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Bernd Heinold is affiliated with the Leibniz Association in Germany and specializes in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics focused on atmospheric processes and environmental dynamics. Key topics include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Bernd Heinold has published extensively, contributing to prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Geoscientific model development
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Selected recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of Heinold's research:

  • Atmospheric and Surface Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms Determining Arctic Amplification: A Review of First Results and Prospects of the (AC)3 Project, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Characterization of organic aerosol across the global remote troposphere: a comparison of ATom measurements and global chemistry models, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Particle-Phase Photoreactions of HULIS and TMIs Establish a Strong Source of H2O2 and Particulate Sulfate in the Winter North China Plain, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Retrieval of Aerosol Optical Thickness in the Arctic Snow-Covered Regions Using Passive Remote Sensing: Impact of Aerosol Typing and Surface Reflection Model, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Coupling aerosols to (cirrus) clouds in the global EMAC-MADE3 aerosol-climate model, 2020, Geoscientific model development

Heinold has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Ina Tegen (22 joint publications)
  • Kerstin Schepanski (14 joint publications)
  • Anne Kubin (12 joint publications)
  • Holger Baars (12 joint publications)
  • Ronny Engelmann (8 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • A new Saharan dust source activation frequency map derived from MSG-SEVIRI IR-channels

    Kerstin Schepanski;Kerstin Schepanski;I. Tegen;B. Laurent;B. Heinold

  • The Arctic Cloud Puzzle: Using ACLOUD/PASCAL Multiplatform Observations to Unravel the Role of Clouds and Aerosol Particles in Arctic Amplification

    Manfred Wendisch;Andreas Macke;André Ehrlich;Christof Lüpkes

  • Meteorological processes forcing Saharan dust emission inferred from MSG-SEVIRI observations of subdaily dust source activation and numerical models

    Kerstin Schepanski;Kerstin Schepanski;I. Tegen;M.C. Todd;B. Heinold

  • The Saharan Aerosol Long-Range Transport and Aerosol–Cloud-Interaction Experiment: Overview and Selected Highlights

    B. Weinzierl;A. Ansmann;J. Prospero;D. Althausen

  • 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

  • Ash and fine-mode particle mass profiles from EARLINET-AERONET observations over central Europe after the eruptions of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in 2010

    A. Ansmann;M. Tesche;P. Seifert;S. Groß

  • The role of deep convection and nocturnal low‐level jets for dust emission in summertime West Africa: Estimates from convection‐permitting simulations

    B. Heinold;B. Heinold;P. Knippertz;J. H. Marsham;S. Fiedler

  • Quantifying uncertainty in estimates of mineral dust flux: An intercomparison of model performance over the Bodélé Depression, northern Chad

    M. C. Todd;D. Bou Karam;C. Cavazos;C. Bouet

  • The global aerosol–climate model ECHAM6.3–HAM2.3 – Part 1: Aerosol evaluation

    Ina Tegen;David Neubauer;Sylvaine Ferrachat;Colombe Siegenthaler Le Drian

  • Climatology of nocturnal low-level jets over North Africa and implications for modeling mineral dust emission

    S. Fiedler;K. Schepanski;K. Schepanski;B. Heinold;B. Heinold;P. Knippertz

  • Atmospheric and Surface Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms Determining Arctic Amplification: A Review of First Results and Prospects of the (AC)3 Project

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  • On the direct and semidirect effects of Saharan dust over Europe: A modeling study

    J. Helmert;J. Helmert;B. Heinold;I. Tegen;O. Hellmuth

  • Long-term profiling of mineral dust and pollution aerosol with multiwavelength polarization Raman lidar at the Central Asian site of Dushanbe, Tajikistan: case studies

    Julian Hofer;Dietrich Althausen;Sabur F. Abdullaev;Abduvosit N. Makhmudov

  • Dust mobilization and transport in the northern Sahara during SAMUM 2006 - a meteorological overview

    Peter Knippertz;Albert Ansmann;Dietrich Althausen;Detlef Müller

  • Seasonal characteristics of tropical marine boundary layer air measured at the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory

    L. J. Carpenter;Z. L. Fleming;K. A. Read;J. D. Lee

  • Regional modeling of Saharan dust events using LM-MUSCAT: Model description and case studies

    B. Heinold;J. Helmert;J. Helmert;O. Hellmuth;R. Wolke

  • Properties of dust aerosol particles transported to Portugal from the Sahara desert

    Frank Wagner;Daniele Bortoli;Sérgio Pereira;Maria João Costa

  • Dust radiative feedback on Saharan boundary layer dynamics and dust mobilization

    B Heinold;I. Tegen;Kerstin Schepanski;Kerstin Schepanski;O. Hellmuth

  • Modelling soil dust aerosol in the Bodélé depression during the BoDEx campaign

    I Tegen;B Heinold;MC Todd;J Helmert

  • Comparing two years of Saharan dust source activation obtained by regional modelling and satellite observations

    I. Tegen;K. Schepanski;B. Heinold;B. Heinold

  • Ice formation in ash‐influenced clouds after the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in April 2010

    P. Seifert;A. Ansmann;S. Groß;S. Groß;V. Freudenthaler

  • Characterization of organic aerosol across the global remote troposphere: a comparison of ATom measurements and global chemistry models

    Alma Hodzic;Pedro Campuzano-Jost;Pedro Campuzano-Jost;Huisheng Bian;Mian Chin

Frequent Co-Authors

Ina Tegen
Ina Tegen Leibniz Association
Kerstin Schepanski
Kerstin Schepanski Leibniz Association
Peter Knippertz
Peter Knippertz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Bernadett Weinzierl
Bernadett Weinzierl University of Vienna
Albert Ansmann
Albert Ansmann Leibniz Association
Manfred Wendisch
Manfred Wendisch Leipzig University
Konrad Kandler
Konrad Kandler Technical University of Darmstadt
Dietrich Althausen
Dietrich Althausen Leibniz Association
Matthias Tesche
Matthias Tesche Leipzig University
Volker Freudenthaler
Volker Freudenthaler Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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