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Thomas Friborg is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, and Water Science and Technology.

Their main research topics encompass Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Change and Permafrost, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications.

Recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Thomas Friborg include:

  • Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Modeled Microbial Dynamics Explain the Apparent Temperature Sensitivity of Wetland Methane Emissions, 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes: Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Substantial hysteresis in emergent temperature sensitivity of global wetland CH4 emissions, 2021, Nature Communications
  • UAV-borne, LiDAR-based elevation modelling: a method for improving local-scale urban flood risk assessment, 2022, Natural Hazards

Thomas Friborg frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Hiroki Iwata
  • Torsten Sachs
  • Joachim Jansen
  • Ankur R. Desai
  • Ivan Mammarella

Their work has been published extensively in various venues, with multiple publications in the following:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Nature Communications
  • Remote Sensing
  • UEF eRepo (University of Eastern Finland)

Best Publications

  • A system to measure surface fluxes of momentum, sensible heat, water vapour and carbon dioxide

    J.B. Moncrieff;J.M. Massheder;H. de Bruin;J.A. Elbers

  • Thawing sub-arctic permafrost - effects on vegetation and methane emissions

    Torben R. Christensen;Torbjörn Johansson;H. Jonas Åkerman;Mihail Mastepanov

  • Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

    Susan M. Natali;Jennifer D. Watts;Brendan M. Rogers;Stefano Potter

  • Decadal vegetation changes in a northern peatland, greenhouse gas fluxes and net radiative forcing

    Torbjörn Johansson;Nils Malmer;Patrick M. Crill;Thomas Friborg

  • The uncertain climate footprint of wetlands under human pressure

    Ana Maria Roxana Petrescu;Annalea Lohila;Juha-Pekka Tuovinen;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Annual cycle of methane emission from a subarctic peatland

    Marcin Jackowicz-Korczyński;Torben R. Christensen;Kristina Bäckstrand;Patrick Crill

  • Siberian wetlands: Where a sink is a source

    Thomas Friborg;Henrik Soegaard;Torben R. Christensen;Colin R. Lloyd

  • FLUXNET-CH4 Synthesis Activity : Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions

    Sara H. Knox;Robert B. Jackson;Benjamin Poulter;Gavin McNicol

  • Trace gas exchange in a high-arctic valley. 1 : Variations in CO2 and CH4 flux between tundra vegetation types

    T. R. Christensen;T. Friborg;M. Sommerkorn;J. Kaplan

  • Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate

    Manuel Helbig;Manuel Helbig;James Michael Waddington;Pavel Alekseychik;Brian D. Amiro

  • Estimating evaporation with thermal UAV data and two-source energy balance models

    H. Hoffmann;H. Nieto;R. Jensen;R. Guzinski

  • Biotic, abiotic, and management controls on the net ecosystem CO2 exchange of European mountain grassland ecosystems

    Georg Wohlfahrt;Margaret Anderson-Dunn;Michael Bahn;Manuela Balzarolo

  • EU peatlands: Current carbon stocks and trace gas fluxes

    K. A. Byrne;B. Chojnicki;T. R. Christensen;M. Drösler

  • Methane emissions from western Siberian wetlands: heterogeneity and sensitivity to climate change

    T. J. Bohn;D. P. Lettenmaier;K. Sathulur;L. C. Bowling

  • Temperature and snow-melt controls on interannual variability in carbon exchange in the high Arctic

    L. Groendahl;T. Friborg;H. Soegaard

  • Observations and Status of Peatland Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Europe

    Matthias Drösler;Annette Freibauer;Torben R. Christensen;Thomas Friborg

  • Rapid response of greenhouse gas emission to early spring thaw in a subarctic mire as shown by micrometeorological techniques

    T. Friborg;T. R. Christensen;H. Søgaard

  • Crop water stress maps for an entire growing season from visible and thermal UAV imagery

    Helene Hoffmann;Rasmus Jensen;Anton Thomsen;Hector Nieto

  • Monthly gridded data product of northern wetland methane emissions based on upscaling eddy covariance observations

    Olli Peltola;Timo Vesala;Yao Gao;Olle Räty

  • Trace gas exchange in a high-Arctic valley: 2. Landscape CH4 fluxes measured and modeled using eddy correlation data

    Thomas Friborg;Torben Røjle Christensen;Birger Ulf Hansen;Claus Nordstroem

  • Trace gas exchange in a high‐Arctic valley: 3. Integrating and scaling CO2 fluxes from canopy to landscape using flux data, footprint modeling, and remote sensing

    Henrik Soegaard;Claus Nordstroem;Thomas Friborg;Birger U. Hansen

  • Large methane emissions from a subarctic lake during spring thaw: Mechanisms and landscape significance

    Mathilde Jammet;Patrick Crill;Sigrid Dengel;Thomas Friborg

Frequent Co-Authors

Torben R. Christensen
Torben R. Christensen Aarhus University
Patrick M. Crill
Patrick M. Crill Stockholm University
Mika Aurela
Mika Aurela Finnish Meteorological Institute
Donatella Zona
Donatella Zona San Diego State University
Frans-Jan W. Parmentier
Frans-Jan W. Parmentier University of Oslo
Magnus Lund
Magnus Lund Aarhus University
Bo Elberling
Bo Elberling University of Copenhagen
Annalea Lohila
Annalea Lohila Finnish Meteorological Institute
Torsten Sachs
Torsten Sachs Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Eugénie S. Euskirchen
Eugénie S. Euskirchen University of Alaska Fairbanks

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