Munassar, S.; Rödenbeck, C.; Galkowski, M.; Koch, F.-T.; Totsche, K. U.; Botia, S.; Gerbig, C.: To what extent does the CO2 diurnal cycle impact flux estimates derived from global and regional inversions? Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 25 (1), S. 639 - 656 (2025)
Ho, D.; Galkowski, M.; Reum, F.; Botia, S.; Marshall, J.; Totsche, K. U.; Gerbig, C.: Recommended coupling to global meteorological fields for long-term tracer simulations with WRF-GHG. Geoscientific Model Development 17 (20), S. 7401 - 7422 (2024)
Machado, L. A. T.; Kesselmeier, J.; Botia, S.; van Asperen, H.; Andreae, M. O.; de Araújo, A. C.; Artaxo, P.; Edtbauer, A.; Ferreira, R. R.; Franco, M. A.et al.; Harder, H.; Jones, S. P.; Dias-Júnior, C. Q.; Haytzmann, G. G.; Quesada, C. A.; Komiya, S.; Lavrič, J. V.; Lelieveld, J.; Levin, I.; Nölscher, A.; Pfannerstill, E.; Pöhlker, M. L.; Pöschl, U.; Ringsdorf, A.; Rizzo, L.; Yáñez-Serrano, A. M.; Trumbore, S. E.; Valenti, W. I. D.; de Arellano, J. V.-G.; Walter, D.; Williams, J.; Wolff, S.; Pöhlker, C.: How rainfall events modify trace gas mixing ratios in central Amazonia. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 24 (15), S. 8893 - 8910 (2024)
de Arellano, J. V.-G.; Hartogensis, O. K.; de Boer, H.; Moonen, R.; González-Armas, R.; Janssens, M.; Adnew, G. A.; Bonell-Fontás, D. J.; Botia, S.; Jones, S. P.et al.; van Asperen, H.; Komiya, S.; de Feiter, V. S.; Rikkers, D.; de Haas, S.; Machado, L. A. T.; Dias-Junior, C. Q.; Giovanelli-Haytzmann, G.; Valenti, W. I. D.; Figueiredo, R. C.; Farias, C. S.; Hall, D. H.; Mendonça, A. C. S.; da Silva, F. A. G.; da Silva, J. L. M.; Souza, R.; Martins, G.; Miller, J. N.; Mol, W. B.; Heusinkveld, B.; van Heerwaarden, C. C.; D’Oliveira, F. A. F.; Ferreira, R. R.; Gotuzzo, R. A.; Pugliese, G.; Williams, J.; Ringsdorf, A.; Edtbauer, A.; Quesada, C. A.; Portela, B. T. T.; Alves, E. G.; Pöhlker, C.; Trumbore, S. E.; Lelieveld, J.; Röckmann, T.: CloudRoots-Amazon22: Integrating clouds with photosynthesis by crossing scales. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 105 (7), S. E1275 - E1302 (2024)
van der Woude, A. M.; Peters, W.; Joetzjer, E.; Lafont, S.; Koren, G.; Ciais, P.; Ramonet, M.; Xu, Y.; Bastos, A.; Botia, S.et al.; Sitch, S.; de Kok, R.; Kneuer, T.; Kubistin, D.; Jacotot, A.; Loubet, B.; Herig-Coimbra, P.-H.; Luijkx, D. L. I. T.: Temperature extremes of 2022 reduced carbon uptake by forests in Europe. Nature Communications 14, 6218 (2023)
Alves, E. G.; Santana, R. A.; Dias-Júnior, C. Q.; Botia, S.; Taylor, T.; Yáñez-Serrano, A. M.; Kesselmeier, J.; Bourtsoukidis, E.; Williams, J.; de Assis, P. I. L. S.et al.; Martins, G.; de Souza, R.; Júnior, S. D.; Guenther, A.; Gu, D.; Tsokankunku, A.; Sörgel, M.; Nelson, B.; Pinto, D.; Komiya, S.; Rosa, D. M.; Weber, B.; Barbosa, C.; Robin, M.; Feeley, K. J.; Duque, A.; Lemos, V. L.; Contreras, M. P.; Idarraga, A.; López, N.; Husby, C.; Jestrow, B.; Toro, I. M. C.: Intra- and interannual changes in isoprene emission from central Amazonia. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 23 (14), S. 8149 - 8168 (2023)
Tangarife-Escobar, A.; Koeniger, P.; Lopez-Moreno, J. I.; Botia, S.; Ceballos-Liévano, J. L.: Spatiotemporal variability of stable isotopes in precipitation and stream water in a high elevation tropical catchment in the Central Andes of Colombia. Hydrological Processes 37 (5), e14873 (2023)
de Arellano, J. V.-G.; Hartogensis, O.; Benedict, I.; de Boer, H.; Bosman, P. J. M.; Botia, S.; Cecchini, M. A.; Faassen, K. A. P.; González-Armas, R.; van Diepen, K.et al.; Heusinkveld, B. G.; Janssens, M.; Lobos-Roco, F.; Luijkx, I. T.; Machado, L. A. T.; Mangan, M. R.; Moene, A. F.; Mol, W. B.; van der Molen, M.; Moonen, R.; Ouwersloot, H. G.; Park, S.-W.; Pedruzo-Bagazgoitia, X.; Röckmann, T.; Adnew, G. A.; Ronda, R.; Sikma, M.; Schulte, R.; van Stratum, B. J. H.; Veerman, M. A.; van Zanten, M. C.; van Heerwaarden, C. C.: Advancing understanding of land–atmosphere interactions by breaking discipline and scale barriers. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1522 (1), S. 74 - 97 (2023)
