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2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
110
Citations
35422
World Ranking
204
National Ranking
93

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award

Overview

Carsten Warneke is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions in atmospheric science and global planetary change.

The scientist's work covers various subfields including health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental engineering, and automotive engineering. Their research addresses a range of topics centered on atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, air quality and health impacts, and the effects of fire on ecosystems.

Warneke's involvement in atmospheric ozone and climate research includes studies on atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and air quality monitoring and forecasting.

Frequent coauthors who collaborate with Warneke include:

  • Matthew M. Coggon
  • Jeff Peischl
  • J. B. Gilman
  • Steven S. Brown
  • Georgios I. Gkatzelis

Warneke has published extensively in several scientific journals, including:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • ACS ES&T Air

Their recent notable papers comprise:

  • "Volatile chemical product emissions enhance ozone and modulate urban chemistry," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Observations Confirm that Volatile Chemical Products Are a Major Source of Petrochemical Emissions in U.S. Cities," 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Identifying Volatile Chemical Product Tracer Compounds in U.S. Cities," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Ozone chemistry in western U.S. wildfire plumes," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Oxygenated Aromatic Compounds are Important Precursors of Secondary Organic Aerosol in Biomass-Burning Emissions," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

Best Publications

  • Measurements of volatile organic compounds in the earth's atmosphere using proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry.

    Joost de Gouw;Joost de Gouw;Carsten Warneke;Carsten Warneke

  • Global air pollution crossroads over the Mediterranean

    J. Lelieveld;H. Berresheim;S. Borrmann;P. J. Crutzen

  • Budget of organic carbon in a polluted atmosphere: Results from the New England Air Quality Study in 2002

    J. A. de Gouw;J. A. de Gouw;A. M. Middlebrook;C. Warneke;C. Warneke;P. D. Goldan

  • A study of secondary organic aerosol formation in the anthropogenic-influenced southeastern United States

    Rodney J. Weber;Amy P. Sullivan;Amy P. Sullivan;Richard E. Peltier;Armistead Russell

  • Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometry: Applications in Atmospheric Sciences

    Bin Yuan;Abigail R. Koss;Abigail R. Koss;Abigail R. Koss;Carsten Warneke;Carsten Warneke;Matthew Coggon;Matthew Coggon

  • Measurement of the mixing state, mass, and optical size of individual black carbon particles in urban and biomass burning emissions

    J. P. Schwarz;J. P. Schwarz;R. S. Gao;J. R. Spackman;J. R. Spackman;L. A. Watts;L. A. Watts

  • Evaluation of a New Reagent-Ion Source and Focusing Ion-Molecule Reactor for Use in Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometry.

    Jordan Krechmer;Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker;Abigail Koss;Abigail Koss;Abigail Koss;Manuel Hutterli

  • Sensitivity and specificity of atmospheric trace gas detection by proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry

    Joost de Gouw;Joost de Gouw;Carsten Warneke;Thomas Karl;Gunter Eerdekens

  • Biomass burning as a source of formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, methanol, acetone, acetonitrile and hydrogen cyanide

    Rupert Holzinger;Carsten Warneke;Armin Hansel;Alfons Jordan

  • High winter ozone pollution from carbonyl photolysis in an oil and gas basin

    Peter M. Edwards;Steven S. Brown;James M. Roberts;Ravan Ahmadov

  • Non-methane organic gas emissions from biomass burning: identification, quantification, and emission factors from PTR-ToF during the FIREX 2016 laboratory experiment

    Abigail R. Koss;Kanako Sekimoto;Kanako Sekimoto;Kanako Sekimoto;Jessica B. Gilman;Vanessa Selimovic

  • Global budget of methanol : Constraints from atmospheric observations

    Daniel J. Jacob;Brendan D. Field;Qinbin Li;Qinbin Li;Donald R. Blake

  • Importance of secondary sources in the atmospheric budgets of formic and acetic acids

    F. Paulot;D. Wunch;J. D. Crounse;G. C. Toon

  • Coupling field and laboratory measurements to estimate the emission factors of identified and unidentified trace gases for prescribed fires

    Robert J. Yokelson;I. R. Burling;J. Gilman;J. Gilman;C. Warneke;C. Warneke

  • Global atmospheric budget of acetaldehyde: 3-D model analysis and constraints from in-situ and satellite observations

    D. B. Millet;A. Guenther;D. A. Siegel;N. B. Nelson

  • Organic aerosol formation in urban and industrial plumes near Houston and Dallas, Texas

    R. Bahreini;R. Bahreini;B. Ervens;B. Ervens;A. M. Middlebrook;C. Warneke;C. Warneke

  • Volatile chemical product emissions enhance ozone and modulate urban chemistry.

    Matthew M Coggon;Matthew M Coggon;Georgios I Gkatzelis;Georgios I Gkatzelis;Brian C McDonald;Jessica B Gilman

  • Chemical data quantify Deepwater Horizon hydrocarbon flow rate and environmental distribution

    Thomas B. Ryerson;Richard Camilli;John D. Kessler;Elizabeth B. Kujawinski

  • Validation of atmospheric VOC measurements by proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry using a gas-chromatographic preseparation method.

    Carsten Warneke;Joost A De Gouw;William C Kuster;Paul D Goldan

  • Acetone, methanol, and other partially oxidized volatile organic emissions from dead plant matter by abiological processes: Significance for atmospheric HOx chemistry

    Carsten Warneke;Thomas Karl;Helmut Judmaier;Armin Hansel

  • Determination of urban volatile organic compound emission ratios and comparison with an emissions database

    Carsten Warneke;Carsten Warneke;S. A. McKeen;J. A. de Gouw;J. A. de Gouw;P. D. Goldan

  • Biomass burning in Siberia and Kazakhstan as an important source for haze over the Alaskan Arctic in April 2008

    C. Warneke;C. Warneke;R. Bahreini;R. Bahreini;J. Brioude;J. Brioude;C. A. Brock

Frequent Co-Authors

J. A. de Gouw
J. A. de Gouw University of Colorado Boulder
Jessica B. Gilman
Jessica B. Gilman National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jeff Peischl
Jeff Peischl Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Brian M. Lerner
Brian M. Lerner Aerodyne Research
Martin Graus
Martin Graus University of Innsbruck
Steven S. Brown
Steven S. Brown National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
John S. Holloway
John S. Holloway National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Patrick R. Veres
Patrick R. Veres National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Bin Yuan
Bin Yuan Jinan University
Michael Trainer
Michael Trainer National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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