Mathieu Vrac

11.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
144 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Mathieu Vrac is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Water Science and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mathieu Vrac has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 101 papers in Atmospheric Science and 12 papers in Water Science and Technology. Recurrent topics in Mathieu Vrac's work include Climate variability and models (102 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (70 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (45 papers). Mathieu Vrac is often cited by papers focused on Climate variability and models (102 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (70 papers) and Hydrology and Drought Analysis (45 papers). Mathieu Vrac collaborates with scholars based in France, United Kingdom and Canada. Mathieu Vrac's co-authors include Douglas Maraun, Martin Widmann, Philippe Naveau, Emanuele Bevacqua, Pascal Yiou, Patrick Willems, Paul‐Antoine Michelangeli, Henning W. Rust, Harilaos Loukos and Robert Vautard and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Mathieu Vrac

138 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

Precipitation downscaling under climate change: Recent developments to bridge the gap between dynamical models and the end user

2010 1.4k citations Mathieu Vrac et al. profile →
Higher probability of compound flooding from precipitation and storm surge in Europe under anthropogenic climate change

2019 332 citations Mathieu Vrac et al. profile →
Advancing research on compound weather and climate events via large ensemble model simulations

2023 94 citations Mathieu Vrac, Pascal Yiou et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mathieu Vrac France	45	5.9k	4.1k	1.5k	596	513	144	7.4k
Douglas Maraun Germany	40	7.2k 1.2×	4.9k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	638 1.1×	700 1.4×	90	8.9k
Erika Coppola Italy	44	5.2k 0.9×	4.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	477 0.8×	518 1.0×	146	6.2k
David M. H. Sexton United Kingdom	36	6.6k 1.1×	4.9k 1.2×	1.0k 0.7×	509 0.9×	648 1.3×	78	8.6k
Harald Kunstmann Germany	49	4.8k 0.8×	3.5k 0.9×	2.4k 1.7×	1.4k 2.4×	674 1.3×	296	7.2k
William J. Gutowski United States	36	6.2k 1.0×	4.9k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	594 1.0×	635 1.2×	133	7.9k
Haishan Chen China	41	4.8k 0.8×	3.3k 0.8×	724 0.5×	741 1.2×	418 0.8×	341	6.4k
Luís Gimeno Spain	49	7.3k 1.2×	5.9k 1.4×	837 0.6×	563 0.9×	460 0.9×	329	9.3k
Raquel Nieto Spain	42	5.6k 0.9×	4.3k 1.0×	696 0.5×	286 0.5×	357 0.7×	224	6.7k
Colin Jones United Kingdom	35	5.6k 0.9×	4.7k 1.1×	688 0.5×	367 0.6×	544 1.1×	111	6.9k
Elizabeth Kendon United Kingdom	34	6.4k 1.1×	4.7k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	568 1.0×	452 0.9×	78	7.5k

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All Works

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Bulut, Burak, Mathieu Vrac, & N. de Noblet‐Ducoudré. (2025). What Will the European Climate Look Like in the Future? A Climate Analog Analysis Accounting for Dependencies Between Variables. Earth s Future. 13(1).

Vrac, Mathieu, Harilaos Loukos, T. Noël, & Dimitri Defrance. (2025). Should We Use Quantile-Mapping-Based Methods in a Climate Change Context? A “Perfect Model” Experiment. Climate. 13(7). 137–137.

Allard, Denis, et al.. (2025). Assessing multivariate bias corrections of climate simulations on various impact models under climate change. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(18). 4711–4738. 1 indexed citations

Wood, Raul R., et al.. (2025). Impact of bias adjustment strategy on ensemble projections of hydrological extremes. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 29(20). 5695–5718.

Camargo, Suzana J., Chia‐Ying Lee, Jonathan Lin, et al.. (2025). Improving analogues-based detection & attribution approaches for hurricanes. Environmental Research Letters. 20(2). 24042–24042. 1 indexed citations

Wischik, Damon, et al.. (2024). A temporal stochastic bias correction using a machine learning attention model. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 3. 1 indexed citations

Vrac, Mathieu, et al.. (2024). Distribution-based pooling for combination and multi-model bias correction of climate simulations. Earth System Dynamics. 15(3). 735–762. 2 indexed citations

Riel‐Salvatore, Julien, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the impact of climate change and millennial variability on the last Neanderthal populations in Europe (Marine Isotope Stage 3). Quaternary Science Reviews. 338. 108812–108812. 6 indexed citations

Vrac, Mathieu, et al.. (2023). Time of emergence of compound events: contribution of univariate and dependence properties. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 23(1). 21–44. 12 indexed citations

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Casado, Mathieu, Vasileios Gkinis, Bo Vinther, et al.. (2022). Sub-millennial climate variability from high-resolution water isotopes in the EPICA Dome C ice core. Climate of the past. 18(10). 2289–2301. 11 indexed citations

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Frémont, Paul, Marion Gehlen, Mathieu Vrac, et al.. (2022). Restructuring of plankton genomic biogeography in the surface ocean under climate change. Nature Climate Change. 12(4). 393–401. 28 indexed citations

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Bonnet, R. M., Oliviér Boucher, Mathieu Vrac, & Jin Xia. (2022). Sensitivity of bias adjustment methods to low-frequency internal climate variability over the reference period: an ideal model study. Environmental Research Climate. 1(1). 11001–11001.

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Faranda, Davide, Mathieu Vrac, Pascal Yiou, et al.. (2021). Enhancing geophysical flow machine learning performance via scale separation. Nonlinear processes in geophysics. 28(3). 423–443. 5 indexed citations

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Thao, Soulivanh, et al.. (2021). Adjusting spatial dependence of climate model outputs with cycle-consistent adversarial networks. Climate Dynamics. 57(11-12). 3323–3353. 27 indexed citations

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Vrac, Mathieu, et al.. (2020). Multivariate bias corrections of climate simulations: which benefits for which losses?. Earth System Dynamics. 11(2). 537–562. 115 indexed citations

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Bartók, Blanka, Isabelle Tobin, Robert Vautard, et al.. (2019). A climate projection dataset tailored for the European energy sector. Climate Services. 16. 100138–100138. 38 indexed citations

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Famien, Adjoua Moïse, Serge Janicot, Mathieu Vrac, et al.. (2018). A bias-corrected CMIP5 dataset for Africa using the CDF-t method – a contribution to agricultural impact studies. Earth System Dynamics. 9(1). 313–338. 69 indexed citations

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Defrance, Dimitri, Gilles Ramstein, Sylvie Charbit, et al.. (2017). Consequences of rapid ice sheet melting on the Sahelian population vulnerability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(25). 6533–6538. 50 indexed citations

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Vrac, Mathieu, Didier Paillard, & Philippe Naveau. (2007). Non-linear statistical downscaling of present and LGM precipitation and temperatures over Europe. 5 indexed citations

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Vrac, Mathieu, A. Chédin, & Edwin Diday. (2004). Décomposition de mélange de distributions et application à des données climatiques. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 52(1). 67–96. 2 indexed citations

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