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Alexander A. Kokhanovsky

Alexander A. Kokhanovsky

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
53
Citations
10316
World Ranking
4251
National Ranking
293

Overview

Alexander A. Kokhanovsky is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields within environmental and earth sciences, with a focus on atmospheric and planetary phenomena. Their published works encompass topics such as atmospheric aerosols, cloud properties, and cryospheric studies.

The main fields of study in their research include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, their subfields of specialization cover:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Ecology
  • Environmental Engineering

The primary research topics addressed by Kokhanovsky include:

  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Calibration and Measurement Techniques
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include:

  • Sabine Chabrillat
  • Karl Segl
  • Jason E. Box
  • Baptiste Vandecrux
  • Biagio Di Mauro

Their research has been published extensively in journals such as:

  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • Remote Sensing
  • Preprints.org
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Notable recent papers include:

  • The Determination of Snow Albedo from Satellite Measurements Using Fast Atmospheric Correction Technique, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Retrieval of Dust Properties From Spectral Snow Reflectance Measurements, 2021, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • The EnMAP spaceborne imaging spectroscopy mission: Initial scientific results two years after launch, 2024, Remote Sensing of Environment

Other relevant publications in which Kokhanovsky is credited include:

  • Frontiers in Satellite-Based Estimates of Cloud-Mediated Aerosol Forcing, 2023, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Solar heating of ice sheets containing gas bubbles, 2020, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

In addition to journal articles, Kokhanovsky has contributed to scientific books published by Springer International Publishing and Springer Nature (Netherlands). Key titles include:

  • Springer Series in Light Scattering (2020, 2021, 2022)
  • Physics and Chemistry of the Arctic Atmosphere (2020)

Best Publications

  • Scattering optics of snow

    Alexander A. Kokhanovsky;Eleonora P. Zege

  • Radiative transfer through terrestrial atmosphere and ocean: Software package SCIATRAN

    V.V. Rozanov;A.V. Rozanov;A.A. Kokhanovsky;J.P. Burrows

  • SCIATRAN 2.0 – A new radiative transfer model for geophysical applications in the 175–2400 nm spectral region

    A. Rozanov;V. Rozanov;M. Buchwitz;A. Kokhanovsky

  • Snow physics as relevant to snow photochemistry

    F. Domine;M. Albert;T. Huthwelker;Hans-Werner Jacobi;Hans-Werner Jacobi

  • The GOME-2 instrument on the Metop series of satellites: instrument design, calibration, and level 1 data processing – an overview

    Rosemary Munro;Rüdiger Lang;Dieter Klaes;Gabriele Poli

  • Aerosol remote sensing over land: A comparison of satellite retrievals using different algorithms and instruments

    A.A. Kokhanovsky;F.-M. Breon;A. Cacciari;E. Carboni

  • Satellite Aerosol Remote Sensing Over Land

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  • Optical properties of terrestrial clouds

    A. Kokhanovsky

  • Benchmark results in vector atmospheric radiative transfer

    Alexander A. Kokhanovsky;Vladimir P. Budak;Celine Cornet;Minzheng Duan

  • Aerosol Remote Sensing in Polar Regions

    Claudio Tomasi;Alexander A. Kokhanovsky;Alexander A. Kokhanovsky;Angelo Lupi;Christoph Ritter

  • Aerosol Optics: Light Absorption and Scattering by Particles in the Atmosphere

    Alexander A. Kokhanovsky

  • Atmospheric Aerosol Monitoring from Satellite Observations: A History of Three Decades

    Kwon H. Lee;Zhanqing Li;Young J. Kim;Alexander Kokhanovsky

  • Semianalytical cloud retrieval algorithm as applied to the cloud top altitude and the cloud geometrical thickness determination from top‐of‐atmosphere reflectance measurements in the oxygen A band

    Vladimir V. Rozanov;Alexander A. Kokhanovsky

  • The inter-comparison of major satellite aerosol retrieval algorithms using simulated intensity and polarization characteristics of reflected light

    Alexander A. Kokhanovsky;J.L. Deuzé;D.J. Diner;O. Dubovik

  • A semianalytical cloud retrieval algorithm using backscattered radiation in 0.4–2.4 μm spectral region

    A. A. Kokhanovsky;A. A. Kokhanovsky;V. V. Rozanov;E. P. Zege;H. Bovensmann

  • Retrieval of snow grain size over Greenland from MODIS.

    Alexei Lyapustin;Alexei Lyapustin;Marco Tedesco;Marco Tedesco;Marco Tedesco;Yujie Wang;Yujie Wang;Teruo Aoki

  • Trend analysis of aerosol optical thickness and Ångström exponent derived from the global AERONET spectral observations

    J. Yoon;W. von Hoyningen-Huene;A. A. Kokhanovsky;M. Vountas

  • On the improvement of NO 2 satellite retrievals – aerosol impact on the airmass factors

    J. Leitão;A. Richter;M. Vrekoussis;A. Kokhanovsky

  • Reflective properties of natural snow: approximate asymptotic theory versus in situ measurements

    A.A. Kokhanovsky;T. Aoki;A. Hachikubo;M. Hori

  • Space-Based Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Aerosols: The Multi-Angle Spectro-Polarimetric Frontier

    A.A. Kokhanovsky;A.B. Davis;B. Cairns;O. Dubovik

  • Development of a snow kernel to better model the anisotropic reflectance of pure snow in a kernel-driven BRDF model framework

    Ziti Jiao;Ziti Jiao;Anxin Ding;Alexander Kokhanovsky;Crystal Schaaf

  • Discriminating raining from non-raining clouds at mid-latitudes using multispectral satellite data

    Thomas Nauss;Alexander A. Kokhanovsky

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Burrows
John P. Burrows University of Bremen
Vladimir V. Rozanov
Vladimir V. Rozanov University of Bremen
W. von Hoyningen-Huene
W. von Hoyningen-Huene University of Bremen
Heinrich Bovensmann
Heinrich Bovensmann University of Bremen
Michael Buchwitz
Michael Buchwitz University of Bremen
Bernhard Mayer
Bernhard Mayer University of Calgary
Alexei Lyapustin
Alexei Lyapustin Goddard Space Flight Center
Andrew M. Sayer
Andrew M. Sayer Goddard Space Flight Center
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Teruo Aoki
Teruo Aoki Okayama University

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