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Bernhard Mayer

Bernhard Mayer

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Environmental Sciences
Canada
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
85
Citations
27990
World Ranking
743
National Ranking
30

Bernhard Mayer publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bernhard Mayer sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 650 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Bernhard Mayer D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bernhard Mayer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Bernhard Mayer is affiliated with the University of Calgary in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans several subfields including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, artificial intelligence, earth-surface processes, and aerospace engineering.

Their research focuses primarily on atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and atmospheric ozone and climate. Additional topics include meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, solar radiation and photovoltaics, and aeolian processes and effects.

Bernhard Mayer has published numerous papers in prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

Key recent papers include:

  • EUREC 4 A's HALO, 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • Radiative effects of long-range-transported Saharan air layers as determined from airborne lidar measurements, 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Why we need radar, lidar, and solar radiance observations to constrain ice cloud microphysics, 2021, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Waves to Weather: Exploring the Limits of Predictability of Weather, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Impact of 3D cloud structures on the atmospheric trace gas products from UV-Vis sounders - Part 1: Synthetic dataset for validation of trace gas retrieval algorithms, 2022, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Mayer collaborates regularly with several coauthors. Frequent coauthors include Claudia Emde, Tobias Zinner, Veronika Pörtge, Tobias Kölling, and Linda Forster.

Best Publications

  • Technical note: The libRadtran software package for radiative transfer calculations - description and examples of use

    B. Mayer;A. Kylling

  • Long-term fate of nitrate fertilizer in agricultural soils.

    Mathieu Sebilo;Bernhard Mayer;Bernard Nicolardot;Gilles Pinay

  • The libRadtran software package for radiative transfer calculations (version 2.0.1)

    Claudia Emde;Robert Buras-Schnell;Arve Kylling;Bernhard Mayer

  • Nitrogen retention in rivers: model development and application to watersheds in the northeastern U.S.A.

    Sybil P. Seitzinger;Renée V. Styles;Elizabeth W. Boyer;Richard B. Alexander

  • Sources of nitrate in rivers draining sixteen watersheds in the northeastern U.S.: Isotopic constraints

    Bernhard Mayer;Elizabeth W. Boyer;Christine Goodale;Norbert A. Jaworski

  • Fluorine geochemistry in bedrock groundwater of South Korea.

    Gi Tak Chae;Seong Taek Yun;Bernhard Mayer;Kyoung Ho Kim

  • Oxygen and sulfur isotope systematics of sulfate produced by bacterial and abiotic oxidation of pyrite

    Nurgul Balci;Nurgul Balci;Wayne C. Shanks;Bernhard Mayer;Kevin W. Mandernack

  • Groundwater Protection and Unconventional Gas Extraction: The Critical Need for Field‐Based Hydrogeological Research

    R.E. Jackson;A.W. Gorody;B. Mayer;J.W. Roy

  • Radiative transfer in the cloudy atmosphere

    Bernhard Mayer

  • The oxygen isotope composition of nitrate generated by nitrification in acid forest floors

    Bernhard Mayer;Sandra M. Bollwerk;Tim Mansfeldt;Birgit Hütter

  • Sulphur and Oxygen Isotopes in Sulphate

    H. Roy Krouse;Bernhard Mayer

  • Large-eddy simulations over Germany using ICON: a comprehensive evaluation

    Rieke Heinze;Rieke Heinze;Anurag Dipankar;Cintia Carbajal Henken;Christopher Moseley

  • Systematic long‐term comparison of spectral UV measurements and UVSPEC modeling results

    B. Mayer;G. Seckmeyer;A. Kylling

  • 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 I3RC - Bringing Together the Most Advanced Radiative Transfer Tools for Cloudy Atmospheres

    Robert F. Cahalan;Lazaros Oreopoulos;Lazaros Oreopoulos;Alexander Marshak;Alexander Marshak;K. Franklin Evans

  • Monitoring of fluid–rock interaction and CO2 storage through produced fluid sampling at the Weyburn CO2-injection enhanced oil recovery site, Saskatchewan, Canada

    S. Emberley;I. Hutcheon;M. Shevalier;K. Durocher

  • EUREC4A: A Field Campaign to Elucidate the Couplings Between Clouds, Convection and Circulation

    Sandrine Bony;Bjorn Stevens;Felix Ament;Sebastien Bigorre

  • EUREC 4 A

    Bjorn Stevens;Sandrine Bony;David Farrell;Felix Ament

  • Assessing Nitrification and Denitrification in the Seine River and Estuary Using Chemical and Isotopic Techniques

    Mathieu Sebilo;Gilles Billen;Bernhard Mayer;Daniel Billiou

  • Hydrogeochemistry of sodium-bicarbonate type bedrock groundwater in the Pocheon spa area, South Korea: water–rock interaction and hydrologic mixing

    Gi Tak Chae;Seong Taek Yun;Kangjoo Kim;Bernhard Mayer

  • The North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment

    Andreas Schäfler;George Craig;Heini Wernli;Philippe Arbogast

  • 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

  • Sources of nitrate in rivers draining sixteen watersheds in the northeastern U.S.: Isotopic

    Bernhard Mayer;Elizabeth W. Boyer;Norbert A. Jaworski;Nico Van Breemen

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred Wendisch
Manfred Wendisch Leipzig University
Thomas Pohlmann
Thomas Pohlmann Universität Hamburg
Ian Hutcheon
Ian Hutcheon University of Calgary
Seong Taek Yun
Seong Taek Yun Korea University
Ulrich Schumann
Ulrich Schumann German Aerospace Center
Myron J. Mitchell
Myron J. Mitchell SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Susanne Crewell
Susanne Crewell University of Cologne
Gunther Seckmeyer
Gunther Seckmeyer University of Hannover
Alkiviadis F. Bais
Alkiviadis F. Bais Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Bernadett Weinzierl
Bernadett Weinzierl University of Vienna

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