Guido van der Werf

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Guido van der Werf received his MSc. (2001) and PhD (2006) from the Vrije Universiteit, the latter based on a 3 year internship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He received fellowships from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in 2006 (Veni) and 2014 (Vici) and a starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2011. Together with colleagues in the U.S. he developed the Global Fire Emissions Database and he is since 2014 amongst the 1% most frequently cited Earth scientists.

Research

Van der Werf aims to understand how the global carbon cycle interacts with the climate system. His group focuses specifically on deforestation and forest fires. Combining biogeochemical modeling, satellite data, and atmospheric modeling enables them to quantify fire and deforestation emissions, and these are the basis for exploring their response to and influence on climatic, demographic, and socio-economical changes. In addition, they use satellite data to test ecological hypotheses over large scales.

Education

Van der Werf teaches the Global Change course for Bachelor students Earth Sciences and Earth and Economics students, and coordinates the Master's course Global Biogeochemical Cycles for Earth Sciences students

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biomass burning Earth & Environmental Sciences

deforestation Earth & Environmental Sciences

carbon monoxide Earth & Environmental Sciences

MOPITT Earth & Environmental Sciences

carbon cycle Earth & Environmental Sciences

climate Earth & Environmental Sciences

carbon budget Earth & Environmental Sciences

carbon Earth & Environmental Sciences

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Research Output 2003 2019

107 Article
6 Review article
5 PhD Thesis - Research VU, graduation VU
2 Report
2 More
- 1 Inaugural speech
- 1 Erratum

Global fire emissions buffered by the production of pyrogenic carbon

Jones, M. W., Santín, C., van der Werf, G. R. & Doerr, S. H., 1 Jan 2019, In : Nature Geoscience.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

carbon

biomass

carbon cycle

carbon sequestration

land use change

Historical (1700-2012) global multi-model estimates of the fire emissions from the Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP)

Li, F., Val Martin, M., Andreae, M. O., Arneth, A., Hantson, S., Kaiser, J. W., Lasslop, G., Yue, C., Bachelet, D., Forrest, M., Kluzek, E., Liu, X., Mangeon, S., Melton, J. R., Ward, D. S., Darmenov, A., Hickler, T., Ichoku, C., Magi, B. I., Sitch, S. & 3 othersVan Der Werf, G. R., Wiedinmyer, C. & Rabin, S. S., 9 Oct 2019, In : Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 19, 19, p. 12545-12567 23 p.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

modeling

project

land cover

vegetation

population density

Historical background and current developments for mapping burned area from satellite Earth observation

Chuvieco, E., Mouillot, F., van der Werf, G. R., San Miguel, J., Tanasse, M., Koutsias, N., García, M., Yebra, M., Padilla, M., Gitas, I., Heil, A., Hawbaker, T. J. & Giglio, L., 1 May 2019, In : Remote Sensing of Environment. 225, p. 45-64 20 p.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

Fires

Earth (planet)

Satellites

fire management

satellite sensor

Modelling biomass burning emissions and the effect of spatial resolution: A case study for Africa based on the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED)

Van Wees, D. & Van Der Werf, G. R., 8 Nov 2019, In : Geoscientific Model Development. 12, 11, p. 4681-4703 23 p.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

