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Overview

Wouter Peters is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands and has a research profile focused primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans multiple interconnected fields and subfields, contributing significantly to global understanding of carbon dynamics and atmospheric processes.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields covered in their research are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Environmental Engineering

The primary topics of their work include:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Climate variability and models
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations are:

  • Ingrid T. Luijkx
  • Frédéric Chevallier
  • Philippe Ciais
  • Christian Rödenbeck
  • Ana Bastos

The scientist publishes regularly in a range of journals with repeats in certain venues that reflect their domain and research focus. These include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Earth system science data
  • Biogeosciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques

Recent notable papers by Wouter Peters include:

  • "Global Carbon Budget 2023" (2023), published in Earth system science data
  • "Global Carbon Budget 2022" (2022), published in Earth system science data
  • "Global Carbon Budget 2021" (2022), published in Earth system science data
  • "Global Carbon Budget 2020" (2020), published in Earth system science data
  • "Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change" (2021), published in Nature

Best Publications

  • Global carbon budget 2014

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;G. P. Peters

  • Global Carbon Budget 2018

    Corinne Le Quéré;Robbie M. Andrew;Pierre Friedlingstein;Stephen Sitch

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael O'Sullivan;Matthew W. Jones;Robbie M. Andrew

  • Global Carbon Budget 2019

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Matthew W. Jones;Michael O'Sullivan;Robbie Andrew

  • An atmospheric perspective on North American carbon dioxide exchange: CarbonTracker

    Wouter Peters;A. R. Jacobson;C. Sweeney;A. E. Andrews

  • Weak northern and strong tropical land carbon uptake from vertical profiles of atmospheric CO2

    Britton B. Stephens;Kevin R. Gurney;Pieter P. Tans;Colm Sweeney

  • Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change

    Luciana V Gatti;Luana S Basso;John B Miller;Manuel Gloor

  • Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach

    Martin Jung;Christopher Schwalm;Mirco Migliavacca;Sophia Walther

  • Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling

    M.K. van der Molen;A.J. Dolman;P. Ciais;T. Eglin

  • The two-way nested global chemistry-transport zoom model TM5: algorithm and applications

    M.C. Krol;S. Houweling;B. Bregman;M. van den Broek

  • Global atmospheric carbon budget: results from an ensemble of atmospheric CO2 inversions.

    P. Peylin;R. M. Law;K. R. Gurney;F. Chevallier

  • Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought

    Sebastian Wolf;Sebastian Wolf;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;Joshua B. Fisher;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Climate regulation of fire emissions and deforestation in equatorial Asia

    G. R. van der Werf;J. Dempewolf;S. N. Trigg;J. T. Randerson

  • Importance of methane and nitrous oxide for Europe's terrestrial greenhouse-gas balance

    E. D. Schulze;S. Luyssaert;S. Luyssaert;P. Ciais;A. Freibauer

  • Transport of Biomass Burning Smoke to the Upper Troposphere by Deep Convection in the Equatorial Region.

    M. O. Andreae;P. Artaxo;H. Fischer;S. R. Freitas

  • 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

  • An ensemble data assimilation system to estimate CO2 surface fluxes from atmospheric trace gas observations

    Wouter Peters;Wouter Peters;J. B. Miller;J. B. Miller;J. Whitaker;J. Whitaker;A. S. Denning

  • The global chemistry transport model TM5: description and evaluation of the tropospheric chemistry version 3.0

    V. Huijnen;J.E. Williams;M. van Weele;T.P.C. van Noije

  • Increased water-use efficiency and reduced CO2 uptake by plants during droughts at a continental scale

    Wouter Peters;Wouter Peters;Ivar R. van der Velde;Ivar R. van der Velde;Erik van Schaik;John B. Miller

  • Seven years of recent European net terrestrial carbon dioxide exchange constrained by atmospheric observations

    W. Peters;W. Peters;M. C. Krol;G. R. van der Werf;S. Houweling

  • Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: Synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach. In open review for Biogeosciences. doi 10.5194/bg-2019-368

    Martin Jung;Christopher Schwalm;Mirco Migliavacca;Sophia Walther

Frequent Co-Authors

Maarten Krol
Maarten Krol Wageningen University & Research
John B. Miller
John B. Miller National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Sander Houweling
Sander Houweling Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
F. Chevallier
F. Chevallier University of Paris-Saclay
Christian Rödenbeck
Christian Rödenbeck Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Andrew R. Jacobson
Andrew R. Jacobson Earth System Research Laboratory
James W. C. White
James W. C. White University of Colorado Boulder
Prabir K. Patra
Prabir K. Patra Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Peter Bergamaschi
Peter Bergamaschi Heidelberg University
Kevin Schaefer
Kevin Schaefer Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

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