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Lukas Hörtnagl

Lukas Hörtnagl

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
41
Citations
5902
World Ranking
7789
National Ranking
180

Overview

Lukas Hörtnagl is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans various subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Plant Science, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist has a significant number of publications focused on topics related to Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Tree-ring Climate Responses, and Fire Effects on Ecosystems.

Lukas Hörtnagl has published multiple research papers, some of which include:

  • Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • FLUXNET-CH 4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands, 2021, Earth system science data
  • Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes: Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Canopy photosynthesis of six major arable crops is enhanced under diffuse light due to canopy architecture, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Physiological response of Swiss ecosystems to 2018 drought across plant types and elevation, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Nina Buchmann
  • Mana Gharun
  • Andrej Varlagin
  • Ladislav Šigut
  • Ivan Mammarella

Lukas Hörtnagl commonly publishes in the following venues:

  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Global Change Biology
  • Biogeosciences
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)

Best Publications

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites.

    Jacob A. Nelson;Oscar Pérez-Priego;Sha Zhou;Sha Zhou;Rafael Poyatos

  • FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands

    Kyle B. Delwiche;Sara Helen Knox;Avni Malhotra;Etienne Fluet-Chouinard

  • Interpreting canopy development and physiology using a European phenology camera network at flux sites

    L. Wingate;J. Ogée;E. Cremonese;G. Filippa

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

    Corinna Rebmann;Marc Aubinet;Hape Schmid;Nicola Arriga

  • Eddy covariance raw data processing for CO2 and energy fluxes calculation at ICOS ecosystem stations

    Simone Sabbatini;Ivan Mammarella;Nicola Arriga;Gerardo Fratini

  • First eddy covariance flux measurements by PTR-TOF

    M. Müller;M. Graus;T. M. Ruuskanen;R. Schnitzhofer

  • Eddy covariance VOC emission and deposition fluxes above grassland using PTR-TOF.

    Taina Ruuskanen;Marku Müller;Ralf Schnitzhofer;Thomas Karl

  • Greenhouse gas fluxes over managed grasslands in Central Europe

    Lukas Hörtnagl;Matti Barthel;Nina Buchmann;Werner Eugster

  • Carbonyl sulfide (COS) as a tracer for canopy photosynthesis, transpiration and stomatal conductance: potential and limitations

    Georg Wohlfahrt;Federico Brilli;Lukas Hörtnagl;Xiaobin Xu

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

    Eiko Nemitz;Ivan Mammarella;Andreas Ibrom;Mika Aurela

  • Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes : Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands

    Jeremy Irvin;Sharon Zhou;Gavin McNicol;Fred Lu

  • On the consequences of the energy imbalance for calculating surface conductance to water vapour

    Georg Wohlfahrt;Alois Haslwanter;Lukas Hörtnagl;Richard L. Jasoni

  • Quantifying the effect of forest age in annual net forest carbon balance

    Simon Besnard;Simon Besnard;Nuno Carvalhais;Nuno Carvalhais;M Altaf Arain;Andrew Black

  • Interpreting canopy development and physiology using the EUROPhen camera network at flux sites

    Lisa Wingate;Jerome Ogée;Edoardo Cremonese;Gianluca Filippa

  • Towards long-term standardised carbon and greenhouse gas observations for monitoring Europe's terrestrial ecosystems: a review

    Daniela Franz;Manuel Acosta;Núria Altimir;Nicola Arriga

  • Physiological response of Swiss ecosystems to 2018 drought across plant types and elevation

    Mana Gharun;Lukas Hörtnagl;Eugénie Paul-Limoges;Shiva Ghiasi

  • Qualitative and quantitative characterization of volatile organic compound emissions from cut grass

    Federico Brilli;Lukas Hörtnagl;Ines Bamberger;Ralf Schnitzhofer

  • Canopy photosynthesis of six major arable crops is enhanced under diffuse light due to canopy architecture

    Carmen Emmel;Petra D'Odorico;Andrew Revill;Andrew Revill;Lukas Hörtnagl

  • X-BASE: the first terrestrial carbon and water flux products from an extended data-driven scaling framework, FLUXCOM-X

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  • Insights from independent evapotranspiration estimates for closing the energy balance: a grassland case study.

    Georg Wohlfahrt;Christoph Irschick;Bettina Thalinger;Lukas Hörtnagl

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg Wohlfahrt
Georg Wohlfahrt University of Innsbruck
Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Armin Hansel
Armin Hansel University of Innsbruck
Martin Graus
Martin Graus University of Innsbruck
Werner Eugster
Werner Eugster ETH Zurich
Lutz Merbold
Lutz Merbold Agroscope
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Bert Gielen
Bert Gielen University of Antwerp
Ivan Mammarella
Ivan Mammarella University of Helsinki
Markus D. Müller
Markus D. Müller RWTH Aachen University

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