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Thomas Grünwald

Thomas Grünwald

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
60
Citations
31875
World Ranking
2842
National Ranking
188

Overview

Thomas Grünwald is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research primarily spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Ecology, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their scholarly work focuses on key topics such as Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Climate change and permafrost, Climate change impacts on agriculture, and Remote Sensing in Agriculture.

Grünwald's recent papers highlight contributions to understanding ecosystem responses and land model improvements. Notable publications include:

  • "Uncovering the critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress for European ecosystems" (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • "Altered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 2018" (2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • "Improving the representation of cropland sites in the Community Land Model (CLM) version 5.0" (2021, Geoscientific model development)
  • "Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization" (2024, Ecology Letters)
  • "Method comparison of indirect assessments of understory leaf area index (LAIu): A case study across the extended network of ICOS forest ecosystem sites in Europe" (2021, Ecological Indicators)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Christian Bernhofer, Marius Schmidt, Alexander Knohl, Mana Gharun, and Corinna Rebmann.

Grünwald's work has been published in several recurring venues, reflecting their engagement with the academic community. These include Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Biogeosciences, Environmental Modelling & Software, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003

    Ph. Ciais;M. Reichstein;N. Viovy;A. Granier

  • On the Separation of Net Ecosystem Exchange into Assimilation and Ecosystem Respiration: Review and Improved Algorithm

    Markus Reichstein;Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;Dario Papale

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

    Marc Aubinet;Achim Grelle;Andreas Ibrom;Üllar Rannik

  • Gap filling strategies for defensible annual sums of net ecosystem exchange

    E. Falge;D. Baldocchi;R. Olson;P. Anthoni

  • Respiration as the main determinant of carbon balance in European forests

    R. Valentini;G. Matteucci;A. J. Dolman;E.-D. Schulze

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Productivity overshadows temperature in determining soil and ecosystem respiration across European forests

    I. A. Janssens;H. Lankreijer;G. Matteucci;A. S. Kowalski

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • Gap filling strategies for long term energy flux data sets

    Eva Falge;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Richard Olson;Peter Anthoni

  • Evidence for Soil Water Control on Carbon and Water Dynamics in European Forests during the Extremely Dry Year: 2003

    A. Granier;M. Reichstein;N. Bréda;I.A. Janssens

  • Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves

    Adriaan J. Teuling;Adriaan J. Teuling;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Reto Stöckli;Markus Reichstein

  • Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Mathilde Jammet;Paul C. Stoy;Stephen Estel

  • Reduction Of Ecosystem Productivity And Respiration During The European Summer 2003 Climate Anomaly: A Joint Flux Tower, Remote Sensing And Modelling Analysis

    M. Reichstein;M. Reichstein;Philippe Ciais;D. Papale;R. Valentini

  • Dissolved carbon leaching from soil is a crucial component of the net ecosystem carbon balance

    Reimo Kindler;Reimo Kindler;Jan Siemens;Jan Siemens;Klaus Kaiser;David Christopher Walmsley

  • Evapotranspiration amplifies European summer drought

    Adriaan J. Teuling;Anne F. Van Loon;Sonia Isabelle Seneviratne;Irene Lehner;Irene Lehner

  • ECOSTRESS: NASA's Next Generation Mission to Measure Evapotranspiration From the International Space Station

    Joshua B. Fisher;Brian Lee;Adam J. Purdy;Gregory H. Halverson

  • Management effects on net ecosystem carbon and GHG budgets at European crop sites

    Eric Ceschia;Pierre Béziat;Jean-François Dejoux;M. Aubinet

  • 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

  • A decade of carbon, water and energy flux measurements of an old spruce forest at the Anchor Station Tharandt

    Thomas Grünwald;Christian Bernhofer

  • 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

Eddy Moors
Eddy Moors Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Marc Aubinet
Marc Aubinet University of Liège
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Corinna Rebmann
Corinna Rebmann Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Alexander Knohl
Alexander Knohl University of Göttingen
Kim Pilegaard
Kim Pilegaard Technical University of Denmark
Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Riccardo Valentini
Riccardo Valentini Tuscia University

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