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Carole Helfter is affiliated with the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specific focus on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and related subfields.

Their main topics of study explore Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Vehicle emissions and performance, and Climate change and permafrost.

Frequent co-authors in Helfter's work include Eiko Nemitz, Mangaliso J. Gondwe, Mika Aurela, Ivan Mammarella, and Pavel Alekseychik. These collaborations reflect a network of researchers focused on environmental and atmospheric sciences.

Common venues for their research publications are:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Organic Geochemistry

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Helfter include:

  • "Overriding water table control on managed peatland greenhouse gas emissions" (2021, Nature)
  • "FLUXNET-CH 4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands" (2021, Earth system science data)
  • "Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes: Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands" (2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology)
  • "Direct observations of CO2 emission reductions due to COVID-19 lockdown across European urban districts" (2022, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "Warming response of peatland CO2 sink is sensitive to seasonality in warming trends" (2022, Nature Climate Change)

The body of work also spans topics within Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols as well as Vehicle emissions and performance, indicating intersectional research between environmental impacts and automotive factors.

Best Publications

  • Overriding water table control on managed peatland greenhouse gas emissions.

    C. D. Evans;M. Peacock;A. J. Baird;R. R. E. Artz

  • Role of the aquatic pathway in the carbon and greenhouse gas budgets of a peatland catchment

    Kerry J. Dinsmore;Michael F. Billett;Ute M. Skiba;Robert M. Rees

  • Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

    Chuixiang Yi;Daniel Ricciuto;Runze Li;John Wolbeck

  • Semiempirical modeling of abiotic and biotic factors controlling ecosystem respiration across eddy covariance sites

    Mirco Migliavacca;Mirco Migliavacca;Markus Reichstein;Andrew D. Richardson;Roberto Colombo

  • FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands

    Kyle B. Delwiche;Sara Helen Knox;Avni Malhotra;Etienne Fluet-Chouinard

  • Turbulent flow at 190 m height above London during 2006-2008: A climatology and the applicability of similarity theory

    C. R. Wood;A. Lacser;A. Lacser;Janet Fraser Barlow;A. Padhra

  • Thermal optimality of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and underlying mechanisms.

    Shuli Niu;Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Shenfeng Fei;Wenping Yuan

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics in the atmosphere of a developed megacity (London): an overview of the REPARTEE experiment and its conclusions

    R. M. Harrison;R. M. Harrison;M. Dall'Osto;M. Dall'Osto;D. C. S. Beddows;A. J. Thorpe;A. J. Thorpe

  • Fluxes and concentrations of volatile organic compounds from a South-East Asian tropical rainforest

    B. Langford;P. K. Misztal;E. Nemitz;B. Davison

  • Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of reactive nitrogen and greenhouse gases at the NitroEurope core flux measurement sites: measurement strategy and first data sets

    U. Skiba;J. Drewer;Y.S. Tang;N. Van Dijk

  • Controls of carbon dioxide concentrations and fluxes above central London

    C. Helfter;D. Famulari;G. J. Phillips;J. F. Barlow

  • Overview: Oxidant and particle photochemical processes above a south-east Asian tropical rainforest (the OP3 project): Introduction, rationale, location characteristics and tools

    C. N. Hewitt;J. D. Lee;A. R. MacKenzie;M. P. Barkley

  • Meteorology, air quality, and health in London: the ClearfLo project

    S.I. Bohnenstengel;S.E. Belcher;A. Aiken;J. D. Allan

  • Drivers of long-term variability in CO 2 net ecosystem exchange in a temperate peatland

    Carole Helfter;Claire Campbell;Kerry J Dinsmore;Julia Drewer

  • Direct observations of CO2 emission reductions due to COVID-19 lockdown across European urban districts

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  • Spatial and temporal variability of urban fluxes of methane, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide above London, UK

    Carole Helfter;Anja H. Tremper;Christoforos H. Halios;Simone Kotthaus

  • Comparison of greenhouse gas fluxes and nitrogen budgets from an ombotrophic bog in Scotland and a minerotrophic sedge fen in Finland

    J. Drewer;A. Lohila;M. Aurela;T. Laurila

  • Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes : Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands

    Jeremy Irvin;Sharon Zhou;Gavin McNicol;Fred Lu

  • Effects of land use on surface-atmosphere exchanges of trace gases and energy in Borneo: comparing fluxes over oil palm plantations and a rainforest.

    David Fowler;Eiko Nemitz;Pawel Misztal;Chiara Di Marco

  • Area fluxes of carbon dioxide, methane, and carbon monoxide derived from airborne measurements around Greater London: A case study during summer 2012

    Sebastian J. O'Shea;Grant Allen;Zoë L. Fleming;Stephane J.-B. Bauguitte

  • The nitrogen, carbon and greenhouse gas budget of a grazed, cut and fertilised temperate grassland

    Stephanie K. Jones;Carole Helfter;Margaret Anderson;Mhairi Coyle

Frequent Co-Authors

Eiko Nemitz
Eiko Nemitz UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Ute Skiba
Ute Skiba Natural Environment Research Council
Mark A. Sutton
Mark A. Sutton Natural Environment Research Council
Janet F. Barlow
Janet F. Barlow University of Reading
Paul I. Palmer
Paul I. Palmer University of Edinburgh
Ivan Mammarella
Ivan Mammarella University of Helsinki
David Fowler
David Fowler University of Saskatchewan
Peter E. Levy
Peter E. Levy University of Edinburgh
Annalea Lohila
Annalea Lohila Finnish Meteorological Institute
Anders Lindroth
Anders Lindroth Lund University

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