Catherine Rio

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Catherine Rio is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Catherine Rio has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Atmospheric Science, 31 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 5 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Catherine Rio's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (30 papers), Climate variability and models (27 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (8 papers). Catherine Rio is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (30 papers), Climate variability and models (27 papers) and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (8 papers). Catherine Rio collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and United States. Catherine Rio's co-authors include F. Hourdin, Fleur Couvreux, Arnaud Jam, Jean‐Philippe Lafore, Jean‐Yves Grandpeix, Nicolas Rochetin, Romain Roehrig, Daniel Williamson, V. Balaji and Marie‐Pierre Lefebvre and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Catherine Rio

35 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The Art and Science of Climate Model Tuning

2016 346 citations F. Hourdin, Thorsten Mauritsen et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Catherine Rio France	24	1.4k	1.4k	188	186	67	35	1.7k
Jean‐François Geleyn France	17	1.4k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	145 0.8×	242 1.3×	62 0.9×	23	1.6k
Pierre Bénard France	14	943 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	190 1.0×	286 1.5×	114 1.7×	31	1.4k
Tomislava Vukićević United States	27	1.5k 1.0×	1.7k 1.2×	287 1.5×	293 1.6×	85 1.3×	69	1.9k
Jochen Förstner Germany	11	1.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	77 0.4×	171 0.9×	65 1.0×	16	1.4k
Sylvie Malardel France	13	980 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	214 1.1×	249 1.3×	67 1.0×	25	1.3k
Detlev Majewski Germany	8	953 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	126 0.7×	165 0.9×	116 1.7×	13	1.3k
Jan Barkmeijer Netherlands	21	1.6k 1.1×	1.7k 1.2×	230 1.2×	215 1.2×	37 0.6×	57	1.9k
Frederick H. Carr United States	16	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	105 0.6×	315 1.7×	69 1.0×	32	1.4k
J. Chern United States	20	1.7k 1.2×	1.9k 1.3×	114 0.6×	226 1.2×	23 0.3×	44	2.0k
Shouting Gao China	26	2.2k 1.5×	2.0k 1.4×	216 1.1×	125 0.7×	91 1.4×	159	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Catherine Rio

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Catherine Rio

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Brient, Florent, Fleur Couvreux, Catherine Rio, & Rachel Honnert. (2023). Coherent subsiding structures in large‐eddy simulations of atmospheric boundary layers. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 150(759). 834–856. 2 indexed citations

Balaji, V., Fleur Couvreux, Julie Deshayes, et al.. (2022). Are general circulation models obsolete?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(47). e2202075119–e2202075119. 37 indexed citations

Sherwood, Steven C., Alison Stirling, Catherine Rio, et al.. (2021). Characterizing Convection Schemes Using Their Responses to Imposed Tendency Perturbations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(5). 6 indexed citations

Hourdin, F., Daniel Williamson, Catherine Rio, et al.. (2020). Process‐Based Climate Model Development Harnessing Machine Learning: II. Model Calibration From Single Column to Global. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(6). 27 indexed citations

Couvreux, Fleur, F. Hourdin, Daniel Williamson, et al.. (2020). Process‐Based Climate Model Development Harnessing Machine Learning: I. A Calibration Tool for Parameterization Improvement. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 13(3). 53 indexed citations

Hourdin, F., Catherine Rio, Arnaud Jam, A. K. Traore, & Ionela Musat. (2020). Convective Boundary Layer Control of the Sea Surface Temperature in the Tropics. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(6). 17 indexed citations

Hourdin, F., Arnaud Jam, Catherine Rio, et al.. (2019). Unified Parameterization of Convective Boundary Layer Transport and Clouds With the Thermal Plume Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11(9). 2910–2933. 23 indexed citations

Brient, Florent, Fleur Couvreux, Najda Villefranque, Catherine Rio, & Rachel Honnert. (2019). Object‐Oriented Identification of Coherent Structures in Large Eddy Simulations: Importance of Downdrafts in Stratocumulus. Geophysical Research Letters. 46(5). 2854–2864. 28 indexed citations

Zeng, Xubin, Daniel Klocke, Ben Shipway, et al.. (2018). Future Community Efforts in Understanding and Modeling Atmospheric Processes. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 99(9). ES159–ES162. 1 indexed citations

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Hourdin, F., Thorsten Mauritsen, Andrew Gettelman, et al.. (2016). The Art and Science of Climate Model Tuning. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 98(3). 589–602. 346 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leroux, Stéphanie, Gilles Bellon, Romain Roehrig, et al.. (2016). Inter‐model comparison of subseasonal tropical variability in aquaplanet experiments: Effect of a warm pool. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 8(4). 1526–1551. 14 indexed citations

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Martin, Gill, Philippe Peyrillé, Romain Roehrig, et al.. (2016). Understanding the West African Monsoon from the analysis of diabatic heating distributions as simulated by climate models. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 9(1). 239–270. 12 indexed citations

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Hourdin, F., et al.. (2015). Air moisture control on ocean surface temperature, hidden key to the warm bias enigma. Geophysical Research Letters. 42(24). 37 indexed citations

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Rochetin, Nicolas, Fleur Couvreux, Jean‐Yves Grandpeix, & Catherine Rio. (2013). Deep Convection Triggering by Boundary Layer Thermals. Part I: LES Analysis and Stochastic Triggering Formulation. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 71(2). 496–514. 31 indexed citations

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Rochetin, Nicolas, Jean‐Yves Grandpeix, Catherine Rio, & Fleur Couvreux. (2013). Deep Convection Triggering by Boundary Layer Thermals. Part II: Stochastic Triggering Parameterization for the LMDZ GCM. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 71(2). 515–538. 28 indexed citations

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Hourdin, F., Jean‐Yves Grandpeix, Catherine Rio, et al.. (2012). LMDZ5B: the atmospheric component of the IPSL climate model with revisited parameterizations for clouds and convection. Climate Dynamics. 40(9-10). 2193–2222. 202 indexed citations

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Mrowiec, Agnieszka A., Catherine Rio, Ann M. Fridlind, et al.. (2012). Analysis of cloud‐resolving simulations of a tropical mesoscale convective system observed during TWP‐ICE: Vertical fluxes and draft properties in convective and stratiform regions. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 117(D19). 28 indexed citations

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Rio, Catherine, Jean‐Yves Grandpeix, F. Hourdin, et al.. (2012). Control of deep convection by sub-cloud lifting processes: the ALP closure in the LMDZ5B general circulation model. Climate Dynamics. 40(9-10). 2271–2292. 56 indexed citations

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Couvreux, Fleur, Catherine Rio, Marie Lothon, et al.. (2011). Initiation of daytime local convection in a semi‐arid region analysed with high‐resolution simulations and AMMA observations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 138(662). 56–71. 37 indexed citations

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Rio, Catherine, F. Hourdin, & A. Chédin. (2010). Numerical simulation of tropospheric injection of biomass burning products by pyro-thermal plumes. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 10(8). 3463–3478. 38 indexed citations

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