Michel Bechtold

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Michel Bechtold is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michel Bechtold has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Environmental Engineering, 26 papers in Ecology and 24 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Michel Bechtold's work include Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (27 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (25 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (15 papers). Michel Bechtold is often cited by papers focused on Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing (27 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (25 papers) and Soil and Unsaturated Flow (15 papers). Michel Bechtold collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Germany and United States. Michel Bechtold's co-authors include Bärbel Tiemeyer, Harry Vereecken, Ullrich Dettmann, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Jan Vanderborght, Olaf Ippisch, Nicholas Jarvis, John Koestel, Wulf Amelung and Lutz Weihermüller and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Michel Bechtold

57 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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Soil hydrology in the Earth system

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michel Bechtold Belgium	21	525	372	323	267	258	61	1.2k
Mark B. Hausner United States	15	527 1.0×	301 0.8×	230 0.7×	306 1.1×	275 1.1×	28	1.4k
Olaf Ippisch Germany	19	588 1.1×	103 0.3×	558 1.7×	193 0.7×	98 0.4×	41	1.1k
W. M. J. Luxemburg Netherlands	10	551 1.0×	230 0.6×	199 0.6×	211 0.8×	276 1.1×	18	1.1k
Emmanuel Mouche France	14	353 0.7×	193 0.5×	198 0.6×	115 0.4×	246 1.0×	39	978
Tiejun Wang China	26	784 1.5×	171 0.5×	420 1.3×	407 1.5×	894 3.5×	84	1.8k
Martijn Westhoff Germany	14	660 1.3×	302 0.8×	233 0.7×	233 0.9×	399 1.5×	24	1.4k
Jianzhi Dong United States	27	998 1.9×	164 0.4×	323 1.0×	900 3.4×	666 2.6×	82	1.7k
Chengji Shen China	20	465 0.9×	297 0.8×	145 0.4×	113 0.4×	101 0.4×	62	973
Christine Hatch United States	13	884 1.7×	301 0.8×	220 0.7×	173 0.6×	193 0.7×	27	1.4k
James R. Rigby United States	18	150 0.3×	335 0.9×	131 0.4×	75 0.3×	168 0.7×	46	814

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michel Bechtold

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Lannoy, Gabriëlle De, Sander Veraverbeke, Robert D. Field, et al.. (2025). Using hydrological modelling to improve the Fire Weather Index system over tropical peatlands of peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 34(2). 1 indexed citations

Rahmati, Mehdi, Anna Balenzano, Michel Bechtold, et al.. (2025). Soil moisture retrieval from Sentinel-1: Lessons learned after more than a decade in orbit. Remote Sensing of Environment. 333. 115146–115146.

Bechtold, Michel, et al.. (2024). Irrigation Quantification Through Backscatter Data Assimilation With a Buddy Check Approach. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(3). 2 indexed citations

Bechtold, Michel, et al.. (2024). Assimilation of Sentinel‐1 Backscatter to Update AquaCrop Estimates of Soil Moisture and Crop Biomass. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 129(10). 2 indexed citations

Lannoy, Gabriëlle De, Michel Bechtold, Sara Modanesi, et al.. (2024). Contributions of Irrigation Modeling, Soil Moisture and Snow Data Assimilation to High‐Resolution Water Budget Estimates Over the Po Basin: Progress Towards Digital Replicas. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 16(10). 3 indexed citations

Lannoy, Gabriëlle De, Alexander Gruber, Diego G. Miralles, et al.. (2023). Drought and Waterlogging Stress Regimes in Northern Peatlands Detected Through Satellite Retrieved Solar‐Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(19). 2 indexed citations

Bechtold, Michel, et al.. (2023). Impact of Design Factors for ESA CCI Satellite Soil Moisture Data Assimilation over Europe. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 24(7). 1193–1208. 7 indexed citations

Lannoy, Gabriëlle De, et al.. (2023). Bias-blind and bias-aware assimilation of leaf area index into the Noah-MP land surface model over Europe. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 27(22). 4087–4114. 4 indexed citations

Purnomo, Dwi, et al.. (2023). KAPAS II: simulation of peatland wildfires with daily variations of peat moisture content. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 32(6). 823–835. 4 indexed citations

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Bechtold, Michel, et al.. (2022). Lightning Over Central Canada: Skill Assessment for Various Land‐Atmosphere Model Configurations and Lightning Indices Over a Boreal Study Area. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 128(1). 3 indexed citations

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Modanesi, Sara, Christian Massari, Michel Bechtold, et al.. (2022). Challenges and benefits of quantifying irrigation through the assimilation of Sentinel-1 backscatter observations into Noah-MP. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(18). 4685–4706. 20 indexed citations

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Poesen, Jean, et al.. (2022). Estimating global landslide susceptibility and its uncertainty through ensemble modeling. Natural hazards and earth system sciences. 22(9). 3063–3082. 15 indexed citations

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Burdun, Iuliia, Michel Bechtold, Valentina Sagris, et al.. (2020). Satellite Determination of Peatland Water Table Temporal Dynamics by Localizing Representative Pixels of A SWIR-Based Moisture Index. Remote Sensing. 12(18). 2936–2936. 28 indexed citations

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Tiemeyer, Bärbel, et al.. (2017). Vulnerability of soil organic matter of anthropogenically disturbed organic soils. 5 indexed citations

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Frank, Stefan, Bärbel Tiemeyer, Michel Bechtold, Andreas Lücke, & Roland Bol. (2016). Effect of past peat cultivation practices on present dynamics of dissolved organic carbon. The Science of The Total Environment. 574. 1243–1253. 17 indexed citations

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Tiemeyer, Bärbel, Elisa Albiac Borraz, Jürgen Augustin, et al.. (2014). Greenhouse gas budgets for grasslands on peatlands and other organic soils. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 14825. 1 indexed citations

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Bechtold, Michel, et al.. (2014). Large-scale regionalization of water table depth in peatlands optimized for greenhouse gas emission upscaling. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 18(9). 3319–3339. 29 indexed citations

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Bechtold, Michel, Bärbel Tiemeyer, Axel Don, et al.. (2013). Revealing spatial distribution of soil organic carbon contents and stocks of a disturbed bog relict by in-situ NIR and apparent EC mapping. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 15. 13874. 1 indexed citations

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Bechtold, Michel, Jan Vanderborght, Michael Herbst, et al.. (2009). Lateral water redistribution during evaporative-driven upward flow and its effect on solute transport. JuSER (Forschungszentrum Jülich). 1 indexed citations

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Bechtold, Michel, Maurizio Battaglia, David C. Tanner, & David Zuliani. (2009). Constraints on the active tectonics of the Friuli/NW Slovenia area from CGPS measurements and three‐dimensional kinematic modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 114(B3). 46 indexed citations

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