Thomas Foken

21.6k citations
217 papers · 10.5k · 4 hit papers · h-index 48

Impact in

    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
    • Climate variability and models
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
    • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
    • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Papers in

    • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 101
    • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics 40
    • Climate variability and models 37
    • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations 65
    • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 17
    • Cryospheric studies and observations 12

Thomas Foken

206 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Thomas Foken's Hit Papers

Surface-Energy-Balance Closure over Land: A Review 2020 · 223 citations
2230+10+20Years since publication4008001.2k

Peers

Thomas Foken
Comparison fields: 5 of 103
  • Global and Planetary Change 8.7k
  • Atmospheric Science 5.1k
  • Environmental Engineering 2.7k
  • Water Science and Technology 1.2k
  • Soil Science 655
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Thomas Foken, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1
Tools for quality assessment of surface-based flux measurements
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19961280
2
THE ENERGY BALANCE CLOSURE PROBLEM: AN OVERVIEW
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20081053
3
50 Years of the Monin–Obukhov Similarity Theory
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2006517
4 2011409
5 2007298
6
Documentation and Instruction Manual of the Eddy-Covariance Software Package TK3 (update)
2011276
7 2012271
8 2006259
9 2006255
10
Surface-Energy-Balance Closure over Land: A Review
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2020223
11 2001195
12 2007185
13 2006179
14 2011172
15 2008167
16 2006163
17 2004154
18 2005149
19 2007134
20 2009121

About Thomas Foken

Thomas Foken is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Computational Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, having authored 217 papers that have together received 10.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (101 papers), Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations (65 papers), Wind and Air Flow Studies (44 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (40 papers), Climate variability and models (37 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (26 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (17 papers) and Cryospheric studies and observations (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Global and Planetary Change (8.7k citations), Atmospheric Science (5.1k citations), Environmental Engineering (2.7k citations), Water Science and Technology (1.2k citations) and Soil Science (655 citations). Thomas Foken has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and China. Frequent co-authors include Bodo Wichura, Matthias Mauder, Claudia Liebethal, Heping Liu, Christoph Thomas, Monique Y. Leclerc, Mathias Göckede, Steven Oncley, Christian Bernhofer and Joan Cuxart. Their work appears in journals such as Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Atmospheric measurement techniques, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology and Biogeosciences.

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