Thomas Grünwald

25.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Thomas Grünwald is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Grünwald has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 12 papers in Atmospheric Science and 7 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas Grünwald's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (33 papers), Climate variability and models (12 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (7 papers). Thomas Grünwald is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (33 papers), Climate variability and models (12 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (7 papers). Thomas Grünwald collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and United States. Thomas Grünwald's co-authors include Christian Bernhofer, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Adriaan J. Teuling, Uwe Spank, Heiko Prasse, Bert Gielen, Philippe Ciais, J.A. Elbers, Anne‐Katrin Prescher and Bernard Heinesch and has published in prestigious journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Geophysical Research Letters and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Grünwald

37 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves

2010 514 citations Adriaan J. Teuling, Sonia I. Seneviratne et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Grünwald Germany	20	2.1k	726	468	462	373	38	2.4k
A. O. Manzi Brazil	29	2.5k 1.2×	1.0k 1.4×	458 1.0×	580 1.3×	323 0.9×	75	3.0k
S. A. Papuga United States	15	1.4k 0.7×	621 0.9×	377 0.8×	402 0.9×	265 0.7×	28	1.8k
Christoforos Pappas Canada	24	1.4k 0.7×	839 1.2×	445 1.0×	295 0.6×	250 0.7×	48	1.9k
Xiuqin Fang China	22	1.7k 0.8×	712 1.0×	632 1.4×	756 1.6×	317 0.8×	54	2.4k
Samuli Launiainen Finland	32	1.6k 0.8×	835 1.2×	360 0.8×	656 1.4×	364 1.0×	109	2.5k
Helber C. Freitas Brazil	18	1.9k 0.9×	438 0.6×	324 0.7×	593 1.3×	232 0.6×	30	2.3k
Taehee Hwang United States	22	1.3k 0.6×	492 0.7×	556 1.2×	732 1.6×	282 0.8×	48	2.0k
Holly Barnard United States	23	1.5k 0.7×	845 1.2×	796 1.7×	417 0.9×	362 1.0×	54	2.4k
Yanlian Zhou China	25	1.9k 0.9×	407 0.6×	589 1.3×	809 1.8×	317 0.8×	70	2.3k
Lara Prihodko United States	21	1.4k 0.7×	518 0.7×	268 0.6×	542 1.2×	595 1.6×	31	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Grünwald

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thomas Grünwald. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thomas Grünwald based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Thomas Grünwald. Thomas Grünwald is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Grünwald, Thomas, Uwe Eichelmann, Markus Hehn, et al.. (2025). Carbon fluxes controlled by land management and disturbances at a cluster of long-term ecosystem monitoring sites in Central Europe. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 369. 110533–110533.

Gharun, Mana, Ankit Shekhar, Lukas Hörtnagl, et al.. (2025). Impact of winter warming on CO ₂ fluxes in evergreen needleleaf forests. Biogeosciences. 22(5). 1393–1411. 1 indexed citations

Kronenberg, Rico, et al.. (2022). Modelling evaporation with local, regional and global BROOK90 frameworks: importance of parameterization and forcing. Hydrology and earth system sciences. 26(12). 3177–3239. 6 indexed citations

Bogena, Heye, Thomas Grünwald, Bernard Heinesch, et al.. (2021). Improving the representation of cropland sites in the Community Land Model (CLM) version 5.0. Geoscientific model development. 14(1). 573–601. 28 indexed citations

Moderow, Uta, Thomas Grünwald, Ronald Queck, Uwe Spank, & Christian Bernhofer. (2020). Energy balance closure and advective fluxes at ADVEX sites. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 143(1-2). 761–779. 10 indexed citations

Yao, Yunjun, Shunlin Liang, Xianglan Li, et al.. (2017). Improving global terrestrial evapotranspiration estimation using support vector machine by integrating three process-based algorithms. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 242. 55–74. 109 indexed citations

Collalti, Alessio, Sergio Marconi, Andreas Ibrom, et al.. (2016). Validation of 3D-CMCC Forest Ecosystem Model (v.5.1) against eddy covariance data for 10 European forest sites. Geoscientific model development. 9(2). 479–504. 38 indexed citations

Spank, Uwe, Barbara Köstner, Uta Moderow, Thomas Grünwald, & Christian Bernhofer. (2016). Surface Conductance of Five Different Crops Based on 10 Years of Eddy-Covariance Measurements. Meteorologische Zeitschrift. 25(3). 251–266. 8 indexed citations

Sakai, Toru, Toshichika Iizumi, Masashi Okada, et al.. (2015). Varying applicability of four different satellite-derived soil moisture products to global gridded crop model evaluation. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 48. 51–60. 18 indexed citations

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Yao, Yunjun, Shunlin Liang, Xianglan Li, et al.. (2015). A satellite-based hybrid algorithm to determine the Priestley–Taylor parameter for global terrestrial latent heat flux estimation across multiple biomes. Remote Sensing of Environment. 165. 216–233. 107 indexed citations

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Babst, Flurin, Olivier Bouriaud, Dario Papale, et al.. (2013). Above‐ground woody carbon sequestration measured from tree rings is coherent with net ecosystem productivity at five eddy‐covariance sites. New Phytologist. 201(4). 1289–1303. 146 indexed citations

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Teuling, Adriaan J., Anne F. Van Loon, Sonia I. Seneviratne, et al.. (2013). Evapotranspiration amplifies European summer drought. Geophysical Research Letters. 40(10). 2071–2075. 314 indexed citations

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Prescher, Anne‐Katrin, Thomas Grünwald, & Christian Bernhofer. (2010). Land use regulates carbon budgets in eastern Germany: From NEE to NBP. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 150(7-8). 1016–1025. 112 indexed citations

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Grote, Rüdiger, Ralf Kiese, Thomas Grünwald, Jean‐Marc Ourcival, & André Granier. (2010). Modelling forest carbon balances considering tree mortality and removal. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 151(2). 179–190. 46 indexed citations

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Teuling, Adriaan J., Sonia I. Seneviratne, Reto Stöckli, et al.. (2010). Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves. Nature Geoscience. 3(10). 722–727. 514 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schwärzel, Kai, Uwe Spank, Thomas Grünwald, et al.. (2009). Soil water content measurements deliver reliable estimates of water fluxes: A comparative study in a beech and a spruce stand in the Tharandt forest (Saxony, Germany). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 149(11). 1994–2006. 61 indexed citations

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Duursma, Remko A., Pasi Kolari, Martti Perämäki, et al.. (2009). Contributions of climate, leaf area index and leaf physiology to variation in gross primary production of six coniferous forests across Europe: a model-based analysis. Tree Physiology. 29(5). 621–639. 39 indexed citations

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Mauder, Matthias, Thomas Foken, R. Clement, et al.. (2008). Quality control of CarboEurope flux data – Part 2: Inter-comparison of eddy-covariance software. Biogeosciences. 5(2). 451–462. 167 indexed citations

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Mahecha, Miguel D., Markus Reichstein, Holger Lange, et al.. (2007). Characterizing ecosystem-atmosphere interactions from short to interannual time scales. Biogeosciences. 4(5). 743–758. 43 indexed citations

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Churkina, Galina, John Tenhunen, Peter Thornton, et al.. (2003). Analyzing the Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics of Four European Coniferous Forests Using a Biogeochemistry Model. Ecosystems. 6(2). 168–184. 95 indexed citations

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