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Moritz Langer is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research chiefly spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, Geology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, including:

  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Methane hydrates and related phenomena
  • Geological studies and exploration
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Arctic and Russian policy studies

Moritz Langer has contributed to numerous publications, frequently appearing in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), The Cryosphere, Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Nature Communications, and the Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Moritz Langer include:

  • "Fast response of cold ice-rich permafrost in northeast Siberia to a warming climate" (2020), Nature Communications
  • "Heat stored in the Earth system 1960-2020: where does the energy go?" (2023), Earth System Science Data
  • "Consequences of permafrost degradation for Arctic infrastructure - bridging the model gap between regional and engineering scales" (2021), The Cryosphere
  • "Thawing permafrost poses environmental threat to thousands of sites with legacy industrial contamination" (2023), Nature Communications
  • "Human-robot-interaction using cloud-based speech recognition systems" (2021), Procedia CIRP

Their collaborative network includes frequent coauthors such as Julia Boike, Sebastian Westermann, Thomas Schneider von Deimling, Jan Nitzbon, and Guido Grosse. These collaborations underline a consistent engagement with experts focused on permafrost and cryospheric research.

Best Publications

  • Fast response of cold ice-rich permafrost in northeast Siberia to a warming climate

    Jan Nitzbon;Jan Nitzbon;Jan Nitzbon;Sebastian Westermann;Moritz Langer;Moritz Langer;Leo Celestin Paul Martin

  • Baseline characteristics of climate, permafrost and land cover from a new permafrost observatory in the Lena River Delta, Siberia (1998-2011)

    J. Boike;B. Kattenstroth;K. Abramova;N. Bornemann

  • Small ponds with major impact: The relevance of ponds and lakes in permafrost landscapes to carbon dioxide emissions

    A. Abnizova;J. Siemens;Moritz Langer;J. Boike

  • Heat stored in the Earth system 1960–2020: where does the energy go?

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  • Simulating the thermal regime and thaw processes of ice-rich permafrost ground with the land-surface model CryoGrid 3

    S. Westermann;M. Langer;J. Boike;M. Heikenfeld

  • SMOS prototype algorithm for detecting autumn soil freezing

    Kimmo Rautiainen;Tiina Parkkinen;Juha Lemmetyinen;Mike Schwank

  • Spatial and temporal variations of summer surface temperatures of high-arctic tundra on Svalbard — Implications for MODIS LST based permafrost monitoring

    Sebastian Westermann;Moritz Langer;Julia Boike

  • Modeling the impact of wintertime rain events on the thermal regime of permafrost

    Sebastian Westermann;Julia Boike;Moritz Langer;T. V. Schuler

  • Subpixel heterogeneity of ice-wedge polygonal tundra: a multi-scale analysis of land cover and evapotranspiration in the Lena River Delta, Siberia

    Sina Muster;Moritz Langer;Birgit Heim;Sebastian Westermann

  • The Annual Surface Energy Budget of a High-Arctic Permafrost Site on Svalbard, Norway

    Sebastian Westermann;Johannes Lüers;Moritz Langer;Konstanze Piel

  • Satellite-based modeling of permafrost temperatures in a tundra lowland landscape

    Moritz Langer;Sebastian Westermann;Max Heikenfeld;Wolfgang Dorn

  • The evolutionary history of Fagus in western Eurasia: Evidence from genes, morphology and the fossil record

    T. Denk;G. Grimm;K. Stögerer;M. Langer

  • Spatial and temporal variations of summer surface temperatures of wet polygonal tundra in Siberia - implications for MODIS LST based permafrost monitoring

    Moritz Langer;Sebastian Westermann;Julia Boike

  • A 16-year record (2002–2017) of permafrost, active-layer, and meteorological conditions at the Samoylov Island Arctic permafrost research site, Lena River delta, northern Siberia: an opportunity to validate remote-sensing data and land surface, snow, and permafrost models

    Julia Boike;Julia Boike;Jan Nitzbon;Jan Nitzbon;Jan Nitzbon;Katharina Anders;Mikhail N Grigoriev

  • Systematic bias of average winter-time land surface temperatures inferred from MODIS at a site on Svalbard, Norway

    Sebastian Westermann;Sebastian Westermann;Moritz Langer;Julia Boike

  • Simulating high-latitude permafrost regions by the JSBACH terrestrial ecosystem model

    Altug Ekici;Altug Ekici;Christian Beer;Christian Beer;Stefan Hagemann;J. Boike

  • The surface energy balance of a polygonal tundra site in northern Siberia – Part 1: Spring to fall

    Moritz Langer;Sebastian Westermann;Sina Muster;Konstanze Piel

  • An improved representation of physical permafrost dynamics in the JULES land-surface model

    S Chadburn;E Burke;R. L. H. Essery;J Boike

  • Rapid degradation of permafrost underneath waterbodies in tundra landscapes—Toward a representation of thermokarst in land surface models

    M. Langer;M. Langer;M. Langer;S. Westermann;J. Boike;G. Kirillin

  • Spatial and seasonal variability of polygonal tundra water balance: Lena River Delta, northern Siberia (Russia)

    Manuel Helbig;Julia Boike;Moritz Langer;Peter Schreiber

  • Thaw subsidence of a yedoma landscape in northern Siberia, measured in situ and estimated from TerraSAR-X interferometry

    Sofia Antonova;Henriette Sudhaus;Tazio Strozzi;Simon Zwieback

  • Satellite-derived changes in the permafrost landscape of central Yakutia, 2000-2011: Wetting, drying, and fires

    Julia Boike;Thomas Grau;Birgit Heim;Frank Günther

  • Impact of model developments on present and future simulations of permafrost in a global land-surface model

    SE Chadburn;EJ Burke;R. L. H. Essery;J Boike

Frequent Co-Authors

Julia Boike
Julia Boike Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Sebastian Westermann
Sebastian Westermann University of Oslo
Mikhail N. Grigoriev
Mikhail N. Grigoriev Russian Academy of Sciences
Hugues Lantuit
Hugues Lantuit University of Potsdam
Guido Grosse
Guido Grosse Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Torsten Sachs
Torsten Sachs Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Annett Bartsch
Annett Bartsch Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics
Bernd Etzelmüller
Bernd Etzelmüller University of Oslo
Ulrike Herzschuh
Ulrike Herzschuh University of Potsdam
Andreas Kääb
Andreas Kääb University of Oslo

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