François Bouttier

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

François Bouttier is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, François Bouttier has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Atmospheric Science, 42 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 16 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in François Bouttier's work include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (43 papers), Climate variability and models (32 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (12 papers). François Bouttier is often cited by papers focused on Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (43 papers), Climate variability and models (32 papers) and Wind and Air Flow Studies (12 papers). François Bouttier collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and Italy. François Bouttier's co-authors include John Derber, Pierre Brousseau, Laure Raynaud, Gwenaëlle Hello, Yann Seity, Sylvie Malardel, Pierre Bénard, Valéry Masson, Christine Lac and Graeme Kelly and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Hydrology and Monthly Weather Review.

In The Last Decade

François Bouttier

42 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

The AROME-France Convective-Scale Operational Model 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 200 400 600
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.

  1. The AROME-France Convective-Scale Operational Model
    2010 660 citations Yann Seity, Pierre Brousseau et al. Monthly Weather Review profile →

Peers

François Bouttier
Stephen S. Weygandt United States
Ricardo Todling United States
Mario Marcello Miglietta Italy
Lewis D. Grasso United States
Derek J. Posselt United States
Tatiana G. Smirnova United States
Judith Berner United States
Mark Buehner Canada
Ronald M. Errico United States
Loïk Berre France
Stephen S. Weygandt United States
François Bouttier
Citations per year, relative to François Bouttier François Bouttier (= 1×) peers Stephen S. Weygandt

Countries citing papers authored by François Bouttier

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Fields of papers citing papers by François Bouttier

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of François Bouttier

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of François Bouttier. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of François Bouttier 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 François Bouttier. François Bouttier 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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Augros, Clotilde, et al.. (2025). Improved simulation of thunderstorm characteristics and polarimetric signatures with LIMA two-moment microphysics in AROME. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 18(15). 3715–3745.
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Payrastre, Olivier, et al.. (2025). An agent-based modeling of rescue operations for the evaluation of short-range flash flood forecasts. Journal of Hydrology. 657. 133048–133048.
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Bouttier, François, et al.. (2025). Calibration of Parameter Perturbations for Ensemble Prediction Using Data-Consistent Inversion. Monthly Weather Review. 153(4). 655–672.
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Masson, Valéry, et al.. (2025). Improving winter condition simulations in SURFEX-TEB v9.0 with a multi-layer snow model and ice. Geoscientific model development. 18(11). 3453–3472.
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Bouttier, François, et al.. (2024). Vers une anticipation à 1-6h des risques de pluies intenses quasi-stationnaires. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 110(1).
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Bouttier, François, et al.. (2024). Probabilistic short-range forecasts of high-precipitation events: optimal decision thresholds and predictability limits. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 24(8). 2793–2816. 1 indexed citations
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Bouttier, François, et al.. (2023). A methodological framework for the evaluation of short-range flash-flood hydrometeorological forecasts at the event scale. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(6). 2001–2029. 3 indexed citations
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Payrastre, Olivier, et al.. (2023). Assessing the ability of a new seamless short-range ensemble rainfall product to anticipate flash floods in the French Mediterranean area. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(11). 3355–3377. 3 indexed citations
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Davolio, Silvio, Paolo Di Girolamo, Cindy Lebeaupin Brossier, et al.. (2021). Overview towards improved understanding of the mechanisms leading to heavy precipitation in the western Mediterranean: lessons learned from HyMeX. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(22). 17051–17078. 22 indexed citations
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Bouttier, François & Roberto Buizza. (2018). La prévision d'ensemble. La Météorologie. 29–29.
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Raynaud, Laure, Olivier Pannekoucke, Philippe Arbogast, & François Bouttier. (2014). Application of a Bayesian weighting for short‐range lagged ensemble forecasting at the convective scale. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 141(687). 459–468. 10 indexed citations
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Brousseau, Pierre, Gérald Desroziers, François Bouttier, & Bernard Chapnik. (2013). A posteriori diagnostics of the impact of observations on the AROME‐France convective‐scale data assimilation system. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 140(680). 982–994. 30 indexed citations
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Seity, Yann, Pierre Brousseau, Sylvie Malardel, et al.. (2010). The AROME-France Convective-Scale Operational Model. Monthly Weather Review. 139(3). 976–991. 660 indexed citations breakdown →
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Michel, Yann & François Bouttier. (2006). Automated tracking of dry intrusions on satellite water vapour imagery and model output. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 132(620). 2257–2276. 11 indexed citations
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Stoffelen, Ad, Gert‐Jan Marseille, François Bouttier, et al.. (2006). ADM-Aeolus Doppler wind lidar Observing System Simulation Experiment. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 132(619). 1927–1947. 83 indexed citations
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Bouttier, François & Frank Roux. (2002). Les besoins en observations pour la recherche atmosphérique. La Météorologie. 8(39). 43–43. 1 indexed citations
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Rabier, Florence, A. P. McNally, Erik Andersson, et al.. (1998). The ECMWF implementation of three‐dimensional variational assimilation (3D‐Var). II: Structure functions. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 124(550). 1809–1829. 175 indexed citations
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Bouttier, François. (1994). A Dynamical Estimation of Forecast Error Covariances in an Assimilation System. Monthly Weather Review. 122(10). 2376–2390. 45 indexed citations
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Bouttier, François. (1993). The dynamics of error covariances in a barotropic model. Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography. 45(5). 408–408. 30 indexed citations

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