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Meelis Mölder

Meelis Mölder

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
34
Citations
3959
World Ranking
9476
National Ranking
184

Overview

Meelis Mölder is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the field of environmental science. Their research primarily focuses on areas such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, ecology, environmental engineering, and nature and landscape conservation. The main topics of their work include plant water relations and carbon dynamics, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, climate variability and models, remote sensing in agriculture, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, fire effects on ecosystems, and meteorological phenomena and simulations.

Mölder's publications have appeared frequently in several scientific venues, with multiple papers published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Forests.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Mölder include:

  • The fingerprint of the summer 2018 drought in Europe on ground-based atmospheric CO2 measurements, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Effects of drought and meteorological forcing on carbon and water fluxes in Nordic forests during the dry summer of 2018, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Impacts of Clear-Cutting of a Boreal Forest on Carbon Dioxide, Methane and Nitrous Oxide Fluxes, 2020, Forests
  • Evaluation and optimization of ICOS atmosphere station data as part of the labeling process, 2021, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Modelling Daily Gross Primary Productivity with Sentinel-2 Data in the Nordic Region-Comparison with Data from MODIS, 2021, Remote Sensing

Mölder has collaborated with several frequent co-authors who have contributed to this body of work. These include Ivan Mammarella, Matthias Peichl, Michal Heliasz, Anders Lindroth, and Andreas Ibrom.

The scope of Mölder's research reflects a multidisciplinary approach within environmental science, bringing together remote sensing technologies, atmospheric measurements, and ecosystem modeling. Their work incorporates advanced methods for understanding the complex dynamics of carbon fluxes, drought impact, and forest management effects on greenhouse gas emissions.

Best Publications

  • Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

    Chuixiang Yi;Daniel Ricciuto;Runze Li;John Wolbeck

  • Comparison of horizontal and vertical advective CO2 fluxes at three forest sites

    Christian Feigenwinter;Christian Bernhofer;Uwe Eichelmann;Bernard Heinesch

  • Flux-profile relationships over a boreal forest-roughness sublayer corrections

    Meelis Mölder;Achim Grelle;Anders Lindroth;Sven Halldin

  • Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database

    Rafael Poyatos;Víctor Granda;Víctor Flo;Mark A. Adams;Mark A. Adams

  • Heat storage in forest biomass improves energy balance closure

    Anders Lindroth;Meelis Mölder;Fredrik Lagergren

  • Net primary production and light use efficiency in a mixed coniferous forest in Sweden

    Frederik Lagergren;Lars Eklundh;Achim Grelle;Mattias Lundblad

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

    Corinna Rebmann;Marc Aubinet;Hape Schmid;Nicola Arriga

  • Seasonal variation of carbon fluxes in a sparse savanna in semi arid Sudan

    Jonas Ardö;Meelis Mölder;Bashir Awad El-Tahir;Hatim Abdalla Mohammed Elkhidir

  • Seasonal variation of boreal forest surface conductance and evaporation

    A. Grelle;A. Lindroth;M. Mölder

  • Continuous long-term measurements of soil-plant-atmosphere variables at a forest site

    Lars-Christer Lundin;Sven Halldin;A. Lindroth;E. Cienciala

  • Land‐atmosphere exchange of methane from soil thawing to soil freezing in a high‐Arctic wet tundra ecosystem

    Torbern Tagesson;Meelis Mölder;Mikhail Mastepanov;Charlotte Sigsgaard

  • Thinning effects on pine-spruce forest transpiration in central Sweden

    Fredrik Lagergren;Harry Lankreijer;Jiri Kucera;Emil Cienciala

  • A new mass conservation approach to the study of CO2 advection in an alpine forest

    Leonardo Montagnani;Giovanni Manca;Elisa Canepa;Emilia Georgieva

  • Uncovering the critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress for European ecosystems

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  • Leaf area index is the principal scaling parameter for both gross photosynthesis and ecosystem respiration of Northern deciduous and coniferous forests

    Anders Lindroth;Fredrik Lagergren;Mika Aurela;Brynhildur Bjarnadottir

  • Regional-scale CO 2 fluxes over central Sweden by a boundary layer budget method

    P.E. Levy;A. Grelle;A. Lindroth;M. Mölder

  • 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

  • The fingerprint of the summer 2018 drought in Europe on ground-based atmospheric CO2 measurements.

    M. Ramonet;P. Ciais;F. Apadula;J. Bartyzel

  • Biophysical controls on CO2 fluxes of three Northern forests based on long-term eddy covariance data

    Fredrik Lagergren;Anders Lindroth;Ebba Dellwik;Andreas Ibrom

  • Effects of drought and meteorological forcing on carbon and water fluxes in Nordic forests during the dry summer of 2018

    Anders Lindroth;Jutta Holst;Maj-Lena Linderson;Mika Aurela

  • Vertical variability and effect of stability on turbulence characteristics down to the floor of a pine forest

    Samuli Launiainen;Timo Vesala;Meelis Mölder;Ivan Mammarella

  • Available energy and energy balance closure at four coniferous forest sites across Europe

    Uta Moderow;Marc Aubinet;Christian Feigenwinter;Christian Feigenwinter;Olaf Kolle

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Lindroth
Anders Lindroth Lund University
Leif Klemedtsson
Leif Klemedtsson University of Gothenburg
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Andreas Ibrom
Andreas Ibrom Technical University of Denmark
Matthias Peichl
Matthias Peichl Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Ivan Mammarella
Ivan Mammarella University of Helsinki
Corinna Rebmann
Corinna Rebmann Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Pasi Kolari
Pasi Kolari University of Helsinki
Mika Aurela
Mika Aurela Finnish Meteorological Institute

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