Édouard L. Davin

Research interests

Publications

• The role of urban trees in reducing land surface temperatures in European cities

  Nature Communications · 2021 · 10.1038/s41467-021-26768-w

• Biogeophysical impacts of forestation in Europe: first results from the LUCAS (Land Use and Climate Across Scales) regional climate model intercomparison

  Earth System Dynamics · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-11-183-2020

• Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 – an extended set of large-scale diagnostics for quasi-operational and comprehensive evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP

  Geoscientific model development · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-3383-2020

• Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community

  Regional Environmental Change · 2020 · 10.1007/s10113-020-01606-9

• Warming of hot extremes alleviated by expanding irrigation

  Nature Communications · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14075-4

• Local temperature response to land cover and management change driven by non-radiative processes

  Nature Climate Change · 2017 · 10.1038/nclimate3250

• Present‐day irrigation mitigates heat extremes

  Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2017 · 10.1002/2016jd025740

• Hazardous thunderstorm intensification over Lake Victoria

  Nature Communications · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12786

• ESMValTool (v1.0) – a community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP

  Geoscientific model development · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1747-2016

• The Impact of the African Great Lakes on the Regional Climate

  Journal of Climate · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-14-00565.1

• Preferential cooling of hot extremes from cropland albedo management

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1317323111

• Influence of Amazonian deforestation on the future evolution of regional surface fluxes, circulation, surface temperature and precipitation

  Climate Dynamics · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-014-2203-8

• Investigating soil moisture–climate interactions in a changing climate: A review

  Earth-Science Reviews · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.02.004

• Uncertainties in climate responses to past land cover change: First results from the LUCID intercomparison study

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2009 · 10.1029/2009gl039076

• Climatic Impact of Global-Scale Deforestation: Radiative versus Nonradiative Processes

  Journal of Climate · 2009 · 10.1175/2009jcli3102.1

• Impact of land cover change on surface climate: Relevance of the radiative forcing concept

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2007gl029678

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