van der Woude, A. M.; de Kok, R.; Smith, N.; Luijkx, I. T.; Botia, S.; Karstens, U.; Kooijmans, L. M. J.; Koren, G.; Meijer, H.; Steeneveld, G.-J.et al.; Storm, I.; Super, I.; Scheeren, B. A.; Vermeulen, A.; Peters, W.: Near-real-time CO2 fluxes from CarbonTracker Europe for high-resolution atmospheric modeling. Earth System Science Data 15 (2), S. 579 - 605 (2023)
Dias-Júnior, C. Q.; Carneiro, R. G.; Fisch, G.; D’Oliveira, F. A. F.; Sörgel, M.; Botia, S.; Machado, L. A. T.; Wolff, S.; dos Santos, R. M. N.; Pöhlker, C.: Intercomparison of planetary boundary layer heights using remote sensing retrievals and ERA5 reanalysis over Central Amazonia. Remote Sensing 14 (18), 4561 (2022)
Melack, J. M.; Basso, L. S.; Fleischmann, A. S.; Botia, S.; Guo, M.; Zhou, W.; Barbosa, P. M.; Amaral, J. H.F.; MacIntyre, S.: Challenges regionalizing methane emissions using aquatic environments in the Amazon Basin as examples. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 10, 866082 (2022)
Botia, S.; Komiya, S.; Marshall, J.; Koch, T.; Galkowski, M.; Lavrič, J. V.; Gomes-Alves, E.; Walter, D.; Fisch, G.; Pinho, D. M.et al.; Nelson, B.; Martins, G.; Luijkx, I. T.; Koren, G.; Florentie, L.; de Araujo, A. C.; Sa, M.; Andreae, M. O.; Heimann, M.; Peters, W.; Gerbig, C.: The CO2 record at the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory: a new opportunity to study processes on seasonal and inter-annual scales. Global Change Biology 28 (2), S. 588 - 611 (2022)
Correa, P. B.; Dias-Júnior, C. Q.; Cava, D.; Sörgel, M.; Botia, S.; Acevedo, O.; Oliveira, P. E. S.; Manzi, A. O.; Machado, L. A. T.; Martins, H. d. S.et al.; Tsokankunku, A.; de Araújo, A. C.; Lavrič, J. V.; Walter, D.; Mortarini, L.: A case study of a gravity wave induced by Amazon forest orography and low level jet generation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 307, 108457 (2021)
Bezerra, V. L.; Dias-Júnior, C. Q.; Vale, R. S.; Santana, R. A.; Botia, S.; Manzi, A. O.; Cohen, J. C. P.; Martins, H. S.; Chamecki, M.; Fuentes, J. D.: Near-surface atmospheric turbulence in the presence of a squall line above a forested and deforested region in the Central Amazon. Atmosphere 12 (4), 461 (2021)
Botía, S. B.; Gerbig, C.; Marshall, J.; Lavrič, J. V.; Walter, D.; Pölhker, C.; Holanda, B.; Fisch, G.; de Araújo, A. C.; Sá, M. O.et al.; Teixeira, P. R.; Resende, A. F.; Dias-Junior, C. Q.; van Asperen, H.; Oliveira, P. S.; Stefanello, M.; Acevedo, O. C.: Understanding nighttime methane signals at the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20 (11), S. 6583 - 6606 (2020)
Botia, S.: Greenhouse gas exchange in the Amazon: Carbon dioxide and methane insights from the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory. Dissertation, 180 S., Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen (2022)
Botia, S.; Dias-Junior, C. Q.; Komiya, S.; van der Woude, A.; Terristi, M.; de Kok, R.; Koren, G.; van Asperen, H.; Jones, S. P.; D'Oliveira, F. A. F.et al.; Weber, U.; Marques-Filho, E.; Toro, I. M. C.; Araújo, A.; Lavric, J.; Walter, D.; Li, X.; Wigneron, J.-P.; Stocker, B.; de Souza, J. G.; O'Sullivan, M.; Sitch, S.; Ciais, P.; Chevallier, F.; Li, W.; Luijkx, I. T.; Peters, W.; Quesada, C. A.; Zaehle, S.; Trumbore, S. E.; Bastos, A.: Reduced vegetation uptake during the extreme 2023 drought turns the Amazon into a weak carbon source. ESS Open Archive (2025)
Glauch, T.; Marshall, J.; Gerbig, C.; Botia, S.; Galkowski, M.; Vardag, S. N.; Butz, A.: pyVPRM: A next-generation Vegetation Photosynthesis and Respiration Model for the post-MODIS era. EGUsphere (2025)
Meunier, F.; Boeckx, P.; Botia, S.; Bauters, M.; Cherlet, W.; Ciais, P.; Hertog, S. D.; Dietze, M.; Peaucelle, M.; Sibret, T.et al.; Sitch, S.; Li, W.; Verbeeck, H.: The impact of the 2023-2024 drought on intact Amazon forests’ productivity. Research Square (2024)
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