Hans Burchard

10.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
156 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

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Hans Burchard is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Hans Burchard has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 132 papers in Oceanography, 89 papers in Atmospheric Science and 45 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Hans Burchard's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (124 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (45 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (42 papers). Hans Burchard is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (124 papers), Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research (45 papers) and Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (42 papers). Hans Burchard collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United States. Hans Burchard's co-authors include Lars Umlauf, Karsten Bolding, Henk M. Schuttelaars, Ulf Gräwe, Knut Klingbeil, Helmut Z. Baumert, Ole Helby Petersen, Tom P. Rippeth, Richard Hofmeister and Robert D. Hetland and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Hans Burchard

151 papers receiving 7.3k citations

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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.

A generic length-scale equation for geophysical turbulence models

2003 856 citations Lars Umlauf, Hans Burchard profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hans Burchard Germany	49	5.8k	3.5k	2.2k	1.7k	1.7k	156	7.6k
Éric Deleersnijder Belgium	41	3.1k 0.5×	1.8k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	204	5.2k
W. Rockwell Geyer United States	56	6.6k 1.1×	4.6k 1.3×	1.9k 0.9×	4.6k 2.7×	3.9k 2.4×	129	10.2k
Eric A. D’Asaro United States	51	8.4k 1.5×	5.1k 1.5×	3.2k 1.4×	865 0.5×	645 0.4×	175	9.6k
Gregory N. Ivey Australia	41	3.9k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	933 0.6×	168	5.8k
Robert C. Beardsley United States	62	10.7k 1.8×	6.5k 1.9×	4.4k 2.0×	2.6k 1.5×	2.5k 1.5×	252	13.9k
Richard P. Signell United States	34	4.0k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	106	5.7k
David M. Farmer Canada	48	5.3k 0.9×	2.6k 0.8×	977 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	788 0.5×	149	6.6k
Richard E. Thomson Canada	45	4.8k 0.8×	2.8k 0.8×	2.8k 1.3×	1.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	233	8.8k
Christopher R. Sherwood United States	30	2.8k 0.5×	1.8k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	2.0k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	114	5.1k
Tommy D. Dickey United States	49	5.9k 1.0×	1.8k 0.5×	2.1k 1.0×	436 0.3×	1.3k 0.8×	115	6.9k

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Gräwe, Ulf, et al.. (2025). Spatially Resolved Salt Intrusion Mechanisms in a Tidal Estuary and the Impact of Channel Deepening. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 130(6).

Grasso, Florent, et al.. (2025). Relating estuarine turbidity maxima to tide and river conditions. Scientific Reports. 16(1). 3096–3096.

Li, Xiangyu, et al.. (2024). Impact of Islands on Tidally Dominated River Plumes: A High‐Resolution Modeling Study. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 129(7). 2 indexed citations

Chang, Yang, Xiangyu Li, Ya Ping Wang, et al.. (2024). Salinity mixing in a tidal multi-branched estuary with huge and variable runoff. Journal of Hydrology. 634. 131094–131094. 5 indexed citations

Burchard, Hans, Matthew H. Alford, Carsten Eden, et al.. (2024). Linking Ocean Mixing and Overturning Circulation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 105(7). E1265–E1274. 1 indexed citations

Lorenz, Marvin, et al.. (2023). High‐Resolution Simulations of the Plume Dynamics in an Idealized 79°N Glacier Cavity Using Adaptive Vertical Coordinates. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 15(10). 3 indexed citations

Burchard, Hans, et al.. (2023). Spatial Composition of the Diahaline Overturning Circulation in a Fjord–Type, Non–Tidal Estuarine System. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(12). 3 indexed citations

Burchard, Hans, et al.. (2022). The Vertical Structure and Entrainment of Subglacial Melt Water Plumes. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 14(3). 9 indexed citations

Burchard, Hans, et al.. (2022). Modelling the impact of anthropogenic measures on saltwater intrusion in the Weser estuary. Ocean science. 18(6). 1725–1739. 13 indexed citations

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Umlauf, Lars, et al.. (2021). High‐Resolution Simulations of Submesoscale Processes in the Baltic Sea: The Role of Storm Events. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 126(3). 27 indexed citations

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Fofonova, Vera, Tuomas Kärnä, Knut Klingbeil, et al.. (2021). Plume spreading test case for coastal ocean models. Geoscientific model development. 14(11). 6945–6975. 13 indexed citations

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Li, Qing, Jorn Bruggeman, Hans Burchard, et al.. (2021). Integrating CVMix into GOTM (v6.0): a consistent framework for testing, comparing, and applying ocean mixing schemes. Geoscientific model development. 14(7). 4261–4282. 16 indexed citations

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Holtermann, Peter, Onur Kerimoglu, Marius Becker, et al.. (2020). Processes of Stratification and Destratification During An Extreme River Discharge Event in the German Bight ROFI. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 125(8). 20 indexed citations

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Lorenz, Marvin, Knut Klingbeil, Parker MacCready, & Hans Burchard. (2019). Numerical issues of the Total Exchange Flow (TEF) analysis framework for quantifying estuarine circulation. Ocean science. 15(3). 601–614. 23 indexed citations

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Bruggeman, Jorn, Hans Burchard, Bob W. Kooi, & B.P. Sommeijer. (2007). A second-order, unconditionally positive, mass-conserving integration scheme for biochemical systems. Applied Numerical Mathematics. 57(1). 36–58. 24 indexed citations

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Weber, L., Christoph Völker, Andreas Oschlies, & Hans Burchard. (2007). Iron profiles and speciation of the upper water column at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study site: a model based sensitivity study. Biogeosciences. 4(4). 689–706. 28 indexed citations

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Burchard, Hans, Lars Arneborg, Jan Piechura, et al.. (2006). Ventilation of the Baltic Sea deep water: A brief review of present knowledge from observations and models. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 107 indexed citations

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Umlauf, Lars, Hans Burchard, & Kolumban Hutter. (2003). Extending the k–ω turbulence model towards oceanic applications. Ocean Modelling. 5(3). 195–218. 120 indexed citations

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Burchard, Hans, et al.. (2002). A Coupled Model For The North Sea and The Baltic Sea With General Vertical Coordinates. EGS General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 3848. 1 indexed citations

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Burchard, Hans. (1999). Recalculation of surface slopes as forcing for numerical water column models of tidal flow. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 23(10). 737–755. 27 indexed citations

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