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38
Citations
10156
World Ranking
8500
National Ranking
3032

Overview

George Burba is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions in the subfields of Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Additional subfields addressed in their work include Civil and Structural Engineering, Ecology, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their scientific inquiries cover a range of topics, notably Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate change and permafrost, Cryospheric studies and observations, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and Soil and Unsaturated Flow.

George Burba has authored several research papers published between 2020 and 2022. Recent publications include:

  • "Pan-Arctic soil moisture control on tundra carbon sequestration and plant productivity," 2022, Global Change Biology
  • "Earlier snowmelt may lead to late season declines in plant productivity and carbon sequestration in Arctic tundra ecosystems," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Generating Spatially Robust Carbon Budgets From Flux Tower Observations," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Globally Scalable Approach to Estimate Net Ecosystem Exchange Based on Remote Sensing, Meteorological Data, and Direct Measurements of Eddy Covariance Sites," 2022, Remote Sensing
  • "Gaps in network infrastructure limit our understanding of biogenic methane emissions for the United States," 2022, Biogeosciences

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Burba include Kyle A. Arndt, R. Commane, Donatella Zona, Peter M. Lafleur, and Koen Hufkens. The research has been consistently published across several journals such as Global Change Biology, Scientific Reports, Geophysical Research Letters, Remote Sensing, and Biogeosciences.

Best Publications

  • Gap filling strategies for defensible annual sums of net ecosystem exchange

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

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

    Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;John Tenhunen;Marc Aubinet

  • Gap filling strategies for long term energy flux data sets

    Eva Falge;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Richard Olson;Peter Anthoni

  • Annual carbon dioxide exchange in irrigated and rainfed maize-based agroecosystems

    Shashi B. Verma;Achim Dobermann;Kenneth G. Cassman;Daniel T. Walters

  • A multi-site analysis of random error in tower-based measurements of carbon and energy fluxes

    Andrew D. Richardson;Andrew D. Richardson;David Y. Hollinger;George G. Burba;Kenneth J. Davis

  • Relationship between gross primary production and chlorophyll content in crops: Implications for the synoptic monitoring of vegetation productivity

    Anatoly A. Gitelson;Andrés Viña;Andrés Viña;Shashi B. Verma;Donald C. Rundquist

  • Addressing the influence of instrument surface heat exchange on the measurements of CO2 flux from open‐path gas analyzers

    George G. Burba;Dayle K. McDERMITT;Achim Grelle;Daniel J. Anderson

  • Interannual variability in net CO2 exchange of a native tallgrass prairie

    Andrew E. Suyker;Shashi B. Verma;George G. Burba

  • A new low-power, open-path instrument for measuring methane flux by eddy covariance

    D. McDermitt;G. Burba;L. Xu;T. Anderson

  • Gross primary production and light response parameters of four Southern Plains ecosystems estimated using long-term CO2-flux tower measurements

    Tagir G. Gilmanov;Shashi B. Verma;Phillip L. Sims;Tilden P. Meyers

  • Gross primary production and ecosystem respiration of irrigated maize and irrigated soybean during a growing season

    Andrew E. Suyker;Shashi B. Verma;George G. Burba;Timothy J. Arkebauer

  • Relative humidity effects on water vapour fluxes measured with closed-path eddy-covariance systems with short sampling lines

    Gerardo Fratini;Andreas Ibrom;Nicola Arriga;George Burba

  • Seasonal and interannual variability in evapotranspiration of native tallgrass prairie and cultivated wheat ecosystems

    George G. Burba;Shashi B. Verma

  • Surface energy fluxes of Phragmites australis in a prairie wetland

    G.G Burba;S.B Verma;J Kim;J Kim

  • Growing season carbon dioxide exchange in irrigated and rainfed maize

    A.E Suyker;S.B Verma;G.G Burba;T.J Arkebauer

  • Phase and amplitude of ecosystem carbon release and uptake potentials as derived from FLUXNET measurements

    Eva Falge;John Tenhunen;Dennis Baldocchi;Marc Aubinet

  • Annual patterns and budget of CO2 flux in an Arctic tussock tundra ecosystem

    Walter C. Oechel;Walter C. Oechel;Cheryl A. Laskowski;George Burba;Beniamino Gioli

  • Calculating CO2 and H2O eddy covariance fluxes from an enclosed gas analyzer using an instantaneous mixing ratio

    George Burba;Andres Schmidt;Russell L. Scott;Taro Nakai

  • ICOS eddy covariance flux-station site setup: a review

    Corinna Rebmann;Marc Aubinet;Hape Schmid;Nicola Arriga

  • Standardisation of eddy-covariance flux measurements of methane and nitrous oxide

    Eiko Nemitz;Ivan Mammarella;Andreas Ibrom;Mika Aurela

  • A brief practical guide to eddy covariance flux measurements

    George Burba;David J. Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Shashi B. Verma
Shashi B. Verma University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Andrew E. Suyker
Andrew E. Suyker University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Walter C. Oechel
Walter C. Oechel San Diego State University
Donatella Zona
Donatella Zona San Diego State University
Beniamino Gioli
Beniamino Gioli National Research Council (CNR)
Dario Papale
Dario Papale Tuscia University
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Timothy J. Arkebauer
Timothy J. Arkebauer University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Andrew S. Kowalski
Andrew S. Kowalski University of Granada
Sean P. Burns
Sean P. Burns University of Colorado Boulder

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