Nicolas Ghilain

810 total citations
23 papers, 529 citations indexed

About

Nicolas Ghilain is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Ghilain has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 529 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 10 papers in Atmospheric Science and 8 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Ghilain's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers), Climate variability and models (12 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (7 papers). Nicolas Ghilain is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (14 papers), Climate variability and models (12 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (7 papers). Nicolas Ghilain collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Sweden and United Kingdom. Nicolas Ghilain's co-authors include Françoise Gellens-Meulenberghs, Alirio Arboleda, Isabel F. Trigo, Jean‐Louis Roujean, Sandra C. Freitas, Francisco Javier Garcı́a-Haro, Pedro Viterbo, Carlos C. DaCamara, Dominique Carrer and Joaquín Meliá and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Remote Sensing, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Ghilain

22 papers receiving 516 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicolas Ghilain Belgium 10 378 251 191 115 84 23 529
Françoise Gellens-Meulenberghs Belgium 10 396 1.0× 254 1.0× 194 1.0× 122 1.1× 93 1.1× 28 557
Alirio Arboleda Belgium 9 241 0.6× 205 0.8× 166 0.9× 50 0.4× 54 0.6× 14 374
Xin Pan China 11 290 0.8× 332 1.3× 257 1.3× 61 0.5× 76 0.9× 44 500
Mingsong Li China 11 269 0.7× 332 1.3× 227 1.2× 65 0.6× 70 0.8× 20 496
Catherine Meurey France 10 394 1.0× 240 1.0× 271 1.4× 75 0.7× 133 1.6× 16 570
Ghani Chehbouni France 10 471 1.2× 341 1.4× 145 0.8× 153 1.3× 106 1.3× 11 639
Minglei Ren China 10 297 0.8× 151 0.6× 121 0.6× 184 1.6× 46 0.5× 17 497
Liangliang Bai China 9 213 0.6× 493 2.0× 405 2.1× 113 1.0× 77 0.9× 11 709
Sandra C. Freitas Portugal 8 266 0.7× 257 1.0× 241 1.3× 28 0.2× 63 0.8× 9 433
Xinzhai Tang China 12 169 0.4× 151 0.6× 126 0.7× 62 0.5× 122 1.5× 28 382

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolas Ghilain

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All Works

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Fettweis, Xavier, Hans Van de Vyver, Nicolas Ghilain, et al.. (2025). Increased intensity and frequency of extreme precipitation events in Belgium as simulated by the regional climate model MAR. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 59. 102399–102399. 1 indexed citations
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Fettweis, Xavier, et al.. (2023). Current evolution (1960-2021) of the snow cover in the French Vosges massif with the help of the regional climate MAR model. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 19–41. 1 indexed citations
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Ghilain, Nicolas, et al.. (2022). Large ensemble of downscaled historical daily snowfall from an earth system model to 5.5 km resolution over Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Earth system science data. 14(4). 1901–1916. 3 indexed citations
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Ghilain, Nicolas, et al.. (2019). Daily evapotranspiration at sub-kilometre resolution through surface energy balance modelling and Random Forest-based downscaling. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 6969. 1 indexed citations
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Martins, João P. A., Isabel F. Trigo, Nicolas Ghilain, et al.. (2019). An All-Weather Land Surface Temperature Product Based on MSG/SEVIRI Observations. Remote Sensing. 11(24). 3044–3044. 67 indexed citations
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Ghilain, Nicolas, Alirio Arboleda, Okke Batelaan, et al.. (2019). A New Retrieval Algorithm for Soil Moisture Index from Thermal Infrared Sensor On-Board Geostationary Satellites over Europe and Africa and Its Validation. Remote Sensing. 11(17). 1968–1968. 12 indexed citations
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Ghilain, Nicolas, et al.. (2018). Daily evapotranspiration at sub-kilometre spatial resolution by combining observations from geostationary and polar-orbit satellites. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 39(23). 8984–9003. 2 indexed citations
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Ghilain, Nicolas, et al.. (2017). Evaluating an energy balance setting and random forest-based downscaling for the estimation of daily ET at sub-kilometer spatial resolution. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 1–4. 1 indexed citations
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Petropoulos, George P., Gareth Ireland, Hywel Griffiths, et al.. (2016). Operational evapotranspiration estimates from SEVIRI in support of sustainable water management. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 49. 175–187. 26 indexed citations
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Ghilain, Nicolas, Frederik De Roo, & Françoise Gellens-Meulenberghs. (2014). Evapotranspiration monitoring with Meteosat Second Generation satellites: improvement opportunities from moderate spatial resolution satellites for vegetation. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 35(7). 2654–2670. 15 indexed citations
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Ghilain, Nicolas & Françoise Gellens-Meulenberghs. (2014). Assessing the impact of land cover map resolution and geolocation accuracy on evapotranspiration simulations by a land surface model. Remote Sensing Letters. 5(5). 491–499. 4 indexed citations
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Ghilain, Nicolas, et al.. (2012). Improving evapotranspiration in a land surface model using biophysical variables derived from MSG/SEVIRI satellite. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 16(8). 2567–2583. 44 indexed citations
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Gellens-Meulenberghs, Françoise, et al.. (2012). Land surface evapotranspiration as seen from Meteosat Second Generation Satellites: LSA-SAF developments and perspectives. ORBi (University of Liège). 295. 1018–1021. 3 indexed citations
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Ghilain, Nicolas, et al.. (2011). Evapotranspiration modelling at large scale using near-real time MSG SEVIRI derived data. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 15(3). 771–786. 100 indexed citations
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Trigo, Isabel F., Carlos C. DaCamara, Pedro Viterbo, et al.. (2011). The Satellite Application Facility for Land Surface Analysis. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 32(10). 2725–2744. 210 indexed citations
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Gellens-Meulenberghs, Françoise, Alirio Arboleda, & Nicolas Ghilain. (2007). 43. Towards a Continuous Monitoring of Evapotranspiration Based on MSG Data. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology. 17(4). 20–20. 11 indexed citations

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