P.G. Mestayer

3.8k citations

116 papers · 3.2k · 1 hit paper · h-index 32

Impact in

Environmental Engineering top 0.2%
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
Atmospheric Science top 2%
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Papers in

Environmental Engineering 67
- Wind and Air Flow Studies 54
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation 36
Atmospheric Science 44
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 31

Co-authors: J.-F. Sini (18 shared papers)Sandrine Anquetin (5 shared papers)Sylvain Dupont (3 shared papers)P. Louka (9 shared papers)J.-M. Rosant (17 shared papers)C. W. Fairall (6 shared papers)Aurélien Henon (10 shared papers)James Voogt (5 shared papers)
Journals: Boundary-Layer Meteorology (10 papers)Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (7 papers)Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology (5 papers)Water Air and Soil Pollution Focus (5 papers)Review of Scientific Instruments (3 papers)
Partner nations: France United States Netherlands

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P.G. Mestayer

109 papers receiving 3.0k citations

P.G. Mestayer's Hit Papers

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Pollutant dispersion and thermal effects in urban street canyons 1996 · 501 citations

What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

1996 Atmospheric Environment

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1	Pollutant dispersion and thermal effects in urban street canyons Atmospheric Environment ·J.-F. Sini, Sandrine Anquetin, P.G. Mestayer Hit paper breakdown →	1996	501
2	Local isotropy and anisotropy in a high-Reynolds-number turbulent boundary layer Journal of Fluid Mechanics ·P.G. Mestayer	1982	146
3	The urban boundary-layer field campaign in marseille (ubl/clu-escompte): set-up and first results Boundary-Layer Meteorology ·P.G. Mestayer, Pierre Durand, Patrick Augustin, Sophie Bastin, J. M. Bonnefond, B. B�nech, Bernard Campistron, A. Coppalle	2004	144
4	The possible influence of urban surfaces on rainfall development: a sensitivity study in 2D in the meso-γ-scale Atmospheric Research ·Jonathan E. Thielen, Wolfram Wobrock, Alan M. Gadian, P.G. Mestayer, Jean‐Dominique Creutin	2000	137
5	Modelling daytime thermal infrared directional anisotropy over Toulouse city centre Remote Sensing of Environment ·J.-P. Lagouarde, Aurélien Henon, Britta Kurz, Patrick Moreau, Mark Irvine, James Voogt, P.G. Mestayer	2009	126
6	Thermal Effects on the Airflow in a Street Canyon – Nantes'99 Experimental Results and Model Simulations Water Air and Soil Pollution Focus ·P. Louka, G. Vachon, J.-F. Sini, P.G. Mestayer, J.-M. Rosant	2002	116
7	A study of the inertial‐dissipation method for computing air‐sea fluxes Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·J. B. Edson, C. W. Fairall, P.G. Mestayer, Søren Erik Larsen	1991	114
8	Parameterization of the Urban Water Budget with the Submesoscale Soil Model Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology ·Sylvain Dupont, P.G. Mestayer, Emmanuel Guilloteau, Emmanuel Berthier, Hervé Andrieu	2006	84
9	A model of evaporating spray droplet dispersion Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·Mathieu P. Rouault, P.G. Mestayer, Roland Schiestel	1991	74
10	Influence of Geometry on the Mean Flow within Urban Street Canyons – A Comparison of Wind Tunnel Experiments and Numerical Simulations Water Air and Soil Pollution Focus ·A. Kovar-Panskus, P. Louka, J.-F. Sini, Eric Savory, Michael Czech, A. Abdelqari, P.G. Mestayer, N. Toy	2002	67
11	Experimental characterization and modelling of the nighttime directional anisotropy of thermal infrared measurements over an urban area: Case study of Toulouse (France) Remote Sensing of Environment ·J.-P. Lagouarde, Aurélien Henon, Mark Irvine, James Voogt, Grégoire Pigeon, Patrick Moreau, Valéry Masson, P.G. Mestayer	2011	66
12	Parameterization of the Urban Energy Budget with the Submesoscale Soil Model Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology ·Sylvain Dupont, P.G. Mestayer	2006	64
13	Towards improving the simulation of meteorological fields in urban areas through updated/advanced surface fluxes description Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Alexander А. Baklanov, P.G. Mestayer, Alain Clappier, Sergej Zilitinkevich, Sylvain M. Joffre, Alexander Mahura, Niels Woetmann Nielsen	2008	64
14	The surface energy balance and the mixing height in urban areas—activities and recommendations of COST-Action 715 Boundary-Layer Meteorology ·Martin Piringer, Sylvain M. Joffre, Alexander А. Baklanov, Andreas Christen, Marco Deserti, Koen De Ridder, Stefan M. Emeis, P.G. Mestayer	2007	61
15	Inertial-Dissipation Air-Sea Flux Measurements: A Prototype System Using Realtime Spectral Computations Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology ·C. W. Fairall, J. B. Edson, Søren Ejling Larsen, P.G. Mestayer	1990	60
16	Investigating the Surface Energy Balance in Urban Areas – Recent Advances and Future Needs Water Air and Soil Pollution Focus ·Martin Piringer, Sue Grimmond, Sylvain M. Joffre, P.G. Mestayer, Doug R. Middleton, Mathias Walter Rotach, Alexander А. Baklanov, Koen De Ridder	2002	57
17	Local anisotropy in heated and cooled turbulent boundary layers The Physics of Fluids ·P.G. Mestayer, Carl H. Gibson, M. Coantic, Anandkumar S. Patel	1976	55
18	Spray droplet modeling: 2. An interactive Eulerian‐Lagrangian model of evaporating spray droplets Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres ·James B. Edson, Sandrine Anquetin, P.G. Mestayer, J.-F. Sini	1996	51
19	Urban roughness mapping – validation techniques and some first results Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics ·Marcel Bottema, P.G. Mestayer	1998	46
20	Measurements of Traffic-Induced Turbulence within a Street Canyon during the Nantes'99 Experiment Water Air and Soil Pollution Focus ·G. Vachon, P. Louka, J-M. Rosant, P.G. Mestayer, J-F. Sini	2002	46

About P.G. Mestayer

P.G. Mestayer is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 116 papers that have together received 3.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Wind and Air Flow Studies (54 papers), Urban Heat Island Mitigation (36 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (31 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (15 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (15 papers), Aeolian processes and effects (15 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (10 papers) and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Environmental Engineering (2.2k citations), Atmospheric Science (1.2k citations), Oceanography (521 citations), Earth-Surface Processes (290 citations) and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (560 citations). P.G. Mestayer has collaborated with scholars based in France, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include J.-F. Sini, Sandrine Anquetin, Sylvain Dupont, P. Louka, J.-M. Rosant, C. W. Fairall, Aurélien Henon, James Voogt, J. B. Edson and James B. Edson. Their work appears in journals such as Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Water Air and Soil Pollution Focus and Review of Scientific Instruments.

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