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Lutz Weihermüller

Lutz Weihermüller

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
6740
World Ranking
6814
National Ranking
440

Overview

Lutz Weihermüller is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. The scientist's research spans a number of specialized subfields including environmental engineering, plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, global and planetary change, and civil and structural engineering.

The main topics of Weihermüller's work focus on several areas related to soil, water, and agriculture, such as climate change impacts on agriculture, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, soil and unsaturated flow, soil moisture and remote sensing, greenhouse technology and climate control, hydrology and watershed management studies, and groundwater flow and contamination studies.

Weihermüller has been frequently published in journals like Vadose Zone Journal, Journal of Hydrology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), SSRN Electronic Journal, and the European Journal of Agronomy.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Weihermüller include:

  • The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise, 2021, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • Choice of Pedotransfer Functions Matters when Simulating Soil Water Balance Fluxes, 2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Simulation of spatial variability in crop leaf area index and yield using agroecosystem modeling and geophysics-based quantitative soil information, 2020, Vadose Zone Journal
  • How well do crop modeling groups predict wheat phenology, given calibration data from the target population?, 2021, European Journal of Agronomy
  • Crop growth and soil water fluxes at erosion-affected arable sites: Using weighing lysimeter data for model intercomparison, 2020, Vadose Zone Journal

Among frequent co-authors, Weihermüller has collaborated with Harry Vereecken, Tobias K. D. Weber, Sabine J. Seidel, Kurt Christian Kersebaum, and Daniel Wallach.

Best Publications

  • On the spatio-temporal dynamics of soil moisture at the field scale

    H. Vereecken;J.A. Huisman;Y. Pachepsky;C. Montzka

  • Pedotransfer functions in Earth system science: challenges and perspectives

    Kris Van Looy;Johan Bouma;Michael Herbst;John Koestel

  • Hydraulic parameter estimation by remotely-sensed top soil moisture observations with the particle filter

    Carsten Montzka;Hamid Moradkhani;Lutz Weihermüller;Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen

  • In Situ Soil Water Extraction: A Review

    L. Weihermüller;J. Siemens;M. Deurer;S. Knoblauch

  • Mapping the spatial variation of soil water content at the field scale with different ground penetrating radar techniques

    L. Weihermüller;J.A. Huisman;Sébastien Lambot;M. Herbst

  • Analysis of air-launched ground-penetrating radar techniques to measure the soil surface water content

    Sébastien Lambot;Sébastien Lambot;Lutz Weihermüller;Johan A. Huisman;Harry Vereecken

  • Impact of spatial soil and climate input data aggregation on regional yield simulations

    Holger Hoffmann;Gang Zhao;Senthold Asseng;Marco Bindi

  • A global data set of soil hydraulic properties and sub-grid variability of soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity curves

    Carsten Montzka;Michael Herbst;Lutz Weihermüller;Anne Verhoef

  • Development and analysis of the Soil Water Infiltration Global database

    Mehdi Rahmati;Mehdi Rahmati;Lutz Weihermüller;Jan Vanderborght;Yakov A. Pachepsky

  • Sensitivity of simulated soil heterotrophic respiration to temperature and moisture reduction functions

    J. Bauer;M. Herbst;J.A. Huisman;L. Weihermüller

  • Infiltration from the Pedon to Global Grid Scales: An Overview and Outlook for Land Surface Modeling

    Harry Vereecken;Lutz Weihermüller;Shmuel Assouline;Jirka Šimůnek

  • Electromagnetic induction calibration using apparent electrical conductivity modelling based on electrical resistivity tomography

    F. Lavoué;J. van der Kruk;J. Rings;Frédéric André

  • Measurement depth effects on the apparent temperature sensitivity of soil respiration in field studies

    A. Graf;L. Weihermüller;J. A. Huisman;M. Herbst

  • Determination of pore size distribution and hydraulic properties using nuclear magnetic resonance relaxometry: A comparative study of laboratory methods

    L. R. Stingaciu;L. Weihermüller;S. Haber-Pohlmeier;S. Stapf

  • The chaos in calibrating crop models: Lessons learned from a multi-model calibration exercise

    Daniel Wallach;Taru Palosuo;Peter Thorburn;Zvi Hochman

  • Brightness Temperature and Soil Moisture Validation at Different Scales During the SMOS Validation Campaign in the Rur and Erft Catchments, Germany

    C. Montzka;H. R. Bogena;L. Weihermuller;F. Jonard

  • Characterization and Understanding of Bare Soil Respiration Spatial Variability at Plot Scale

    M. Herbst;N. Prolingheuer;A. Graf;J. A. Huisman

  • Mapping Field-Scale Soil Moisture With L-Band Radiometer and Ground-Penetrating Radar Over Bare Soil

    F. Jonard;L. Weihermuller;K. Z. Jadoon;M. Schwank

  • Multiyear heterotrophic soil respiration: Evaluation of a coupled CO2 transport and carbon turnover model

    M. Herbst;H.J. Hellebrand;J. Bauer;J.A. Huisman

  • Linking satellite derived LAI patterns with subsoil heterogeneity using large-scale ground-based electromagnetic induction measurements

    S. Rudolph;J. van der Kruk;C. von Hebel;M. Ali

  • A terrestrial observatory approach to the integrated investigation of the effects of deforestation on water, energy, and matter fluxes

    H. R. Bogena;R. Bol;N. Borchard;N. Brüggemann

  • Large-scale soil mapping using multi-configuration EMI and supervised image classification

    C. Brogi;J.A. Huisman;S. Pätzold;C. von Hebel

Frequent Co-Authors

Harry Vereecken
Harry Vereecken Forschungszentrum Jülich
Johan Alexander Huisman
Johan Alexander Huisman Forschungszentrum Jülich
Sébastien Lambot
Sébastien Lambot Université Catholique de Louvain
Jan Vanderborght
Jan Vanderborght Forschungszentrum Jülich
Carsten Montzka
Carsten Montzka Forschungszentrum Jülich
Mike Schwank
Mike Schwank Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Kurt Christian Kersebaum
Kurt Christian Kersebaum Czech Academy of Sciences
Thomas Gaiser
Thomas Gaiser University of Bonn
Claas Nendel
Claas Nendel University of Potsdam
Jan van der Kruk
Jan van der Kruk Forschungszentrum Jülich

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