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Thomas Röckmann

Thomas Röckmann

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
73
Citations
18051
World Ranking
1429
National Ranking
43

Overview

Thomas Röckmann is a researcher affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their primary research contributions lie within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Environmental Chemistry among other subfields.

Their work covers several main topics related to atmospheric and environmental dynamics, including:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Coal Properties and Utilization
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Röckmann has published extensively in various scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Biogeosciences
  • Environmental Science & Technology

Key recent publications by Röckmann include:

  • Micro- and Nanoplastics in Alpine Snow: A New Method for Chemical Identification and (Semi)Quantification in the Nanogram Range, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Nanoplastics measurements in Northern and Southern polar ice, 2022, Environmental Research
  • Presence of nanoplastics in rural and remote surface waters, 2022, Environmental Research Letters
  • East Siberian Arctic inland waters emit mostly contemporary carbon, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Nanoplastics transport to the remote, high-altitude Alps, 2021, Environmental Pollution

Their research collaborations include frequent co-authors such as Carina van der Veen, Malika Menoud, Hossein Maazallahi, Jarosław Nęcki, and David Lowry. These partnerships have contributed to advancing knowledge in their shared fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Methane emissions from terrestrial plants under aerobic conditions

    Frank Keppler;John T. G. Hamilton;Marc Braß;Thomas Röckmann

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

    D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

  • Methane Feedbacks to the Global Climate System in a Warmer World

    Joshua F. Dean;Jack J. Middelburg;Thomas Röckmann;Rien Aerts

  • Iron-mediated anaerobic oxidation of methane in brackish coastal sediments

    Matthias Egger;Olivia Rasigraf;Célia J Sapart;Célia J Sapart;Tom Jilbert

  • Nanoplastics measurements in Northern and Southern polar ice.

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  • Micro- and Nanoplastics in Alpine Snow: A New Method for Chemical Identification and (Semi)Quantification in the Nanogram Range

    Dusan Materic;Anneliese Kasper-Giebl;Daniela Kau;Marnick Anten

  • Triple Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Nitrate Using the Denitrifier Method and Thermal Decomposition of N2O

    Jan Kaiser;Meredith G. Hastings;Benjamin Z. Houlton;Thomas Röckmann

  • Effect of UV radiation and temperature on the emission of methane from plant biomass and structural components

    I. Vigano;H. van Weelden;R. Holzinger;F. Keppler

  • Dynamic Processes Governing Lower-Tropospheric HDO/H2O Ratios as Observed from Space and Ground

    Christian Frankenberg;Kei Yoshimura;Thorsten Warneke;Ilse Aben

  • Reduced biomass burning emissions reconcile conflicting estimates of the post-2006 atmospheric methane budget.

    John R. Worden;A. Anthony Bloom;Sudhanshu Pandey;Sudhanshu Pandey;Zhe Jiang;Zhe Jiang

  • Isotope effects in the chemistry of atmospheric trace compounds.

    Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer;Christof Janssen;Jan Kaiser;Thomas Röckmann

  • Methoxyl groups of plant pectin as a precursor of atmospheric methane: evidence from deuterium labelling studies.

    Frank Keppler;John T. G. Hamilton;W. Colin McRoberts;Ivan Vigano

  • A multi-year methane inversion using SCIAMACHY, accounting for systematic errors using TCCON measurements

    S. Houweling;S. Houweling;M. Krol;M. Krol;M. Krol;P. Bergamaschi;C. Frankenberg

  • Mass-independent oxygen isotope fractionation in atmospheric CO as a result of the reaction CO + OH

    Th. Röckmann;C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer;G. Saueressig;P. Bergamaschi

  • Natural and anthropogenic variations in methane sources during the past two millennia

    C.J. Sapart;G. Monteil;M. Prokopiou;R.S.W. Van de Wal

  • In-situ observations of the isotopic composition of methane at the Cabauw tall tower site

    Thomas Röckmann;Simon Eyer;Carina van der Veen;Maria-Elena Popa

  • The overwhelming role of soils in the global atmospheric hydrogen cycle

    T. S. Rhee;C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer;T. Röckmann

  • New insight into the atmospheric chloromethane budget gained using stable carbon isotope ratios

    F. Keppler;F. Keppler;D. B. Harper;T. Röckmann;T. Röckmann;R. M. Moore

  • Mass spectrometry of the intramolecular nitrogen isotope distribution of environmental nitrous oxide using fragment-ion analysis

    C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer;T. Röckmann

  • Statistical clumped isotope signatures

    T. Röckmann;M. E. Popa;M. C. Krol;M. C. Krol;M. C. Krol;M. E. G. Hofmann

  • Quantification of the SF6 lifetime based on mesospheric loss measured in the stratospheric polar vortex

    Eric A. Ray;Eric A. Ray;Fred L. Moore;Fred L. Moore;James W. Elkins;Karen H. Rosenlof

  • Atmospheric constraints on global emissions of methane from plants

    S. Houweling;T. Röckmann;I. Aben;F. Keppler

  • New insight into the atmospheric chloromethane budget gained using gained using

    F. Keppler;D. B. Harper;T. Röckmann;R. M. Moore

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

    D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Maarten Krol
Maarten Krol Wageningen University & Research
Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer
Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Sander Houweling
Sander Houweling Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Rupert Holzinger
Rupert Holzinger Utrecht University
Jan Kaiser
Jan Kaiser University of East Anglia
William T. Sturges
William T. Sturges University of East Anglia
Frank Keppler
Frank Keppler Heidelberg University
Willi A. Brand
Willi A. Brand Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Thomas Blunier
Thomas Blunier University of Copenhagen
Ilse Aben
Ilse Aben Netherlands Institute for Space Research

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