2026 Christian Mätzler: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	60	2974	2842	83	79	189	11012

Overview

Christian Mätzler is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions to Environmental Science. Their work spans several related subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and issues involving Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

The scientist's research topics predominantly address cryospheric studies and observations, climate change and permafrost, soil moisture and remote sensing, precipitation measurement and analysis, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, icing and de-icing technologies, and ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics.

Christian Mätzler has authored several papers including:

MATLAB Functions for Mie Scattering and Absorption, Version 1, 2020, Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern)
Temperature effects on L-band vegetation optical depth of a boreal forest, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
X-Ray Tomography-Based Microstructure Representation in the Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer Model, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Quantifying Surface Melt and Liquid Water on the Greenland Ice Sheet using L-band Radiometry, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
Brief communication: A continuous formulation of microwave scattering from fresh snow to bubbly ice from first principles, 2022, The Cryosphere

The main venues where Christian Mätzler has published work include:

Remote Sensing of Environment
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
The Cryosphere
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern)

Frequent collaborators in Mätzler's research projects consist of Mike Schwank, Reza Naderpour, Derek Houtz, Ghislain Picard, and Arnaud Mialon. This network reflects interdisciplinary interactions within the fields of remote sensing and geosciences.

Best Publications

Applications of the interaction of microwaves with the natural snow cover

Christian Mätzler

603
Citations
Microwave Emission Model of Layered Snowpacks

Andreas Wiesmann;Christian Mätzler

550
Citations
Dielectric properties of freshwater ice at microwave frequencies

Christian Mätzler;Urs Wegmüller

393
Citations
Microwave permittivity of dry sand

C. Matzler

393
Citations
Thermal Microwave Radiation: Applications for Remote Sensing

Christian Mätzler

342
Citations
Passive microwave signatures of landscapes in winter

C. Mätzler

293
Citations
Microwave permittivity of dry snow

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258
Citations
Relation Between Grain Size and Correlation Length of Snow

Christian Mätzler

255
Citations
Extension of the Microwave Emission Model of Layered Snowpacks to Coarse-Grained Snow

Christian Mätzler;Andreas Wiesmann

252
Citations
Norwegian Remote Sensing Experiment: Evaluation of the Nimbus 7 scanning multichannel microwave radiometer for sea ice research

E. Svendsen;K. Kloster;B. Farrelly;O. M. Johannessen

251
Citations
Rough bare soil reflectivity model

U. Wegmuller;C. Matzler

246
Citations
Aerosol and cloud effects on solar brightening and the recent rapid warming

Christian Ruckstuhl;Rolf Philipona;Klaus Behrens;Martine Collaud Coen

234
Citations
Microwave (1-100 GHz) dielectric model of leaves

C. Matzler

207
Citations
Passive Microwave Signatures of Sea Ice

Duane T. Eppler;L. Dennis Farmer;Alan W. Lohanick;Mark R. Anderson

190
Citations
MATLAB Functions for Mie Scattering and Absorption Version 2

Christian Mätzler

180
Citations
Evolution of microwave sea ice signatures during early summer and midsummer in the marginal ice zone

R. G. Onstott;T. C. Grenfell;C. Matzler;C. A. Luther

179
Citations
Detection of soil freezing from L-band passive microwave observations

Kimmo Rautiainen;Juha Lemmetyinen;Mike Schwank;Anna Kontu

172
Citations
Improved Born approximation for scattering of radiation in a granular medium

Christian Mätzler

164
Citations
A model for retrieving total sea ice concentration from a spaceborne dual-polarized passive microwave instrument operating near 90 GHz

Einar Svendsen;Christian Matzler;Thomas C. Grenfell

162
Citations
Technical note: Relief effects for passive microwave remote sensing

C. Mätzler;A. Standley

162
Citations
Radiometric and structural measurements of snow samples

Andreas Wiesmann;Christian Mätzler;Thomas Weise

156
Citations
A comparative study of instruments for measuring the liquid water content of snow

A. Denoth;A. Foglar;P. Weiland;C. Mätzler

149
Citations
Snow mapping with active microwave sensors

Christian Mätzler;Erwin Schanda

142
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Wiesmann University of Bern

Mike Schwank Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

Niklaus Kämpfer University of Bern

Urs Wegmüller Gamma Remote Sensing (Switzerland)

Klemens Hocke University of Bern

Juha Lemmetyinen Finnish Meteorological Institute

Tazio Strozzi Gamma Remote Sensing (Switzerland)

Anna Kontu Finnish Meteorological Institute

Jouni Pulliainen Finnish Meteorological Institute

Hannes Flühler ETH Zurich

External Links

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