Michael Buchwitz

14.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
146 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Michael Buchwitz is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Buchwitz has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 126 papers in Atmospheric Science and 39 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Michael Buchwitz's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (135 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (107 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (68 papers). Michael Buchwitz is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (135 papers), Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (107 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (68 papers). Michael Buchwitz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United States. Michael Buchwitz's co-authors include John P. Burrows, H. Bovensmann, В. В. Розанов, Stefan Noël, Oliver Schneising, Maximilian Reuter, A.P.H. Goede, J. Frerick, K. Chance and J. Heymann and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Michael Buchwitz

139 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

SCIAMACHY: Mission Object... 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 1999 400 800 1.2k
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. SCIAMACHY: Mission Objectives and Measurement Modes
    1999 1.4k citations H. Bovensmann, John P. Burrows et al. profile →
  2. The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME): Mission Concept and First Scientific Results
    1999 934 citations John P. Burrows, Michael Buchwitz et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Michael Buchwitz 6.6k 6.6k 985 652 536 146 7.7k
Justus Notholt 6.7k 1.0× 6.4k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 591 0.9× 538 1.0× 265 8.2k
H. Bovensmann 6.6k 1.0× 6.0k 0.9× 954 1.0× 648 1.0× 455 0.8× 231 7.7k
Ilse Aben 5.1k 0.8× 6.1k 0.9× 850 0.9× 502 0.8× 451 0.8× 206 6.9k
Otto Hasekamp 4.7k 0.7× 5.4k 0.8× 412 0.4× 382 0.6× 244 0.5× 159 6.1k
Frank Hase 4.5k 0.7× 4.3k 0.7× 1.5k 1.6× 275 0.4× 166 0.3× 255 5.2k
A. Eldering 4.6k 0.7× 4.8k 0.7× 269 0.3× 469 0.7× 715 1.3× 135 5.7k
Thomas Wagner 9.6k 1.5× 8.2k 1.2× 797 0.8× 1.6k 2.5× 2.1k 4.0× 296 10.9k
K. W. Bowman 6.7k 1.0× 7.2k 1.1× 269 0.3× 806 1.2× 1.2k 2.2× 208 8.9k
Debra Wunch 5.1k 0.8× 5.8k 0.9× 952 1.0× 445 0.7× 386 0.7× 133 6.3k
C. O’Dell 3.4k 0.5× 4.3k 0.7× 288 0.3× 407 0.6× 238 0.4× 101 4.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Buchwitz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Buchwitz

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All Works

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Aalto, Tuula, Michael Buchwitz, Kari Luojus, et al.. (2025). Environmental drivers constraining the seasonal variability in satellite-observed and modelled methane at northern high latitudes. Biogeosciences. 22(19). 5193–5230.
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Buchwitz, Michael, Maximilian Reuter, H. Bovensmann, et al.. (2024). A method for estimating localized CO 2 emissions from co-located satellite XCO 2 and NO 2 images. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 17(3). 1145–1173. 12 indexed citations
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Lehnert, Lukas, Maximilian Reuter, Michael Buchwitz, et al.. (2023). Approximation of multi-year time series of XCO2 concentrations using satellite observations and statistical interpolation methods. Atmospheric Research. 294. 106965–106965. 4 indexed citations
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Veefkind, Pepijn, J. A. de Gouw, Barbara Dix, et al.. (2023). Widespread Frequent Methane Emissions From the Oil and Gas Industry in the Permian Basin. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(3). e2022JD037479–e2022JD037479. 10 indexed citations
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Tsuruta, Aki, Hannakaisa Lindqvist, Tomi Karppinen, et al.. (2023). CH4 Fluxes Derived from Assimilation of TROPOMI XCH4 in CarbonTracker Europe-CH4: Evaluation of Seasonality and Spatial Distribution in the Northern High Latitudes. Remote Sensing. 15(6). 1620–1620. 12 indexed citations
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Alberti, Carlos, Qiansi Tu, Frank Hase, et al.. (2022). Investigation of spaceborne trace gas products over St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, Russia, by using COllaborative Column Carbon Observing Network (COCCON) observations. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 15(7). 2199–2229. 9 indexed citations
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Wang, Yilong, Grégoire Broquet, François‐Marie Bréon, et al.. (2020). PMIF v1.0: assessing the potential of satellite observations to constrain CO 2 emissions from large cities and point sources over the globe using synthetic data. Geoscientific model development. 13(11). 5813–5831. 20 indexed citations
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Wang, Yilong, Grégoire Broquet, François‐Marie Bréon, et al.. (2020). PMIF v1.0: an inversion system to estimate the potential of satellite observations to monitor fossil fuel CO 2 emissions over the globe. 3 indexed citations
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Reuter, Maximilian, Michael Buchwitz, Oliver Schneising, et al.. (2019). Towards monitoring localized CO 2 emissions from space: co-located regional CO 2 and NO 2 enhancements observed by the OCO-2 and S5P satellites. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(14). 9371–9383. 150 indexed citations
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Reuter, Maximilian, Michael Buchwitz, Oliver Schneising, et al.. (2019). Towards monitoring localized CO2 emissions from space: co-located regional CO2 and NO2 enhancements observed by the OCO-2 and S5P satellites. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 3407. 5 indexed citations
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Broquet, Grégoire, François‐Marie Bréon, Emmanuel Renault, et al.. (2018). The potential of satellite spectro-imagery for monitoring CO 2 emissions from large cities. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 11(2). 681–708. 59 indexed citations
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Buchwitz, Michael, Maximilian Reuter, Oliver Schneising, et al.. (2018). Computation and analysis of atmospheric carbon dioxide annual mean growth rates from satellite observations during 2003–2016. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(23). 17355–17370. 32 indexed citations
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Pillai, Dhanyalekshmi, Michael Buchwitz, Christoph Gerbig, et al.. (2016). Tracking city CO 2 emissions from space using a high-resolution inversemodelling approach: a case study for Berlin, Germany. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(15). 9591–9610. 55 indexed citations
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Massart, S., Anna Agustí‐Panareda, J. Heymann, et al.. (2016). Ability of the 4-D-Var analysis of the GOSAT BESD XCO 2 retrievals to characterize atmospheric CO 2 at large and synoptic scales. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 16(3). 1653–1671. 33 indexed citations
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Reuter, Maximilian, Hartmut Bösch, H. Bovensmann, et al.. (2013). A joint effort to deliver satellite retrieved atmospheric CO 2 concentrations for surface flux inversions: the ensemble median algorithm EMMA. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(4). 1771–1780. 43 indexed citations
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Schneising, Oliver, Michael Buchwitz, Maximilian Reuter, et al.. (2010). Long-term analysis of carbon dioxide and methane column-averaged mole fractions retrieved from SCIAMACHY. 1 indexed citations
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Reuter, Maximilian, Michael Buchwitz, Oliver Schneising, et al.. (2010). Retrieval of atmospheric CO2 from SCIAMACHY nadir spectra. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 14919. 1 indexed citations
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Buchwitz, Michael, Iryna Khlystova, H. Bovensmann, & John P. Burrows. (2007). Three years of global carbon monoxide from SCIAMACHY: comparison with MOPITT and first results related to the detection of enhanced CO over cities. 3 indexed citations

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