Benjamin Bechtel

11.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
119 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Bechtel is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Bechtel has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Environmental Engineering, 68 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 38 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Bechtel's work include Urban Heat Island Mitigation (86 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (52 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (34 papers). Benjamin Bechtel is often cited by papers focused on Urban Heat Island Mitigation (86 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (52 papers) and Remote Sensing and Land Use (34 papers). Benjamin Bechtel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Ireland. Benjamin Bechtel's co-authors include Jürgen Böhner, Olaf Conrad, Gerald Mills, Elke Kerstin Fischer, Lars Gerlitz, Helge Dietrich, Volker Wichmann, Jan Wehberg, M. Bock and Matthias Demuzere and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Bechtel

118 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses (SAGA) v. 2.1.4

2015 1.8k citations Olaf Conrad, Benjamin Bechtel et al. profile →
System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses (SAGA) v. 2.1.4

2015 671 citations Olaf Conrad, Benjamin Bechtel et al. profile →
Mapping Local Climate Zones for a Worldwide Database of the Form and Function of Cities

2015 532 citations Benjamin Bechtel, Paul J. Alexander et al. profile →
SUHI analysis using Local Climate Zones—A comparison of 50 cities

2019 257 citations Benjamin Bechtel, Matthias Demuzere et al. Urban Climate profile →
LCZ Generator: A Web Application to Create Local Climate Zone Maps

2021 189 citations Matthias Demuzere, Benjamin Bechtel et al. profile →
A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science

2022 176 citations Matthias Demuzere, Alberto Martilli et al. profile →
Mapping local climate zones for cities: A large review

