters. 12(1). 24–30. 65 indexed citations

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Wainer, Ilana, Alban Lazar, & Amy Solomon. (2006). Tropical extra-tropical thermocline water mass exchanges in the Community Climate Model v.3 Part I: the Atlantic Ocean. Ocean science. 2(2). 137–146. 2 indexed citations

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Montégut, Clément de Boyer, Emmanuel Mignot, Alban Lazar, & Sophie Cravatte. (2006). Control of Salinity on the Mixed Layer Depth in the World Ocean. AGUFM. 2006. 57 indexed citations

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Tailleux, Rémi, Alban Lazar, & C. J. C. Reason. (2005). Physics and Dynamics of Density-Compensated Temperature and Salinity Anomalies. Part I: Theory. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 35(5). 849–864. 19 indexed citations

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Montégut, Clément de Boyer, Gurvan Madec, Albert Fischer, Alban Lazar, & Daniele Iudicone. (2004). Mixed layer depth over the global ocean: An examination of profile data and a profile‐based climatology. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 109(C12). 2377 indexed citations breakdown →

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