Biomass

biomass burning

Spatial Resolution

Fires

spatial resolution

State of the climate in 2018

Ades, M., Adler, R., Aldeco, L. S., Alejandra, G., Alfaro, E. J., Aliaga-Nestares, V., Allan, R. P., Allan, R., Alves, L. M., Amador, J. A., Andersen, J. K., Anderson, J., Arndt, D. S., Arosio, C., Arrigo, K., Azorin-Molina, C., Bardin, M. Y., Barichivich, J., Barreira, S., Baxter, S. & 454 othersBeck, H. E., Becker, A., Bell, G. D., Bellouin, N., Belmont, M., Benedetti, A., Benedict, I., Bernhard, G. H., Berrisford, P., Berry, D. I., Bettio, L., Bhatt, U. S., Biskaborn, B. K., Bissolli, P., Bjella, K. L., Bjerke, J. K., Blake, E. S., Blenkinsop, S., Blunden, J., Bock, O., Bosilovich, M. G., Boucher, O., Box, J. E., Boyer, T., Braathen, G., Bringas, F. G., Bromwich, D. H., Brown, A., Brown, R., Brown, T. J., Buehler, S. A., Cáceres, L., Calderón, B., Camargo, S. J., Campbell, J. D., Campos Diaz, D. A., Cappelen, J., Carrea, L., Carrier, S. B., Carter, B. R., Castro, A. Y., Cetinic, I., Chambers, D. P., Chen, L., Cheng, L., Cheng, V. Y. S., Christiansen, H. H., Christy, J. R., Chung, E. S., Claus, F., Clem, K. R., Coelho, C. A. S., Coldewey-Egbers, M., Colwell, S., Cooper, O. R., Cosca, C., Covey, C., Coy, L., Dávila, C. P., Davis, S. M., de Eyto, E., de Jeu, R. A. M., De Laat, J., Decharme, B., Degasperi, C. L., Degenstein, D., Demircan, M., Derksen, C., Dhurmea, K. R., Di Girolamo, L., Diamond, H. J., Diaz, E., Diniz, F. A., Dlugokencky, E. J., Dohan, K., Dokulil, M. T., Dolman, A. J., Domingues, C. M., Domingues, R., Donat, M. G., Dorigo, W. A., Drozdov, D. S., Druckenmiller, M. L., Dunn, R. J. H., Durre, I., Dutton, G. S., Elkharrim, M., Elkins, J. W., Epstein, H. E., Espinoza, J. C., Famiglietti, J. S., Farrell, S. L., Fausto, R. S., Feely, R. A., Feng, Z., Fenimore, C., Fettweis, X., Fioletov, V. E., Flemming, J., Fogt, R. L., Forbes, B. C., Foster, M. J., Francis, S. D., Franz, B. A., Frey, R. A., Frith, S. M., Froidevaux, L., Ganter, C., Garforth, J., Gerland, S., Gilson, J., Gleason, K., Gobron, N., Goetz, S., Goldenberg, S. B., Goni, G., Gray, A., Grooß, J. U., Gruber, A., Gu, G., Guard, C. C. P., Gupta, S. K., Gutiérrez, D., Haas, C., Hagos, S., Hahn, S., Haimberger, L., Hall, B. D., Halpert, M. S., Hamlington, B. D., Hanna, E., Hanssen-Bauer, I., Harris, I., Hazeleger, W., He, Q., Heidinger, A. K., Heim, R. R., Hemming, D. L., Hendricks, S., Hernández, R., Hersbach, H. E., Hidalgo, H. G., Ho, S. P. B., Holmes, R. M., Hu, C., Huang, B., Hubbard, K., Hubert, D., Hurst, D. F., Ialongo, I., Ijampy, J. A., Inness, A., Isaac, V., Isaksen, K., Ishii, M., Jeffries, M. O., Jevrejeva, S., Jia, G., Jiménez, C., Jin, X., John, V., Johnsen, B., Johnson, G. C., Johnson, K. S., Johnson, B., Jones, P. D., Jumaux, G., Kabidi, K., Kaiser, J. W., Karaköylü, E. M., Karlsen, S. R., Karnauskas, M., Kato, S., Kazemi, A. F., Kelble, C., Keller, L. M., Kennedy, J., Kholodov, A. L., Khoshkam, M., Kidd, R., Killick, R., Kim, H., Kim, S. J., King, A. D., King, B. A., Kipling, Z., Klotzbach, P. J., Knaff, J. A., Korhonen, J., Korshunova, N. N., Kramarova, N. A., Kratz, D. P., Kruger, A., Kruk, M. C., Krumpen, T., Labbé, L., Ladd, C., Lakatos, M., Lakkala, K., Lander, M. A., Landschützer, P., Landsea, C. W., Lareau, N. P., Lavado-Casimiro, W., Lazzara, M. A., Lee, T. C., Leuliette, E., L’heureux, M., Li, B., Li, T., Lieser, J. L., Lim, J. Y., Lin, I. I., Liu, H., Locarnini, R., Loeb, N. G., Long, C. S., López, L. A., Lorrey, A. M., Loyola, D., Lumpkin, R., Luo, J. J., Luojus, K., Lyman, J. M., Malkova, G. V., Manney, G. L., Marchenko, S. S., Marengo, J. A., Marin, D., Marquardt