2026 Dennis D. Baldocchi: 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	161	17	16	9	8	662	105368

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
2007 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Dennis D. Baldocchi is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their academic work primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

The main topics of their research include:

Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
Climate variability and models
Remote Sensing in Agriculture
Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics

Baldocchi has contributed to the following recent papers:

The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data, 2020, Scientific Data
Representativeness of Eddy-Covariance flux footprints for areas surrounding AmeriFlux sites, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade, 2021, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function, 2021, Nature
The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include:

Joseph Verfaillie
Daphne Szutu
Kyle S. Hemes
Ankur R. Desai
Camilo Rey-Sánchez

They have been published extensively in several venues, including:

Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Global Change Biology
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Dennis D. Baldocchi was recognized with the award of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2007.

Best Publications

FLUXNET: A New Tool to Study the Temporal and Spatial Variability of Ecosystem-Scale Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, and Energy Flux Densities

Dennis Baldocchi;Eva Falge;Lianhong Gu;Richard Olson

4439
Citations
On the Separation of Net Ecosystem Exchange into Assimilation and Ecosystem Respiration: Review and Improved Algorithm

Markus Reichstein;Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;Dario Papale

4118
Citations
Assessing the eddy covariance technique for evaluating carbon dioxide exchange rates of ecosystems: past, present and future

Dennis D. Baldocchi

3160
Citations
Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

Christian Beer;Markus Reichstein;Enrico Tomelleri;Philippe Ciais

3064
Citations
TRY - a global database of plant traits

J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

2885
Citations
Energy balance closure at FLUXNET sites

Kell Wilson;Allen Goldstein;Eva Falge;Marc Aubinet

2841
Citations
Gap filling strategies for defensible annual sums of net ecosystem exchange

E. Falge;D. Baldocchi;R. Olson;P. Anthoni

2341
Citations
TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

1926
Citations
Measuring Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchanges of Biologically Related Gases with Micrometeorological Methods

Dennis D. Baldocchi;Bruce B. Hincks;Tilden P. Meyers

1883
Citations
The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

1551
Citations
Environmental controls over carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange of terrestrial vegetation

B.E Law;E Falge;L Gu;D.D Baldocchi

1490
Citations
‘Breathing’ of the terrestrial biosphere: lessons learned from a global network of carbon dioxide flux measurement systems

Dennis Baldocchi

1349
Citations
Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods

F. S. Chapin Iii;G. M. Woodwell;J. Randerson;E. B. Rastetter

1329
Citations
The carbon balance of tropical, temperate and boreal forests

Yadvinder Malhi;D. D. Baldocchi;P. G. Jarvis

1274
Citations
Intercomparison, interpretation, and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982-2006

Michael A. White;Kirsten M. de Beurs;Kamel Didan;David W. Inouye

1222
Citations
Global estimates of the land–atmosphere water flux based on monthly AVHRR and ISLSCP-II data, validated at 16 FLUXNET sites

Joshua B. Fisher;Kevin P. Tu;Dennis D. Baldocchi

1180
Citations
A comparison of methods for determining forest evapotranspiration and its components: sap-flow, soil water budget, eddy covariance and catchment water balance

Kell B Wilson;Paul J Hanson;Patrick J Mulholland;Dennis D Baldocchi

955
Citations
The future of evapotranspiration: global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources.

Joshua B. Fisher;Forrest S. Melton;Elizabeth M. Middleton;Christopher Hain;Christopher Hain

945
Citations
Advantages of diffuse radiation for terrestrial ecosystem productivity

Lianhong Gu;Dennis Baldocchi;Shashi B. Verma;T. A. Black

886
Citations
Seasonality of ecosystem respiration and gross primary production as derived from FLUXNET measurements

Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;John Tenhunen;Marc Aubinet

857
Citations
A preliminary multiple resistance routine for deriving dry deposition velocities from measured quantities

B. B. Hicks;D. D. Baldocchi;T. P. Meyers;R. P. Hosker

848
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Russell K. Monson University of Colorado Boulder

Beverly E. Law Oregon State University

Sara H. Knox McGill University

Matteo Detto Princeton University

Shashi B. Verma University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Siyan Ma University of California, Berkeley

Tilden P. Meyers National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Youngryel Ryu Seoul National University

Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal

Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

External Links

Personal website of Dennis D. Baldocchi

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