Costas A. Varotsos

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Greece Leader Award
• 2025 - Fellow of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society
• 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Greece Leader Award
• 2024 - Member of the International Academy of Astronautics
• 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Greece Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Greece Leader Award
• 2020 - Vernadsky Medal of the Russian Academy of Natural Science
• 2017 - Gold A.S. Popov medal of the Russian A.S. Popov Society
• 2016 - RADI Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Overview

Best Publications

• The southern hemisphere ozone hole split in 2002.

  Costas Varotsos

  302
  Citations

• Observational evidence for chemical ozone depletion over the Arctic in winter 1991–92

  Peter von der Gathen;Peter von der Gathen;Markus Rex;Markus Rex;Neil R. P. Harris;Neil R. P. Harris;Diana Lucic

  248
  Citations

• Scaling properties of air pollution in Athens, Greece and Baltimore, Maryland

  C. Varotsos;C. Varotsos;J. Ondov;M. Efstathiou

  228
  Citations

• Long-memory processes in ozone and temperature variations at the region 60° S–60° N

  C. Varotsos;C. Varotsos;D. Kirk-Davidoff

  208
  Citations

• What is the lesson from the unprecedented event over Antarctica in 2002

  Costas Varotsos

  177
  Citations

• Atmospheric greenhouse effect in the context of global climate change

  K. Ya. Kondratyev;C. Varotsos

  176
  Citations

• Deposition measurement of particulate matter in connection with corrosion studies

  Martin Ferm;John Watt;Samantha O’Hanlon;Franco De Santis

  164
  Citations

• Global total ozone dynamics

  Kirill Ya. Kondratyev;Costas A. Varotsos

  163
  Citations

• Power‐law correlations in column ozone over Antarctica

  Costas Varotsos

  157
  Citations

• Geophysical validation of MIPAS-ENVISAT operational ozone data

  U. Cortesi;J. C. Lambert;C. de Clercq;G. Bianchini

  152
  Citations

• Global carbon cycle and climate change

  K. I︠a︡. Kondratʹev;V. F. Krapivin;Costas Varotsos

  152
  Citations

• In situ measurements of stratospheric ozone depletion rates in the Arctic winter 1991/1992: A Lagrangian approach

  M Rex;P von der Gathen;N R P Harris;D Lucic

  144
  Citations

• Long‐range persistence in global Aerosol Index dynamics

  C. A. Varotsos;J. M. Ondov;A. P. Cracknell;M. N. Efstathiou

  139
  Citations

• Global tropospheric ozone dynamics. Part I: Tropospheric ozone precursors.

  Kirill Ya. Kondratyev;Costas A. Varotsos

  139
  Citations

• Airborne measurements of aerosol, ozone, and solar ultraviolet irradiance in the troposphere

  Costas Varotsos;Costas Varotsos

  135
  Citations

• Further evidence of the role of air pollution on solar ultraviolet radiation reaching the ground

  C. A. Varotsos;G. J. Chronopoulos;S. Katsikis;N. K. Sakellariou

  134
  Citations

• Technical Note: Long-term memory effect in the atmospheric CO 2 concentration at Mauna Loa

  C. Varotsos;M.-N. Assimakopoulos;M. Efstathiou

  133
  Citations

• The Long-Term Coupling between Column Ozone and Tropopause Properties

  Costas Varotsos;Costas Cartalis;Andrew Vlamakis;Chris Tzanis

  131
  Citations

• Editorial and cover: Fifty years after the first artificial satellite: from Sputnik 1 to ENVISAT

  Arthur P. Cracknell;Costas A. Varotsos

  129
  Citations

• Effects of air pollution on materials and cultural heritage: ICP materials celebrates 25 years of research

  Johan Tidblad;Vladimir Kucera;Martin Ferm;Katerina Kreislova

  126
  Citations

• Erythemally weighted UV trends over northern latitudes derived from Nimbus 7 TOMS measurements

  J. R. Ziemke;S. Chandra;J. Herman;C. Varotsos

  124
  Citations