Niels Andela

7.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
40 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Niels Andela is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Niels Andela has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 14 papers in Atmospheric Science and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Niels Andela's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (32 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (11 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (10 papers). Niels Andela is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (32 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (11 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (10 papers). Niels Andela collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Niels Andela's co-authors include Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson, Douglas C. Morton, Yang Chen, Stephen Sitch, Louis Giglio, Josep G. Canadell, Stijn Hantson, Gitta Lasslop and Jian Bi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Niels Andela

39 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

2014 1.1k citations Niels Andela, Stephen Sitch et al. profile →
A human-driven decline in global burned area

2017 760 citations Niels Andela, Douglas C. Morton et al. Science profile →
Global and Regional Trends and Drivers of Fire Under Climate Change

2022 621 citations Matthew W. Jones, John T. Abatzoglou et al. profile →
The Global Fire Atlas of individual fire size, duration, speed and direction

2019 277 citations Niels Andela, Douglas C. Morton et al. Earth system science data profile →
Global rise in forest fire emissions linked to climate change in the extratropics

2024 51 citations Matthew W. Jones, Sander Veraverbeke et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Niels Andela United States	22	3.6k	1.2k	1.2k	520	419	40	4.2k
Gitta Lasslop Germany	27	4.0k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	528 1.0×	339 0.8×	48	4.6k
Florent Mouillot France	34	3.9k 1.1×	1.5k 1.3×	957 0.8×	849 1.6×	580 1.4×	93	4.7k
Stijn Hantson Germany	34	3.5k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	501 1.0×	470 1.1×	64	4.2k
Brendan M. Rogers United States	33	5.2k 1.4×	1.5k 1.2×	3.1k 2.6×	683 1.3×	437 1.0×	106	6.3k
Sander Veraverbeke Netherlands	40	3.6k 1.0×	1.7k 1.5×	1.4k 1.2×	287 0.6×	464 1.1×	97	4.4k
Matthias Forkel Germany	32	3.5k 1.0×	1.8k 1.5×	1.5k 1.3×	539 1.0×	290 0.7×	72	5.0k
J. G. Goldammer Germany	29	2.8k 0.8×	862 0.7×	1.6k 1.4×	529 1.0×	285 0.7×	116	3.6k
Matthias M. Boer Australia	38	3.9k 1.1×	1.6k 1.4×	736 0.6×	1.2k 2.3×	730 1.7×	110	5.0k
Jeremy S. Littell United States	25	3.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	774 1.5×	496 1.2×	58	3.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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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

Jones, Matthew W., Sander Veraverbeke, Niels Andela, et al.. (2024). Global rise in forest fire emissions linked to climate change in the extratropics. Science. 386(6719). eadl5889–eadl5889. 51 indexed citations breakdown →

Zou, Yufei, et al.. (2023). Attention-Based Wildland Fire Spread Modeling Using Fire-Tracking Satellite Observations. Fire. 6(8). 289–289. 8 indexed citations

Morton, Douglas C., et al.. (2023). Tracking Changes in Vegetation Structure Following Fire in the Cerrado Biome Using ICESat‐2. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. 128(5). 7 indexed citations

Chen, Yang, Stijn Hantson, Niels Andela, et al.. (2022). California wildfire spread derived using VIIRS satellite observations and an object-based tracking system. Scientific Data. 9(1). 249–249. 40 indexed citations

Hickman, Jonathan E., Niels Andela, Kostas Tsigaridis, et al.. (2021). Continental and Ecoregion‐Specific Drivers of Atmospheric NO₂ and NH₃ Seasonality Over Africa Revealed by Satellite Observations. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35(8). 9 indexed citations

Hickman, Jonathan E., Niels Andela, Kostas Tsigaridis, et al.. (2021). Reductions in NO ₂ burden over north equatorial Africa from decline in biomass burning in spite of growing fossil fuel use, 2005 to 2017. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(7). 26 indexed citations

Hickman, Jonathan E., Niels Andela, Enrico Dammers, et al.. (2021). Changes in biomass burning, wetland extent, or agriculture drive atmospheric NH ₃ trends in select African regions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(21). 16277–16291. 8 indexed citations

Chen, Yang, James T. Randerson, Shane Coffield, et al.. (2020). Forecasting Global Fire Emissions on Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Time Scales. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 12(9). e2019MS001955–e2019MS001955. 16 indexed citations

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Forkel, Matthias, Niels Andela, Sandy P. Harrison, et al.. (2019). Emergent relationships with respect to burned area in global satellite observations and fire-enabled vegetation models. Biogeosciences. 16(1). 57–76. 112 indexed citations

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Andela, Niels, Douglas C. Morton, Louis Giglio, et al.. (2019). The Global Fire Atlas of individual fire size, duration, speed and direction. Earth system science data. 11(2). 529–552. 277 indexed citations breakdown →

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Randerson, J. T., Elizabeth B. Wiggins, Stijn Hantson, et al.. (2018). Development of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED): Toward reconciliation of top-down and bottom-up constraints on fire contributions to variability and trends in carbonaceous aerosol. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Forkel, Matthias, Niels Andela, Sandy P. Harrison, et al.. (2018). Emergent relationships on burned area in global satellite observations and fire-enabled vegetation models. Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union). 5 indexed citations

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Andela, Niels, Douglas C. Morton, Yang Chen, Louis Giglio, & James T. Randerson. (2018). A Global Fire Atlas of size, duration, and spread from satellite burned area data. EGUGA. 11269.

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Andela, Niels, Douglas C. Morton, Louis Giglio, et al.. (2017). A human-driven decline in global burned area. Science. 356(6345). 1356–1362. 760 indexed citations breakdown →

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Andela, Niels, Guido R. van der Werf, Johannes W. Kaiser, et al.. (2016). Biomass burning fuel consumption dynamics in the (sub)tropics assessed from satellite. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 5 indexed citations

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Andela, Niels, Guido R. van der Werf, Johannes W. Kaiser, et al.. (2016). Biomass burning fuel consumption dynamics in the tropics and subtropics assessed from satellite. Biogeosciences. 13(12). 3717–3734. 43 indexed citations

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Andela, Niels, Johannes W. Kaiser, Guido R. van der Werf, & Martin J. Wooster. (2015). New fire diurnal cycle characterizations to improve fire radiative energy assessments made from low-Earth orbit satellites sampling. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 2 indexed citations

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Andela, Niels, Johannes W. Kaiser, Guido R. van der Werf, & Martin J. Wooster. (2015). New fire diurnal cycle characterizations to improve fire radiative energy assessments made from MODIS observations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(15). 8831–8846. 51 indexed citations

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Andela, Niels, Y. Y. Liu, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk, Richard de Jeu, & Tim R. McVicar. (2013). Global changes in dryland vegetation dynamics (1988–2008) assessed by satellite remote sensing: comparing a new passive microwave vegetation density record with reflective greenness data. Biogeosciences. 10(10). 6657–6676. 181 indexed citations

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