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Environmental Sciences
UK
2023

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Environmental Sciences

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76
Citations
16438
World Ranking
1230
National Ranking
99

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  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Detlef Müller is affiliated with the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions span Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular focus on Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science as notable subfields.

The primary topics of their research include:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies
  • Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows

Detlef Müller has authored multiple papers published in prominent journals, covering advanced measurement and analysis techniques related to atmospheric aerosols and optical properties. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Simultaneous profiling of dust aerosol mass concentration and optical properties with polarized high-spectral-resolution lidar," 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Measurement report: Balloon-borne in situ profiling of Saharan dust over Cyprus with the UCASS optical particle counter," 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Investigation of Aerosol Types and Vertical Distributions Using Polarization Raman Lidar over Vipava Valley," 2022, Remote Sensing
  • "Particle Microphysical Parameters and the Complex Refractive Index from 3β + 2α HSRL/Raman Lidar Measurements: Conditions of Accurate Retrieval, Retrieval Uncertainties and Constraints to Suppress the Uncertainties," 2023, Atmosphere
  • "LITES: rotational Raman spectra of air molecules measured by high-resolution-spectroscopy lidar," 2021, Optics Letters

Frequent coauthors in their work include Zhenping Yin, Xuan Wang, Igor Veselovskii, Alexei Kolgotin, and Longlong Wang.

Detlef Müller's research is regularly published in venues such as:

  • Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • EPJ Web of Conferences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their scientific investigations often involve the use of advanced lidar and optical measurement technologies to analyze aerosol microphysical parameters, vertical distributions, and atmospheric gas dynamics. The combination of applied mathematics and instrumentation underpins much of the technical methodology applied in their studies.

Best Publications

  • Depolarization ratio profiling at several wavelengths in pure Saharan dust during SAMUM 2006.

    Volker Freudenthaler;Michael Esselborn;Matthias Wiegner;Birgit Heese

  • Aerosol-type-dependent lidar ratios observed with Raman lidar

    D. Müller;A. Ansmann;I. Mattis;M. Tesche

  • Vertically resolved separation of dust and smoke over Cape Verde using multiwavelength Raman and polarization lidars during Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment 2008

    M. Tesche;A. Ansmann;D. Müller;D. Müller;D. Althausen

  • Microphysical particle parameters from extinction and backscatter lidar data by inversion with regularization: simulation.

    Detlef Müller;Ulla Wandinger;Albert Ansmann

  • Long-range transport of Saharan dust to northern Europe : The 11-16 October 2001 outbreak observed with EARLINET

    Albert Ansmann;Jens Bösenberg;Anatoli Chaikovsky;Adolfo Comerón

  • Systematic lidar observations of Saharan dust over Europe in the frame of EARLINET (2000-2002)

    A. Papayannis;V. Amiridis;L. Mona;G. Tsaknakis

  • Inversion with regularization for the retrieval of tropospheric aerosol parameters from multiwavelength lidar sounding

    Igor Veselovskii;Alexei Kolgotin;Vadim Griaznov;Detlef Müller

  • Saharan Mineral Dust Experiments SAMUM-1 and SAMUM-2 : what have we learned?

    Albert Ansmann;Andreas Petzold;Konrad Kandler;Ina Tegen

  • Raman lidar observations of aged Siberian and Canadian forest fire smoke in the free troposphere over Germany in 2003 : Microphysical particle characterization

    Detlef Müller;Ina Mattis;Ulla Wandinger;Albert Ansmann

  • The 16 April 2010 major volcanic ash plume over central Europe: EARLINET lidar and AERONET photometer observations at Leipzig and Munich, Germany

    A. Ansmann;M. Tesche;S. Groß;V. Freudenthaler

  • Vertical profiling of Saharan dust with Raman lidars and airborne HSRL in southern Morocco during SAMUM

    Matthias Tesche;Albert Ansmann;Detlef Müller;Dietrich Althausen

  • Influence of Saharan dust on cloud glaciation in southern Morocco during the Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment

    A. Ansmann;M. Tesche;D. Althausen;D. Müller

  • Lidar and Atmospheric Aerosol Particles

    Albert Ansmann;Detlef Müller

  • Optical and microphysical characterization of biomass-burning and industrial-pollution aerosols from multiwavelength lidar and aircraft measurements.

    Ulla Wandinger;Detlef Müller;Christine Böckmann;Dietrich Althausen

  • Characterization of Asian dust and Siberian smoke with multi‐wavelength Raman lidar over Tokyo, Japan in spring 2003

    Toshiyuki Murayama;Detlef Müller;Katsuya Wada;Atsushi Shimizu

  • Dual-wavelength Raman lidar observations of the extinction-to-backscatter ratio of Saharan dust

    Ina Mattis;Albert Ansmann;Detlef Müller;Ulla Wandinger

  • Scanning 6-Wavelength 11-Channel Aerosol Lidar

    Dietrich Althausen;Detlef Müller;Albert Ansmann;Ulla Wandinger

  • Profiling of Saharan dust and biomass‐burning smoke with multiwavelength polarization Raman lidar at Cape Verde

    Matthias Tesche;Matthias Tesche;Silke Gross;Silke Gross;Albert Ansmann;Detlef Müller;Detlef Müller

  • Portable Raman Lidar Polly XT for Automated Profiling of Aerosol Backscatter, Extinction, and Depolarization

    Dietrich Althausen;Ronny Engelmann;Holger Baars;Birgit Heese

  • Dust and smoke transport from Africa to South America: Lidar profiling over Cape Verde and the Amazon rainforest

    Albert Ansmann;Holger Baars;Matthias Tesche;Detlef Müller

  • Multiyear aerosol observations with dual-wavelength Raman lidar in the framework of EARLINET

    Ina Mattis;Albert Ansmann;Detlef Müller;Ulla Wandinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert Ansmann
Albert Ansmann Leibniz Association
Dietrich Althausen
Dietrich Althausen Leibniz Association
Matthias Tesche
Matthias Tesche Leipzig University
Ina Mattis
Ina Mattis German Meteorological Service
Ulla Wandinger
Ulla Wandinger Leibniz Association
Ronny Engelmann
Ronny Engelmann Leibniz Association
Volker Freudenthaler
Volker Freudenthaler Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Patric Seifert
Patric Seifert Leibniz Association
Gelsomina Pappalardo
Gelsomina Pappalardo National Research Council (CNR)
Manfred Wendisch
Manfred Wendisch Leipzig University

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