Wouter Peters

28.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
137 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Wouter Peters is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wouter Peters has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 97 papers in Atmospheric Science and 11 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wouter Peters's work include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (101 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (72 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (42 papers). Wouter Peters is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (101 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (72 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (42 papers). Wouter Peters collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Wouter Peters's co-authors include Maarten Krol, Pieter P. Tans, J. B. Miller, Frank Dentener, Jos Lelieveld, A. Hirsch, P. Bergamaschi, Guido R. van der Werf, A. R. Jacobson and Ingrid T. Luijkx and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Wouter Peters

130 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

An atmospheric perspective on North American carbon dioxide exchange: CarbonTracker

2007 781 citations Wouter Peters, A. R. Jacobson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Amazonia as a carbon source linked to deforestation and climate change

2021 539 citations J. B. Miller, Wouter Peters et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wouter Peters Netherlands	41	5.4k	4.2k	581	554	533	137	6.6k
Luciana V. Gatti Brazil	32	3.1k 0.6×	2.4k 0.6×	597 1.0×	363 0.7×	761 1.4×	77	4.4k
K. W. Bowman United States	55	7.2k 1.3×	6.7k 1.6×	528 0.9×	806 1.5×	1.2k 2.2×	208	8.9k
Didier Hauglustaine France	51	5.7k 1.1×	6.3k 1.5×	586 1.0×	851 1.5×	1.6k 3.0×	136	8.9k
Prabir K. Patra Japan	40	4.0k 0.7×	3.1k 0.7×	350 0.6×	392 0.7×	366 0.7×	181	5.1k
Philippe Bousquet France	46	7.4k 1.4×	5.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.9×	814 1.5×	565 1.1×	132	9.5k
John R. Worden United States	56	8.2k 1.5×	6.9k 1.7×	1.3k 2.3×	756 1.4×	851 1.6×	205	10.0k
C. O’Dell United States	36	4.3k 0.8×	3.4k 0.8×	283 0.5×	407 0.7×	238 0.4×	101	4.8k
T. J. Conway United States	35	6.0k 1.1×	4.4k 1.1×	716 1.2×	513 0.9×	270 0.5×	96	8.1k
Grégoire Broquet France	33	3.3k 0.6×	2.0k 0.5×	471 0.8×	617 1.1×	448 0.8×	105	4.0k
R. L. Langenfelds Australia	41	6.1k 1.1×	5.4k 1.3×	1.2k 2.0×	340 0.6×	225 0.4×	98	8.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Wouter Peters

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wouter Peters

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wouter Peters

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wouter Peters. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wouter Peters 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 Wouter Peters. Wouter Peters is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Besnard, Simon, Viola Heinrich, Nuno Carvalhais, et al.. (2025). Global covariation of forest age transitions with the net carbon balance. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(10). 1848–1860. 1 indexed citations

Reichstein, Markus, et al.. (2024). Constraining biospheric carbon dioxide fluxes by combined top-down and bottom-up approaches. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 24(4). 2555–2582. 4 indexed citations

Scheeren, Bert, et al.. (2024). First detection of industrial hydrogen emissions using high precision mobile measurements in ambient air. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 24147–24147. 7 indexed citations

Peters, Wouter, Émilie Joetzjer, S. Lafont, et al.. (2023). Temperature extremes of 2022 reduced carbon uptake by forests in Europe. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6218–6218. 53 indexed citations

Bastos, Ana, et al.. (2023). Reducing errors on estimates of the carbon uptake period based on time series of atmospheric CO ₂. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 16(12). 3299–3312. 2 indexed citations

Zhao, Zhao, Marcel de Vries, Jarosław Nęcki, et al.. (2023). Local-to-regional methane emissions from the Upper Silesian Coal Basin (USCB) quantified using UAV-based atmospheric measurements. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(9). 5191–5216. 11 indexed citations

Pons, Thijs L., et al.. (2023). Exploring the potential of Δ17O in CO2 for determining mesophyll conductance. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 192(2). 1234–1253. 6 indexed citations

Monteil, Guillaume, Marko Scholze, Anne Klosterhalfen, et al.. (2021). Reconciling the Carbon Balance of Northern Sweden Through Integration of Observations and Modelling. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 126(23). 3 indexed citations

Schaik, Erik van, Naomi Smith, Gerbrand Koren, et al.. (2018). Changes in surface hydrology, soil moisture and gross primary production in the Amazon during the 2015/2016 El Niño. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1760). 20180084–20180084. 41 indexed citations

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Koren, Gerbrand, Erik van Schaik, Alessandro Araùjo, et al.. (2018). Widespread reduction in sun-induced fluorescence from the Amazon during the 2015/2016 El Niño. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1760). 20170408–20170408. 59 indexed citations

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Basu, Sourish, et al.. (2015). Comparing the CarbonTracker and TM5-4DVar data assimilation systems for CO ₂ surface flux inversions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 15(17). 9747–9763. 16 indexed citations

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Basu, Sourish, et al.. (2015). Comparing the CarbonTracker and TM5-4DVar data assimilation systems for CO ₂ surface flux inversions. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Arellano, Jordi Vilà-Guerau De, et al.. (2015). Two perspectives on the coupled carbon, water and energy exchange in the planetary boundary layer. Biogeosciences. 12(1). 103–123. 13 indexed citations

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Deng, Feng, Jing M. Chen, Yude Pan, et al.. (2013). The use of forest stand age information in an atmospheric CO ₂ inversion applied to North America. Biogeosciences. 10(8). 5335–5348. 10 indexed citations

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Jiang, Fei, Jing M. Chen, Lei Zhou, et al.. (2013). Nested atmospheric inversion for the terrestrial carbon sources and sinks in China. Biogeosciences. 10(8). 5311–5324. 39 indexed citations

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Huijnen, Vincent, Jason Williams, Twan van Noije, et al.. (2010). The global chemistry transport model TM5: description and evaluation of the tropospheric chemistry version 3.0. Geoscientific model development. 3(2). 445–473. 214 indexed citations

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Dolman, A. J., Gert‐Jan Steeneveld, Alex Vermeulen, et al.. (2009). Modelling regional scale surface fluxes, meteorology and CO₂ mixing ratios for the Cabauw tower in the Netherlands. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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Tolk, L. F., A. G. C. A. Meesters, A. J. Dolman, & Wouter Peters. (2008). Modelling representation errors of atmospheric CO ₂ mixing ratios at a regional scale. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 8(22). 6587–6596. 34 indexed citations

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Peters, Wouter, A. R. Jacobson, Colm Sweeney, et al.. (2007). An atmospheric perspective on North American carbon dioxide exchange: CarbonTracker. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(48). 18925–18930. 781 indexed citations breakdown →

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Peters, Wouter, J. B. Miller, Jeffrey S. Whitaker, et al.. (2005). An ensemble data assimilation system to estimate CO ₂ surface fluxes from atmospheric trace gas observations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 110(D24). 164 indexed citations

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