Nicolas Viovy

54.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
154 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Nicolas Viovy is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Viovy has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 120 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 46 papers in Atmospheric Science and 30 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Viovy's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (87 papers), Climate variability and models (60 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (51 papers). Nicolas Viovy is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (87 papers), Climate variability and models (60 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (51 papers). Nicolas Viovy collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and United States. Nicolas Viovy's co-authors include Philippe Ciais, Pierre Friedlingstein, Stephen Sitch, Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré, Shilong Piao, Jérôme Ogée, Jan Polcher‬, Gerhard Krinner, I. Colin Prentice and Jérôme Demarty and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Viovy

147 papers receiving 11.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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 dynamic global vegetation model for studies of the coupled atmosphere‐biosphere system

2005 1.6k citations Gerhard Krinner, Nicolas Viovy et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO ₂ sink

2015 1.1k citations Anders Ahlström, Michael Raupach et al. Science profile →
Growing season extension and its impact on terrestrial carbon cycle in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 2 decades

2007 707 citations Shilong Piao, Pierre Friedlingstein et al. Global Biogeochemical Cycles profile →
Spatiotemporal patterns of terrestrial gross primary production: A review

2015 523 citations Pierre Friedlingstein, Christian Beer et al. profile →
Vegetation structural change since 1981 significantly enhanced the terrestrial carbon sink

2019 336 citations J.M. Chen, Weimin Ju et al. Nature Communications profile →
Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands

