Édouard L. Davin

13.0k citations

87 papers · 8.2k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 34

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.1%
- Climate variability and models
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Atmospheric Science top 0.5%
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Climate change and permafrost
- Cryospheric studies and observations

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 72
- Climate variability and models 52
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 39
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 14
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 11
Atmospheric Science 31
- Cryospheric studies and observations 12
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 10
- Tree-ring climate responses 9
- Climate change and permafrost 9

Co-authors: Sonia I. Seneviratne Martin Hirschi Eric B. Jaeger Boris Orlowsky T. Corti Adriaan J. Teuling Irene Lehner Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré
Journals: Earth System Dynamics (6 papers)Environmental Research Letters (6 papers)Journal of Climate (6 papers)Nature Communications (4 papers)Biogeosciences (4 papers)
Partner nations: Switzerland Germany France

In The Last Decade

Édouard L. Davin

84 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

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The role of urban trees in reducing land surface temperatures in European cities 2021 · 316 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Nature Communications
2010 Earth-Science Reviews

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1	Railway braking wear dynamics and particle emissions: Relationship between tribological circuit and pad design Wear ·Joseph Frangieh, Asma Grira, Édouard L. Davin, Florent Brunel, Raafa Al-Kaderi, Espéranza Perdrix, Alexandre Tomas, Michèle Henrion, Ruddy Mann, Yannick Desplanques, Philippe Dufrénoy	2025	3
2	Limited Effect of Future Land‐Use Changes on Human Heat Stress and Labor Capacity Earth s Future ·Steven De Hertog, Anton Orlov, Felix Havermann, Suqi Guo, Iris Manola, Julia Pongratz, Quentin Lejeune, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Inga Menke, Florian Humpenöder, Alexander Popp, Peter Lawrence, G. C. Hurtt, Louise Chini, Inne Vanderkelen, Édouard L. Davin, Thomas Reerink, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Hans Verbeeck, Wim Thiery	2025	1
3	Potential tree cover under current and future climate scenarios Scientific Data ·Caspar T. J. Roebroek, Luca Caporaso, Grégory Duveiller, Édouard L. Davin, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Alessandro Cescatti	2025	3
4	Natural forest regeneration is projected to reduce local temperatures Communications Earth & Environment ·Sara Alibakhshi, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Édouard L. Davin, Eduardo Eiji Maeda, Miguel B. Araújo, Daniel Heinlein, Janne Heiskanen, Petri Pellikka, Thomas W. Crowther	2024	10
5	Mapping heat-related risks in Swiss cities under different urban tree scenarios City and Environment Interactions ·Myke Koopmans, Jonas Schwaab, Ana M. Vicedo‐Cabrera, Édouard L. Davin	2024	0
6	Climate policies for carbon neutrality should not rely on the uncertain increase of carbon stocks in existing forests Environmental Research Letters ·Caspar T. J. Roebroek, Luca Caporaso, Ramdane Alkama, Grégory Duveiller, Édouard L. Davin, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Alessandro Cescatti	2024	6
7	The biogeophysical effects of idealized land cover and land management changes in Earth system models Earth System Dynamics ·Steven J. De Hertog, Felix Havermann, Inne Vanderkelen, Suqi Guo, Fei Luo, Iris Manola, Dim Coumou, Édouard L. Davin, Grégory Duveiller, Quentin Lejeune, Julia Pongratz, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Wim Thiery	2023	20
8	Land–atmosphere interactions in sub-polar and alpine climates in the CORDEX flagship pilot study Land Use and Climate Across Scales (LUCAS) models – Part 1: Evaluation of the snow-albedo effect The cryosphere ·Anne Sophie Daloz, Clemens Schwingshackl, Priscilla Mooney, Susanna Strada, Diana Rechid, Édouard L. Davin, Eleni Katragkou, Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré, Michal Belda, Tomáš Halenka, Marcus Breil, Rita M. Cardoso, Peter Hoffmann, Daniela C. A. Lima, Ronny Meier, Pedro M. M. Soares, Giannis Sofiadis, Gustav Strandberg, Merja H. Toelle, Marianne T. Lund	2022	10
9	The biogeophysical effects of idealized land cover and land management changes in Earth system models Earth System Dynamics ·Steven J. De Hertog, Felix Havermann, Inne Vanderkelen, Suqi Guo, Fei Luo, Iris Manola, Dim Coumou, Édouard L. Davin, Grégory Duveiller, Quentin Lejeune, Julia Pongratz, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Wim Thiery	2022	14
