Irene Lehner

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Irene Lehner is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Irene Lehner has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 6 papers in Water Science and Technology and 5 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Irene Lehner's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers), Climate variability and models (7 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (6 papers). Irene Lehner is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers), Climate variability and models (7 papers) and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies (6 papers). Irene Lehner collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Sweden and Netherlands. Irene Lehner's co-authors include Sonia I. Seneviratne, Adriaan J. Teuling, Martin Hirschi, T. Corti, Édouard L. Davin, Boris Orlowsky, Eric B. Jaeger, Heidi Mittelbach, Christian Bernhofer and Eyal Rotenberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Water Resources Research and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Irene Lehner

19 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Investigating soil moisture–climate interactions in a changing climate: A review

2010 3.8k citations Sonia I. Seneviratne, T. Corti et al. Earth-Science Reviews profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Irene Lehner Switzerland	10	3.4k	2.7k	2.1k	1.1k	728	19	5.3k
Boris Orlowsky Switzerland	16	4.7k 1.4×	3.5k 1.3×	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	621 0.9×	26	6.7k
Eric B. Jaeger Switzerland	9	3.0k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	716 0.6×	563 0.8×	10	4.6k
T. Corti Switzerland	11	3.0k 0.9×	2.8k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	664 0.6×	571 0.8×	14	4.6k
Minha Choi South Korea	37	2.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	2.0k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	652 0.9×	160	4.1k
Martin Hirschi Switzerland	29	5.9k 1.7×	4.3k 1.6×	2.9k 1.3×	1.9k 1.7×	789 1.1×	55	8.4k
Gonzalo Miguez‐Macho Spain	35	3.6k 1.1×	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.9k 1.8×	384 0.5×	87	5.5k
Olivier Merlin France	40	1.5k 0.4×	2.8k 1.0×	3.6k 1.7×	675 0.6×	811 1.1×	118	4.8k
Thomas Holmes United States	35	3.0k 0.9×	4.0k 1.5×	4.1k 1.9×	1.7k 1.5×	769 1.1×	90	6.8k
Patricia de Rosnay United Kingdom	46	2.7k 0.8×	5.6k 2.1×	5.0k 2.3×	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	123	7.9k
José Martínez‐Fernández Spain	39	1.5k 0.4×	2.7k 1.0×	3.4k 1.6×	787 0.7×	942 1.3×	120	5.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Irene Lehner

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19 of 19 papers shown

Kelly, Julia, Stefan H. Doerr, Johannes Edvardsson, et al.. (2024). Boreal forest tree growth and sap flow after a low-severity wildfire. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 347. 109899–109899. 3 indexed citations

Kelly, Julia, Natascha Kljun, Zhanzhang Cai, et al.. (2024). Wildfire impacts on the carbon budget of a managed Nordic boreal forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 351. 110016–110016. 4 indexed citations

Fer, Istem, Boris Ťupek, Patrik Vestin, et al.. (2022). Heterotrophic and rhizospheric respiration in coniferous forest soils along a latitudinal gradient. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 317. 108876–108876. 8 indexed citations

Hirschi, Martin, et al.. (2017). A site-level comparison of lysimeter and eddy covariance flux measurements of evapotranspiration. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 21(3). 1809–1825. 77 indexed citations

Hirschi, Martin, et al.. (2016). A site-level comparison of lysimeter and eddy-covariance flux measurements of evapotranspiration. 1 indexed citations

Aemisegger, Franziska, Stephan Pfahl, Harald Sodemann, et al.. (2014). Deuterium excess as a proxy for continental moisture recycling and plant transpiration. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(8). 4029–4054. 150 indexed citations

Teuling, Adriaan J., Anne F. Van Loon, Sonia I. Seneviratne, et al.. (2013). Evapotranspiration amplifies European summer drought. Geophysical Research Letters. 40(10). 2071–2075. 314 indexed citations

Teuling, Adriaan J., S.I. Seneviratne, Irene Lehner, Christian Bernhofer, & Anne F. Van Loon. (2012). The role of evapotranspiration and runoff in the development of recent droughts in Central-Western Europe. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 5133. 1 indexed citations

Seneviratne, Sonia I., Irene Lehner, J. Gurtz, et al.. (2012). Swiss prealpine Rietholzbach research catchment and lysimeter: 32 year time series and 2003 drought event. Water Resources Research. 48(6). 110 indexed citations

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Mittelbach, Heidi, Irene Lehner, & Sonia I. Seneviratne. (2012). Comparison of four soil moisture sensor types under field conditions in Switzerland. Journal of Hydrology. 430-431. 39–49. 151 indexed citations

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Ewen, Tracy, Irene Lehner, Jan Seibert, & Sonia I. Seneviratne. (2011). Climate patterns in the long-term hydrometeorological data series of the Rietholzbach catchment. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 2 indexed citations

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Mittelbach, Heidi, Francesca Casini, Irene Lehner, Adriaan J. Teuling, & Sonia I. Seneviratne. (2011). Soil moisture monitoring for climate research: Evaluation of a low-cost sensor in the framework of the Swiss Soil Moisture Experiment (SwissSMEX) campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 116(D5). 75 indexed citations

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Teuling, Adriaan J., Irene Lehner, James W. Kirchner, & Sonia I. Seneviratne. (2010). Catchments as simple dynamical systems: Experience from a Swiss prealpine catchment. Water Resources Research. 46(10). 101 indexed citations

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Seneviratne, Sonia I., T. Corti, Édouard L. Davin, et al.. (2010). Investigating soil moisture–climate interactions in a changing climate: A review. Earth-Science Reviews. 99(3-4). 125–161. 3768 indexed citations breakdown →

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Franssen, Harrie‐Jan Hendricks, Reto Stöckli, Irene Lehner, Eyal Rotenberg, & Sonia I. Seneviratne. (2010). Energy balance closure of eddy-covariance data: A multisite analysis for European FLUXNET stations. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 150(12). 1553–1567. 183 indexed citations

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Franssen, Harrie‐Jan Hendricks, Reto Stöckli, Irene Lehner, & Sonia I. Seneviratne. (2009). Analysis of the energy balance closure as function of atmospheric stability and wind velocity at 27 European FLUXNET sites. EGUGA. 10339. 2 indexed citations

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Oncley, Steven, Thomas Foken, Richard C. Vogt, et al.. (2007). The Energy Balance Experiment EBEX-2000 (Part 1: Overview and energy balance ; Part 2: Intercomparison of eddy-covariance sensors and post-field data processing methods ; Part 3: Behaviour and quality of the radiation measurements). Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 1 indexed citations

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Oncley, Steven, Thomas Foken, Roland Vogt, et al.. (2007). The Energy Balance Experiment EBEX-2000. Part I: overview and energy balance. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 123(1). 1–28. 298 indexed citations

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Jaeger, L., Arthur Geßler, Pierre Kastendeuch, et al.. (2005). Impacts des changements climatiques sur le comportement de la végétation dans le fossé Rhénan. 2. 137–149. 1 indexed citations

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