Christian Frankenberg
Chandler Family Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist
B.S., University of Bayreuth, 2002; Ph.D., Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, 2005. Associate Professor, Caltech, 2015-18; Professor, 2018-24; Chandler Family Professor, 2024-; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist, 2015-.
Research Overview
Professor Frankenberg's research interests include remote sensing of atmospheric trace gases, biogeochemical cycles, hydrological cycle and distribution of water isotopes, inverse methods, and applied spectroscopy.
Publications
- Wang, Yujie;Braghiere, Renato K. et al. (2024) Beyond the visible: Accounting for ultraviolet and far‐red radiation in vegetation productivity and surface energy budgetsGlobal Change Biology
- Frankenberg, C.;Bar‐On, Y. M. et al. (2024) Data Drought in the Humid Tropics: How to Overcome the Cloud Barrier in Greenhouse Gas Remote SensingGeophysical Research Letters
- Wang, Yujie;Frankenberg, Christian (2024) Toward More Accurate Modeling of Canopy Radiative Transfer and Leaf Electron Transport in Land Surface ModelingJournal of Advances in Modeling Earth System (JAMES)
- Yao, Yitong;Humphrey, Vincent et al. (2024) Investigating Diurnal and Seasonal Cycles of Vegetation Optical Depth Retrieved From GNSS Signals in a Broadleaf ForestGeophysical Research Letters
- Kunik, Lewis;Bowling, David R. et al. (2024) Satellite-based solar-induced fluorescence tracks seasonal and elevational patterns of photosynthesis in California's Sierra Nevada mountainsEnvironmental Research Letters
- He, Liyin;Rosa, Lorenzo et al. (2023) The weekly cycle of photosynthesis in Europe reveals the negative impact of particulate pollution on ecosystem productivityProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Thorpe, Andrew K.;Green, Robert O. et al. (2023) Attribution of individual methane and carbon dioxide emission sources using EMIT observations from spaceScience Advances
- Holtzman, Nataniel;Wang, Yujie et al. (2023) Constraining Plant Hydraulics With Microwave Radiometry in a Land Surface Model: Impacts of Temporal ResolutionWater Resources Research
- Valkenborg, Bram;De Lannoy, Gabriëlle J. M. et al. (2023) Drought and Waterlogging Stress Regimes in Northern Peatlands Detected Through Satellite Retrieved Solar-Induced Chlorophyll FluorescenceGeophysical Research Letters
- Zeng, Yelu;Hao, Dalei et al. (2023) Structural complexity biases vegetation greenness measuresNature Ecology & Evolution