François‐Marie Bréon

18.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
160 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

François‐Marie Bréon is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, François‐Marie Bréon has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 105 papers in Atmospheric Science and 36 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in François‐Marie Bréon's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (68 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (67 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (63 papers). François‐Marie Bréon is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (68 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (67 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (63 papers). François‐Marie Bréon collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. François‐Marie Bréon's co-authors include Jean‐Louis Roujean, D. Tanré, Philippe Ciais, Fabienne Maignan, M. Herman, Frédéric Chevallier, M. Leroy, Sylvia Generoso, J. L. Deuzé and Lorenzo Costantino and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

François‐Marie Bréon

158 papers receiving 10.7k 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.

Estimating PAR absorbed by vegetation from bidirectional reflectance measurements

1995 1.1k citations François‐Marie Bréon et al. profile →
Surface Urban Heat Island Across 419 Global Big Cities

2011 1.1k citations Shushi Peng, Shilong Piao et al. Environmental Science & Technology profile →
The POLDER mission: instrument characteristics and scientific objectives

1994 698 citations François‐Marie Bréon, J. C. Buriez et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
François‐Marie Bréon France	53	8.1k	6.3k	2.9k	2.8k	1.1k	160	11.2k
T. H. Painter United States	55	5.3k 0.7×	8.9k 1.4×	1.7k 0.6×	2.0k 0.7×	501 0.4×	172	12.4k
Bo‐Cai Gao United States	39	6.2k 0.8×	3.9k 0.6×	2.9k 1.0×	4.7k 1.7×	217 0.2×	121	11.0k
Toby N. Carlson United States	48	8.3k 1.0×	6.2k 1.0×	4.9k 1.7×	2.5k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	120	11.9k
Isabel F. Trigo Portugal	44	5.1k 0.6×	4.6k 0.7×	3.8k 1.3×	994 0.4×	609 0.5×	120	8.3k
Arnon Karnieli Israel	55	5.3k 0.7×	3.7k 0.6×	4.4k 1.5×	4.1k 1.5×	1.0k 0.9×	263	12.0k
Ronald B. Smith United States	53	5.1k 0.6×	6.2k 1.0×	2.6k 0.9×	1.2k 0.4×	854 0.8×	157	9.5k
Keith W. Oleson United States	54	10.6k 1.3×	6.3k 1.0×	4.7k 1.6×	1.7k 0.6×	1.9k 1.7×	84	14.8k
Kenneth E. Mitchell United States	40	10.9k 1.4×	9.9k 1.6×	3.7k 1.3×	758 0.3×	464 0.4×	67	15.3k
Simon J. Hook United States	55	4.0k 0.5×	4.5k 0.7×	5.9k 2.0×	2.1k 0.8×	622 0.6×	200	11.7k
Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz Spain	46	5.0k 0.6×	3.6k 0.6×	6.2k 2.1×	2.0k 0.7×	1.9k 1.7×	128	9.5k

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Lian, Jinghui, Thomas Lauvaux, François‐Marie Bréon, et al.. (2023). Can we use atmospheric CO ₂ measurements to verify emission trends reported by cities? Lessons from a 6-year atmospheric inversion over Paris. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(15). 8823–8835. 22 indexed citations

Lian, Jinghui, Thomas Lauvaux, François‐Marie Bréon, et al.. (2022). Assessing the Effectiveness of an Urban CO₂ Monitoring Network over the Paris Region through the COVID-19 Lockdown Natural Experiment. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(4). 2153–2162. 27 indexed citations

Broquet, Grégoire, Yilong Wang, Diego Santaren, et al.. (2022). Complementing XCO ₂ imagery with ground-based CO ₂ and ¹⁴ CO ₂ measurements to monitor CO ₂ emissions from fossil fuels on a regional to local scale. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(18). 5261–5288. 9 indexed citations

