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Ilse Aben publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ilse Aben sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 236 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Ilse Aben D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ilse Aben sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ilse Aben is affiliated with the Netherlands Institute for Space Research in the Netherlands. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a special emphasis on global and planetary change, atmospheric science, environmental chemistry, renewable energy, sustainability, and the mechanics of materials.

The core topics of Ilse Aben's scientific work revolve around atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, methane hydrates and related phenomena, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, oil, gas, and environmental issues, as well as coal properties and utilization.

Aben has contributed to various recent papers centered on atmospheric gases and emissions. Key publications include:

  • Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space, 2020, Science Advances
  • Record-high CO 2 emissions from boreal fires in 2021, 2023, Science
  • Satellite-based survey of extreme methane emissions in the Permian basin, 2021, Science Advances
  • Vast CO2 release from Australian fires in 2019-2020 constrained by satellite, 2021, Nature
  • Using satellites to uncover large methane emissions from landfills, 2022, Science Advances

Aben collaborates frequently with several colleagues in their field. Prominent co-authors include Joannes D. Maasakkers, Sander Houweling, Tobias Borsdorff, Sudhanshu Pandey, and Daniel J. Varon.

Their research outputs are often published in notable scientific journals and venues such as Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Environmental Science & Technology, Remote Sensing of Environment, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • TROPOMI on the ESA Sentinel-5 Precursor: A GMES mission for global observations of the atmospheric composition for climate, air quality and ozone layer applications

    JP Veefkind;JP Veefkind;I Aben;K McMullan;H Forster

  • Toward accurate CO2 and CH4 observations from GOSAT

    A Butz;A Butz;S Guerlet;O Hasekamp;D Schepers

  • Satellite observations of atmospheric methane and their value for quantifying methane emissions

    Daniel J. Jacob;Alexander J. Turner;Joannes D. Maasakkers;Jianxiong Sheng

  • Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space

    Yuzhong Zhang;Ritesh Gautam;Sudhanshu Pandey;Mark Omara

  • Toward Global Mapping of Methane With TROPOMI: First Results and Intersatellite Comparison to GOSAT

    Haili Hu;Jochen Landgraf;Rob Detmers;Tobias Borsdorff

  • Global CO 2 fluxes estimated from GOSAT retrievals of total column CO 2

    S. Basu;S. Basu;S. Guerlet;A. Butz;S. Houweling;S. Houweling

  • Satellite Discovery of Anomalously Large Methane Point Sources From Oil/Gas Production

    D. J. Varon;J. McKeever;D. Jervis;J. D. Maasakkers

  • Record-high CO2 emissions from boreal fires in 2021

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  • Global column-averaged methane mixing ratios from 2003 to 2009 as derived from SCIAMACHY: Trends and variability

    C. Frankenberg;C. Frankenberg;I. Aben;P. Bergamaschi;E. J. Dlugokencky

  • Decadal record of satellite carbon monoxide observations

    H. M. Worden;M. N. Deeter;C. Frankenberg;Maya George

  • Satellite observations reveal extreme methane leakage from a natural gas well blowout

    Sudhanshu Pandey;Sudhanshu Pandey;Ritesh Gautam;Sander Houweling;Sander Houweling;Hugo Denier Van Der Gon

  • Retrievals of atmospheric CO2 from simulated space-borne measurements of backscattered near-infrared sunlight: accounting for aerosol effects.

    André Butz;Otto P. Hasekamp;Christian Frankenberg;Ilse Aben

  • Inverse modeling of CO 2 sources and sinks using satellite data: A synthetic inter-comparison of measurement techniques and their performance as a function of space and time

    S. Houweling;Francois-Marie Breon;I. Aben;C. Rödenbeck

  • Tropical methane emissions: A revised view from SCIAMACHY onboard ENVISAT

    Christian Frankenberg;Peter Bergamaschi;André Butz;Sander Houweling;Sander Houweling

  • Satellite-based survey of extreme methane emissions in the Permian basin

    Itziar Irakulis-Loitxate;Luis Guanter;Yin-Nian Liu;Daniel J. Varon

  • Dynamic Processes Governing Lower-Tropospheric HDO/H2O Ratios as Observed from Space and Ground

    Christian Frankenberg;Kei Yoshimura;Thorsten Warneke;Ilse Aben

  • Using satellites to uncover large methane emissions from landfills

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  • Potential of the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) onboard the Sentinel-5 Precursor for the monitoring of terrestrial chlorophyll fluorescence

    Luis Guanter;Ilse Aben;Paul Tol;J M Krijger

  • Methane retrievals from Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) shortwave infrared measurements: Performance comparison of proxy and physics retrieval algorithms

    D. Schepers;S. Guerlet;A. Butz;J. Landgraf

  • The Greenhouse Gas Climate Change Initiative (GHG-CCI): Comparison and quality assessment of near-surface-sensitive satellite-derived CO2 and CH4 global data sets

    M Buchwitz;Markus Reuter;O Schneising;Hartmut Boesch

  • Carbon monoxide total column retrievals from TROPOMI shortwave infrared measurements

    Jochen Landgraf;Joost aan de Brugh;Remco Scheepmaker;Tobias Borsdorff

  • Uncertainties in the space-based measurements of CO2 columns due to scattering in the Earth's atmosphere

    I. Aben;O. Hasekamp;W. Hartmann

  • Evidence of systematic errors in SCIAMACHY-observed CO 2 due to aerosols

    S. Houweling;S. Houweling;W. Hartmann;I. Aben;H. Schrijver

Frequent Co-Authors

Sander Houweling
Sander Houweling Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Maarten Krol
Maarten Krol Wageningen University & Research
Otto Hasekamp
Otto Hasekamp Netherlands Institute for Space Research
Christian Frankenberg
Christian Frankenberg California Institute of Technology
Nicholas M. Deutscher
Nicholas M. Deutscher University of Wollongong
Thomas Röckmann
Thomas Röckmann Utrecht University
Justus Notholt
Justus Notholt University of Bremen
Thorsten Warneke
Thorsten Warneke University of Bremen
David W. T. Griffith
David W. T. Griffith University of Wollongong
John P. Burrows
John P. Burrows University of Bremen

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