A. Butz

10.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
114 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

A. Butz is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Butz has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 92 papers in Atmospheric Science and 24 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in A. Butz's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (95 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (79 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (60 papers). A. Butz is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (95 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (79 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (60 papers). A. Butz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United States. A. Butz's co-authors include Otto Hasekamp, Christian Frankenberg, Ilse Aben, Geoffrey C. Toon, Akihiko Kuze, Jochen Landgraf, John R. Worden, Tatsuya Yokota, Martin Jung and Joshua B. Fisher and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

In The Last Decade

A. Butz

101 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

New global observations of the terrestrial carbon cycle from GOSAT: Patterns of plant fluorescence with gross primary productivity

2011 820 citations Christian Frankenberg, A. Butz et al. profile →
Methane retrieved from TROPOMI: improvement of the data product and validation of the first 2 years of measurements

2021 154 citations Alba Lorente, Tobias Borsdorff et al. Atmospheric measurement techniques profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
A. Butz	4.5k	3.5k	727	520	323	114	5.0k
Jochen Landgraf	3.5k 0.8×	2.8k 0.8×	512 0.7×	271 0.5×	332 1.0×	130	4.0k
C. O’Dell	4.3k 1.0×	3.4k 1.0×	283 0.4×	288 0.6×	407 1.3×	101	4.8k
Toshinobu Machida	3.8k 0.8×	3.7k 1.1×	316 0.4×	291 0.6×	209 0.6×	174	4.6k
Prabir K. Patra	4.0k 0.9×	3.1k 0.9×	350 0.5×	156 0.3×	392 1.2×	181	5.1k
Ilse Aben	6.1k 1.4×	5.1k 1.5×	362 0.5×	850 1.6×	502 1.6×	206	6.9k
Sébastien Biraud	2.5k 0.5×	1.7k 0.5×	310 0.4×	232 0.4×	305 0.9×	83	2.8k
K. A. Masarie	4.1k 0.9×	3.4k 1.0×	328 0.5×	186 0.4×	192 0.6×	38	4.7k
Paul B. Krummel	3.9k 0.9×	3.8k 1.1×	307 0.4×	234 0.5×	308 1.0×	147	5.1k
Sander Houweling	6.3k 1.4×	5.4k 1.6×	466 0.6×	589 1.1×	461 1.4×	116	7.3k
Christian Rödenbeck	4.7k 1.0×	2.7k 0.8×	570 0.8×	114 0.2×	297 0.9×	123	6.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of A. Butz

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Vardag, Sanam N., et al.. (2025). Seasonal and interannual variability in CO ₂ fluxes in southern Africa seen by GOSAT. Biogeosciences. 22(2). 555–584.

Glauch, Theo, Julia Marshall, Christoph Gerbig, et al.. (2025). pyVPRM : a next-generation vegetation photosynthesis and respiration model for the post-MODIS era. Geoscientific model development. 18(14). 4713–4742. 3 indexed citations

Tanimoto, Hiroshi, T. Sugita, Prabir K. Patra, et al.. (2024). Ship- and aircraft-based XCH ₄ over oceans as a new tool for satellite validation. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 17(4). 1297–1316.

Kuhn, Jonas, Stefan Schmitt, Martina Schmidt, et al.. (2023). An open-path observatory for greenhouse gases based on near-infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 16(24). 6097–6110. 2 indexed citations

Lorente, Alba, Tobias Borsdorff, A. Butz, et al.. (2021). Methane retrieved from TROPOMI: improvement of the data product and validation of the first 2 years of measurements. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(1). 665–684. 154 indexed citations breakdown →

Wilzewski, Jonas, Anke Roiger, Johan Strandgren, et al.. (2020). Spectral sizing of a coarse-spectral-resolution satellite sensor for XCO ₂. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 13(2). 731–745. 6 indexed citations

Buchwitz, Michael, Maximilian Reuter, Oliver Schneising, et al.. (2018). Computation and analysis of atmospheric carbon dioxide annual mean growth rates from satellite observations during 2003–2016. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(23). 17355–17370. 32 indexed citations

Roiger, Anke, Patrick Jöckel, Theresa Klausner, et al.. (2018). Estimation of methane emissions in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin using portable FTIR spectrometry and WRF modelling. EGUGA. 7243. 1 indexed citations

Butz, A., Nicole Bobrowski, Julian Kostinek, et al.. (2017). Remote sensing of volcanic CO ₂ , HF, HCl, SO ₂ , and BrO in the downwind plume of Mt. Etna. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 10(1). 1–14. 56 indexed citations

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Kostinek, Julian, Frank Hase, Thomas Blumenstock, et al.. (2015). Accurate mobile remote sensing of XCO ₂ and XCH ₄ latitudinal transects from aboard a research vessel. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 8(12). 5023–5038. 39 indexed citations

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Alexe, Mihai, P. Bergamaschi, Arjo Segers, et al.. (2015). Inverse modelling of CH ₄ emissions for 2010–2011 using different satellite retrieval products from GOSAT and SCIAMACHY. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(1). 113–133. 103 indexed citations

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Checa‐Garcia, Ramiro, Jochen Landgraf, André Galli, et al.. (2015). Mapping spectroscopic uncertainties into prospective methane retrieval errors from Sentinel-5 and its precursor. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 8(9). 3617–3629. 16 indexed citations

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Galli, André, Sandrine Guerlet, A. Butz, et al.. (2014). The impact of spectral resolution on satellite retrieval accuracy of CO ₂ and CH ₄. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 7(4). 1105–1119. 9 indexed citations

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Reuter, Maximilian, Hartmut Bösch, H. Bovensmann, et al.. (2013). A joint effort to deliver satellite retrieved atmospheric CO ₂ concentrations for surface flux inversions: the ensemble median algorithm EMMA. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(4). 1771–1780. 43 indexed citations

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Butz, A., Sandrine Guerlet, Otto Hasekamp, Akihiko Kuze, & Hiroshi Suto. (2013). Using ocean-glint scattered sunlight as a diagnostic tool for satellite remote sensing of greenhouse gases. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 6(9). 2509–2520. 15 indexed citations

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Basu, Sourish, Sandrine Guerlet, A. Butz, et al.. (2013). Global CO ₂ fluxes estimated from GOSAT retrievals of total column CO ₂. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(17). 8695–8717. 195 indexed citations

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Galli, André, Jochen Landgraf, Sandrine Guerlet, et al.. (2013). GOSAT Measurements of CO2 and CH4 Columns: Impact of Reduced Spectral Resolution on Retrieval Accuracy. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts.

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Butz, A., Sandrine Guerlet, Otto Hasekamp, et al.. (2011). Toward accurate CO 2 and CH 4 observations from GOSAT. Research Online (University of Wollongong). 2011. 1 indexed citations

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Butz, A., Otto Hasekamp, Christian Frankenberg, & Ilse Aben. (2008). Synthetic study: Simultaneous Retrieval of Atmospheric CO2 and Aerosol Properties From Space Borne Observations of Backscattered Near-Infrared Sunlight. AGUFM. 2008. 1 indexed citations

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Pfeilsticker, Klaus, Hartmut Bösch, John P. Burrows, et al.. (2003). Balloon-borne DOAS measurements of SCIAMACHY level 1 and 2 products. 530. 427–432. 1 indexed citations

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