Lian, Jinghui, François‐Marie Bréon, Grégoire Broquet, et al.. (2021). Sensitivity to the sources of uncertainties in the modeling of atmospheric CO ₂ concentration within and in the vicinity of Paris. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(13). 10707–10726. 18 indexed citations

Santaren, Diego, Grégoire Broquet, François‐Marie Bréon, et al.. (2021). A local- to national-scale inverse modeling system to assess the potential of spaceborne CO ₂ measurements for the monitoring of anthropogenic emissions. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(1). 403–433. 6 indexed citations

Wang, Yilong, Grégoire Broquet, François‐Marie Bréon, et al.. (2020). PMIF v1.0: assessing the potential of satellite observations to constrain CO ₂ emissions from large cities and point sources over the globe using synthetic data. Geoscientific model development. 13(11). 5813–5831. 20 indexed citations

Wang, Yilong, Grégoire Broquet, François‐Marie Bréon, et al.. (2020). PMIF v1.0: an inversion system to estimate the potential of satellite observations to monitor fossil fuel CO ₂ emissions over the globe. 3 indexed citations

Bréon, François‐Marie & Fabienne Maignan. (2017). A BRDF–BPDF database for the analysis of Earth target reflectances. Earth system science data. 9(1). 31–45. 62 indexed citations

Shang, Huazhe, et al.. (2015). Impact of cloud horizontal inhomogeneity and directional sampling on the retrieval of cloud droplet size by the POLDER instrument. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 8(11). 4931–4945. 21 indexed citations

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Bréon, François‐Marie, Grégoire Broquet, V. Puygrenier, et al.. (2015). An attempt at estimating Paris area CO ₂ emissions from atmospheric concentration measurements. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(4). 1707–1724. 156 indexed citations

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Pommier, Matthieu, Jean‐Lionel Lacour, Camille Risi, et al.. (2014). Observation of tropospheric δD by IASI over western Siberia: comparison with a general circulation model. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 7(6). 1581–1595. 10 indexed citations

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Otto, Juliane, Daniel Berveiller, François‐Marie Bréon, et al.. (2014). Forest summer albedo is sensitive to species and thinning: how should we account for this in Earth system models?. Biogeosciences. 11(8). 2411–2427. 32 indexed citations

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Peng, Shushi, Shilong Piao, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2011). Surface Urban Heat Island Across 419 Global Big Cities. Environmental Science & Technology. 46(2). 696–703. 1087 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ciais, Philippe, et al.. (2010). Modeling atmospheric transport of CO2 at High Resolution to estimate the potentialities of spaceborne observation to monitor anthropogenic emissions. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2010. 1 indexed citations

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Wolstencroft, R. D., François‐Marie Bréon, & G.E. Tranter. (2007). Polarization Of Light Reflected From Forest Canopies On Earth With Applications To Earth-like Planets With Realistic Cloud Cover. AAS. 210. 1 indexed citations

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Chevallier, Frédéric, Michael Fisher, Philippe Peylin, et al.. (2005). Inferring CO ₂ sources and sinks from satellite observations: Method and application to TOVS data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 110(D24). 231 indexed citations

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Houweling, Sander, W. Hartmann, Ilse Aben, et al.. (2005). Evidence of systematic errors in SCIAMACHY-observed CO ₂ due to aerosols. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 5(11). 3003–3013. 124 indexed citations

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Parol, F., J. C. Buriez, C. Vanbauce, et al.. (2004). Review of capabilities of multi-angle and polarization cloud measurements from POLDER. Advances in Space Research. 33(7). 1080–1088. 39 indexed citations

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Berthier, S., Jacques Pelon, Patrick Chazette, et al.. (2004). Cloud Statistics from Spaceborne Backscatter LIDAR Data Analysis. 561. 937. 1 indexed citations

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Dufour, Emmanuel & François‐Marie Bréon. (2003). Spaceborne estimate of atmospheric CO2 column using the differential absorption method. Error analysis.. EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly. 7247. 2 indexed citations

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