Sander Veraverbeke

7.3k citations

97 papers · 4.4k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 40

Impact in

Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Atmospheric Science top 1%
- Climate change and permafrost
- Cryospheric studies and observations

Papers in

Global and Planetary Change 94
- Fire effects on ecosystems 90
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 28
Ecology 49
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture 40
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management 14

Co-authors: Rudi Goossens James T. Randerson Stef Lhermitte Brendan M. Rogers Simon J. Hook Willem W. Verstraeten Guido R. van der Werf Randi Jandt
Journals: Remote Sensing of Environment (9 papers)Remote Sensing (9 papers)International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (7 papers)International Journal of Wildland Fire (6 papers)Environmental Research Letters (5 papers)
Partner nations: Netherlands United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Sander Veraverbeke

93 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Global rise in forest fire emissions linked to climate change in the extratropics 2024 · 51 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Science
2022 Reviews of Geophysics
2017 Nature Climate Change

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All Works

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1	Optimising fire severity mapping using pixel-based image compositing Remote Sensing of Environment ·Néstor Quintero, Olga Viedma, Sander Veraverbeke, José Manuel Moreno	2025	0
2	Using hydrological modelling to improve the Fire Weather Index system over tropical peatlands of peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo International Journal of Wildland Fire ·Jonas Mortelmans, Sebastian Apers, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Sander Veraverbeke, Robert D. Field, Niels Andela, Susan Page, Michel Bechtold	2025	1
3	Land use and climatic drivers of early 21st-century fire activity in the Amazon Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Wenxuan Xu, Jiamin Cen, Lei Fan, Yongxue Liu, Thomas Janßen, Peng Liu, Wei Wu, Libo Wang, Nan Li, Sander Veraverbeke	2025	0
4	Environmental drivers and remote sensing proxies of post-fire thaw depth in eastern Siberian larch forests Earth System Dynamics ·Lucas Ribeiro Diaz, Clement J. F. Delcourt, Moritz Langer, M. M. Loranty, Brendan M. Rogers, Rebecca C. Scholten, Tatiana A. Shestakova, Anna C. Talucci, Jorien E. Vonk, Sonam Wangchuk, Sander Veraverbeke	2024	1
5	Global rise in forest fire emissions linked to climate change in the extratropics Science ·Matthew W. Jones, Sander Veraverbeke, Niels Andela, Stefan H. Doerr, Crystal A. Kolden, Guilherme Mataveli, M. Lucrecia Pettinari, Corinne Le Quéré, Thais M. Rosan, Guido R. van der Werf, Dave van Wees, John T. Abatzoglou Hit paper breakdown →	2024	51
6	Spatial variability in Arctic–boreal fire regimes influenced by environmental and human factors Nature Geoscience ·Rebecca C. Scholten, Sander Veraverbeke, Yang Chen, James T. Randerson	2024	10
7	Wildfire precursors show complementary predictability in different timescales Nature Communications ·Yuquan Qu, Diego G. Miralles, Sander Veraverbeke, Harry Vereecken, Carsten Montzka	2023	9
8	A global database on holdover time of lightning-ignited wildfires Earth system science data ·José V. Moris, Pedro Ãlvarez-Ãlvarez, Marco Conedera, Annalie Dorph, Thomas D. Hessilt, Hugh G.P. Hunt, Renata Libonati, Lucas S. Menezes, Mortimer M. Müller, Francisco J. Pérez‐Invernón, Gianni Boris Pezzatti, Nicolau Pineda, Rebecca C. Scholten, Sander Veraverbeke, B. Mike Wotton, Davide Ascoli	2023	12
9	Allometric equations and wood density parameters for estimating aboveground and woody debris biomass in Cajander larch ( Larix cajanderi ) forests of northeast Siberia Biogeosciences ·Clement J. F. Delcourt, Sander Veraverbeke	2022	11
10	Global biomass burning fuel consumption and emissions at 500 m spatial resolution based on the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED) Geoscientific model development ·Dave van Wees, Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson, Brendan M. Rogers, Yang Chen, Sander Veraverbeke, Louis Giglio, Douglas C. Morton	2022	70
