Florent Brient

Associate Professor — Atmospheric Sciences

🇫🇷 French version

Scientific publications

2024

  • Bony S., J.L. Dufresne, F. Brient (2024). Contribution of LMD to the study of the role of clouds in climate change. Histoire de la recherche contemporaine. pdf
  • Petrova, I. Y., D. G. Miralles, F. Brient, M. G. Donat, S. Min, Y. Kim, M. Bador (2024). Observation-constrained projections reveal longer-than-expected dry spells. Nature. pdf
  • Brient, F., F. Couvreux, C. Rio, R. Honnert (2024). Coherent subsiding structures in large-eddy simulations of atmospheric boundary layers. QJRMS. pdf

2023

  • Myers, T. A., R. Vogel, F. Brient, H. Parishani, R. C. Scott (2023). Tropical marine low clouds: Feedbacks to warming and on climate variability. AGU Monograph. pdf

2021

  • Saint-Martin, D., O. Geoffroy, A. Voldoire, J. Cattiaux, F. Brient, et al. (2021). Traceability of climate sensitivity in the CNRM climate models. JAMES. pdf
  • Sanderson, B., A. Pendergrass, C. D. Koven, F. Brient, B. Booth, R. Fisher, R. Knutti (2021). The potential for structural errors in emergent constraints. Earth System Dynamics. pdf
  • Couvreux, F., F. Hourdin, D. Williamson, R. Roehrig, V. Volodina, N. Villefranque, et al. (2021). Process-based climate model development harnessing Uncertainty Quantification. Part I: a new paradigm for parameterization improvement. JAMES. pdf

2020

  • Brient, F. (2020). Reducing uncertainties in climate projections with emergent constraints: Concepts, Examples and Prospects. Adv. Atmos. Sci. pdf

2019

  • Risi, C., J. Galewsky, G. Reverdin, F. Brient (2019). Controls on the water vapor isotopic composition near the surface of tropical oceans... Atmos. Chem. Phys. pdf
  • Hourdin, F., A. Jam, C. Rio, F. Couvreux, I. Sandu, M.P. Lefebvre, F. Brient, et al. (2019). Unified parameterization of convective boundary layer transport and clouds... JAMES. pdf
  • Brient, F., F. Couvreux, N. Villefranque, C. Rio, R. Honnert (2019). Object-oriented identification of coherent structures in LES: Importance of downdrafts in stratocumulus. Geophys. Res. Lett. pdf
  • Brient, F., R. Roerhig, A. Voldoire (2019). Evaluating marine stratocumulus clouds in the CNRM-CM6-1 model... JAMES. pdf

2018

  • Adam, O., T. Schneider, F. Brient (2018). Relation of seasonal and regional aspects of the double-ITCZ bias... Clim. Dyn. pdf

2017

  • Cesana, G., K. Suselj, F. Brient (2017). On the dependence of cloud feedbacks on physical parameterizations... Geophys. Res. Lett. pdf
  • Tsushima, Y., F. Brient, S. A. Klein, et al. (2017). The Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) Diagnostic Codes Catalogue. Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss. pdf
  • Ceppi, P., F. Brient, M. Zelinka, D. Hartmann (2017). Cloud feedback mechanisms and their representation in global climate models. WIREs Clim. Change. pdf
  • Schneider, T., J. Teixeira, C. S. Bretherton, F. Brient, et al. (2017). Climate goals and computing the future of clouds. Nature Clim. Change. pdf

2016

  • Brient, F. (2016). Réduire les incertitudes des projections climatiques: le rôle des contraintes émergentes. La Météorologie. pdf
  • Adam, O., T. Schneider, F. Brient, T. Bischoff (2016). Relation of the double-ITCZ bias to the atmospheric energy budget... Geophys. Res. Lett. pdf
  • Brient, F., T. Schneider (2016). Constraints on climate sensitivity from observed low-cloud reflection. J. Climate. pdf
  • Brient, F., T. Schneider, Z. Tan, S. Bony, X. Qu, A. Hall (2016). Shallowness of tropical low clouds as a predictor... J. Climate. pdf

2013

  • Zhang, M. H. et al. (2013). CGILS: First Results from an International Project... JAMES. pdf
  • Brient, F., S. Bony (2013). Interpretation of the positive low-cloud feedback predicted by a climate model under global warming. Clim. Dyn. pdf

2012

  • Brient, F., S. Bony (2012). How may low-cloud radiative properties simulated in the current climate influence low-cloud feedbacks... Geophys. Res. Lett. pdf
  • Zhang, M., C. S. Bretherton, P. N. Blossey, S. Bony, F. Brient, et al. (2012). The CGILS experimental design... JAMES. pdf
  • Jiang, J.H. et al. (2012). Evaluation of cloud and water vapor simulations in CMIP5 climate models... J. Geophys. Res. pdf