2023 105 citations Fan Huang, Wenfeng Zhan et al. Remote Sensing of Environment profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Integration of urban climate research within the global climate change discourse 2024 ·PLOS Climate ·Negin Nazarian, Benjamin Bechtel, Gerald Mills, Melissa Hart, Ariane Middel, E. Scott Krayenhoff, Gaby S. Langendijk, Lei Zhao, A. J. Pitman, Winston Chow	2
2	Mapping urban form into local climate zones for the continental US from 1986–2020 2024 ·Scientific Data ·Meng Qi, Chunxue Xu, Wenwen Zhang, Matthias Demuzere, Perry Hystad, Tianjun Lu, Peter James, Benjamin Bechtel, Steve Hankey	10
3	Spatial distribution of atmospheric microplastics in bulk-deposition of urban and rural environments – A one-year follow-up study in northern Germany 2023 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·(unknown), Benjamin Bechtel, (unknown), Elke Kerstin Fischer	37
4	Contrasting Trends and Drivers of Global Surface and Canopy Urban Heat Islands 2023 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Huilin Du, Wenfeng Zhan, James Voogt, Benjamin Bechtel, TC Chakraborty, Zihan Liu, Leiqiu Hu, Zhi‐Hua Wang, Jiufeng Li, Peng Fu, Weilin Liao, Ming Luo, Long Li, Shasha Wang, Fan Huang, Shiqi Miao	40
5	Urban Heat Islands Significantly Reduced by COVID‐19 Lockdown 2022 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Zihan Liu, Jiameng Lai, Wenfeng Zhan, Benjamin Bechtel, James Voogt, Jinling Quan, Leiqiu Hu, Peng Fu, Fan Huang, Long Li, Zheng Guo, Jiufeng Li	55
6	Integrated Assessment of Urban Overheating Impacts on Human Life 2022 ·Earth s Future ·Negin Nazarian, E. Scott Krayenhoff, Benjamin Bechtel, David M. Hondula, Riccardo Paolini, Jennifer Vanos, Toby Cheung, Winston Chow, Richard de Dear, Ollie Jay, Jason Lee, Alberto Martilli, Ariane Middel, L. K. Norford, Mahsan Sadeghi, Stefano Schiavon, M. Santamouris	124
7	Urban‐Rural Gradient in Urban Heat Island Variations Responsive to Large‐Scale Human Activity Changes During Chinese New Year Holiday 2022 ·Geophysical Research Letters ·Wenfeng Zhan, Zihan Liu, Benjamin Bechtel, Jiufeng Li, Jiameng Lai, Huyan Fu, Long Li, Fan Huang, Chunli Wang, (unknown)	12
8	High-resolution land-use land-cover change data for regional climate modelling applications over Europe – Part 2: Historical and future changes 2021 ·Peter Hoffmann, (unknown), Diana Rechid, Nathalie de Noblet‐Ducoudré, Édouard L. Davin, (unknown), Benjamin Bechtel, Jürgen Böhner, Eleni Katragkou, Sebastiaan Luyssaert	6
9	Balancing prediction accuracy and generalization ability: A hybrid framework for modelling the annual dynamics of satellite-derived land surface temperatures 2019 ·ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ·Zihan Liu, Wenfeng Zhan, Jiameng Lai, Falu Hong, Jinling Quan, Benjamin Bechtel, Fan Huang, (unknown)	56
10	The Human Influence Experiment (Part 2): Guidelines for Improved Mapping of Local Climate Zones Using a Supervised Classification 2019 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Marie-Leen Verdonck, Matthias Demuzere, Benjamin Bechtel, Christoph Beck, Oscar Brousse, (unknown), Daniel Fenner, François Leconte, Frieke Van Coillie	12
11	Mapping Europe into local climate zones 2019 ·PLoS ONE ·Matthias Demuzere, Benjamin Bechtel, Ariane Middel, Gerald Mills	162
12	Detecting multi-temporal land cover change and land surface temperature in Pearl River Delta by adopting local climate zone 2019 ·Urban Climate ·Ran Wang, Meng Cai, Chao Ren, Benjamin Bechtel, Yong Xu, Edward Ng	127
13	Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data – Current status of production and evaluation 2018 ·Urban Climate ·Benjamin Bechtel, Paul J. Alexander, Christoph Beck, Jürgen Böhner, Oscar Brousse, Jason Ching, Matthias Demuzere, Cidália C. Fonte, Tamás Gál, Julia Hidalgo, Peter Hoffmann, Ariane Middel, Gerald Mills, Chao Ren, Linda See, Panagiotis Sismanidis, Marie-Leen Verdonck, Guang Xu, Yong Xu	223
14	Identification of typical diurnal patterns for clear-sky climatology of surface urban heat islands 2018 ·Remote Sensing of Environment ·Jiameng Lai, Wenfeng Zhan, Fan Huang, James Voogt, Benjamin Bechtel, Michael Allen, Shushi Peng, Falu Hong, Yongxue Liu, Peijun Du	116
15	Open Data for Global Multimodal Land Use Classification: Outcome of the 2017 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest 2018 ·IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing ·Naoto Yokoya, Pedram Ghamisi, Junshi Xia, Sergey Sukhanov, Roel Heremans, (unknown), Benjamin Bechtel, Bertrand Le Saux, Gabriele Moser, Devis Tuia	109
16	Quality of Crowdsourced Data on Urban Morphology—The Human Influence Experiment (HUMINEX) 2017 ·Urban Science ·Benjamin Bechtel, Matthias Demuzere, Panagiotis Sismanidis, Daniel Fenner, Oscar Brousse, Christoph Beck, Frieke Van Coillie, Olaf Conrad, Iphigenia Keramitsoglou, Ariane Middel, Gerald Mills, Dev Niyogi, Marco Otto, Linda See, Marie-Leen Verdonck	82
17	Using crowdsourced data from citizen weather stations to analyse air temperature in 'local climate zones' in Berlin, Germany 2017 ·EGUGA ·Daniel Fenner, Fred Meier, Benjamin Bechtel, Marco Otto, Dieter Scherer	1
18	WUDAPT, an efficient land use producing data tool for mesoscale models? Integration of urban LCZ in WRF over Madrid 2016 ·Urban Climate ·Oscar Brousse, Alberto Martilli, Michael Foley, Gerald Mills, Benjamin Bechtel	212
19	System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses (SAGA) v. 2.1.4 breakdown → 2015 ·Olaf Conrad, Benjamin Bechtel, M. Bock, Helge Dietrich, Elke Kerstin Fischer, Lars Gerlitz, Jan Wehberg, Volker Wichmann, Jürgen Böhner	671
20	SAGA GIS based processing of spatial high resolution temperature data. 2013 ·EnviroInfo ·Lars Gerlitz, Benjamin Bechtel, Klemen Zakšek, Tobias Kawohl, Jürgen Böhner	2

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