11	Direct and longer-term carbon emissions from arctic-boreal fires: A short review of recent advances Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health ·Sander Veraverbeke, Clement J. F. Delcourt, Elena A. Kukavskaya, Michelle C. Mack, Xanthe J. Walker, Thomas D. Hessilt, Brendan M. Rogers, Rebecca C. Scholten	2021	39
12	Overwintering fires in boreal forests Nature ·Rebecca C. Scholten, Randi Jandt, Eric A. Miller, Brendan M. Rogers, Sander Veraverbeke	2021	100
13	Active Fire Dynamics in the Amazon: New Perspectives From High‐Resolution Satellite Observations Geophysical Research Letters ·Wenxuan Xu, Yongxue Liu, Sander Veraverbeke, Wei Wu, Yanzhu Dong, Wanyun Lu	2021	13
14	Boreal forest fire CO and CH ₄ emission factors derived from tower observations in Alaska during the extreme fire season of 2015 Atmospheric chemistry and physics ·Elizabeth B. Wiggins, A. E. Andrews, Colm Sweeney, J. B. Miller, Charles E. Miller, Sander Veraverbeke, R. Commane, Steven C. Wofsy, John M. Henderson, James T. Randerson	2021	22
15	Fuel availability not fire weather controls boreal wildfire severity and carbon emissions Nature Climate Change ·Xanthe J. Walker, Brendan M. Rogers, Sander Veraverbeke, Jill F. Johnstone, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Kirsten Barrett, Laura Bourgeau‐Chavez, Nicola J. Day, William J. de Groot, Catherine M. Dieleman, S. J. Goetz, Elizabeth Hoy, Liza K. Jenkins, Evan S. Kane, Marc‐André Parisien, Stefano Potter, Edward A. G. Schuur, Merritt R. Turetsky, Ellen Whitman, Michelle C. Mack	2020	119
16	Wildfire combustion and carbon stocks in the southern Canadian boreal forest: Implications for a warming world Global Change Biology ·Catherine M. Dieleman, Brendan M. Rogers, Stefano Potter, Sander Veraverbeke, Jill F. Johnstone, Jocelyne Laflamme, Kylen Solvik, Xanthe J. Walker, Michelle C. Mack, Merritt R. Turetsky	2020	55
17	Evidence for a larger contribution of smoldering combustion to boreal forest fire emissions from tower observations in Alaska Elizabeth B. Wiggins, A. E. Andrews, Colm Sweeney, J. B. Miller, Charles E. Miller, Sander Veraverbeke, R. Commane, S. C. Wofsy, John M. Henderson, James T. Randerson	2020	8
18	Climate change decreases the cooling effect from postfire albedo in boreal North America Global Change Biology ·Stefano Potter, Kylen Solvik, Angela Erb, S. J. Goetz, Jill F. Johnstone, Michelle C. Mack, James T. Randerson, Miguel O. Román, Crystal Schaaf, Merritt R. Turetsky, Sander Veraverbeke, Xanthe J. Walker, Zhuosen Wang, Richard Massey, Brendan M. Rogers	2019	36
19	Daily burned area and carbon emissions from boreal fires in Alaska Biogeosciences ·Sander Veraverbeke, Brendan M. Rogers, James T. Randerson	2015	64
20	Assessment of post-fire changes in land surface temperature and surface albedo, and their relation with fire–burn severity using multitemporal MODIS imagery International Journal of Wildland Fire ·Sander Veraverbeke, Willem W. Verstraeten, Stef Lhermitte, Ruben Van De Kerchove, Rudi Goossens	2012	71

About Sander Veraverbeke

Sander Veraverbeke is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, having authored 97 papers that have together received 4.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Fire effects on ecosystems (90 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (40 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (28 papers), Climate change and permafrost (19 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (14 papers), Cryospheric studies and observations (11 papers), Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications (11 papers) and Fire Detection and Safety Systems (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (3.6k citations), Atmospheric Science (1.4k citations), Ecology (1.7k citations), Environmental Engineering (751 citations) and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (450 citations). Sander Veraverbeke has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Rudi Goossens, James T. Randerson, Stef Lhermitte, Brendan M. Rogers, Simon J. Hook, Willem W. Verstraeten, Guido R. van der Werf, Randi Jandt, Ioannis Z. Gitas and Rebecca C. Scholten. Their work appears in journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Remote Sensing, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, International Journal of Wildland Fire and Environmental Research Letters.

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