Rafaël Almar

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
184 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Rafaël Almar is a scholar working on Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafaël Almar has authored 184 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 161 papers in Earth-Surface Processes, 83 papers in Oceanography and 72 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Rafaël Almar's work include Coastal and Marine Dynamics (160 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (69 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (66 papers). Rafaël Almar is often cited by papers focused on Coastal and Marine Dynamics (160 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (69 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (66 papers). Rafaël Almar collaborates with scholars based in France, Ghana and United States. Rafaël Almar's co-authors include Erwin W. J. Bergsma, Angélique Melet, Luís Pedro Almeida, Bruno Castelle, Benoît Meyssignac, Gonéri Le Cozannet, Élodie Kestenare, Nadia Sénéchal, Donatus Bapentire Angnuureng and Olusegun A. Dada 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

Rafaël Almar

171 papers receiving 4.3k citations

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A global analysis of extreme coastal water levels with implications for potential coastal overtopping

2021 151 citations Rafaël Almar, Erwin W. J. Bergsma et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Waterline responses to climate forcing along the North American West Coast 2025 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·(unknown), Rafaël Almar, Erwin W. J. Bergsma, Julien Boucharel, Sean Vitousek, Mohsen Taherkhani, Peter Ruggiero	5
2	Derivation of Coastal Erosion Susceptibility and Socio-Economic Vulnerability Models for Sustainable Coastal Management in Senegal 2024 ·Sustainability ·(unknown), Ivan Marić, (unknown), (unknown), Rafaël Almar	7
3	On the cyclic behavior of wave-driven sandspits with implications for coastal zone management 2024 ·Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science ·(unknown), Rafaël Almar, Erwin W. J. Bergsma	3
4	Shoreliner: A Sub-Pixel Coastal Waterline Extraction Pipeline for Multi-Spectral Satellite Optical Imagery 2024 ·Remote Sensing ·Erwin W. J. Bergsma, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jean-Marc Delvit, Rafaël Almar	7
5	Predicting beach profiles with machine learning from offshore wave reflection spectra 2024 ·Environmental Modelling & Software ·(unknown), Rafaël Almar, Rachid Benshila, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Dennis G. Wilson	3
6	Observation of the Coastal Areas, Estuaries and Deltas from Space 2023 ·Surveys in Geophysics ·Benoı̂t Laignel, Stefano Vignudelli, Rafaël Almar, M. Becker, Abderrahim Bentamy, Jérôme Benveniste, Florence Birol, Frédéric Frappart, Déborah Idier, Edward Salameh, Marcello Passaro, (unknown), Marc Simard, Imen Turki, Charles Verpoorter	51
7	Future socioeconomic development along the West African coast forms a larger hazard than sea level rise 2023 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Olusegun A. Dada, Rafaël Almar, Pierre Morand, Erwin W. J. Bergsma, Donatus Bapentire Angnuureng, Philip S. J. Minderhoud	14
8	Editorial for Special Issue: “How the Combination of Satellite Remote Sensing with Artificial Intelligence Can Solve Coastal Issues” 2023 ·Remote Sensing ·Rafaël Almar, Dennis G. Wilson, Jean-Marc Delvit	1
9	Coastal flood vulnerability assessment, a satellite remote sensing and modeling approach 2023 ·Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment ·E. Tonatiuh Mendoza, Edward Salameh, (unknown), Imen Turki, Rafaël Almar, Elena Ojeda, Julien Deloffre, Frédéric Frappart, Benoı̂t Laignel	10
10	Coastal Flooding Caused by Extreme Coastal Water Level at the World Heritage Historic Keta City (Ghana, West Africa) 2023 ·Journal of Marine Science and Engineering ·(unknown), Rafaël Almar, Donatus Bapentire Angnuureng, Precious Agbeko Dzorgbe Mattah, Philip‐Neri Jayson‐Quashigah, (unknown), (unknown)	8
11	Depth Inversion from Wave Frequencies in Temporally Augmented Satellite Video 2022 ·Remote Sensing ·(unknown), Rafaël Almar, Erwin W. J. Bergsma, Sierd de Vries, Stefan Aarninkhof	3
12	Deriving Large-Scale Coastal Bathymetry from Sentinel-2 Images Using an HIGH-Performance Cluster: A Case Study Covering North Africa’s Coastal Zone 2021 ·Sensors ·Mohamed Wassim Baba, (unknown), Erwin W. J. Bergsma, Christopher Daly, Rafaël Almar	8
13	Sea State from Single Optical Images: A Methodology to Derive Wind-Generated Ocean Waves from Cameras, Drones and Satellites 2021 ·Remote Sensing ·Rafaël Almar, Erwin W. J. Bergsma, Patricio A. Catalán, Rodrigo Cienfuegos, (unknown), (unknown), Alexandre Nicolae Lerma, (unknown), (unknown), Margaret L. Palmsten, C. Chris Chickadel	18
14	Global Satellite-Based Coastal Bathymetry from Waves 2021 ·Remote Sensing ·Rafaël Almar, Erwin W. J. Bergsma, (unknown), Mohamed Wassim Baba, (unknown), Christopher Daly, Thierry Garlan, Anne Lifermann	31
15	Contribution of Wave Setup to Projected Coastal Sea Level Changes 2020 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans ·Angélique Melet, Rafaël Almar, Mark Hemer, Gonéri Le Cozannet, Benoît Meyssignac, Peter Ruggiero	60
16	Deriving High Spatial-Resolution Coastal Topography From Sub-meter Satellite Stereo Imagery 2019 ·Remote Sensing ·Luís Pedro Almeida, Rafaël Almar, Erwin W. J. Bergsma, Étienne Berthier, Paulo Baptista, Erwan Garel, Olusegun A. Dada, (unknown)	54
17	Coupling terrestrial LiDAR and video imagery to perform 3D intertidal beach topography 2018 ·Coastal Engineering ·Umberto Andriolo, Luís Pedro Almeida, Rafaël Almar	36
18	Beach Response to Wave Forcing from Event to Inter-Annual Time Scales at Grand Popo, Benin (Gulf of Guinea) 2017 ·Water ·Grégoire Abessolo Ondoa, Frédéric Bonou, (unknown), Yves du Penhoat, (unknown), (unknown), Rafaël Almar	28
19	Shoreline Response to a Sequence of Typhoon and Monsoon Events 2017 ·Water ·Rafaël Almar, Patrick Marchesiello, Luís Pedro Almeida, (unknown), Hitoshi Tanaka, Nguyen Trung Viet	22
20	Morphological response of central Chile sandy beaches to the 8.8 Mw 2010 earthquake and tsunami 2013 ·Americanae (AECID Library) ·(unknown), Rodrigo Cienfuegos, Patricio A. Catalán, Rafaël Almar	4

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