Timo Vesala

61.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
400 papers, 18.6k citations indexed

About

Timo Vesala is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Timo Vesala has authored 400 papers receiving a total of 18.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 275 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 170 papers in Atmospheric Science and 75 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Timo Vesala's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (163 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (105 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (79 papers). Timo Vesala is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (163 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (105 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (79 papers). Timo Vesala collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United States and Germany. Timo Vesala's co-authors include Markku Kulmala, Üllar Rannik, Dario Papale, Marc Aubinet, Ivan Mammarella, Eero Nikinmaa, Markus Reichstein, Janne Rinne, Dennis Baldocchi and Pertti Hari and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Timo Vesala

377 papers receiving 17.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Towards a standardized processing of Net Ecosystem Exchange measured with eddy covariance technique: algorithms and uncertainty estimation

2006 1.2k citations Dario Papale, Markus Reichstein et al. Biogeosciences profile →
Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming

2008 926 citations Markus Reichstein, Timo Vesala et al. profile →
Eddy covariance : a practical guide to measurement and data analysis

2012 617 citations Timo Vesala, Dario Papale et al. profile →
Advantages of diffuse radiation for terrestrial ecosystem productivity

2002 591 citations Timo Vesala et al. profile →
Deriving a light use efficiency model from eddy covariance flux data for predicting daily gross primary production across biomes

2007 570 citations Timo Vesala et al. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Timo Vesala Finland	71	13.2k	7.4k	4.3k	3.8k	2.7k	400	18.6k
G. J. Collatz United States	65	20.1k 1.5×	10.2k 1.4×	6.1k 1.4×	3.1k 0.8×	2.9k 1.1×	117	24.3k
J. William Munger United States	71	15.5k 1.2×	9.0k 1.2×	4.8k 1.1×	3.4k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	208	20.8k
Peter M. Cox United Kingdom	72	18.5k 1.4×	10.5k 1.4×	4.1k 0.9×	3.3k 0.9×	2.0k 0.7×	197	25.7k
Chris Huntingford United Kingdom	61	12.6k 1.0×	5.7k 0.8×	2.6k 0.6×	2.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	199	17.2k
Peter Thornton United States	69	14.2k 1.1×	6.6k 0.9×	5.7k 1.3×	2.5k 0.6×	2.7k 1.0×	274	22.4k
Stephen Sitch United Kingdom	77	23.3k 1.8×	10.0k 1.3×	7.0k 1.6×	4.4k 1.2×	2.8k 1.1×	263	30.5k
Inez Fung United States	75	15.6k 1.2×	12.5k 1.7×	4.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.4×	1.6k 0.6×	166	22.1k
A. J. Dolman Netherlands	68	12.0k 0.9×	6.9k 0.9×	3.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.4×	3.2k 1.2×	268	17.5k
Ghassem Asrar United States	51	9.2k 0.7×	4.6k 0.6×	5.9k 1.4×	1.7k 0.5×	4.0k 1.5×	152	13.9k
Martin Heimann Germany	78	14.9k 1.1×	11.1k 1.5×	3.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.3×	1.5k 0.5×	268	20.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Engel, Jan, Timo Vesala, Maija E. Marushchak, et al.. (2025). Practical guidelines for reproducible N₂O flux chamber measurements in nutrient-poor ecosystems. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 18(14). 3407–3424.

Vesala, Timo. (2024). Opening Pandora's box of transport phenomena. New Phytologist. 243(4). 1281–1283.

Liu, Huizhi, Ivan Mammarella, Xuefei Li, et al.. (2024). Characteristics of Energy Fluxes and Cold Frontal Effects on Energy Exchange over a Boreal Lake. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. 42(2). 357–372.

