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Sebastian Westermann

Sebastian Westermann

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
60
Citations
11922
World Ranking
2955
National Ranking
33

Overview

Sebastian Westermann is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research contributions are focused primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Over their career, they have produced 194 publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences and 57 works in Environmental Science.

Their main research subfields include Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Environmental Chemistry. These areas reflect a broad engagement with environmental processes and their relationship to climate and ecosystems.

Sebastian Westermann's work primarily addresses topics such as climate change and permafrost, cryospheric studies and observations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, landslides and related hazards, geology and paleoclimatology research, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Fast response of cold ice-rich permafrost in northeast Siberia to a warming climate, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Modeled Microbial Dynamics Explain the Apparent Temperature Sensitivity of Wetland Methane Emissions, 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Evaluating satellite retrieved fractional snow-covered area at a high-Arctic site using terrestrial photography, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Modelling past and future peatland carbon dynamics across the pan-Arctic, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Population living on permafrost in the Arctic, 2021, Population and Environment

Frequent co-authors include Moritz Langer, Julia Boike, Bernd Etzelmüller, Kristoffer Aalstad, and Sarah Chadburn. These collaborations have contributed to multiple works advancing knowledge on Arctic and climate systems.

The scientist has published predominantly in venues such as The Cryosphere, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface, Biogeosciences, and Earth Surface Dynamics. These journals highlight their focus on cryospheric science and Earth system processes.

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Northern Hemisphere permafrost map based on TTOP modelling for 2000–2016 at 1 km2 scale

    Jaroslav Obu;Sebastian Westermann;Annett Bartsch;Nikolai M. Berdnikov

  • Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century

    Jan Hjort;Olli Karjalainen;Juha Antero Aalto;Sebastian Westermann

  • An observation-based constraint on permafrost loss as a function of global warming

    S. E. Chadburn;S. E. Chadburn;E. J. Burke;P. M. Cox;P. Friedlingstein

  • 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

  • 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

  • Mechanical effect of van der waals interactions observed in real time in an ultracold Rydberg gas.

    T. Amthor;M. Reetz-Lamour;Sebastian Westermann;J. Denskat

  • 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

  • Climate and environmental change drives Ixodes ricinus geographical expansion at the northern range margin.

    Solveig Jore;Sophie O Vanwambeke;Hildegunn Viljugrein;Ketil Isaksen

  • Strong degradation of palsas and peat plateaus in northern Norway during the last 60 years

    Amund Frogner Borge;Sebastian Westermann;Ingvild Solheim;Bernd Etzelmüller

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

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

  • Permafrost Map for Norway, Sweden and Finland

    Kjersti Gisnås;Bernd Etzelmüller;Cristian Lussana;Jan Hjort

  • Transient thermal modeling of permafrost conditions in Southern Norway

    Sebastian Westermann;Thomas Schuler;Kjersti Gisnås;Bernd Etzelmuller

  • 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

  • A 20-year record (1998–2017) of permafrost, active layer and meteorological conditions at a high Arctic permafrost research site (Bayelva, Spitsbergen)

    Julia Boike;Julia Boike;Inge Juszak;Stephan Lange;Sarah Chadburn;Sarah Chadburn

  • A ground temperature map of the North Atlantic permafrost region based on remote sensing and reanalysis data

    S. Westermann;S. Westermann;T. I. Østby;K. Gisnås;T. V. Schuler

  • 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

  • Climate in Svalbard 2100 – a knowledge base for climate adaptation.

    Muralidhar Adakudlu;Jess Andersen;Jostein Bakke;Stein Beldring

Frequent Co-Authors

Julia Boike
Julia Boike Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Moritz Langer
Moritz Langer Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Bernd Etzelmüller
Bernd Etzelmüller University of Oslo
Guido Grosse
Guido Grosse Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Mikhail N. Grigoriev
Mikhail N. Grigoriev Russian Academy of Sciences
Andreas Kääb
Andreas Kääb University of Oslo
Annett Bartsch
Annett Bartsch Central Institution for Meteorology and Geodynamics
Ernst Hauber
Ernst Hauber German Aerospace Center
Ketil Isaksen
Ketil Isaksen Norwegian Meteorological Institute

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