Lionel Renault

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Lionel Renault is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lionel Renault has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Oceanography, 55 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 39 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Lionel Renault's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (76 papers), Climate variability and models (48 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (27 papers). Lionel Renault is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (76 papers), Climate variability and models (48 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (27 papers). Lionel Renault collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Spain. Lionel Renault's co-authors include James C. McWilliams, Sébastien Masson, Joaquı́n Tintoré, M. Jeroen Molemaker, Jonathan Gula, Alexander F. Shchepetkin, Séréna Illig, Curtis Deutsch, Alex Hall and Guillermo Vizoso and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Lionel Renault

89 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Ocean Mesoscale and Frontal-Scale Ocean–Atmosphere Interactions and Influence on Large-Scale Climate: A Review

2023 94 citations Lionel Renault et al. Journal of Climate profile →

Peers

Lionel Renault

OCEAN

GPC

ECOLO

Keith R. Thompson Canada

Florence Sevault France

Hiroyuki Tsujino Japan

Tommy G. Jensen United States

Hideyuki Nakano Japan

Matthias Münnich Switzerland

Miroslav Gačić Italy

Simona Masina Italy

J. R. Lazier Canada

Motoyoshi Ikeda Japan

Keith R. Thompson Canada

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2.0k ×0.9

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1.2k ×1.0

536 ×2.1

ECOLO

80 ×0.6

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Countries citing papers authored by Lionel Renault

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lionel Renault

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lionel Renault

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Masson, Sébastien, Swen Jullien, Éric Maisonnave, et al.. (2025). An updated non-intrusive, multi-scale, and flexible coupling interface in WRF 4.6.0. Geoscientific model development. 18(4). 1241–1263.

Renault, Lionel, et al.. (2025). Interplay of Submesoscale Current and Thermal Feedbacks: A Seasonal Perspective in the Gulf Stream. Geophysical Research Letters. 52(21).

Oerder, Véra, François Colas, Vincent Échevin, et al.. (2024). Impacts of the Mesoscale Ocean‐Atmosphere Coupling on the Peru‐Chile Ocean Dynamics: Impact of the Thermal Feedback. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 129(6).

Holmes, Ryan M., et al.. (2024). Air-sea coupling feedbacks over Tropical Instability Waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography. 2 indexed citations

Kessouri, Fayçal, Martha Sutula, Daniele Bianchi, et al.. (2024). Cross-shore transport and eddies promote large scale response to urban eutrophication. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 7240–7240. 3 indexed citations

Morrow, Rosemary, et al.. (2023). Ocean 2D eddy energy fluxes from small mesoscale processes with SWOT. Ocean science. 19(5). 1413–1435. 5 indexed citations

Desbiolles, Fabien, Agostino N. Meroni, Lionel Renault, & Claudia Pasquero. (2023). Environmental Control of Wind Response to Sea Surface Temperature Patterns in Reanalysis Dataset. Journal of Climate. 36(12). 3881–3893. 12 indexed citations

Morel, Yves, et al.. (2023). An “objective” definition of potential vorticity. Generalized evolution equation and application to the study of coastal upwelling instability. Ocean Modelling. 186. 102287–102287. 2 indexed citations

Renault, Lionel, et al.. (2023). Coaction of Top and Bottom Drags in Gulf Stream Dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(3). 6 indexed citations

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Renault, Lionel, et al.. (2023). Tidal Modulation of Energy Dissipation Routes in the Gulf Stream. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(20). 3 indexed citations

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Boucharel, Julien, et al.. (2022). Modulation of the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Seasonal Cycle by Tropical Instability Waves. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(23). 8 indexed citations

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Penven, Pierrick, Roshin P. Raj, Lionel Renault, et al.. (2021). Where and How the East Madagascar Current Retroflection Originates?. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(11). 4 indexed citations

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Renault, Lionel, Thomas Arsouze, & Joaquim Ballabrera‐Poy. (2020). On the Influence of the Current Feedback to the Atmosphere on the Western Mediterranean Sea Dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(1). 10 indexed citations

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Meroni, Agostino N., Lionel Renault, Antonio Parodi, & Claudia Pasquero. (2018). Role of the Oceanic Vertical Thermal Structure in the Modulation of Heavy Precipitations Over the Ligurian Sea. Pure and Applied Geophysics. 175(11). 4111–4130. 11 indexed citations

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Desbiolles, Fabien, Ross C. Blamey, Séréna Illig, et al.. (2018). Upscaling impact of wind/sea surface temperature mesoscale interactions on southern Africa austral summer climate. International Journal of Climatology. 38(12). 4651–4660. 17 indexed citations

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González‐Wangüemert, Mercedes, Lorena Basso, Joana F. Costa, et al.. (2018). Gene pool and connectivity patterns of Pinna nobilis in the Balearic Islands (Spain, Western Mediterranean Sea): Implications for its conservation through restocking. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 29(2). 175–188. 13 indexed citations

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Renault, Lionel, James C. McWilliams, & Jonathan Gula. (2018). Dampening of Submesoscale Currents by Air-Sea Stress Coupling in the Californian Upwelling System. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 13388–13388. 58 indexed citations

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Renault, Lionel, James C. McWilliams, & Sébastien Masson. (2017). Satellite Observations of Imprint of Oceanic Current on Wind Stress by Air-Sea Coupling. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 17747–17747. 77 indexed citations

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Juza, Mélanie, Baptiste Mourre, Lionel Renault, & Joaquı́n Tintoré. (2014). Assessment and intercomparison of numerical simulations in the Western Mediterranean Sea. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 6893. 1 indexed citations

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Birol, Florence, L. Roblou, Florent Lyard, et al.. (2006). Towards Using Satellite Altimetry for the Observation of Coastal Dynamics. ESASP. 614. 23. 10 indexed citations

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