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Christian Winter

Christian Winter

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Earth Science

D-Index
32
Citations
3247
World Ranking
8765
National Ranking
633

Overview

Christian Winter is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and has contributed to research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. The main subfields of their work encompass Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Geological Formations and Processes, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Aeolian Processes and Effects, and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

Recent papers authored by Christian Winter include the following:

  • Accuracy of sand beach topography surveying by drones and photogrammetry (2020, Geo-Marine Letters)
  • Processes of Stratification and Destratification During An Extreme River Discharge Event in the German Bight ROFI (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)
  • Morphology of estuarine bedforms, Weser Estuary, Germany (2021, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms)
  • Changes in tidal asymmetry in the German Wadden Sea (2022, Ocean Dynamics)
  • Cliff Retreat Contribution to the Littoral Sediment Budget along the Baltic Sea Coastline of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (2021, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering)

Christian Winter has frequently published in several venues, notably:

  • Geo-Marine Letters
  • Ocean Dynamics
  • Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  • Geomorphology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their frequent collaborators include the following researchers:

  • Marius Becker
  • Knut Krämer
  • Moritz Holtappels
  • Hans-Christian Reimers
  • Gudrun Massmann

Best Publications

  • Trade-Offs between Competition and Defense Specialists among Unicellular Planktonic Organisms: the “Killing the Winner” Hypothesis Revisited

    Christian Winter;Thierry Bouvier;Markus G. Weinbauer;T. Frede Thingstad

  • Practical global salinity gradient energy potential

    O A Alvarez-Silva;O A Alvarez-Silva;Andres F Osorio;Christian Winter

  • Coupled nitrification–denitrification leads to extensive N loss in subtidal permeable sediments

    Hannah K. Marchant;Moritz Holtappels;Gaute Lavik;Soeren Ahmerkamp

  • Accuracy of sand beach topography surveying by drones and photogrammetry

    Elisa Casella;Jan Drechsel;Christian Winter;Markus Benninghoff

  • Flow structure and resistance over subaquaeous high‐ and low‐angle dunes

    Eva Kwoll;Eva Kwoll;J G Venditti;R W Bradley;Christian Winter

  • The Coastal Observing System for Northern and Arctic Seas (COSYNA)

    Burkard Baschek;Friedhelm Schroeder;Holger Brix;Rolf Riethmüller

  • A unified model of ripples and dunes in water and planetary environments

    Orencio Duran Vinent;Orencio Duran Vinent;Bruno Andreotti;Bruno Andreotti;Philippe Claudin;Christian Winter;Christian Winter

  • Decadal scale stability of sorted bedforms, German Bight, southeastern North Sea

    Markus Diesing;Adam Kubicki;Christian Winter;Klaus Schwarzer

  • Quantification of dune dynamics during a tidal cycle in an inlet channel of the Danish Wadden Sea

    Verner Brandbyge Ernstsen;Riko Noormets;Christian Winter;Dierk Hebbeln

  • Development of subaqueous barchanoid‐shaped dunes due to lateral grain size variability in a tidal inlet channel of the Danish Wadden Sea

    Verner Brandbyge Ernstsen;Riko Noormets;Christian Winter;Dierk Hebbeln

  • Regulation of benthic oxygen fluxes in permeable sediments of the coastal ocean

    Soeren Ahmerkamp;Christian Winter;Knut Krämer;Dirk de Beer

  • A hydrothermal deposit from the floor of the Gulf of Aden

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  • Recent morphologic evolution of the German Wadden Sea.

    Markus Benninghoff;Christian Winter

  • Morphological and sedimentological response of a mixed-energy barrier island tidal inlet to storm and fair-weather conditions

    G Herrling;Christian Winter

  • Flocculated meltwater particles control Arctic land-sea fluxes of labile iron.

    Thor Nygaard Markussen;Bo Elberling;Christian Winter;Thorbjørn Joest Andersen

  • The impact of bedform migration on benthic oxygen fluxes

    Soeren Ahmerkamp;Christian Winter;Felix Janssen;Marcel M. M. Kuypers

  • Development of subaqueous barchanoid-shaped dunes due to lateral grain size variability in a tidal inlet channel of the Danish Wadden Sea: DEVELOPMENT OF BARCHANOID-SHAPED DUNES

    Verner B. Ernstsen;Riko Noormets;Christian Winter;Dierk Hebbeln

  • Predicting bed form roughness: the influence of lee side angle

    Alice Lefebvre;Christian Winter

  • Characterising natural bedform morphology and its influence on flow

    Alice Lefebvre;Andries J. Paarlberg;Christian Winter

  • Abrupt emergence of a large pockmark field in the German Bight, southeastern North Sea.

    Knut Krämer;Peter Holler;Gabriel Herbst;Alexander Bratek

  • Shore and bar cross‐shore migration, rotation, and breathing processes at an embayed beach

    B. Blossier;K. R. Bryan;C. J. Daly;C. Winter

  • Development of subaqueous barchanoid-shaped dunes due to lateral grain size variability in a tidal inlet channel of the Danish Wadden Sea : Marine sandware and river dune dynamics

    Verner B. Ernstsen;Riko Noormets;Christian Winter;Dierk Hebbeln

Frequent Co-Authors

Dierk Hebbeln
Dierk Hebbeln University of Bremen
Karin R. Bryan
Karin R. Bryan University of Auckland
Bruno Andreotti
Bruno Andreotti École Normale Supérieure
Riko Noormets
Riko Noormets University Centre in Svalbard
Marcel M. M. Kuypers
Marcel M. M. Kuypers Max Planck Society
Thorbjørn Joest Andersen
Thorbjørn Joest Andersen University of Copenhagen
Jeremy G. Venditti
Jeremy G. Venditti Simon Fraser University
Michael Schulz
Michael Schulz Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Bo Elberling
Bo Elberling University of Copenhagen
Dirk de Beer
Dirk de Beer Max Planck Society

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