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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
67
Citations
13544
World Ranking
2014
National Ranking
134

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Christoph Gerbig is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany. Their research primarily contributes to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science among other subfields.

Their work is centered on topics including Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies, and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics.

Gerbig has coauthored numerous scientific papers alongside frequent collaborators such as Michał Gałkowski, Saqr Munassar, Guillaume Monteil, Marko Scholze, and Ingrid T. Luijkx.

Key recent publications include:

  • Changes in net ecosystem exchange over Europe during the 2018 drought based on atmospheric observations, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Estimating CH 4, CO 2 and CO emissions from coal mining and industrial activities in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin using an aircraft-based mass balance approach, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • The fingerprint of the summer 2018 drought in Europe on ground-based atmospheric CO2 measurements, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • The regional European atmospheric transport inversion comparison, EUROCOM: first results on European-wide terrestrial carbon fluxes for the period 2006-2015, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • The consolidated European synthesis of CO 2 emissions and removals for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990-2018, 2021, Earth system science data

Gerbig publishes frequently in the journals Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geoscientific model development, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and Earth system science data.

Best Publications

  • A near-field tool for simulating the upstream influence of atmospheric observations: The Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model

    J. C. Lin;Christoph Gerbig;S. C. Wofsy;A. E. Andrews

  • Calibration of the Total Carbon Column Observing Network using aircraft profile data

    Debra Wunch;Geoffrey C. Toon;Paul O. Wennberg;Steven C. Wofsy

  • A satellite-based biosphere parameterization for net ecosystem CO2 exchange: Vegetation Photosynthesis and Respiration Model (VPRM)

    Pathmathevan Mahadevan;Steven C. Wofsy;Daniel M. Matross;Daniel M. Matross;Xiangming Xiao

  • Atmospheric CH4 in the first decade of the 21st century: Inverse modeling analysis using SCIAMACHY satellite retrievals and NOAA surface measurements

    P. Bergamaschi;S. Houweling;A. Segers;M. Krol;M. Krol;M. Krol

  • Global-scale atmosphere monitoring by in-service aircraft – current achievements and future prospects of the European Research Infrastructure IAGOS

    Andreas Petzold;Valerie Thouret;Christoph Gerbig;Andreas Zahn

  • An improved fast-response vacuum-uv resonance fluorescence CO instrument

    Christoph Gerbig;Sandra Schmitgen;Dieter Kley;Andreas Volz-Thomas

  • Toward constraining regional‐scale fluxes of CO2 with atmospheric observations over a continent: 2. Analysis of COBRA data using a receptor‐oriented framework

    Christoph Gerbig;J. C. Lin;S. C. Wofsy;B. C. Daube

  • High-accuracy continuous airborne measurements of greenhouse gases (CO2 and CH4) using the cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) technique

    H. Chen;J. Winderlich;C. Gerbig;A. Hoefer

  • Toward constraining regional‐scale fluxes of CO2 with atmospheric observations over a continent: 1. Observed spatial variability from airborne platforms

    Christoph Gerbig;J. C. Lin;S. C. Wofsy;B. C. Daube

  • Validation of Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) CO retrievals with aircraft in situ profiles

    L. K. Emmons;M. N. Deeter;J. C. Gille;D. P. Edwards

  • Vertical mixing in atmospheric tracer transport models: error characterization and propagation

    C. Gerbig;S. Körner;J. C. Lin

  • High accuracy measurements of dry mole fractions of carbon dioxide and methane in humid air

    C.W. Rella;H. Chen;A.E. Andrews;Annette Filges

  • Coupled weather research and forecasting-stochastic time-inverted lagrangian transport (WRF-STILT) model

    Thomas Nehrkorn;Janusz Eluszkiewicz;Steven Charles Wofsy;John C. Lin

  • Bridging the gap between atmospheric concentrations and local ecosystem measurements

    T. Lauvaux;B. Gioli;C. Sarrat;P.J. Rayner

  • In‐situ observations of mid‐latitude forest fire plumes deep in the stratosphere

    Hans-Jürg Jost;Katja Drdla;Andreas Stohl;Andreas Stohl;Leonhard Pfister

  • A multi-year methane inversion using SCIAMACHY, accounting for systematic errors using TCCON measurements

    S. Houweling;S. Houweling;M. Krol;M. Krol;M. Krol;P. Bergamaschi;C. Frankenberg

  • CEFLES2: the remote sensing component to quantify photosynthetic efficiency from the leaf to the region by measuring sun-induced fluorescence in the oxygen absorption bands

    U. Rascher;G. Agati;L. Alonso;G. Cecchi

  • Calibration of TCCON column-averaged CO2: the first aircraft campaign over European TCCON sites

    Janina Messerschmidt;Janina Messerschmidt;Marc Christoph Geibel;Thomas Blumenstock;Hilin Chen;Hilin Chen

  • Continuous low-maintenance CO 2 /CH 4 /H 2 O measurements at the Zotino Tall Tower Observatory (ZOTTO) in Central Siberia

    J. Winderlich;H. Chen;C. Gerbig;T. Seifert

  • Emissions of CH4 and N2O over the United States and Canada based on a receptor-oriented modeling framework and COBRA-NA atmospheric observations

    Eric A. Kort;Janusz Eluszkiewicz;Britton B. Stephens;John B. Miller;John B. Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Heimann
Martin Heimann Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Ute Karstens
Ute Karstens Lund University
John C. Lin
John C. Lin University of Utah
Justus Notholt
Justus Notholt University of Bremen
Bruce C. Daube
Bruce C. Daube Harvard University
Thorsten Warneke
Thorsten Warneke University of Bremen
Maarten Krol
Maarten Krol Wageningen University & Research
Sander Houweling
Sander Houweling Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Christian Rödenbeck
Christian Rödenbeck Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Steven C. Wofsy
Steven C. Wofsy Harvard University

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