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Axel Lauer is affiliated with the German Aerospace Center in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant involvement in global and planetary change and atmospheric science subfields.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, as well as atmospheric aerosols and clouds. Additional subjects in their research portfolio include atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, precipitation measurement and analysis, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Axel Lauer has published multiple papers in a variety of scholarly venues. Selected recent publications include:

  • Quantifying Progress Across Different CMIP Phases With the ESMValTool, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Emergent constraints on equilibrium climate sensitivity in CMIP5: do they hold for CMIP6?, 2020, Earth System Dynamics
  • Comparison of Reanalysis and Observational Precipitation Datasets Including ERA5 and WFDE5, 2021, Atmosphere
  • Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 - an extended set of large-scale diagnostics for quasi-operational and comprehensive evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP, 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 - technical overview, 2020, Geoscientific model development

The scientist publishes frequently in venues such as Geoscientific Model Development, arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Earth System Dynamics, and Atmosphere.

Collaborations form an important part of Lauer's career, with frequent co-authors including Veronika Eyring, Manuel Schlund, Lisa Bock, Birgit Haßler, and V. Predoi.

Best Publications

  • Analysis and quantification of the diversities of aerosol life cycles within AeroCom

    C. Textor;M. Schulz;S. Guibert;S. Kinne

  • Mortality from ship emissions: a global assessment.

    James J. Corbett;James J. Winebrake;Erin H. Green;Prasad Kasibhatla

  • Emissions from international shipping: 1. The last 50 years

    V. Eyring;H. W. Kohler;J. van Aardenne;A. Lauer

  • An AeroCom Initial Assessment - Optical Properties in Aerosol Component Modules of Global Models

    S. Kinne;M. Schulz;C. Textor;S. Guibert

  • Single‐particle measurements of midlatitude black carbon and light‐scattering aerosols from the boundary layer to the lower stratosphere

    J. P. Schwarz;J. P. Schwarz;R. S. Gao;D. W. Fahey;D. W. Fahey;D. S. Thomson;D. S. Thomson

  • Chemistry and the Linkages between Air Quality and Climate Change.

    Erika von Schneidemesser;Paul S. Monks;James D. Allan;Lori Bruhwiler

  • Emissions from international shipping: 2. Impact of future technologies on scenarios until 2050

    V. Eyring;H. W. Köhler;A. Lauer;B. Lemper

  • Global model simulations of the impact of ocean-going ships on aerosols, clouds, and the radiation budget

    Axel Lauer;Veronika Eyring;Johannes Hendricks;Patrick Jöckel

  • Mitigating the health impacts of pollution from oceangoing shipping: an assessment of low-sulfur fuel mandates.

    J. J. Winebrake;J. J. Corbett;E. H. Green;A. Lauer

  • Effect of VOC Emissions from Vegetation on Air Quality in Berlin during a Heatwave

    Galina Churkina;Friderike Kuik;Boris Bonn;Axel Lauer

  • Satellite measurements of NO2 from international shipping emissions

    Andreas Richter;Veronika Eyring;John P. Burrows;Heinrich Bovensmann

  • Quantifying Progress Across Different CMIP Phases With the ESMValTool

    L. Bock;A. Lauer;M. Schlund;M. Barreiro

  • The effect of harmonized emissions on aerosol properties in global models – an AeroCom experiment

    C. Textor;M Schulz;S. Guibert;S. Kinne

  • Atmospheric brown clouds reach the Tibetan Plateau by crossing the Himalayas

    Z.L. Lüthi;Bojan Škerlak;S.-W. Kim;Axel Lauer

  • Multi-model simulations of the impact of international shipping on Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in 2000 and 2030

    V. Eyring;D. S. Stevenson;A. Lauer;F. J. Dentener

  • Comparison of Reanalysis and Observational Precipitation Datasets Including ERA5 and WFDE5

    Birgit Hassler;Axel Lauer

  • ESMValTool (v1.0) – a community diagnostic and performance metrics tool for routine evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP

    Veronika Eyring;Mattia Righi;Axel Lauer;Martin Evaldsson

  • Shipping contributes to ocean acidification

    Ida-Maja Hassellöv;David R. Turner;Axel Lauer;Axel Lauer;James J. Corbett

  • Emergent constraints on equilibrium climate sensitivity in CMIP5: do they hold for CMIP6?

    Manuel Schlund;Axel Lauer;Pierre Gentine;Steven C. Sherwood

  • Simulating Clouds with Global Climate Models: A Comparison of CMIP5 Results with CMIP3 and Satellite Data

    Axel Lauer;Kevin Hamilton

  • Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 - An extended set of large-scale diagnostics for quasi-operational and comprehensive evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP

    Veronika Eyring;Veronika Eyring;Lisa Bock;Axel Lauer;Mattia Righi

  • Potential impacts from biological aerosols on ensembles of continental clouds simulated numerically

    Vaughan Phillips;C. Andronache;B. Christner;C. E. Morris

Frequent Co-Authors

Veronika Eyring
Veronika Eyring University of Bremen
Johannes Hendricks
Johannes Hendricks German Aerospace Center
Yuqing Wang
Yuqing Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa
Kevin Hamilton
Kevin Hamilton University of Hawaii at Manoa
Olivier Boucher
Olivier Boucher Sorbonne University
Colin Jones
Colin Jones University of Leeds
Andreas Petzold
Andreas Petzold Forschungszentrum Jülich
Stefan Hagemann
Stefan Hagemann Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Nuno Carvalhais
Nuno Carvalhais Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Ralf Bennartz
Ralf Bennartz Vanderbilt University

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