T. Elfouhaily

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

T. Elfouhaily is a scholar working on Oceanography, Environmental Engineering and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, T. Elfouhaily has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Oceanography, 22 papers in Environmental Engineering and 21 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in T. Elfouhaily's work include Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (40 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (22 papers) and Coastal and Marine Dynamics (19 papers). T. Elfouhaily is often cited by papers focused on Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (40 papers), Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (22 papers) and Coastal and Marine Dynamics (19 papers). T. Elfouhaily collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. T. Elfouhaily's co-authors include Bertrand Chapron, Doug Vandemark, K. B. Katsaros, Charles‐Antoine Guérin, D. R. Thompson, J. Tournadre, Yves Quilfen, Joel T. Johnson, James L. Garrison and Cinzia Zuffada and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

T. Elfouhaily

50 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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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 unified directional spectrum for long and short wind‐driven waves

1997 878 citations T. Elfouhaily, Bertrand Chapron et al. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
T. Elfouhaily United States	18	1.9k	836	794	679	368	51	2.4k
Wolfgang Rosenthal Germany	22	1.8k 0.9×	980 1.2×	684 0.9×	95 0.1×	331 0.9×	61	2.0k
Christophe Bourlier France	23	493 0.3×	151 0.2×	201 0.3×	388 0.6×	483 1.3×	119	1.4k
Gary S. Brown United States	15	617 0.3×	227 0.3×	225 0.3×	210 0.3×	269 0.7×	61	1.1k
Stephen J. Frasier United States	27	779 0.4×	335 0.4×	1.5k 1.9×	642 0.9×	460 1.3×	109	2.2k
I. M. Fuks United States	14	556 0.3×	224 0.3×	127 0.2×	147 0.2×	220 0.6×	84	924
G. R. Valenzuela United States	14	596 0.3×	320 0.4×	155 0.2×	108 0.2×	189 0.5×	34	831
George Z. Forristall Netherlands	25	2.1k 1.1×	989 1.2×	1.3k 1.7×	133 0.2×	57 0.2×	89	2.6k
Alessandro Toffoli Australia	35	2.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.5×	1.5k 1.8×	57 0.1×	79 0.2×	106	2.9k
Hubert Branger France	17	599 0.3×	416 0.5×	405 0.5×	108 0.2×	42 0.1×	37	1.0k
Michael L. Banner Australia	38	4.0k 2.1×	2.6k 3.1×	2.1k 2.7×	231 0.3×	104 0.3×	74	4.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Johnson, Joel T. & T. Elfouhaily. (2007). Computation of Oceanlike Surface Thermal Emission and Bistatic Scattering With the Reduced Local Curvature Approximation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 45(7). 2108–2115. 8 indexed citations

Elfouhaily, T., et al.. (2006). Rayleigh’s Hypothesis and the Geometrical Optics Limit. Physical Review Letters. 97(12). 120404–120404. 4 indexed citations

Vandemark, Doug, Bertrand Chapron, T. Elfouhaily, & J. W. Campbell. (2005). Impact of high‐frequency waves on the ocean altimeter range bias. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 110(C11). 16 indexed citations

Guérin, Charles‐Antoine, Gabriel Soriano, & T. Elfouhaily. (2004). Weighted curvature approximation: numerical tests for 2D dielectric surfaces. Waves in Random Media. 14(3). 349–363. 25 indexed citations

Monaldo, F., et al.. (2004). Comparison of high-resolution wind maps from SAR imagery with in situ measurements from the ONR CBLAST experiments. 1. 40–43. 2 indexed citations

Elfouhaily, T., et al.. (2003). Local and non-local curvature approximation: a new asymptotic theory for wave scattering. Waves in Random Media. 13(4). 321–337. 58 indexed citations

Elfouhaily, T., et al.. (2003). A practical second-order electromagnetic model in the quasi-specular regime based on the curvature of a ‘good-conducting’ scattering surface. Waves in Random Media. 13(3). L1–L6. 8 indexed citations

Vandemark, Doug, et al.. (2003). Sea surface slope statistics from a low-altitude aircraft. 1. 381–383. 3 indexed citations

Elfouhaily, T., et al.. (2003). Analysis of random nonlinear water waves: the Stokes–Woodward technique. Comptes Rendus Mécanique. 331(3). 189–196. 3 indexed citations

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Thompson, D. R., T. Elfouhaily, & R. F. Gasparovic. (2002). Polarization dependence of GPS signals reflected from the ocean. 7. 3099–3101. 8 indexed citations

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Bliven, Larry F., Piotr Sobieski, & T. Elfouhaily. (2002). Ring wave frequency spectra: measurements and model. 1. 830–830. 2 indexed citations

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Elfouhaily, T. & Bertrand Chapron. (2002). A comparison of wind wave spectra used in ocean remote sensing modeling. 1. 606–608. 8 indexed citations

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Elfouhaily, T., et al.. (2002). Delay-Doppler analysis of bistatically reflected signals from the ocean surface: theory and application. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 40(3). 560–573. 72 indexed citations

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Elfouhaily, T., D. R. Thompson, Doug Vandemark, & Bertrand Chapron. (2001). Higher–order hydrodynamic modulation: theory and applications for ocean waves. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 457(2015). 2585–2608. 15 indexed citations

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Chapron, Bertrand, Doug Vandemark, T. Elfouhaily, et al.. (2001). Altimeter sea state bias: A new look at global range error estimates. Geophysical Research Letters. 28(20). 3947–3950. 11 indexed citations

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Chapron, Bertrand, V. Kerbaol, Doug Vandemark, & T. Elfouhaily. (2000). Importance of peakedness in sea surface slope measurements and applications. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 105(C7). 17195–17202. 54 indexed citations

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Elfouhaily, T., D. R. Thompson, Bertrand Chapron, & Doug Vandemark. (2000). Improved electromagnetic bias theory. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 105(C1). 1299–1310. 38 indexed citations

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Elfouhaily, T., Doug Vandemark, Jérôme Gourrion, & Bertrand Chapron. (1998). Estimation of wind stress using dual‐frequency TOPEX data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 103(C11). 25101–25108. 43 indexed citations

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Thompson, D. R., T. Elfouhaily, & Bertrand Chapron. (1998). Polarization ratio for microwave backscattering from the ocean surface at low to moderate incidence angles. 1671–1673 vol.3. 157 indexed citations

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Elfouhaily, T., Bertrand Chapron, K. B. Katsaros, & Doug Vandemark. (1997). A unified directional spectrum for long and short wind‐driven waves. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 102(C7). 15781–15796. 878 indexed citations breakdown →

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