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Wolfgang Knorr

Wolfgang Knorr

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
54
Citations
19681
World Ranking
3943
National Ranking
74

Wolfgang Knorr 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 Wolfgang Knorr sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 135 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wolfgang Knorr 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 Wolfgang Knorr sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wolfgang Knorr is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences, with a concentration in atmospheric science, global and planetary change, water science and technology, and ecology.

Their work covers a range of topics including atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, meteorological phenomena and simulations, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, and remote sensing in agriculture.

Knorr has published research in several scientific venues such as Frontiers in Remote Sensing, Environmental Research Letters, and Geoscientific Model Development.

  • Assessing the Impact of Atmospheric CO2 and NO2 Measurements From Space on Estimating City-Scale Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions in a Data Assimilation System (2022, Frontiers in Remote Sensing)
  • Assimilation of atmospheric CO2 observations from space can support national CO2 emission inventories (2021, Environmental Research Letters)
  • A comprehensive land-surface vegetation model for multi-stream data assimilation, D&B v1.0 (2025, Geoscientific Model Development)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Marko Scholze, P. J. Rayner, Michael Voßbeck, T. Kaminski, and Michael Buchwitz.

Best Publications

  • Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C4MIP Model Intercomparison

    Pierre Friedlingstein;P. Cox;Richard A. Betts;Laurent Bopp

  • The carbon cycle and atmospheric CO2

    IC Prentice;GD Farquhar;Mjr Fasham;ML Goulden

  • Long-term sensitivity of soil carbon turnover to warming

    W Knorr;IC Prentice;Joanna Isobel House;EA Holland

  • Global data set of biogenic VOC emissions calculated by the MEGAN model over the last 30 years

    Katerina Sindelarova;Katerina Sindelarova;Claire Granier;Idir Bouarar;Alex Guenther

  • A climate-change risk analysis for world ecosystems

    Marko Scholze;Wolfgang Knorr;Nigel W. Arnell;I. Colin Prentice

  • Quantifying photosynthetic capacity and its relationship to leaf nitrogen content for global-scale terrestrial biosphere models

    Jens Kattge;Wolfgang Knorr;Thomas Raddatz;Christian Wirth

  • Broad threat to humanity from cumulative climate hazards intensified by greenhouse gas emissions

    Camilo Mora;Daniele Spirandelli;Erik C. Franklin;John Lynham

  • Will the tropical land biosphere dominate the climate-carbon cycle feedback during the twenty-first century?

    T. J. Raddatz;C. J. Reick;W. Knorr;J. Kattge

  • Historic global biomass burning emissions for CMIP6 (BB4CMIP) based on merging satellite observations with proxies and fire models (1750-2015)

    Margreet J.E. Van Marle;Silvia Kloster;Brian I. Magi;Jennifer R. Marlon

  • Temperature acclimation in a biochemical model of photosynthesis: a reanalysis of data from 36 species

    Jens Kattge;Wolfgang Knorr

  • The status and challenge of global fire modelling

    Stijn Hantson;Almut Arneth;Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison;Douglas I. Kelley;Douglas I. Kelley

  • Two decades of terrestrial carbon fluxes from a carbon cycle data assimilation system (CCDAS)

    Peter J. Rayner;Marko Scholze;Marko Scholze;Wolfgang Knorr;Wolfgang Knorr;Thomas Kaminski

  • Annual and interannual CO2 exchanges of the terrestrial biosphere: process-based simulations and uncertainties

    Wolfgang Knorr

  • Inversion of terrestrial ecosystem model parameter values against eddy covariance measurements by Monte Carlo sampling

    Wolfgang Knorr;Jens Kattge

  • The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), phase 1: Experimental and analytical protocols with detailed model descriptions

    Sam S. Rabin;Sam S. Rabin;Joe R. Melton;Gitta Lasslop;Dominique Bachelet

  • Impact of drought stress and other factors on seasonal land biosphere CO2 exchange studied through an atmospheric tracer transport model

    Wolfgang Knorr;Martin Heimann

  • Propagating uncertainty through prognostic carbon cycle data assimilation system simulations

    Marko Scholze;Thomas Kaminski;Peter Rayner;Wolfgang Knorr

  • Impact of human population density on fire frequency at the global scale

    Wolfgang Knorr;Thomas Kaminski;Almut Arneth;Ulrich Weber

  • Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models through simulations of the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2: First results of a model intercomparison study

    M. Heimann;G. Esser;A. Haxeltine;J. Kaduk;J. Kaduk

  • Uncertainties in global terrestrial biosphere modeling: 1. A comprehensive sensitivity analysis with a new photosynthesis and energy balance scheme

    Wolfgang Knorr;Martin Heimann

  • Is the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions increasing

    Wolfgang Knorr

Frequent Co-Authors

Marko Scholze
Marko Scholze Lund University
Peter Rayner
Peter Rayner University of Melbourne
Almut Arneth
Almut Arneth Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Nadine Gobron
Nadine Gobron European Commission Joint Research Centre
Martin Heimann
Martin Heimann Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Jens Kattge
Jens Kattge Max Planck Society
Michel M. Verstraete
Michel M. Verstraete University of the Witwatersrand
Jose Moreno
Jose Moreno University of Valencia
Michael E. Schaepman
Michael E. Schaepman University of Zurich
John R. Miller
John R. Miller York University

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