Lohila, Annalea, Lutz Merbold, Matti Räsänen, et al.. (2024). Ecosystem-scale crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) gas exchange of a sisal (Agave sisalana) plantation. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 381. 109435–109435. 3 indexed citations

Kulmala, Markku, Anna Lintunen, Hanna K. Lappalainen, et al.. (2023). Opinion: The strength of long-term comprehensive observations to meet multiple grand challenges in different environments and in the atmosphere. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(23). 14949–14971. 3 indexed citations

Launiainen, Samuli, Gabriel G. Katul, Kersti Leppä, et al.. (2022). Does growing atmospheric CO ₂ explain increasing carbon sink in a boreal coniferous forest?. Global Change Biology. 28(9). 2910–2929. 37 indexed citations

Aurela, Mika, Alicia Cortés, Rigel Kivi, et al.. (2021). Variable Physical Drivers of Near‐Surface Turbulence in a Regulated River. Water Resources Research. 57(11). 11 indexed citations

Merbold, Lutz, Timo Vesala, Janne Rinne, et al.. (2021). Soil greenhouse gas emissions from a sisal chronosequence in Kenya. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 307. 108465–108465. 16 indexed citations

Vesala, Timo, Arnaud P. Praplan, Linda M. J. Kooijmans, et al.. (2021). Long-term fluxes of carbonyl sulfide and their seasonality and interannual variability in a boreal forest.

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Zhang, Hui, Eeva‐Stiina Tuittila, Aino Korrensalo, et al.. (2021). Methane production and oxidation potentials along a fen‐bog gradient from southern boreal to subarctic peatlands in Finland. Global Change Biology. 27(18). 4449–4464. 29 indexed citations

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Alekseychik, Pavel, Aino Korrensalo, Ivan Mammarella, et al.. (2021). Carbon balance of a Finnish bog: temporal variability and limitingfactors. 2 indexed citations

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Kurppa, Mona, Antti Hellsten, Mikko Auvinen, et al.. (2018). Ventilation and Air Quality in City Blocks Using Large-Eddy Simulation—Urban Planning Perspective. Atmosphere. 9(2). 65–65. 86 indexed citations

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Ezhova, Ekaterina, Ilona Ylivinkka, Joel Kuusk, et al.. (2018). Direct effect of aerosols on solar radiation and gross primary production in boreal and hemiboreal forests. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(24). 17863–17881. 54 indexed citations

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Auvinen, Mikko, Leena Järvi, Antti Hellsten, Üllar Rannik, & Timo Vesala. (2017). Numerical framework for the computation of urban flux footprints employing large-eddy simulation and Lagrangian stochastic modeling. Geoscientific model development. 10(11). 4187–4205. 18 indexed citations

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Seppälä, Jyri, Markku Kanninen, Timo Vesala, et al.. (2016). Metsien hyödyntämisen ilmastovaikutukset ja hiilinielujen kehittyminen. Jukuri (Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)). 1 indexed citations

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Glazunov, A. V., Üllar Rannik, Victor Stepanenko, et al.. (2016). Large-eddy simulation and stochastic modeling of Lagrangian particles for footprint determination in the stable boundary layer. Geoscientific model development. 9(9). 2925–2949. 20 indexed citations

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Haapanala, Sami, Narasinha Shurpali, Ivan Mammarella, et al.. (2015). Intercomparison of fast response commercial gas analysers for nitrous oxide flux measurements under field conditions. Biogeosciences. 12(2). 415–432. 26 indexed citations

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Dengel, Sigrid, Donatella Zona, Torsten Sachs, et al.. (2013). Testing the applicability of neural networks as a gap-filling method using CH ₄ flux data from high latitude wetlands. Biogeosciences. 10(12). 8185–8200. 76 indexed citations

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Nordbo, Annika, Leena Järvi, Sami Haapanala, Curtis R. Wood, & Timo Vesala. (2012). Fraction of natural area as main predictor of net CO ₂ emissions from cities. Geophysical Research Letters. 39(20). 74 indexed citations

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Lasslop, Gitta, Mirco Migliavacca, Gil Bohrer, et al.. (2012). On the choice of the driving temperature for eddy-covariance carbon dioxide flux partitioning. Biogeosciences. 9(12). 5243–5259. 56 indexed citations

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