2021 200 citations Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais et al. Nature Communications profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Unveiling the Role of Spatial Functional Trait Variations on Grassland Primary Productivity at France Scale 2025 ·Journal of Biogeography ·(unknown), Cyrille Violle, Lucie Mahaut, Jens Kattge, Marc Peaucelle, Philippe Choler, Nicolas Viovy	0
2	Solar Radiation Triggers the Bimodal Leaf Phenology of Central African Evergreen Broadleaved Forests 2024 ·Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems ·Liyang Liu, Philippe Ciais, Fabienne Maignan, Yuan Zhang, Nicolas Viovy, Marc Peaucelle, Elizabeth Kearsley, Koen Hufkens, Marijn Bauters, Colin A. Chapman, Zheng Fu, Shangrong Lin, Haibo Lü, (unknown), Xueqin Yang, Xianjin He, Xiuzhi Chen	0
3	Human influence on growing-period frosts like in early April 2021 in central France 2023 ·Natural hazards and earth system sciences ·Robert Vautard, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, R. M. Bonnet, Sihan Li, Yoann Robin, Sarah Kew, Sjoukje Philip, Jean‐Michel Soubeyroux, Brigitte Dubuisson, Nicolas Viovy, Markus Reichstein, Friederike E. L. Otto, Iñaki García de Cortázar Atauri	13
4	Recent extreme drought events in the Amazon rainforest: assessment of different precipitation and evapotranspiration datasets and drought indicators 2022 ·Biogeosciences ·Phillip Papastefanou, Christian Zang, (unknown), (unknown), Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz, L. F. C. Rezende, Romina Ruscica, Boris Sakschewski, Anna A. Sörensson, Kirsten Thonicke, Carolina Vera, Nicolas Viovy, Celso von Randow, Anja Rammig	21
5	Increased vulnerability of European ecosystems to two compound dry and hot summers in 2018 and 2019 2021 ·FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg) ·Ana Bastos, René Orth, Markus Reichstein, Philippe Ciais, Nicolas Viovy, Sönke Zaehle, Peter Anthoni, Almut Arneth, Pierre Gentine, Émilie Joetzjer, Sebastian Lienert, Tammas Loughran, Patrick McGuire, O Sungmin, Julia Pongratz, Stephen Sitch	2
6	Vulnerability of European ecosystems to two compound dry and hot summers in 2018 and 2019 2021 ·Earth System Dynamics ·Ana Bastos, René Orth, Markus Reichstein, Philippe Ciais, Nicolas Viovy, Sönke Zaehle, Peter Anthoni, Almut Arneth, Pierre Gentine, Émilie Joetzjer, Sebastian Lienert, Tammas Loughran, Patrick McGuire, O Sungmin, Julia Pongratz, Stephen Sitch	75
7	Climate warming from managed grasslands cancels the cooling effect of carbon sinks in sparsely grazed and natural grasslands breakdown → 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Jinfeng Chang, Philippe Ciais, Thomas Gasser, Pete Smith, Mario Herrero, Peter Havlík, Michael Obersteiner, Bertrand Guenet, Daniel S. Goll, Wei Li, Victoria Naipal, Shushi Peng, Chunjing Qiu, Hanqin Tian, Nicolas Viovy, Chao Yue, Dan Zhu	200
8	Quantifying the spatial extent and intensity of recent extremedrought events in the Amazon rainforest and their impacts on thecarbon cycle 2020 ·Phillip Papastefanou, Christian Zang, (unknown), (unknown), Juan C. Jiménez‐Muñoz, L. F. C. Rezende, Romina Ruscica, Boris Sakschewski, Anna A. Sörensson, Kirsten Thonicke, Carolina Vera, Nicolas Viovy, Celso von Randow, Anja Rammig	3
9	Vegetation structural change since 1981 significantly enhanced the terrestrial carbon sink breakdown → 2019 ·Nature Communications ·J.M. Chen, Weimin Ju, Philippe Ciais, Nicolas Viovy, Ronggao Liu, Yang Liu, Xuehe Lu	336
10	Contrasting interannual atmospheric CO ₂ variabilities and their terrestrial mechanisms for two types of El Niños 2018 ·Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Jun Wang, Ning Zeng, Meirong Wang, Fei Jiang, Jingming Chen, Pierre Friedlingstein, Atul K. Jain, Ziqiang Jiang, Weimin Ju, Sebastian Lienert, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Stephen Sitch, Nicolas Viovy, Hengmao Wang, A. Wiltshire	22
11	Contrasting behaviors of the atmospheric CO ₂ interannual variability during two types of El Niños 2018 ·Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union) ·Jun Wang, Ning Zeng, Meirong Wang, Fei Jiang, Jingming Chen, Pierre Friedlingstein, Atul K. Jain, Ziqiang Jiang, Weimin Ju, Sebastian Lienert, Julia E. M. S. Nabel, Stephen Sitch, Nicolas Viovy, Hengmao Wang, A. Wiltshire	1
12	Role of CO ₂ , climate and land use in regulating the seasonal amplitudeincrease of carbon fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems: a multimodel analysis 2016 ·Biogeosciences ·Fang Zhao, Ning Zeng, Ghassem Asrar, Pierre Friedlingstein, Akihiko Ito, Atul K. Jain, Eugenia Kalnay, Etsushi Kato, Charles D. Koven, Benjamin Poulter, Rashid Rafique, Stephen Sitch, Shijie Shu, Benjamin D. Stocker, Nicolas Viovy, Andy Wiltshire, Sönke Zaehle	26
13	The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO ₂ sink breakdown → 2015 ·Science ·Anders Ahlström, Michael Raupach, Guy Schurgers, Benjamin Smith, Almut Arneth, Martin Jung, Markus Reichstein, Josep G. Canadell, Pierre Friedlingstein, Atul K. Jain, Etsushi Kato, Benjamin Poulter, Stephen Sitch, Benjamin D. Stocker, Nicolas Viovy, Ying‐Ping Wang, Andy Wiltshire, Sönke Zaehle, Ning Zeng	1109
14	Improving the dynamics of Northern Hemisphere high-latitude vegetation in the ORCHIDEE ecosystem model 2015 ·Geoscientific model development ·Dan Zhu, Shushi Peng, P. Ciais, Nicolas Viovy, (unknown), Masa Kageyama, Gerhard Krinner, Philippe Peylin, Catherine Ottlé, Shilong Piao, Benjamin Poulter, Dmitry Schepaschenko, А. Shvidenko	37
15	Ambrosia airborne pollen concentration modelling and evaluation over Europe 2014 ·HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) ·Lynda Hamaoui-Laguel, Robert Vautard, Nicolas Viovy, Dmitry Khvorostyanov, Augustin Colette	1
16	Impact of precipitation intermittency on NAO-temperature signals in proxy records 2013 ·Climate of the past ·Mathieu Casado, Pablo Ortega, Valérie Masson‐Delmotte, Camille Risi, Didier Swingedouw, Valérie Daux, Dominique Genty, Fabienne Maignan, Olga N Solomina, Bo Vinther, Nicolas Viovy, (unknown)	22
17	Spatial pattern of terrestrial carbon dioxide and water vapor coupling 2009 ·AGUFM ·Christian Beer, Markus Reichstein, Philippe Ciais, Édouard L. Davin, Fabienne Maignan, Paulo J. de Oliveira, Shilong Piao, Thomas Raddatz, Enrico Tomelleri, Nicolas Viovy	1
18	Assessing the ability of three land ecosystem models to simulate gross carbon uptake of forests from boreal to Mediterranean climate in Europe 2007 ·Martin Jung, Guerric Le Maire, Sönke Zaehle, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, M. Vetter, Galina Churkina, Philippe Ciais, Nicolas Viovy, Markus Reichstein	4
19	Top-down and bottom-up carbon budgets of North America, Europe and Asia 2006 ·AGUFM ·P. Ciais, Shilong Piao, Nicolas Viovy, (unknown), Philippe Peylin, D. F. Baker, S. Denning, K. J. Davis, G.J. Nabuurs, Markus Reichstein, R. A. Houghton, Sönke Zaehle, Martin Heimann	1
20	A dynamic global vegetation model for studies of the coupled atmosphere‐biosphere system breakdown → 2005 ·Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Gerhard Krinner, Nicolas Viovy, Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré, Jérôme Ogée, Jan Polcher‬, Pierre Friedlingstein, Philippe Ciais, Stephen Sitch, I. Colin Prentice	1603

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