Lars Umlauf

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Lars Umlauf is a scholar working on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Lars Umlauf has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Oceanography, 33 papers in Atmospheric Science and 22 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Lars Umlauf's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (57 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (21 papers) and Climate variability and models (18 papers). Lars Umlauf is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (57 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (21 papers) and Climate variability and models (18 papers). Lars Umlauf collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and United States. Lars Umlauf's co-authors include Hans Burchard, Lars Arneborg, Volker Mohrholz, Peter Holtermann, Johannes Becherer, Jason Holt, Karsten Bolding, Kolumban Hutter, Andreas Lorke and Ulrich Lemmin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Computational Physics.

In The Last Decade

Lars Umlauf

72 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

A generic length-scale equation for geophysical turbulenc... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 250 500 750
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.

  1. A generic length-scale equation for geophysical turbulence models
    2003 856 citations Lars Umlauf, Hans Burchard profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lars Umlauf Germany 31 2.7k 1.5k 976 607 511 74 3.3k
Emi̇n Özsoy Türkiye 30 2.9k 1.1× 1.2k 0.8× 1.2k 1.2× 629 1.0× 660 1.3× 84 3.9k
Hans van Haren Netherlands 33 2.9k 1.1× 1.5k 1.0× 794 0.8× 687 1.1× 812 1.6× 183 3.7k
Parker MacCready United States 35 3.4k 1.3× 2.0k 1.4× 1.1k 1.2× 1.0k 1.7× 918 1.8× 75 4.2k
J. W. Lavelle United States 28 1.2k 0.5× 1.0k 0.7× 505 0.5× 570 0.9× 725 1.4× 74 2.8k
Kevin Speer United States 31 2.7k 1.0× 2.0k 1.4× 1.8k 1.8× 257 0.4× 223 0.4× 91 3.5k
Richard Limeburner United States 30 2.5k 0.9× 1.5k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 789 1.3× 805 1.6× 63 3.5k
Tom P. Rippeth United Kingdom 37 2.9k 1.1× 1.8k 1.2× 1.0k 1.0× 457 0.8× 382 0.7× 83 3.5k
Patrick Marsaleix France 34 2.2k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 1.1k 1.1× 448 0.7× 542 1.1× 97 3.0k
D. Prandle United Kingdom 29 1.9k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 603 0.6× 1.3k 2.1× 880 1.7× 87 3.0k
R. A. Flather United Kingdom 35 2.8k 1.0× 2.1k 1.4× 1.4k 1.5× 1.1k 1.9× 480 0.9× 70 3.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lars Umlauf

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lars Umlauf

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lars Umlauf. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lars Umlauf based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lars Umlauf. Lars Umlauf is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schmale, Oliver, Volker Mohrholz, Svenja Papenmeier, et al.. (2025). The control of physical and biological drivers on pelagic methane fluxes in a Patagonian fjord (Golfo Almirante Montt, Chile). The Science of The Total Environment. 982. 179584–179584.
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Kuss, Joachim, Peter Holtermann, Lars Umlauf, et al.. (2025). The Changing Baltic Sea: Between Nutrient Load Reduction and a Warming Climate. Annual Review of Marine Science. 18(1). 219–244.
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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
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Muchowski, Julia, Martin Jakobsson, Lars Umlauf, et al.. (2023). Observations of strong turbulence and mixing impacting water exchange between two basins in the Baltic Sea. Ocean science. 19(6). 1809–1825. 6 indexed citations
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Umlauf, Lars, Knut Klingbeil, Hagen Radtke, et al.. (2023). Hydrodynamic Control of Sediment‐Water Fluxes: Consistent Parameterization and Impact in Coupled Benthic‐Pelagic Models. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 128(6). 2 indexed citations
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Muchowski, Julia, Lars Arneborg, Lars Umlauf, et al.. (2023). Diapycnal Mixing Induced by Rough Small‐Scale Bathymetry. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(13). 2 indexed citations
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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
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Holtermann, Peter, et al.. (2022). The Role of Boundary Mixing for Diapycnal Oxygen Fluxes in a Stratified Marine System. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(20). 6 indexed citations
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Beal, Lisa M., Laurie Padman, Lei Zhou, et al.. (2022). What's New at JGR‐Oceans? Confronting Bias, Burn Out, and Big Data. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 127(12). 1 indexed citations
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Muchowski, Julia, Lars Umlauf, Lars Arneborg, et al.. (2022). Potential and Limitations of a Commercial Broadband Echo Sounder for Remote Observations of Turbulent Mixing. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 39(12). 1985–2003. 6 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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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, Ralf D. Prien, Michael Naumann, & Lars Umlauf. (2019). Interleaving of oxygenized intrusions into the Baltic Sea redoxcline. Limnology and Oceanography. 65(3). 482–503. 17 indexed citations
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Liskow, Iris, et al.. (2018). River plume and bottom boundary layer – Hotspots for nitrification in a coastal bay?. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 208. 70–82. 20 indexed citations
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Holtermann, Peter, Ralf D. Prien, Michael Naumann, Volker Mohrholz, & Lars Umlauf. (2017). Deepwater dynamics and mixing processes during a major inflow event in the central Baltic Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(8). 6648–6667. 32 indexed citations
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Schulz, Kirstin, Takahiro Endoh, & Lars Umlauf. (2017). Slope‐induced tidal straining: Analysis of rotational effects. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(3). 2069–2089. 7 indexed citations
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Holtermann, Peter, Lars Umlauf, Toste Tanhua, et al.. (2011). The Baltic Sea Tracer Release Experiment: 1. Mixing rates. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 117(C1). 45 indexed citations
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Umlauf, Lars & Ulrich Lemmin. (2005). Interbasin exchange and mixing in the hypolimnion of a large lake: The role of long internal waves. Limnology and Oceanography. 50(5). 1601–1611. 66 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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Lorke, Andreas, Lars Umlauf, Tobias Jonas, & Alfred Wüest. (2002). Dynamics of Turbulence in Low-Speed Oscillating Bottom-Boundary Layers of Stratified Basins. Environmental Fluid Mechanics. 2(4). 291–313. 66 indexed citations

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