Bertrand Bonan

6.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
36 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Bertrand Bonan is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Bertrand Bonan has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Environmental Engineering, 19 papers in Atmospheric Science and 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Bertrand Bonan's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (17 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers) and Climate variability and models (8 papers). Bertrand Bonan is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (17 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers) and Climate variability and models (8 papers). Bertrand Bonan collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and China. Bertrand Bonan's co-authors include Tim‐Rasmus Kiehl, P. Briegleb, Joel Rasch, L. Williamson, A. Boville, James J. Hack, Mariana Vertenstein, Samuel Levis, Keith W. Oleson and Paul A. Dirmeyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Hydrology and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

In The Last Decade

Bertrand Bonan

34 papers receiving 2.3k citations

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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.

Description of the NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM3)

1996 757 citations Bertrand Bonan et al. profile →
A Land Surface Model (LSM Version 1.0) for Ecological, Hydrological, and Atmospheric Studies: Technical Description and User's Guide

1996 585 citations Bertrand Bonan profile →
Technical Description of the Community Land Model (CLM)

2004 582 citations Bertrand Bonan et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Impact of leaf area index assimilation and gauge-corrected precipitation on land surface variables in LDAS-Monde: a case study over China 2025 ·Journal of Hydrology ·Enwu Liu, Yonghua Zhu, (unknown), Bertrand Bonan, Simon Munier, Jean‐Christophe Calvet	0
2	Analysis of past and future droughts causing clay shrinkage in France 2025 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Sophie Barthélémy, Bertrand Bonan, Miquel Tomàs‐Burguera, Gilles Grandjean, Séverine Bernardie, (unknown), Patrick Le Moigne, Aaron Boone, Jean‐Christophe Calvet	0
3	Modelling extensive green roof CO₂ exchanges in the Town Energy Balance urban canopy model 2025 ·Geoscientific model development ·(unknown), Cécile de Munck, Bertrand Bonan, Christine Delire, Aude Lemonsu, Valéry Masson, Stephan Weber	1
4	Evaluation of root zone soil moisture products over the Huai River basin 2024 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Enwu Liu, Yonghua Zhu, Jean‐Christophe Calvet, Haishen Lü, Bertrand Bonan, Jingyao Zheng, (unknown), Xiaoyi Wang, (unknown), (unknown), Ying Pan, (unknown)	8
5	The joint assimilation of satellite observed LAI and soil moisture for the global root zone soil moisture production and its impact on land surface and ecosystem variables 2024 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·(unknown), (unknown), Bertrand Bonan	2
6	A new approach for drought index adjustment to clay-shrinkage-induced subsidence over France: advantages of the interactive leaf area index 2024 ·Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·Sophie Barthélémy, Bertrand Bonan, Jean‐Christophe Calvet, Gilles Grandjean, David Moncoulon, (unknown), Séverine Bernardie	4
7	Assimilating ASCAT normalized backscatter and slope into the land surface model ISBA-A-gs using a Deep Neural Network as the observation operator: Case studies at ISMN stations in western Europe 2024 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·(unknown), Susan Steele‐Dunne, Sebastian Hahn, Wolfgang Wagner, Bertrand Bonan, Clément Albergel, Jean‐Christophe Calvet, (unknown)	1
8	Assimilation of ASCAT Radar Backscatter Coefficients over Southwestern France 2023 ·Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Bertrand Bonan, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, (unknown), Jean‐Christophe Calvet	1
9	An Agenda for Land Data Assimilation Priorities: Realizing the Promise of Terrestrial Water, Energy, and Vegetation Observations From Space 2022 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Sujay V. Kumar, Jana Kolassa, Rolf H. Reichle, Wade T. Crow, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Patricia de Rosnay, Natasha MacBean, Manuela Girotto, (unknown), Tristan Quaife, Clara Draper, Barton A. Forman, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Susan Steele‐Dunne, Clément Albergel, Bertrand Bonan, Jean‐Christophe Calvet, Jianzhi Dong, Hannah M. Liddy, (unknown)	30
10	Assimilation of passive microwave vegetation optical depth in LDAS-Monde: a case study over the continental USA 2022 ·Biogeosciences ·(unknown), Bertrand Bonan, Clément Albergel, Yongjun Zheng, Jean‐Christophe Calvet	6
11	A multi-sourced assessment of the spatiotemporal dynamics of soil moisture in the MARINE flash flood model 2021 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·(unknown), Hélène Roux, (unknown), Bertrand Bonan, Clément Albergel	3
12	Assimilation of passive microwave vegetation optical depth in LDAS-Monde: a case study over the continental US 2021 ·(unknown), Bertrand Bonan, Clément Albergel, Yongjun Zheng, Jean‐Christophe Calvet	4
13	Data assimilation for continuous global assessment of severe conditions over terrestrial surfaces 2020 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Clément Albergel, Yongjun Zheng, Bertrand Bonan, Emanuel Dutra, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, Simon Munier, Clara Draper, Patricia de Rosnay, Joaquı́n Muñoz-Sabater, Gianpaolo Balsamo, David Fairbairn, Catherine Meurey, Jean‐Christophe Calvet	27
14	A multi-sourced assessment of the spatio-temporal dynamic of soil saturation in the MARINE flash flood model 2020 ·(unknown), Hélène Roux, (unknown), Bertrand Bonan, Clément Albergel	2
15	An offline framework for high-dimensional ensemble Kalman filters to reduce the time to solution 2020 ·Geoscientific model development ·Yongjun Zheng, Clément Albergel, Simon Munier, Bertrand Bonan, Jean‐Christophe Calvet	5
16	An ensemble square root filter for the joint assimilation of surface soil moisture and leaf area index within the Land Data Assimilation System LDAS-Monde: application over the Euro-Mediterranean region 2020 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Bertrand Bonan, Clément Albergel, Yongjun Zheng, Alina Barbu, David Fairbairn, Simon Munier, Jean‐Christophe Calvet	31
17	Monitoring and Forecasting the Impact of the 2018 Summer Heatwave on Vegetation 2019 ·Remote Sensing ·Clément Albergel, Emanuel Dutra, Bertrand Bonan, Yongjun Zheng, Simon Munier, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Patricia de Rosnay, Joaquı́n Muñoz-Sabater, Jean‐Christophe Calvet	45
18	An Ensemble Square Root Filter for the joint assimilation of surface soil moiture and leaf area index within LDAS-Monde: application over the Euro-Mediterranean region 2019 ·Bertrand Bonan, Clément Albergel, Yongjun Zheng, Alina Barbu, David Fairbairn, Simon Munier, Jean‐Christophe Calvet	3
19	Data assimilation for moving mesh methods with an application to ice sheet modelling 2017 ·Nonlinear processes in geophysics ·Bertrand Bonan, Nancy Nichols, M. J. Baines, (unknown)	9
20	A moving-point approach to model shallow ice sheets: a study case with radially symmetrical ice sheets 2016 ·The cryosphere ·Bertrand Bonan, M. J. Baines, Nancy Nichols, (unknown)	13

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