Dr Matthias Cuntz
Department Computational Hydrosystems (CHS)
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
Tel.: +49 341 235 1071
Fax: +49 341 235 45 1071
E-mail: matthias.cuntz (at) ufz.de
Personal webpage: www.macu.de
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Research Subjects
- Observation and modelling energy, water and trace gas exchange in terrestrial ecosystems
- Using stable isotopes for process studies of the terrestrial biosphere
- Global modelling of the water, carbon and their isotope cycles
For more information see the Regional Ecophysiology group page.
Publications since 2009
2018 (4)
Physically accurate soil freeze-thaw processes in a global land surface scheme
J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst. 10 (1), 54 - 77
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X-ray computed microtomography characterizes the wound effect that causes sap flow underestimation by thermal dissipation sensors
Tree Physiol. 38 (2), 287 - 301
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The importance of forest structure for carbon fluxes of the Amazon rainforest
Environ. Res. Lett. 13 (5), art. 054013
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Conditioning a hydrologic model using patterns of remotely sensed land surface temperature
Water Resour. Res. 54 (4), 2976 - 2998
full text (doi)2017 (7)
Estimation of photosynthesis traits from leaf reflectance spectra: Correlation to nitrogen content as the dominant mechanism
Remote Sens. Environ. 196 , 279 - 292
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Validating MODIS and Sentinel-2 NDVI products at a temperate deciduous forest site using two independent ground-based sensors
Sensors 17 (8), art. 1855
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Spatial heterogeneity of biomass and forest structure of the Amazon rain forest: Linking remote sensing, forest modelling and field inventory
Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. 26 (11), 1292 - 1302
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Estimating the carbon fluxes of forests with an individual-based forest model
For. Ecosyst. 4 , art. 4
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Improving calibration and validation of cosmic-ray neutron sensors in the light of spatial sensitivity
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 21 (10), 5009 - 5030
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The Bode hydrological observatory: a platform for integrated, interdisciplinary hydro-ecological research within the TERENO Harz/Central German Lowland Observatory
Environ. Earth Sci. 76 (1), art. 29
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A high-resolution dataset of water fluxes and states for Germany accounting for parametric uncertainty
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 21 (3), 1769 - 1790
full text (doi)2016 (5)
The impact of standard and hard-coded parameters on the hydrologic fluxes in the Noah-MP land surface model
J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos. 121 (18), 10676 - 10700
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The plumbing of land surface models: Is poor performance a result of methodology or data quality?
J. Hydrometeorol. 17 (6), 1705 - 1723
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Improved representations of coupled soil–canopy processes in the CABLE land surface model (Subversion revision 3432)
Geosci. Model Dev. 9 , 3111 - 3122
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Multiscale and multivariate evaluation of water fluxes and states over European river basins
J. Hydrometeorol. 17 (1), 287 - 307
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An empirical study of the wound effect on sap flux density measured with thermal dissipation probes
Tree Physiol. 36 (12), 1471 - 1484
full text (doi)2015 (5)
The plumbing of land surface models: benchmarking model performance
J. Hydrometeorol. 16 (3), 1425 - 1442
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Effects of an extremely dry winter on net ecosystem carbon exchange and tree phenology at a cork oak woodland
Agric. For. Meteorol. 204 , 48 - 57
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Computationally inexpensive identification of noninformative model parameters by sequential screening
Water Resour. Res. 51 (8), 6417 - 6441
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Influence of woody tissue and leaf clumping on vertically resolved leaf area index and angular gap probability estimates
For. Ecol. Manage. 340 , 103 - 113
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Sauna, sweat and science – quantifying the proportion of condensation water versus sweat using a stable water isotope (2H/1H and 18O/16O) tracer experiment
Isot. Environ. Health Stud. 51 (3), 439 - 447
full text (doi)2014 (4)
Oxygen isotope signatures of transpired water vapor: the role of isotopic non-steady-state transpiration under natural conditions
New Phytol. 203 (4), 1242 - 1252
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Influence of tree cover on herbaceous layer development and carbon and water fluxes in a Portuguese cork-oak woodland
Acta Oecol. - Int. J. Ecol. 59 , 35 - 45
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Stable oxygen isotope and flux partitioning demonstrates understory of an oak savanna contributes up to half of ecosystem carbon and water exchange
Front. Plant Sci. 5 , art. 530
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Drought impact on carbon and water cycling in a Mediterranean Quercus suber L. woodland during the extreme drought event in 2012
Biogeosciences 11 (24), 7159 - 7178
full text (doi)2013 (5)
Partitioning evapotranspiration – Testing the Craig and Gordon model with field measurements of oxygen isotope ratios of evaporative fluxes
J. Hydrol. 496 , 142 - 153
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Use of eigendecomposition in a parameter sensitivity analysis of the Community Land Model
J. Geophys. Res.-Biogeosci. 118 (2), 904 - 921
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A strategy for quality and uncertainty assessment of long-term eddy-covariance measurements
Agric. For. Meteorol. 169 , 122 - 135
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An empirical study of wound response dynamics on sap flow measured with thermal dissipation probes
In: Steppe, K. (ed.)
Proceedings of the IXth International Workshop on Sap Flow; Ghent, Belgium, June 4 - 7, 2013
Acta Hort. 991
International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), The Hague, p. 107 - 114
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Multiresponse, multiobjective calibration as a diagnostic tool to compare accuracy and structural limitations of five coupled soil-plant models and CLM3.5
Water Resour. Res. 49 (12), 8200 - 8221
full text (doi)2012 (3)
Large inert carbon pool in the terrestrial biosphere during the Last Glacial Maximum
Nat. Geosci. 5 (1), 74 - 79
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The canopy semi-analytic Pgap and radiative transfer (CanSPART) model: formulation and application
Agric. For. Meteorol. 160 , 14 - 35
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Progress and challenges in using stable isotopes to trace plant carbon and water relations across scales
Biogeosciences 9 (8), 3083 - 3111
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Carbon cycle: a dent in carbon's gold standard
Nature 477 (7366), 547 - 548
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Measured deuterium in water vapour concentration does not improve the constraint on the partitioning of evapotranspiration in a tall forest canopy, as estimated using a soil vegetation atmosphere transfer model
Agric. For. Meteorol. 151 (6), 645 - 654
full text (doi)2010 (1)
Soil-litter-iso: a one-dimensional model for coupled transport of heat, water and stable isotopes in soil with a litter layer and root extraction
J. Hydrol. 388 (3-4), 438 - 455
full text (doi)2009 (4)
Effect of water availability on leaf water isotopic enrichment in beech seedlings shows limitations of current fractionation models
Plant Cell Environ. 32 (10), 1285 - 1296
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Water isotopes in desiccating lichens
Planta 231 (1), 179 - 193
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The turbulent Lagrangian time scale in forest canopies constrained by fluxes, concentrations and source distributions
Bound.-Layer Meteor. 130 (2), 209 - 228
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The impact of soil microorganisms on the global budget of δ18O in atmospheric CO2
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106 (52), 22411 - 22415
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