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Ute Karstens

Ute Karstens

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
35
Citations
4403
World Ranking
9336
National Ranking
181

Ute Karstens publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ute Karstens sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 99 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Ute Karstens D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ute Karstens sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ute Karstens is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Their research spans primarily across Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions also touching on related subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Mechanical Engineering, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's work focuses extensively on atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, as well as topics related to atmospheric ozone and climate. Additional research interests include climate variability and models, carbon dioxide capture technologies, radioactivity and radon measurements, and climate change policy and economics.

Frequent publication venues for Ute Karstens include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Earth system science data
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

The following recent papers highlight key aspects of their research output:

  • "Standards and Open Access are the ICOS Pillars Reply to 'Comments on The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe'" (2023), published in HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • "The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe" (2021), published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Changes in net ecosystem exchange over Europe during the 2018 drought based on atmospheric observations" (2020), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "The regional European atmospheric transport inversion comparison, EUROCOM: first results on European-wide terrestrial carbon fluxes for the period 2006-2015" (2020), published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "The consolidated European synthesis of CO 2 emissions and removals for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990-2018" (2021), published in Earth system science data

Collaborations with other researchers have featured regularly in Karstens' work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Christoph Gerbig (12 joint publications)
  • Alex Vermeulen (10 joint publications)
  • Guillaume Monteil (10 joint publications)
  • Marko Scholze (10 joint publications)
  • Huilin Chen (7 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • A comprehensive model inter-comparison study investigating the water budget during the BALTEX-PIDCAP period

    D. Jacob;B. J. J. M. Van den Hurk;U. Andræ;G. Elgered

  • TransCom model simulations of hourly atmospheric CO2 : Analysis of synoptic-scale variations for the period 2002-2003

    P. K. Patra;R. M. Law;Wouter Peters;Wouter Peters;C. RöDenbeck

  • The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe

    Jouni Heiskanen;Christian Brümmer;Nina Buchmann;Carlo Calfapietra

  • Urbanization impacts on the climate in Europe: Numerical experiments by the PSU-NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5)

    K. Trusilova;M. Jung;G. Churkina;U. Karstens

  • Comparing atmospheric transport models for future regional inversions over Europe : part 1 : mapping the atmospheric CO2 signals

    C. Geels;M. Gloor;P. Ciais;P. Bousquet

  • Remote sensing of cloud liquid water

    U. Karstens;C. Simmer;E. Ruprecht

  • TransCom model simulations of hourly atmospheric CO2: Experimental overview and diurnal cycle results for 2002

    R. M. Law;W. Peters;W. Peters;C. Rödenbeck;C. Aulagnier

  • Inferring high-resolution fossil fuel CO 2 records at continental sites from combined 14 CO 2 and CO observations

    Ingeborg Levin;Ute Karstens

  • Carbon monoxide : a quantitative tracer for fossil fuel CO2?

    Ulrike Gamnitzer;Ulrike Gamnitzer;Ute Karstens;Bernd Kromer;Rolf E. M. Neubert

  • Inverse modelling of European CH4 emissions during 2006–2012 using different inverse models and reassessed atmospheric observations

    Peter Bergamaschi;Ute Karstens;Ute Karstens;Alistair J. Manning;Marielle Saunois

  • Top-down estimates of European CH4 and N2O emissions based on four different inverse models

    P. Bergamaschi;M. Corazza;U. Karstens;M. Athanassiadou

  • The CO 2 release and Oxygen uptake from Fossil Fuel Emission Estimate (COFFEE) dataset: effects from varying oxidative ratios

    J. Steinbach;C. Gerbig;C. Rödenbeck;Ute Karstens

  • A process-based 222radon flux map for Europe and its comparison to long-term observations

    U. Karstens;Clemens Schwingshackl;Clemens Schwingshackl;D. Schmithüsen;I. Levin

  • Changes in net ecosystem exchange over Europe during the 2018 drought based on atmospheric observations.

    R. L. Thompson;G. Broquet;Christoph Gerbig;Thomas Koch;Thomas Koch

  • Importance of fossil fuel emission uncertainties over Europe for CO2 modeling: model intercomparison

    Philippe Peylin;Sander Houweling;Maarten C. Krol;Maarten C. Krol;Ute Karstens

  • Observation-based estimates of fossil fuel-derived CO2 emissions in the Netherlands using Δ14C, CO and 222Radon

    S. Van der Laan;U. Karstens;R. E. M. Neubert;I. T. Van der Laan-Luijkx

  • The regional European atmospheric transport inversion comparison, EUROCOM : First results on European-wide terrestrial carbon fluxes for the period 2006-2015

    Guillaume Monteil;Grégoire Broquet;Marko Scholze;Matthew Lang

  • Spatial and temporal variability of land CO2 fluxes estimated with remote sensing and analysis data over western Eurasia

    Sébastien Lafont;Laurent Kergoat;Gérard Dedieu;Anne Chevillard

  • Atmospheric monitoring and inverse modelling for verification of greenhouse gas inventories

    Bergamaschi Peter;Danila Ana Maria;Weiss Ray;P Ciais

  • Error characterization of CO 2 vertical mixing in the atmospheric transport model WRF-VPRM

    R. Kretschmer;C. Gerbig;Ute Karstens;F.-T. Koch

  • TransCom N2O model inter-comparison, Part 2: Atmospheric inversion estimates of N2O emissions

    R. L. Thompson;K. Ishijima;E. Saikawa;E. Saikawa;M. Corazza

  • Comparing Lagrangian and Eulerian models for CO 2 transport – a step towards Bayesian inverse modeling using WRF/STILT-VPRM

    D. Pillai;D. Pillai;Christoph Gerbig;Roberto Kretschmer;Veronika Beck

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph Gerbig
Christoph Gerbig Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Alex Vermeulen
Alex Vermeulen Lund University
Christian Rödenbeck
Christian Rödenbeck Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Ingeborg Levin
Ingeborg Levin Heidelberg University
Martin Heimann
Martin Heimann Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Maarten Krol
Maarten Krol Wageningen University & Research
Philippe Bousquet
Philippe Bousquet University of Paris-Saclay
Rona Louise Thompson
Rona Louise Thompson Norwegian Institute for Air Research
Philippe Peylin
Philippe Peylin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Michel Ramonet
Michel Ramonet University of Paris-Saclay

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