Frank Flechtner

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
121 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Frank Flechtner is a scholar working on Oceanography, Aerospace Engineering and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Flechtner has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Oceanography, 68 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 57 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Frank Flechtner's work include Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (114 papers), GNSS positioning and interference (56 papers) and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (43 papers). Frank Flechtner is often cited by papers focused on Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (114 papers), GNSS positioning and interference (56 papers) and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (43 papers). Frank Flechtner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and China. Frank Flechtner's co-authors include Christoph Dahle, Christoph Förste, Franz Barthelmes, Roland Schmidt, R. Biancale, Karl-Hans Neumayer, Rolf König, Henryk Dobslaw, Sean Bruinsma and Ulrich Meyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Earth and Planetary Science Letters and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Frank Flechtner

112 papers receiving 3.6k citations

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EIGEN-6C4 The latest combined global gravity field model including GOCE data up to degree and order 2190 of GFZ Potsdam and GRGS Toulouse

2014 355 citations Christoph Förste, Sean Bruinsma et al. Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	GravIS: mass anomaly products from satellite gravimetry 2025 ·Earth system science data ·Christoph Dahle, Eva Boergens, Ingo Sasgen, (unknown), (unknown), Henryk Dobslaw, Volker Klemann, Michael Murböck, Rolf Koenig, Robert Dill, Mike Sips, (unknown), Andreas Groh, Martin Horwath, Frank Flechtner	1
2	Accounting for residual errors in atmosphere–ocean background models applied in satellite gravimetry 2024 ·Journal of Geodesy ·(unknown), (unknown), Kyriakos Balidakis, (unknown), Christoph Dahle, Frank Flechtner, Robert Dill, Henryk Dobslaw	5
3	Satellite Gravity Field Recovery Using Variance‐Covariance Information From Ocean Tide Models 2023 ·Earth and Space Science ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Michael Hart‐Davis, Christoph Dahle, Vitali Müller, Michael Murböck, Frank Flechtner	3
4	In-Orbit Performance of the GRACE Accelerometers and Microwave Ranging Instrument 2023 ·Remote Sensing ·Michael Murböck, (unknown), Christoph Dahle, (unknown), Roland Pail, Frank Flechtner	8
5	A superconducting gravimeter on the island of Heligoland for the high-accuracy determination of regional ocean tide loading signals of the North Sea 2023 ·Geophysical Journal International ·Christian Voigt, (unknown), Ludger Timmen, Henryk Dobslaw, A. Weise, Zhiguo Deng, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Maik Thomas, Christoph Förste, Frank Flechtner	1
6	Introduction of a Superconducting Gravimeter as Novel HydrologicalSensor for the Alpine Research Catchment Zugspitze 2021 ·Christian Voigt, Karsten Schulz, Franziska Koch, Karl‐Friedrich Wetzel, Ludger Timmen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Christoph Förste, Frank Flechtner	2
7	Modelling spatial covariances for terrestrial water storage variations verified with synthetic GRACE-FO data 2020 ·GEM - International Journal on Geomathematics ·Eva Boergens, Henryk Dobslaw, Robert Dill, Maik Thomas, Christoph Dahle, Michael Murböck, Frank Flechtner	15
8	Gravitationally Consistent Mean Barystatic Sea Level Rise From Leakage‐Corrected Monthly GRACE Data 2020 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·Henryk Dobslaw, Robert Dill, Meike Bagge, Volker Klemann, Eva Boergens, Maik Thomas, Christoph Dahle, Frank Flechtner	27
9	International Combination Service for Time-variable Gravity Fields (COST-G) Monthly GRACE-FO Series 2020 ·Ulrich Meyer, (unknown), (unknown), C. Dahle, Frank Flechtner, Andreas Kvas, Saniya Behzadpour, Torsten Mayer‐Gürr, Jean‐Michel Lemoine, (unknown), Jakob Flury, (unknown)	8
10	Benchmark data for verifying background model implementations in orbit and gravity field determination software 2020 ·Advances in geosciences ·(unknown), Ulrich Meyer, Adrian Jäggi, Torsten Mayer‐Gürr, Andreas Kvas, Karl Hans Neumayer, Christoph Dahle, Frank Flechtner, Jean‐Michel Lemoine, (unknown), Matthias Weigelt, Jakob Flury	3
11	GRACE-FO D-103919 (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On), GFZ Level-2 Processing Standards Document for Level-2 Product Release 06 (Rev. 1.0, June 3, 2019) 2019 ·GFZpublic ·Christoph Dahle, Frank Flechtner, Michael Murböck, Grzegorz Michalak, Karl Hans Neumayer, Oleh Abrykosov, (unknown), R. König	5
12	GRACE Follow-On: mission status and first mass change observations 2019 ·Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) ·Frank Flechtner, F. Webb, Felix W. Landerer, Christoph Dahle, (unknown), P.L. Morton, Himanshu Save	1
13	Daily GRACE gravity field solutions track major flood events in the Ganges–Brahmaputra Delta 2018 ·Hydrology and earth system sciences ·Ben Gouweleeuw, Andreas Kvas, Christian Gruber, Animesh K. Gain, Torsten Mayer‐Gürr, Frank Flechtner, Andreas Güntner	66
14	GRACE 327-743 (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) : GFZ Level-2 Processing Standards Document for Level-2 Product Release 06 (Rev. 1.0, October 26, 2018) 2018 ·Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) ·Christoph Dahle, Frank Flechtner, Michael Murböck, Grzegorz Michalak, Karl Hans Neumayer, Oleh Abrykosov, (unknown), R. König	18
15	Airborne Gravimetry of GEOHALO Mission: Data Processing and Gravity Field Modeling 2017 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth ·(unknown), Franz Barthelmes, Svetozar Petrović, Christoph Förste, Frank Flechtner, (unknown), Kaifei He, Min Li	26
16	Current Status Of The GRACE Follow-On Mission 2017 ·Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) ·Frank Flechtner, F. Webb, Michael Watkins, Felix W. Landerer, Christoph Dahle, Srinivas Bettadpur	2
17	The GFZ GRACE RL06 Level-2 and associated Level-3 Data Products 2017 ·Publication Database GFZ (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences) ·Frank Flechtner, C. Dahle, (unknown), Grzegorz Michalak, Michael Murböck, (unknown), C. Gruber, R. König, (unknown), Henryk Dobslaw, Volker Klemann, Andreas Güntner, Andreas Groh, Martin Horwath, Ingo Sasgen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	1
18	GNSS Precise Kinematic Positioning for Multiple Kinematic Stations Based on A Priori Distance Constraints 2016 ·Sensors ·Kaifei He, Tianhe Xu, Christoph Förste, Svetozar Petrović, Franz Barthelmes, Nan Jiang, Frank Flechtner	11
19	ESA’s Release 5 Gravity Field Model by the Direct Approach and its Part in the Combined Model EIGEN-6C4 2014 ·2014 AGU Fall Meeting ·(unknown), Sean Bruinsma, O. A. Abrikosov, Jean‐Michel Lemoine, Jean‐Charles Marty, Frank Flechtner, Christoph Dahle, H. Neumayer, Franz Barthelmes, R. König, G. Balmino, R. Biancale	2
20	Station Coordinates, low Degree Harmonics, and Earth Rotation Parameters From an Integrated GPS/CHAMP/GRACE Processing 2007 ·AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts ·(unknown), Rolf Koenig, Karl Hans Neumayer, Markus Rothacher, Roland Schmidt, Frank Flechtner, Ulrich Meyer	1

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