10	Land-atmosphere interactions in sub-polar and alpine climates in the CORDEX FPS LUCAS models: I. Evaluation of the snow-albedo effect Anne Sophie Daloz, Clemens Schwingshackl, Priscilla Mooney, Susanna Strada, Diana Rechid, Édouard L. Davin, Eleni Katragkou, Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré, Michal Belda, Tomáš Halenka, Marcus Breil, Rita M. Cardoso, Peter Hoffmann, Daniela C. A. Lima, Ronny Meier, Pedro M. M. Soares, Giannis Sofiadis, Gustav Strandberg, Merja H. Toelle, Marianne T. Lund	2021	4
11	Burning embers: towards more transparent and robust climate-change risk assessments Nature Reviews Earth & Environment ·Zinta Zommers, Philippe Marbaix, Andreas Fischlin, Zelina Zaiton Ibrahim, Sean Grant, Alexandre Magnan, Hans‐Otto Pörtner, Mark Howden, Katherine Calvin, Koko Warner, Wim Thiery, Zita Sebesvári, Édouard L. Davin, Jason P. Evans, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Brian C. O’Neill, Anand Patwardhan, Rachel Warren, Maarten van Aalst, Margot Hulbert	2020	44
12	Agricultural management effects on mean and extreme temperaturetrends Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) ·Aine Gormley-Gallagher, Sebastian Sterl, Annette L. Hirsch, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Édouard L. Davin, Wim Thiery	2020	4
13	Regional climate model projections underestimate future warming due to missing plant physiological CO₂ response Environmental Research Letters ·Clemens Schwingshackl, Édouard L. Davin, Martin Hirschi, Silje Lund Sørland, Richard Wartenburger, Sonia I. Seneviratne	2019	32
14	Historical deforestation increased the risk of heat extremes in northern mid-latitudes EGUGA ·Quentin Lejeune, Édouard L. Davin, Lukas Gudmundsson, Johannes Winckler, Sonia I. Seneviratne	2017	1
15	Comparative assessment of mid-latitude land-cover change effects on temperature in historical LUCID and CMIP5 simulations EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Quentin Lejeune, Édouard L. Davin, Sonia I. Seneviratne	2016	1
16	Influence of the African Great Lakes on the regional climate Lirias (KU Leuven) ·Wim Thiery, Édouard L. Davin, Hans-Jürgen Panitz, Matthias Demuzere, Stef Lhermitte, Nicole Van Lipzig	2015	1
17	Relevance of land forcings and feedbacks in the attribution of climate extremes AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·Sonia I. Seneviratne, Édouard L. Davin, Peter Greve, Lukas Gudmundsson, Mathias Hauser, Martin Hirschi, Birgit Mueller, Boris Orlowsky, René Orth	2014	1
18	The impact of the African Great Lakes on the regional climate in a dynamically downscaled CORDEX simulation Lirias (KU Leuven) ·Wim Thiery, Hans-Jürgen Panitz, Édouard L. Davin, Nicole Van Lipzig	2013	2
19	Modeling the impacts of solar radiation partitioning into direct and diffuse fractions for the global water cycle FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Paulo Oliveira, Édouard L. Davin, Sonia I. Seneviratne	2010	1
20	Spatial pattern of terrestrial carbon dioxide and water vapor coupling AGUFM ·Christian Beer, Markus Reichstein, Philippe Ciais, Édouard L. Davin, Fabienne Maignan, Paulo J. de Oliveira, Shilong Piao, Thomas Raddatz, Enrico Tomelleri, Nicolas Viovy	2009	1

About Édouard L. Davin

Édouard L. Davin is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Ecological Modeling and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, having authored 87 papers that have together received 8.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Climate variability and models (52 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (39 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (12 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (11 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (10 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (9 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (5.8k citations), Atmospheric Science (3.8k citations), Environmental Engineering (2.8k citations), Water Science and Technology (1.1k citations) and Soil Science (418 citations). Édouard L. Davin has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and France. Frequent co-authors include Sonia I. Seneviratne, Martin Hirschi, Eric B. Jaeger, Boris Orlowsky, T. Corti, Adriaan J. Teuling, Irene Lehner, Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré, Wim Thiery and Quentin Lejeune. Their work appears in journals such as Earth System Dynamics, Environmental Research Letters, Journal of Climate, Nature Communications and Biogeosciences.

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