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65
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59

Sander Houweling publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sander Houweling sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 236 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Sander Houweling D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sander Houweling sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sander Houweling is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research activity centers on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular emphasis on global and planetary change and atmospheric science.

Their work covers a range of subfields including environmental chemistry, ocean engineering, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. The main topics they address involve atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric ozone and climate, methane hydrates and related phenomena, coal properties and utilization, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and air quality and health impacts.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Remote Sensing
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Collaborating regularly with Sander Houweling are several co-authors, including:

  • Ilse Aben
  • Sudhanshu Pandey
  • Joannes D. Maasakkers
  • Hugo Denier van der Gon
  • Tobias Borsdorff

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Houweling include:

  • The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017, 2020, NOAA Institutional Repository
  • Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space, 2020, Science Advances
  • Toward an Operational Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions Monitoring and Verification Support Capacity, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Vast CO2 release from Australian fires in 2019-2020 constrained by satellite, 2021, Nature
  • A tale of two regions: methane emissions from oil and gas production in offshore/onshore Mexico, 2021, Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • The global methane budget 2000–2017

    Marielle Saunois;Ann R. Stavert;Ben Poulter;Philippe Bousquet

  • Three decades of global methane sources and sinks

    Stefanie Kirschke;Philippe Bousquet;Philippe Ciais;Marielle Saunois

  • The global methane budget 2000–2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • CO 2 flux history 1982–2001 inferred from atmospheric data using a global inversion of atmospheric transport

    C. Rödenbeck;S. Houweling;M. Gloor;M. Heimann

  • The two-way nested global chemistry-transport zoom model TM5: algorithm and applications

    M.C. Krol;S. Houweling;B. Bregman;M. van den Broek

  • Atmospheric methane levels off: Temporary pause or a new steady-state?

    E. J. Dlugokencky;S. Houweling;L. Bruhwiler;K. A. Masarie

  • Inverse Modeling of Global and Regional CH4 Emissions Using SCIAMACHY Satellite Retrievals

    Peter Bergamaschi;Christian Frankenberg;Jan Fokke Meirink;Maarten Krol;Maarten Krol

  • The impact of nonmethane hydrocarbon compounds on tropospheric photochemistry

    Sander Houweling;Frank Dentener;Jos Lelieveld

  • Inverse modeling of methane sources and sinks using the adjoint of a global transport model

    Sander Houweling;Thomas Kaminski;Frank Dentener;Jos Lelieveld

  • Space-borne remote sensing of CO2, CH4, and N2O by integrated path differential absorption lidar: a sensitivity analysis

    G. Ehret;C. Kiemle;M. Wirth;A. Amediek

  • Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space

    Yuzhong Zhang;Ritesh Gautam;Sudhanshu Pandey;Mark Omara

  • Large tundra methane burst during onset of freezing.

    Mikhail Mastepanov;Charlotte Sigsgaard;Edward J. Dlugokencky;Sander Houweling;Sander Houweling

  • Atmospheric CH4 in the first decade of the 21st century: Inverse modeling analysis using SCIAMACHY satellite retrievals and NOAA surface measurements

    P. Bergamaschi;S. Houweling;A. Segers;M. Krol;M. Krol;M. Krol

  • Global CO 2 fluxes estimated from GOSAT retrievals of total column CO 2

    S. Basu;S. Basu;S. Guerlet;A. Butz;S. Houweling;S. Houweling

  • TransCom model simulations of CH4 and related species: linking transport, surface flux and chemical loss with CH4 variability in the troposphere and lower stratosphere

    P. K. Patra;S. Houweling;Maarten Krol;Maarten Krol;P. Bousquet

  • Satellite Discovery of Anomalously Large Methane Point Sources From Oil/Gas Production

    D. J. Varon;J. McKeever;D. Jervis;J. D. Maasakkers

  • TransCom model simulations of hourly atmospheric CO2 : Analysis of synoptic-scale variations for the period 2002-2003

    P. K. Patra;R. M. Law;Wouter Peters;Wouter Peters;C. RöDenbeck

  • Global column-averaged methane mixing ratios from 2003 to 2009 as derived from SCIAMACHY: Trends and variability

    C. Frankenberg;C. Frankenberg;I. Aben;P. Bergamaschi;E. J. Dlugokencky

  • The global chemistry transport model TM5: description and evaluation of the tropospheric chemistry version 3.0

    V. Huijnen;J.E. Williams;M. van Weele;T.P.C. van Noije

  • Seven years of recent European net terrestrial carbon dioxide exchange constrained by atmospheric observations

    W. Peters;W. Peters;M. C. Krol;G. R. van der Werf;S. Houweling

  • Global Methane Budget 2000-2012

    M. Saunois;P. Bousquet;B. Poulter;A. Peregon

Frequent Co-Authors

Maarten Krol
Maarten Krol Wageningen University & Research
Ilse Aben
Ilse Aben Netherlands Institute for Space Research
Wouter Peters
Wouter Peters Wageningen University & Research
Thomas Röckmann
Thomas Röckmann Utrecht University
Edward J. Dlugokencky
Edward J. Dlugokencky National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Christian Frankenberg
Christian Frankenberg California Institute of Technology
Peter Bergamaschi
Peter Bergamaschi Heidelberg University
Prabir K. Patra
Prabir K. Patra Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Shamil Maksyutov
Shamil Maksyutov National Institute for Environmental Studies
Otto Hasekamp
Otto Hasekamp Netherlands Institute for Space Research

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