Laurent Fairhead

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Laurent Fairhead is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Laurent Fairhead has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 9 papers in Atmospheric Science and 5 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Laurent Fairhead's work include Climate variability and models (11 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (6 papers). Laurent Fairhead is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (11 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (6 papers) and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (6 papers). Laurent Fairhead collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Laurent Fairhead's co-authors include Jean‐Louis Dufresne, Pierre Friedlingstein, F. Hourdin, Ionela Musat, Jean‐Yves Grandpeix, Sandrine Bony, François Lott, P. Monfray, Laurent Bopp and Pascale Braconnot and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Journal of Climate and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Laurent Fairhead

18 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

The LMDZ4 general circulation model: climate performance and sensitivity to parametrized physics with emphasis on tropical convection

2006 659 citations F. Hourdin, Ionela Musat et al. Climate Dynamics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laurent Fairhead France	11	1.2k	1.0k	229	112	85	18	1.5k
Peter J. Phillipps United States	8	1.0k 0.8×	673 0.7×	458 2.0×	187 1.7×	132 1.6×	8	1.5k
C. A. Wilson United Kingdom	10	944 0.8×	839 0.8×	427 1.9×	231 2.1×	56 0.7×	13	1.4k
Atusi Numaguti Japan	22	1.8k 1.5×	1.8k 1.8×	498 2.2×	67 0.6×	94 1.1×	36	2.2k
Steven Greco United States	19	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	141 0.6×	29 0.3×	146 1.7×	37	1.7k
Traute Crueger Germany	14	1.6k 1.3×	1.5k 1.5×	353 1.5×	52 0.5×	70 0.8×	21	1.9k
E. M. Volodin Russia	22	1.6k 1.3×	1.5k 1.4×	407 1.8×	106 0.9×	39 0.5×	90	1.9k
Bomin Sun United States	24	1.7k 1.4×	1.5k 1.5×	330 1.4×	196 1.8×	74 0.9×	39	2.1k
D. Cariolle France	26	1.9k 1.6×	2.0k 2.0×	204 0.9×	134 1.2×	42 0.5×	84	2.4k
Charles L. Curry Canada	21	893 0.8×	565 0.6×	66 0.3×	300 2.7×	129 1.5×	36	1.2k
G. Tetzlaff Germany	19	805 0.7×	833 0.8×	256 1.1×	222 2.0×	129 1.5×	40	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Laurent Fairhead

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laurent Fairhead

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Laurent Fairhead. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Laurent Fairhead 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 Laurent Fairhead. Laurent Fairhead is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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18 of 18 papers shown

Vignon, Étienne, et al.. (2025). A New Prognostic Parameterization of Subgrid Ice Supersaturation and Cirrus Clouds in the ICOLMDZ AGCM. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 17(8). 2 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

Madeleine, Jean‐Baptiste, F. Hourdin, Jean‐Yves Grandpeix, et al.. (2020). Improved Representation of Clouds in the Atmospheric Component LMDZ6A of the IPSL‐CM6A Earth System Model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(10). 29 indexed citations

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

Hourdin, F., Ionela Musat, Sandrine Bony, et al.. (2006). The LMDZ4 general circulation model: climate performance and sensitivity to parametrized physics with emphasis on tropical convection. Climate Dynamics. 27(7-8). 787–813. 659 indexed citations breakdown →

Dufresne, Jean‐Louis, Johannes Quaas, Oliviér Boucher, Sébastien Denvil, & Laurent Fairhead. (2005). Contrasts in the effects on climate of anthropogenic sulfate aerosols between the 20th and the 21st century. Geophysical Research Letters. 32(21). 50 indexed citations

Lott, François, et al.. (2005). The stratospheric version of LMDz: dynamical climatologies, arctic oscillation, and impact on the surface climate. Climate Dynamics. 25(7-8). 851–868. 45 indexed citations

Friedlingstein, Pierre, Philippe Ciais, P. Monfray, et al.. (2002). Global response of the terrestrial biosphere to CO₂and climate change using a coupled climate‐carbon cycle model. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 16(4). 35 indexed citations

Dufresne, Jean‐Louis, Laurent Fairhead, Hervé Le Treut, et al.. (2002). On the magnitude of positive feedback between future climate change and the carbon cycle. Geophysical Research Letters. 29(10). 166 indexed citations

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Friedlingstein, Pierre, Laurent Bopp, Philippe Ciais, et al.. (2001). Positive feedback between future climate change and the carbon cycle. Geophysical Research Letters. 28(8). 1543–1546. 253 indexed citations

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Sharma, O. P., et al.. (1998). Interannual Variations of Summer Monsoons: Sensitivity to Cloud Radiative Forcing. Journal of Climate. 11(8). 1883–1905. 10 indexed citations

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Sharma, O. P., Hervé Le Treut, Geneviève Sèze, Laurent Fairhead, & R. Sadourny. (1998). Interannual Variations of Summer Monsoons: Sensitivity to Cloud Radiative Forcing. Journal of Climate. 11(8). 1883–1905. 10 indexed citations

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Fairhead, Laurent. (1991). Astrometric analysis of timing observations of the fast pulsar PSR 1937+214.. 241(1). 289–296. 1 indexed citations

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Foster, Roger S., Laurent Fairhead, & D. C. Backer. (1991). A spectral study of four millisecond pulsars. The Astrophysical Journal. 378. 687–687. 26 indexed citations

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Bourgois, G., et al.. (1990). Timing Measurements of the Two Millisecond Pulsars 1937+21 and 1821-24 at Nancay Observatory. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 22. 748. 1 indexed citations

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Fairhead, Laurent & P. Bretagnon. (1990). An analytical formula for the time transformation TB-TT.. 229(1). 240–247. 12 indexed citations

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Fairhead, Laurent, P. Bretagnon, & J. F. Lestrade. (1988). The time transformation TDB–TDT: an analytical formula and related problem of convention. Symposium - International Astronomical Union. 128. 419–426. 4 indexed citations

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Fairhead, Laurent, et al.. (1986). An analysis of occultation observations of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter and comparison with theories. 169(3). 360–366. 1 indexed citations

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