Collow, A. B., Marra, J. J., Marszelewski, W., Martens, B., Martínez-Güingla, R., Massom, R. A., May, L., Mayer, M., Mazloff, M., McBride, C., McCabe, M., McClelland, J. W., McEvoy, D. J., McGree, S., McVicar, T. R., Mears, C. A., Meier, W., Meijers, A., Mekonnen, A., Mengistu Tsidu, G., Menzel, W. P., Merchant, C. J., Meredith, M. P., Merrifield, M. A., Miller, B., Miralles, D. G., Misevicius, N., Mitchum, G. T., Mochizuki, Y., Monselesan, D., Montzka, S. A., Mora, N., Morice, C., Mosquera-Vásquez, K., Mostafa, A. E., Mote, T., Mudryk, L., Mühle, J., Mullan, A. B., Müller, R., Myneni, R., Nash, E. R., Nauslar, N. J., Nerem, R. S., Newman, P. A., Nicolas, J. P., Nieto, J. J., Noetzli, J., Osborn, T. J., Osborne, E., Overland, J., Oyunjargal, L., Park, T., Pasch, R. J., Pascual Ramírez, R., Pastor Saavedra, M. A., Paterson, A. M., Pearce, P. R., Pelto, M. S., Perovich, D., Petropavlovskikh, I., Pezza, A. B., Phillips, C., Phillips, D., Phoenix, G., Pinty, B., Pitts, M., Po-Chedley, S., Polashenski, C., Preimesberger, W., Purkey, S. G., Quispe, N., Rajeevan, M., Rakotoarimalala, C. L., Ramos, A. M., Ramos, I., Randel, W., Raynolds, M. K., Reagan, J., Reid, P., Reimer, C., Rémy, S., Revadekar, J. V., Richardson, A. D., Richter-Menge, J., Ricker, R., Ripaldi, A., Robinson, D. A., Rodell, M., Rodriguez Camino, E., Romanovsky, V. E., Ronchail, J., Rosenlof, K. H., Rösner, B., Roth, C., Rozanov, A., Rusak, J. A., Rustemeier, E., Rutishäuser, T., Sallée, J. B., Sánchez-Lugo, A., Santee, M. L., Sawaengphokhai, P., Sayouri, A., Scambos, T. A., Scanlon, T., Scardilli, A. S., Schenzinger, V., Schladow, S. G., Schmid, C., Schmid, M., Schoeneich, P., Schreck, C. J., Selkirk, H. B., Sensoy, S., Shi, L., Shiklomanov, A. I., Shiklomanov, N. I., Shimpo, A., Shuman, C. A., Siegel, D. A., Sima, F., Simmons, A. J., Smeets, C. J. P. P., Smith, A., Smith, S. L., Soden, B., Sofieva, V., Sparks, T. H., Spence, J., Spencer, R. G. M., Spillane, S., Srivastava, A. K., Stabeno, P. J., Stackhouse, P. W., Stammerjohn, S., Stanitski, D. M., Steinbrecht, W., Stella, J. L., Stengel, M., Stephenson, T. S., Strahan, S. E., Streeter, C., Streletskiy, D. A., Sun-Mack, S., Suslova, A., Sutton, A. J., Swart, S., Sweet, W., Takahashi, K. S., Tank, S. E., Taylor, M. A., Tedesco, M., Thackeray, S. J., Thompson, P. R., Timbal, B., Timmermans, M. L., Tobin, S., Tømmervik, H., Tourpali, K., Trachte, K., Tretiakov, M., Trewin, B. C., Triñanes, J. A., Trotman, A. R., Tschudi, M., Tye, M. R., van As, D., van de Wal, R. S. W., van der A, R. J., van der Schalie, R., van der Schrier, G., van der Werf, G. R., van Heerwaarden, C., Van Meerbeeck, C. J., Verburg, P., Vieira, G., Vincent, L. A., Vömel, H., Vose, R. S., Walker, D. A., Walsh, J. E., Wang, B., Wang, H., Wang, L., Wang, M., Wang, M., Wang, R., Wang, S. H., Wanninkhof, R., Watanabe, S., Weber, M., Webster, M., Weerts, A., Weller, R. A., Westberry, T. K., Weyhenmeyer, G. A., Widlansky, M. J., Wijffels, S. E., Wilber, A. C., Wild, J. D., Willett, K. M., Wong, T., Wood, E. F., Woolway, R. I., Xue, Y., Yin, X., Yu, L., Zambrano, E., Zeyaeyan, S., Zhang, H. M., Zhang, P., Zhao, G., Zhao, L., Zhou, X., Zhu, Z., Ziemke, J. R., Ziese, M., Andersen, A., Griffin, J., Hammer, G., Love-Brotak, S. E., Misch, D. J., Riddle, D. B. & Veasey, S. W., Sep 2019, In : Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 100, 9 Special Supplement, p. Si-S305 326 p.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

climate

sea ice

wildfire

temperature

ice

Prizes

Ammodo KNAW

Guido van der Werf (Recipient), 2017

Prize › Academic

prof. dr. Guido van der Werf

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