Gunnar Spreen

9.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
115 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Gunnar Spreen is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Gunnar Spreen has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Atmospheric Science, 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 14 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Gunnar Spreen's work include Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (107 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (84 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (76 papers). Gunnar Spreen is often cited by papers focused on Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics (107 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (84 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (76 papers). Gunnar Spreen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Norway and United States. Gunnar Spreen's co-authors include Georg Heygster, Lars Kaleschke, R. Kwok, Dimitris Menemenlis, Shiyan Pang, Edmond Hansen, Stefan Kern, Sebastian Gerland, Laura de Steur and Marcus Huntemann and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Gunnar Spreen

112 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Sea ice remote sensing using AMSR‐E 89‐GHz channels

2008 1.1k citations Gunnar Spreen, Lars Kaleschke et al. profile →
Arctic freshwater export: Status, mechanisms, and prospects

2014 347 citations Gunnar Spreen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gunnar Spreen Germany	30	3.9k	920	906	689	358	115	4.3k
Stefan Hendricks Germany	32	3.6k 0.9×	666 0.7×	697 0.8×	518 0.8×	266 0.7×	124	4.0k
Marcel Nicolaus Germany	34	2.8k 0.7×	772 0.8×	906 1.0×	549 0.8×	527 1.5×	108	3.4k
Lars H. Smedsrud Norway	35	3.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.7×	1.4k 1.6×	840 1.2×	300 0.8×	75	4.2k
Yevgeny Aksenov United Kingdom	30	2.1k 0.5×	840 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	680 1.0×	118 0.3×	55	2.4k
Martin Vancoppenolle France	28	2.6k 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	569 0.8×	243 0.7×	83	3.1k
A. Ridout United Kingdom	25	2.6k 0.7×	491 0.5×	588 0.6×	393 0.6×	85 0.2×	51	2.8k
Wieslaw Maslowski United States	34	2.9k 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	1.4k 1.6×	820 1.2×	436 1.2×	93	3.3k
Stephen R. Hudson Norway	25	1.8k 0.5×	1.0k 1.1×	366 0.4×	162 0.2×	182 0.5×	60	2.1k
Yasushi Fukamachi Japan	26	1.8k 0.5×	446 0.5×	1.2k 1.4×	385 0.6×	209 0.6×	76	2.2k
Andrew C. Coward United Kingdom	38	2.0k 0.5×	1.7k 1.9×	2.1k 2.3×	480 0.7×	227 0.6×	78	3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Gunnar Spreen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gunnar Spreen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gunnar Spreen

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20 of 20 papers shown

Albedyll, Luisa von, Stefan Hendricks, Nils Hutter, et al.. (2024). Lead fractions from SAR-derived sea ice divergence during MOSAiC. The cryosphere. 18(3). 1259–1285. 4 indexed citations

Singha, Suman, et al.. (2024). SAR deep learning sea ice retrieval trained with airborne laser scanner measurements from the MOSAiC expedition. The cryosphere. 18(5). 2207–2222. 5 indexed citations

Lüpkes, Christof, et al.. (2023). New estimates of pan-Arctic sea ice–atmosphere neutral drag coefficients from ICESat-2 elevation data. The cryosphere. 17(9). 4103–4131. 8 indexed citations

Sandven, Stein, Gunnar Spreen, Georg Heygster, et al.. (2023). Sea Ice Remote Sensing—Recent Developments in Methods and Climate Data Sets. Surveys in Geophysics. 44(5). 1653–1689. 29 indexed citations

Kalesse‐Los, Heike, et al.. (2023). Asymmetries in cloud microphysical properties ascribed to sea ice leads via water vapour transport in the central Arctic. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(22). 14521–14546. 2 indexed citations

Melsheimer, Christian, Gunnar Spreen, Yufang Ye, & Mohammed Shokr. (2023). First results of Antarctic sea ice type retrieval from active and passive microwave remote sensing data. The cryosphere. 17(1). 105–126. 11 indexed citations

Spreen, Gunnar, et al.. (2022). Weddell Sea polynya analysis using SMOS–SMAP apparent sea ice thickness retrieval. The cryosphere. 16(2). 471–487. 7 indexed citations

Spreen, Gunnar, Christian Melsheimer, Marcus Huntemann, et al.. (2021). Sea ice and water classification on dual-polarized Sentinel-1 imagery during melting season. 11 indexed citations

Spreen, Gunnar, et al.. (2021). Weddell Sea Polynya analysis using SMOS-SMAP Sea Ice Thickness Retrieval. 2 indexed citations

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Krumpen, Thomas, Luisa von Albedyll, Helge Goessling, et al.. (2021). The MOSAiC Drift: Ice conditions from space and comparison with previous years. 3 indexed citations

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Krumpen, Thomas, Luisa von Albedyll, Helge Goessling, et al.. (2021). MOSAiC drift expedition from October 2019 to July 2020: sea ice conditions from space and comparison with previous years. The cryosphere. 15(8). 3897–3920. 56 indexed citations

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Crewell, Susanne, Kerstin Ebell, Mario Mech, et al.. (2021). A systematic assessment of water vapor products in the Arctic: from instantaneous measurements to monthly means. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 14(7). 4829–4856. 10 indexed citations

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Spreen, Gunnar, et al.. (2020). Sea Ice and Atmospheric Parameter Retrieval From Satellite Microwave Radiometers: Synergy of AMSR2 and SMOS Compared With the CIMR Candidate Mission. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 125(3). 18 indexed citations

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Strœve, Julienne, Vishnu Nandan, Rosemary Willatt, et al.. (2020). Surface-based Ku- and Ka-band polarimetric radar for sea ice studies. The cryosphere. 14(12). 4405–4426. 22 indexed citations

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Tarroux, Arnaud, Yves Cherel, Per Fauchald, et al.. (2020). Foraging tactics in dynamic sea‐ice habitats affect individual state in a long‐ranging seabird. Functional Ecology. 34(9). 1839–1856. 11 indexed citations

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Duarte, Pedro, Arild Sundfjord, Amélie Meyer, et al.. (2020). Warm Atlantic Water Explains Observed Sea Ice Melt Rates North of Svalbard. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 125(8). 26 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yu, et al.. (2019). Sea ice-water classification on dual-polarized Sentinel-1 imagery during melting season. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 5973. 1 indexed citations

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King, Jennifer, Henriette Skourup, Sine Munk Hvidegaard, et al.. (2018). Comparison of Freeboard Retrieval and Ice Thickness Calculation From ALS, ASIRAS, and CryoSat‐2 in the Norwegian Arctic to Field Measurements Made During the N‐ICE2015 Expedition. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(2). 1123–1141. 38 indexed citations

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Fransson, Agneta, Melissa Chierici, Ingunn Skjelvan, et al.. (2017). Effects of sea‐ice and biogeochemical processes and storms on under‐ice water fCO₂ during the winter‐spring transition in the high Arctic Ocean: Implications for sea‐air CO₂ fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(7). 5566–5587. 38 indexed citations

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Johansson, A. Malin, Camilla Brekke, Gunnar Spreen, Jennifer King, & Sebastian Gerland. (2016). Newly Formed Sea Ice in Arctic Leads Monitored by C- and L-Band SAR. ESASP. 740. 46. 2 indexed citations

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