Anna Kontu

2.9k total citations
76 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Anna Kontu is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Anna Kontu has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Atmospheric Science, 33 papers in Environmental Engineering and 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Anna Kontu's work include Cryospheric studies and observations (67 papers), Climate change and permafrost (43 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (33 papers). Anna Kontu is often cited by papers focused on Cryospheric studies and observations (67 papers), Climate change and permafrost (43 papers) and Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (33 papers). Anna Kontu collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Canada and Switzerland. Anna Kontu's co-authors include Jouni Pulliainen, Juha Lemmetyinen, Kimmo Rautiainen, Juho Vehviläinen, Chris Derksen, Leena Leppänen, Andreas Wiesmann, Matthias Drusch, Christian Mätzler and Cécile B. Ménard and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Atmospheric chemistry and physics.

In The Last Decade

Anna Kontu

73 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Anna Kontu Finland 25 1.4k 624 195 120 109 76 1.5k
Hiroto Nagai Japan 13 564 0.4× 116 0.2× 180 0.9× 149 1.2× 112 1.0× 27 822
Konosuke Sugiura Japan 14 654 0.5× 118 0.2× 328 1.7× 44 0.4× 38 0.3× 33 802
Tomonori Tanikawa Japan 16 676 0.5× 121 0.2× 314 1.6× 26 0.2× 52 0.5× 52 790
D. Scott Munro Canada 16 635 0.5× 130 0.2× 313 1.6× 61 0.5× 44 0.4× 37 869
Tsutomu Yamanokuchi Japan 12 387 0.3× 259 0.4× 170 0.9× 139 1.2× 111 1.0× 30 779
Florence Naaim-Bouvet France 19 792 0.6× 114 0.2× 173 0.9× 366 3.0× 61 0.6× 56 979
Alexandre Bevington Canada 11 474 0.3× 76 0.1× 282 1.4× 222 1.9× 34 0.3× 21 778
Ursula Marschalk Germany 9 222 0.2× 155 0.2× 93 0.5× 98 0.8× 185 1.7× 15 450
Shigenori Haginoya Japan 13 601 0.4× 312 0.5× 513 2.6× 16 0.1× 32 0.3× 27 924
Craig D. Smith Canada 14 884 0.6× 117 0.2× 546 2.8× 61 0.5× 27 0.2× 27 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Anna Kontu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Anna Kontu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anna Kontu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Anna Kontu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Anna Kontu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Anna Kontu. Anna Kontu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lemmetyinen, Juha, et al.. (2025). Bayesian Time Series Approach and Its Application to Retrieve Ground and Vegetation Variables From L-Band Passive Microwave Remote Sensing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–13.
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Lemmetyinen, Juha, Mike Schwank, Anna Kontu, et al.. (2024). Retrieval of ground, snow, and forest parameters from space borne passive L band observations. A case study over Sodankylä, Finland. Remote Sensing of Environment. 306. 114143–114143. 5 indexed citations
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Manninen, Terhikki, Kati Anttila, Emmihenna Jääskeläinen, et al.. (2021). Effect of small-scale snow surface roughness on snow albedo and reflectance. ˜The œcryosphere. 15(2). 793–820. 20 indexed citations
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Sandells, Melody, Henning Löwe, Ghislain Picard, et al.. (2021). X-Ray Tomography-Based Microstructure Representation in the Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer Model. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–15. 10 indexed citations
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Cheng, Bin, Timo Vihma, Anna Kontu, et al.. (2021). Inter-annual variation in lake ice composition in the European Arctic: observations based on high-resolution thermistor strings. Earth system science data. 13(8). 3967–3978. 11 indexed citations
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Lemmetyinen, Juha, J. Lahtinen, Anna Kontu, et al.. (2020). SodSAR: A Tower-Based 1–10 GHz SAR System for Snow, Soil and Vegetation Studies. Sensors. 20(22). 6702–6702. 6 indexed citations
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Leinss, Silvan, Henning Löwe, Martin Proksch, & Anna Kontu. (2020). Modeling the evolution of the structural anisotropy of snow. ˜The œcryosphere. 14(1). 51–75. 17 indexed citations
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Sandells, Melody, R. J. Gurney, Juha Lemmetyinen, et al.. (2019). Derivation and Evaluation of a New Extinction Coefficient for Use With the n-HUT Snow Emission Model. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 57(10). 7406–7417. 3 indexed citations
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Ménard, Cécile B., Richard Essery, Alan Barr, et al.. (2019). Meteorological and evaluation datasets for snow modelling at 10 reference sites: description of in situ and bias-corrected reanalysis data. Earth system science data. 11(2). 865–880. 39 indexed citations
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Svensson, Jonas, J. Ström, Niku Kivekäs, et al.. (2018). Light-absorption of dust and elemental carbon in snow in the Indian Himalayas and the Finnish Arctic. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 11(3). 1403–1416. 26 indexed citations
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Nico, Giovanni, et al.. (2017). Wide-area mapping of snow water equivalent by Sentinel-1&2 data. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 9580. 2 indexed citations
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Lemmetyinen, Juha, Anna Kontu, Jouni Pulliainen, et al.. (2016). Nordic Snow Radar Experiment. Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems. 5(2). 403–415. 42 indexed citations
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Picard, Ghislain, Melody Sandells, Christian Mätzler, et al.. (2016). Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer (SMRT): A new model framework to simulate snow-microwave interactions for active and passive remote sensing applications. AGUFM. 2016. 1 indexed citations
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Lakkala, Kaisa, Hanne Suokanerva, Tomi Karppinen, et al.. (2016). Optical laboratory facilities at the Finnish Meteorological Institute – Arctic Research Centre. Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems. 5(2). 315–320. 4 indexed citations
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Leppänen, Leena, et al.. (2016). Sodankylä manual snow survey program. Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems. 5(1). 163–179. 40 indexed citations
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Leppänen, Leena, Anna Kontu, Melody Sandells, et al.. (2016). Arctic Snow Microstructure Experiment for the development of snow emission modelling. Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems. 5(1). 85–94. 4 indexed citations
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Hannula, Henna-Reetta, Juha Lemmetyinen, Anna Kontu, Chris Derksen, & Jouni Pulliainen. (2016). Spatial and Temporal Variation of Bulk Snow Properties in North Boreal and Tundra Environments Based on Extensive Field Measurements. 1 indexed citations
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Lemmetyinen, Juha, Jouni Pulliainen, Anna Kontu, et al.. (2014). Observations of seasonal snow cover at X and Ku bands during the NoSREx campaign. DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research). 1–4. 2 indexed citations
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Meinander, Outi, Anna Kontu, Aki Virkkula, et al.. (2014). Brief communication: Light-absorbing impurities can reduce the density of melting snow. ˜The œcryosphere. 8(3). 991–995. 28 indexed citations
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Meinander, Outi, Stelios Kazadzis, Antti Arola, et al.. (2013). Spectral albedo of seasonal snow during intensive melt period at Sodankylä, beyond the Arctic Circle. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(7). 3793–3810. 42 indexed citations

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