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Andreas Fix is affiliated with the German Aerospace Center in Germany, contributing to research primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several specialized subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ocean Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, and Spectroscopy.

The scientist's research topics focus mainly on atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics and chemistry, with particular attention to coal properties and utilization, atmospheric ozone and climate, methane hydrates and related phenomena, spectroscopy and laser applications, as well as wind and airflow studies.

Notable recent publications include the following:

  • Permafrost carbon emissions in a changing Arctic, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Estimating CH 4, CO 2 and CO emissions from coal mining and industrial activities in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin using an aircraft-based mass balance approach, 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Quantification of CH 4 coal mining emissions in Upper Silesia by passive airborne remote sensing observations with the Methane Airborne MAPper (MAMAP) instrument during the CO 2 and Methane (CoMet) campaign, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • In situ observations of greenhouse gases over Europe during the CoMet 1.0 campaign aboard the HALO aircraft, 2021, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Estimating Upper Silesian coal mine methane emissions from airborne in situ observations and dispersion modeling, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

The frequent coauthors associated with Andreas Fix are:

  • Michał Gałkowski
  • Anke Roiger
  • Christoph Gerbig
  • Jarosław Nęcki
  • Justyna Swolkień

They have contributed to several publication venues repeatedly, notably:

  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • Depolarization ratio profiling at several wavelengths in pure Saharan dust during SAMUM 2006.

    Volker Freudenthaler;Michael Esselborn;Matthias Wiegner;Birgit Heese

  • Permafrost carbon emissions in a changing Arctic

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  • Space-borne remote sensing of CO2, CH4, and N2O by integrated path differential absorption lidar: a sensitivity analysis

    G. Ehret;C. Kiemle;M. Wirth;A. Amediek

  • Aerosol classification by airborne high spectral resolution lidar observations

    Silke Groß;Michael Esselborn;Michael Esselborn;Bernadett Weinzierl;Martin Wirth

  • The airborne multi-wavelength water vapor differential absorption lidar WALES: system design and performance

    Martin Wirth;Andreas Fix;Peter Mahnke;Horst Schwarzer

  • Airborne high spectral resolution lidar for measuring aerosol extinction and backscatter coefficients

    Michael Esselborn;Martin Wirth;Andreas Fix;Matthias Tesche

  • ML-CIRRUS : The airborne experiment on natural cirrus and contrail cirrus with the high-altitude long-range research aircraft HALO

    Christiane Voigt;Ulrich Schumann;Andreas Minikin;Ahmed Abdelmonem

  • The North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment

    Andreas Schäfler;George Craig;Heini Wernli;Philippe Arbogast

  • Development of an OPO system at 1.57 μm for integrated path DIAL measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide

    Axel Amediek;Andreas Fix;Martin Wirth;Gerhard Ehret

  • MERLIN: A French-German Space Lidar Mission Dedicated to Atmospheric Methane

    Gerhard Ehret;Philippe Bousquet;Clémence Pierangelo;Matthias Alpers

  • ACRIDICON–CHUVA Campaign: Studying Tropical Deep Convective Clouds and Precipitation over Amazonia Using the New German Research Aircraft HALO

    Manfred Wendisch;Ulrich Pöschl;Meinrat O. Andreae;Luiz A. T. Machado

  • CHARM-F - a new airborne integrated-path differential-absorption lidar for carbon dioxide and methane observations: measurement performance and quantification of strong point source emissions

    Axel Amediek;Gerhard Ehret;Andreas Fix;Martin Wirth

  • Evidence for inertia gravity waves forming polar stratospheric clouds over Scandinavia

    Andreas Dörnbrack;Thomas Birner;Andreas Fix;Harald Flentje

  • On the onset of bora and the formation of rotors and jumps near a mountain gap

    Alexander Gohm;Georg J. Mayr;Andreas Fix;Andreas Giez

  • Air Pollution Transport in an Alpine Valley: Results From Airborne and Ground-Based Observations

    Alexander Gohm;Florian Harnisch;Johannes Vergeiner;F. Obleitner

  • Sensitivity studies for a space-based methane lidar mission

    Christoph Kiemle;Mathieu Quatrevalet;Gerhard Ehret;Axel Amediek

  • Spatial distribution and optical properties of Saharan dust observed by airborne high spectral resolution lidar during SAMUM 2006.

    Michael Esselborn;Martin Wirth;Andreas Fix;Bernadett Weinzierl

  • Estimating CH 4 , CO 2 and CO emissions from coal mining and industrial activities in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin using an aircraft-based mass balance approach

    Alina Fiehn;Julian Kostinek;Maximilian Eckl;Theresa Klausner

  • Airborne All-Solid-State DIAL for Water Vapour Measurements in the Tropopause Region: System Description and Assessment of Accuracy

    G. Poberaj;A. Fix;A. Assion;M. Wirth

  • Airborne lidar reflectance measurements at 1.57 μm in support of the A-SCOPE mission for atmospheric CO 2

    Axel Amediek;Andreas Fix;Gerdhard Ehret;J. Caron

  • First airborne water vapor lidar measurements in the tropical upper troposphere and mid-latitudes lower stratosphere: accuracy evaluation and intercomparisons with other instruments

    Christoph Kiemle;Martin Wirth;Andreas Fix;Gerhard Ehret

  • Quantifying CH 4 emissions from hard coal mines using mobile sun-viewing Fourier transform spectrometry

    Andreas Luther;Ralph Kleinschek;Leon Scheidweiler;Sara Defratyka

  • Evidence for inertia gravity waves forming polar stratospheric clouds over Scandinavia : SAGE III-Ozone Loss Validation Experiment and Third European Stratospheric Experiment on Ozone-2000 (SOLVE/THESEO)

    Andreas Dörnbrack;Thomas Birner;Andreas Fix;Harald Flentje

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph Gerbig
Christoph Gerbig Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Andreas Dörnbrack
Andreas Dörnbrack German Aerospace Center
Heinrich Bovensmann
Heinrich Bovensmann University of Bremen
Patrick Jöckel
Patrick Jöckel German Aerospace Center
Klaus Pfeilsticker
Klaus Pfeilsticker Heidelberg University
Armin Hansel
Armin Hansel University of Innsbruck
Christiane Voigt
Christiane Voigt German Aerospace Center
Silke Groß
Silke Groß Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Markus Rapp
Markus Rapp German Aerospace Center
John P. Burrows
John P. Burrows University of Bremen

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