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Matthias Cuntz is affiliated with the University of Lorraine in France and conducts research primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main topics covered in Matthias Cuntz's research include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, and Cryospheric Studies and Observations.

Recent papers by Matthias Cuntz reflect these interests and reveal collaboration with various researchers. Notable publications include:

  • Scientific and Human Errors in a Snow Model Intercomparison, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Higher than expected CO2 fertilization inferred from leaf to global observations, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Borehole Equilibration: Testing a New Method to Monitor the Isotopic Composition of Tree Xylem Water in situ, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science

Frequent co-authors in Matthias Cuntz's research projects include:

  • Andreas Ibrom
  • Corinna Rebmann
  • Vanessa Haverd
  • Alexander Knohl
  • Ladislav Šigut

Matthias Cuntz regularly publishes in several scientific venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Biogeosciences
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • A strategy for quality and uncertainty assessment of long-term eddy-covariance measurements

    Matthias Mauder;Matthias Cuntz;Clemens Drüe;Alexander Graf

  • Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes.

    Mengtian Huang;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Josep Peñuelas

  • The Plumbing of Land Surface Models: Benchmarking Model Performance

    M.J. Best;G. Abramowitz;H.R. Johnson;A.J. Pitman

  • A new version of the CABLE land surface model (Subversion revision r4601) incorporating land use and land cover change, woody vegetation demography, and a novel optimisation-based approach to plant coordination of photosynthesis

    Vanessa Haverd;Benjamin Smith;Benjamin Smith;Lars Nieradzik;Peter R. Briggs

  • ESM-SnowMIP: assessing snow models and quantifying snow-related climate feedbacks

    Gerhard Krinner;Chris Derksen;Richard Essery;Mark Flanner

  • Large inert carbon pool in the terrestrial biosphere during the Last Glacial Maximum

    P. Ciais;A. Tagliabue;A. Tagliabue;M. Cuntz;L. Bopp

  • Multiscale and Multivariate Evaluation of Water Fluxes and States over European River Basins

    Oldrich Rakovec;Rohini Kumar;Juliane Mai;Matthias Cuntz

  • Progress and challenges in using stable isotopes to trace plant carbon and water relations across scales

    Christiane Werner;Hans Schnyder;Matthias Cuntz;C. Keitel

  • The impact of standard and hard-coded parameters on the hydrologic fluxes in the Noah-MP land surface model

    Matthias Cuntz;Matthias Cuntz;Juliane Mai;Luis Samaniego;Martyn Clark

  • Improving calibration and validation of cosmic-ray neutron sensors in the light of spatial sensitivity

    Martin Schrön;Markus Köhli;Markus Köhli;Markus Köhli;Lena Scheiffele;Joost Iwema

  • Verification of German methane emission inventories and their recent changes based on atmospheric observations

    Ingeborg Levin;Holger Glatzel-Mattheier;Thomas Marik;Matthias Cuntz

  • Scientific and Human Errors in a Snow Model Intercomparison

    Cecile B. Menard;Richard Essery;Gerhard Krinner;Gabriele Arduini

  • Higher than expected CO2 fertilization inferred from leaf to global observations

    Vanessa Haverd;Benjamin Smith;Benjamin Smith;Benjamin Smith;Josep G. Canadell;Matthias Cuntz

  • Modelling advection and diffusion of water isotopologues in leaves

    Matthias Oskar Cuntz;Jerome Ogee;Graham Farquhar;Philippe Peylin

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

    Harry Vereecken;Lutz Weihermüller;Shmuel Assouline;Jirka Šimůnek

  • Partitioning evapotranspiration – Testing the Craig and Gordon model with field measurements of oxygen isotope ratios of evaporative fluxes

    Maren Dubbert;Matthias Cuntz;Arndt Piayda;Cristina Maguás

  • The Bode hydrological observatory: a platform for integrated, interdisciplinary hydro-ecological research within the TERENO Harz/Central German Lowland Observatory

    Ute Wollschläger;Sabine Attinger;Dietrich Borchardt;Mario Brauns

  • Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts.

    Alessandra Bottero;David I Forrester;David I Forrester;Maxime Cailleret;Ulrich Kohnle

  • Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe

    Zheng Fu;Philippe Ciais;Ana Bastos;Paul C. Stoy;Paul C. Stoy

  • A comprehensive global three‐dimensional model of δ18O in atmospheric CO2: 1. Validation of surface processes

    Matthias Cuntz;Matthias Cuntz;Philippe Ciais;Georg Hoffmann;Wolfgang Knorr

  • Air and biomass heat storage fluxes in a forest canopy: Calculation within a soil vegetation atmosphere transfer model

    Vanessa Haverd;Vanessa Haverd;Matthias Oskar Cuntz;Ray Leuning;Heather Keith

  • Partitioning net ecosystem carbon exchange into net assimilation and respiration with canopy‐scale isotopic measurements: An error propagation analysis with 13CO2 and CO18O data

    J. Ogée;J. Ogée;P. Peylin;M. Cuntz;M. Cuntz;T. Bariac

  • The impact of standard and hard-coded parameters on the hydrologic fluxes in the Noah-MP land surface model

    S. Thober;M. Cuntz;J. Mai;L. E. Samaniego

Frequent Co-Authors

Luis Samaniego
Luis Samaniego Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Corinna Rebmann
Corinna Rebmann Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Vanessa Haverd
Vanessa Haverd Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Sabine Attinger
Sabine Attinger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Christiane Werner
Christiane Werner University of Freiburg
Jérôme Ogée
Jérôme Ogée INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Rohini Kumar
Rohini Kumar Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan
Lisa Wingate
Lisa Wingate INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Andreas Huth
Andreas Huth Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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