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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
70
Citations
24026
World Ranking
1649
National Ranking
114

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Thomas Foken is affiliated with the University of Bayreuth in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing on several related subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a broad array of topics, emphasizing Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds, Wind and Air Flow Studies, and Tree-ring Climate Responses.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas Foken include:

  • "Selected breakpoints of net forest carbon uptake at four eddy-covariance sites" (2021, Tellus B)
  • "Surface-Energy-Balance Closure over Land: A Review" (2020, Boundary-Layer Meteorology)
  • "Estimating immediate post-fire carbon fluxes using the eddy-covariance technique" (2021, Biogeosciences)
  • "High Levels of CO2 Exchange During Synoptic-Scale Events Introduce Large Uncertainty Into the Arctic Carbon Budget" (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • "Importance of the Webb, Pearman, and Leuning (WPL) correction for the measurement of small CO2 fluxes" (2021, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Thomas Foken include Matthias Mauder, Michael Börngen, Olaf Hellmuth, Bernd Huwe, and Jens Bange. Matthias Mauder has appeared as a co-author in twelve publications, indicating a significant collaborative relationship.

Thomas Foken has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most common journals and publication platforms include:

  • Gefahrstoffe Reinhaltung der Luft
  • Boundary-Layer Meteorology
  • Meteorologische Zeitschrift
  • Biogeosciences
  • Tellus B

In addition to journal articles, Thomas Foken has contributed to scholarly books, including a 2024 publication titled Micrometeorology under Springer Nature (Netherlands).

Best Publications

  • Estimates of the annual net carbon and water exchange of forests: the EUROFLUX methodology

    Marc Aubinet;Achim Grelle;Andreas Ibrom;Üllar Rannik

  • Tools for quality assessment of surface-based flux measurements

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  • The energy balance closure problem: an overview.

    Thomas Foken

  • Post-Field Data Quality Control

    Thomas Foken;Mathias Göockede;Matthias Mauder;Larry Mahrt

  • 50 Years of the Monin–Obukhov Similarity Theory

    Thomas Foken

  • A data-driven analysis of energy balance closure across FLUXNET research sites: The role of landscape-scale heterogeneity

    Paul C. Stoy;Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken;Barbara Marcolla

  • Documentation and Instruction Manual of the Eddy-Covariance Software Package TK3 (update)

    Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken

  • Response of hydrological cycle to recent climate changes in the Tibetan Plateau

    Kun Yang;Baisheng Ye;Degang Zhou;Bingyi Wu

  • The energy balance experiment EBEX-2000. Part I: Overview and energy balance

    Steven P. Oncley;Thomas Foken;Roland Vogt;Wim Kohsiek

  • Some aspects of the energy balance closure problem

    Thomas Foken;Florian Wimmer;Matthias Mauder;Christoph Thomas

  • Impact of post-field data processing on eddy covariance flux estimates and energy balance closure

    Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken

  • Climate and vegetation controls on the surface water balance: Synthesis of evapotranspiration measured across a global network of flux towers

    Christopher A. Williams;Markus Reichstein;Nina Buchmann;Dennis Baldocchi

  • Surface-Energy-Balance Closure over Land: A Review

    Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken;Joan Cuxart

  • The Kobresia pygmaea ecosystem of the Tibetan highlands – Origin, functioning and degradation of the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem: Kobresia pastures of Tibet

    Georg Miehe;Per Marten Schleuss;Elke Seeber;Wolfgang Babel

  • Flux and Concentration Footprint Modelling: State of the Art

    Timo Vesala;Natascha Kljun;Üllar Rannik;Janne Rinne

  • Corrections and data quality control

    Thomas Foken;Ray Leuning;Stephen P. Oncley;Matthias Mauder

  • New equations for sonic temperature variance and buoyancy heat flux with an omnidirectional sonic anemometer

    Heping Liu;Gerhard Peters;Thomas Foken

  • A combination of quality assessment tools for eddy covariance measurements with footprint modelling for the characterisation of complex sites

    Mathias Göckede;Corinna Rebmann;Thomas Foken

  • Quality control of CarboEurope flux data – Part 2: Inter-comparison of eddy-covariance software

    Matthias Mauder;Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken;Robert Clement;Jan A. Elbers

  • The energy balance experiment EBEX-2000. Part II: Intercomparison of eddy-covariance sensors and post-field data processing methods

    Matthias Mauder;Matthias Mauder;Steven P. Oncley;Roland Vogt;Tamas Weidinger

  • Quality control of CarboEurope flux data. Part 1: Coupling footprint analyses with flux data quality assessment to evaluate sites in forest ecosystems

    Mathias Göckede;Mathias Göckede;Thomas Foken;Marc Aubinet;Mika Aurela

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Mauder
Matthias Mauder Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Yaoming Ma
Yaoming Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Franz X. Meixner
Franz X. Meixner Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Corinna Rebmann
Corinna Rebmann Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen
Heping Liu
Heping Liu Washington State University
Eva Falge
Eva Falge German Meteorological Service
Xingliang Xu
Xingliang Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Georg Miehe
Georg Miehe Philipp University of Marburg

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