Lahouari Bounoua

9.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
78 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Lahouari Bounoua is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lahouari Bounoua has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Environmental Engineering and 21 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Lahouari Bounoua's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (29 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (27 papers) and Climate variability and models (23 papers). Lahouari Bounoua is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (29 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (27 papers) and Climate variability and models (23 papers). Lahouari Bounoua collaborates with scholars based in United States, Morocco and France. Lahouari Bounoua's co-authors include Marc L. Imhoff, G. J. Collatz, P. J. Sellers, Robert E. Wolfe, Ping Zhang, D. A. Dazlich, Christopher B. Field, David A. Randall, Ruth DeFries and Joseph A. Berry and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Lahouari Bounoua

75 papers receiving 6.8k 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.

A Revised Land Surface Parameterization (SiB2) for Atmospheric GCMS. Part I: Model Formulation

1996 1.6k citations P. J. Sellers, David A. Randall et al. Journal of Climate profile →
Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect across biomes in the continental USA

2009 1.2k citations Marc L. Imhoff, Ping Zhang et al. profile →
Global patterns in human consumption of net primary production

2004 509 citations Marc L. Imhoff, Lahouari Bounoua et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lahouari Bounoua United States	30	5.1k	2.7k	2.1k	1.6k	1.3k	78	7.2k
Yuhong Tian China	36	4.4k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	2.9k 1.9×	786 0.6×	82	6.5k
Annemarie Schneider United States	19	4.5k 0.9×	1.9k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	2.2k 1.4×	831 0.6×	24	6.3k
G. Darrel Jenerette United States	52	4.7k 0.9×	2.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	2.6k 2.0×	131	7.6k
Jason Beringer Australia	54	6.4k 1.3×	2.6k 1.0×	2.0k 1.0×	2.8k 1.8×	1.1k 0.8×	176	9.5k
Gensuo Jia China	40	3.4k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	2.5k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	680 0.5×	150	6.2k
Conghe Song United States	47	5.5k 1.1×	3.2k 1.2×	1.7k 0.8×	3.7k 2.3×	1.5k 1.1×	132	8.6k
Marc L. Imhoff United States	39	5.2k 1.0×	4.5k 1.7×	1.7k 0.8×	2.1k 1.3×	1.8k 1.4×	78	8.7k
Noemi Vergopolan United States	17	2.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.8×	938 0.6×	449 0.3×	31	6.1k
Sarah Perkins‐Kirkpatrick Australia	44	9.4k 1.8×	1.3k 0.5×	5.0k 2.4×	3.3k 2.1×	2.3k 1.7×	105	14.2k
Helen Cleugh Australia	32	3.5k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	695 0.4×	508 0.4×	67	5.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lahouari Bounoua

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bounoua, Lahouari, et al.. (2025). A new thermal fusion method to downscale Land Surface Temperature to finer spatial resolution using Sentinel-MSI and Landsat-OLI/TIRS imagery. Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment. 37. 101519–101519. 1 indexed citations

Bounoua, Lahouari, et al.. (2024). Predictive modelling on Spatial–temporal Land Use and Land Cover changes at the Casablanca-Settat Region in Morocco. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment. 10(6). 6691–6714. 3 indexed citations

Bounoua, Lahouari, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of the performance of CMIP6 models in simulating precipitation over Morocco. 6(2). 145–158. 3 indexed citations

Bounoua, Lahouari, et al.. (2023). Territorial sustainability performance assessment in African context: Case study of the Moroccan provinces. Journal of Cleaner Production. 433. 139781–139781. 2 indexed citations

Lebrini, Youssef, Abdelghani Boudhar, Abdelaziz Htitiou, et al.. (2020). Remote monitoring of agricultural systems using NDVI time series and machine learning methods: a tool for an adaptive agricultural policy. Arabian Journal of Geosciences. 13(16). 24 indexed citations

Zhang, Ping, Robert E. Wolfe, & Lahouari Bounoua. (2020). Comparison of MODIS Land Surface Temperature and Air Temperature Over Global in 2015. 4403–4406. 1 indexed citations

French, Andrew N., et al.. (2018). Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration over the Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District, USA. Agronomy. 8(12). 278–278. 13 indexed citations

Zhang, Ping, Lahouari Bounoua, Kurtis J. Thome, & Robert E. Wolfe. (2016). Modeling impact of urbanization in us cities using simple biosphere model SiB2. 6758–6761. 3 indexed citations

Houti, Leïla, et al.. (2016). Impact du climat sur le développement de la leishmaniose cutanée dans la zone humide du Chott Ech Chergui, Algérie. Revue d Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique. 64. S248–S249. 1 indexed citations

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Imhoff, Marc L., et al.. (2014). Exploring the influence of impervious surface density and shape on urban heat islands in the northeast United States using MODIS and Landsat. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 38(4). 441–451. 48 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ping, Lahouari Bounoua, Marc L. Imhoff, Robert E. Wolfe, & Kurtis J. Thome. (2014). Comparison of MODIS Land Surface Temperature and Air Temperature over the Continental USA Meteorological Stations. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 40(2). 110–122. 74 indexed citations

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Elvidge, Chris, K. R. Gurney, Lahouari Bounoua, et al.. (2011). Global Night-Time Lights for Observing Human Activity. 1 indexed citations

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Imhoff, Marc L., et al.. (2009). Characterizing Urban Heat Island Effect at Global Settlements Using MODIS and Nightlight Products. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2009. 1 indexed citations

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Imhoff, Marc L., et al.. (2008). The relationship between remotely-sensed surface parameters and urban heat islands in the USA. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Imhoff, Marc L., Lahouari Bounoua, Ruth DeFries, Walter Lawrence, & Taylor H. Ricketts. (2002). How Has Urbanization Altered the Carbon Cycle in the United States. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2002. 1 indexed citations

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Bounoua, Lahouari, Ruth DeFries, G. J. Collatz, P. J. Sellers, & Hassan Saeed Khan. (2002). Effects of Land Cover Conversion on Surface Climate. Climatic Change. 52(1-2). 29–64. 277 indexed citations

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Bounoua, Lahouari, G. J. Collatz, S. O. Los, et al.. (2000). Sensitivity of Climate to Changes in NDVI. Journal of Climate. 13(13). 2277–2292. 200 indexed citations

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Bounoua, Lahouari, G. J. Collatz, P. J. Sellers, et al.. (1999). Interactions between Vegetation and Climate: Radiative and Physiological Effects of Doubled Atmospheric CO₂. Journal of Climate. 12(2). 309–324. 76 indexed citations

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DeFries, Ruth, Christopher B. Field, Inez Fung, G. J. Collatz, & Lahouari Bounoua. (1999). Combining satellite data and biogeochemical models to estimate global effects of human‐induced land cover change on carbon emissions and primary productivity. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 13(3). 803–815. 275 indexed citations

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Bounoua, Lahouari & T. N. Krishnamurti. (1993). Influence of soil moisture on the Sahelian climate prediction I. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics. 52(3-4). 183–203. 20 indexed citations

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