Natascha Kljun

8.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
98 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Natascha Kljun is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Natascha Kljun has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Environmental Engineering and 30 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Natascha Kljun's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (46 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (32 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (19 papers). Natascha Kljun is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (46 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (32 papers) and Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (19 papers). Natascha Kljun collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and Canada. Natascha Kljun's co-authors include Mathias W. Rotach, Hans Peter Schmid, Pierluigi Calanca, Alan Barr, T. Andrew Black, Zoran Nesic, K. Morgenstern, Edward H. Hogg, Timothy J. Griffis and L. Chasmer and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Natascha Kljun

93 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A simple two-dimensional parameterisation for Flux Footprint Prediction (FFP)

2015 681 citations Natascha Kljun, Pierluigi Calanca et al. Geoscientific model development profile →
A Simple Parameterisation for Flux Footprint Predictions

2004 617 citations Natascha Kljun, Pierluigi Calanca et al. Boundary-Layer Meteorology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Natascha Kljun United Kingdom	33	4.1k	1.7k	1.6k	1.2k	705	98	5.3k
Leonardo Montagnani Italy	35	3.6k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	948 0.6×	689 0.6×	515 0.7×	87	4.4k
Laurent Kergoat France	36	3.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	2.0k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	333 0.5×	100	4.8k
David R. Fitzjarrald United States	42	4.7k 1.2×	2.7k 1.6×	977 0.6×	938 0.8×	477 0.7×	97	5.6k
J.A. Elbers Netherlands	29	3.1k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	924 0.6×	916 0.8×	361 0.5×	45	4.0k
Matteo Detto United States	43	3.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	770 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	103	4.7k
James Cleverly Australia	41	3.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	874 0.7×	676 1.0×	100	4.9k
Humberto Ribeiro da Rocha Brazil	38	4.8k 1.2×	1.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	690 0.6×	935 1.3×	109	5.8k
Eva van Gorsel Australia	33	3.0k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	890 0.5×	893 0.8×	418 0.6×	55	3.6k
Eyal Rotenberg Israel	31	2.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	794 0.5×	529 0.4×	753 1.1×	71	3.6k
Marc Aubinet Belgium	38	5.6k 1.4×	2.1k 1.3×	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	635 0.9×	118	7.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Natascha Kljun

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Kelly, Julia, Stefan H. Doerr, Johan Ekroos, et al.. (2025). No recovery of soil respiration four years after fire and post-fire management in a Nordic boreal forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 364. 110454–110454. 1 indexed citations

Nilsson, Mats B., Joshua L. Ratcliffe, Mats Öquist, et al.. (2025). Variations in Ecosystem‐Scale Methane Fluxes Across a Boreal Mire Complex Assessed by a Network of Flux Towers. Global Change Biology. 31(5). e70223–e70223. 1 indexed citations

Stagakis, Stavros, Dominik Brunner, Natascha Kljun, et al.. (2025). Sectoral attribution of greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions using multi-species eddy covariance on a tall tower in Zurich, Switzerland. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 25(21). 14279–14299.

Stoy, Paul C., et al.. (2021). Methane efflux from an American bison herd. Biogeosciences. 18(3). 961–975. 11 indexed citations

Kelly, Julia, Cristina Santín, Stefan H. Doerr, et al.. (2021). Boreal forest soil carbon fluxes one year after a wildfire: Effects of burn severity and management. Global Change Biology. 27(17). 4181–4195. 38 indexed citations

Chi, Jinshu, Mats B. Nilsson, Hjalmar Laudon, et al.. (2020). The Net Landscape Carbon Balance—Integrating terrestrial and aquatic carbon fluxes in a managed boreal forest landscape in Sweden. Global Change Biology. 26(4). 2353–2367. 36 indexed citations

Chi, Jinshu, Mats B. Nilsson, Jörgen Wallerman, et al.. (2018). The greenhouse gas balance of a managed boreal landscape measured from a tall tower in northern Sweden. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 15839. 1 indexed citations

Rotach, Mathias W., et al.. (2017). Comment on: “Corrections to the Mathematical Formulation of a Backwards Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model” by Gibson and Sailor (2012: Boundary-Layer Meteorology 145, 399–406). Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 166(1). 153–160. 1 indexed citations

Andersson, Anders F., Eva Falck, Anna Sjöblom, et al.. (2017). Air‐sea gas transfer in high Arctic fjords. Geophysical Research Letters. 44(5). 2519–2526. 11 indexed citations

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Sonnentag, Oliver, Manuel Helbig, Karoline Wischnewski, et al.. (2016). Permafrost thaw and fire history: implications of boreal tree cover changes on land surface properties and turbulent energy fluxes in the Taiga Plains, Canada. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations

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Kljun, Natascha, Pierluigi Calanca, Mathias W. Rotach, & Hans Peter Schmid. (2015). A simple two-dimensional parameterisation for Flux Footprint Prediction (FFP). Geoscientific model development. 8(11). 3695–3713. 681 indexed citations breakdown →

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Podgrajsek, Eva, Erik Sahlée, David Bastviken, et al.. (2015). Methane fluxes from a small boreal lake measured with the eddy covariance method. Limnology and Oceanography. 61(S1). 23 indexed citations

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Helbig, Manuel, Karoline Wischnewski, L. Chasmer, et al.. (2014). Seasonal dynamics of the land surface energy balance of a boreal forest-peatland landscape affected by degrading permafrost in the Taiga Plains, Canada. 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. 2014. 1 indexed citations

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Shendryk, Yuri, M. Hellström, Leif Klemedtsson, & Natascha Kljun. (2014). Low-Density LiDAR and Optical Imagery for Biomass Estimation over Boreal Forest in Sweden. Forests. 5(5). 992–1010. 21 indexed citations

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Kljun, Natascha. (2010). BERMS Sites Revisited: Footprint Climatology and 3D-LiDAR Data. Cronfa (Swansea University). 1 indexed citations

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Kljun, Natascha. (2008). Footprint Model Performance under Inhomogeneous Flow Conditions. Cronfa (Swansea University). 1 indexed citations

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Kljun, Natascha, T. Andrew Black, Timothy J. Griffis, et al.. (2004). Net Carbon Exchange of three Boreal Forests during a Drought. 8 indexed citations

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Barr, Alan, T. Andrew Black, Harry McCaughey, et al.. (2004). The Boreal Ecosystem Research and Monitoring Sites: A Synthesis of Results, 1994-2003. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2004. 1 indexed citations

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Kljun, Natascha. (2000). A Lagrangian Footprint Model for Stratifications Ranging from Stable to Convective. 2 indexed citations

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Kljun, Natascha. (2000). Footprint Determination in Stable to Convective Stratification Using an Inverse 3D Lagrangian Particle Model. 2 indexed citations

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