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72
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1522
National Ranking
645

Overview

Detlev Helmig is affiliated with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Their work also touches on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Plant Science, and Automotive Engineering subfields.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

Helmig has contributed frequently to several publication venues. Their most common outlets are:

  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Biogeosciences

Frequent collaborators include Jacques Hueber, Hélène Angot, Byron Blomquist, Stephen D. Archer, and Dean Howard.

Recent publications by Helmig and colleagues include:

  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Atmosphere, 2022, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Dry Deposition of Ozone Over Land: Processes, Measurement, and Modeling, 2020, Reviews of Geophysics
  • Influences of oceanic ozone deposition on tropospheric photochemistry, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Impact of U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Emission Increases on Surface Ozone Is Most Pronounced in the Central United States, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Substantial contribution of iodine to Arctic ozone destruction, 2022, Nature Geoscience

Best Publications

  • An overview of snow photochemistry: evidence, mechanisms and impacts

    A. M. Grannas;A. E. Jones;J. Dibb;M. Ammann

  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition—Atmosphere

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  • Tundra uptake of atmospheric elemental mercury drives Arctic mercury pollution

    Daniel Obrist;Yannick Agnan;Martin Jiskra;Christine L. Olson

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

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

  • A new look at methane and nonmethane hydrocarbon emissions from oil and natural gas operations in the Colorado Denver-Julesburg Basin

    Gabrielle Pétron;Gabrielle Pétron;Anna Karion;Anna Karion;Colm Sweeney;Colm Sweeney;Benjamin R. Miller;Benjamin R. Miller

  • Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: Database and Metrics Data of Global Surface Ozone Observations

    Martin G. Schultz;Sabine Schröder;Olga Lyapina;Owen Cooper

  • Sesquiterpene emissions from vegetation: A review

    T. R. Duhl;T. R. Duhl;D. Helmig;A. Guenther

  • Ozone removal techniques in the sampling of atmospheric volatile organic trace gases

    Detlev Helmig

  • Long-term decline of global atmospheric ethane concentrations and implications for methane

    Isobel J. Simpson;Mads P. Sulbaek Andersen;Mads P. Sulbaek Andersen;Simone Meinardi;Lori Bruhwiler

  • Approaches for quantifying reactive and low-volatility biogenic organic compound emissions by vegetation enclosure techniques - part A.

    John Ortega;Detlev Helmig

  • Monoterpene and sesquiterpene emission estimates for the United States.

    Tanarit Sakulyanontvittaya;Tiffany Duhl;Christine Wiedinmyer;Detlev Helmig

  • Biogenic volatile organic compound emissions (BVOCs). I. Identifications from three continental sites in the U.S.

    Detlev Helmig;Lee F. Klinger;Alex Guenther;Lee Vierling

  • Morphology and mixing state of aged soot particles at a remote marine free troposphere site: Implications for optical properties

    Swarup China;Barbara Scarnato;Robert C. Owen;Bo Zhang

  • Reversal of global atmospheric ethane and propane trends largely due to US oil and natural gas production

    Detlev Helmig;Samuel Rossabi;Jacques Hueber;Pieter Tans

  • Water Adsorption Capacity of the Solid Adsorbents Tenax TA, Tenax GR, Carbotrap, Carbotrap C, Carbosieve SIII, and Carboxen 569 and Water Management Techniques for the Atmospheric Sampling of Volatile Organic Trace Gases

    Detlev. Helmig;Lee. Vierling

  • Sesquiterpene emissions from pine trees--identifications, emission rates and flux estimates for the contiguous United States.

    Detlev Helmig;John Ortega;Tiffany Duhl;David Tanner

  • Tethered balloon measurements of biogenic VOCs in the atmospheric boundary layer

    J.P. Greenberg;A. Guenther;P. Zimmerman;W. Baugh

  • Dry Deposition of Ozone over Land: Processes, Measurement, and Modeling.

    Olivia E. Clifton;Arlene M. Fiore;William J. Massman;Colleen B. Baublitz

  • Highly elevated atmospheric levels of volatile organic compounds in the Uintah Basin, Utah.

    D. Helmig;C. R. Thompson;J. Evans;P. Boylan

  • Understanding high wintertime ozone pollution events in an oil- and natural gas-producing region of the western US

    Ravan Ahmadov;Ravan Ahmadov;S. McKeen;S. McKeen;M. Trainer;R Banta

  • Sesquiterpene emissions from loblolly pine and their potential contribution to biogenic aerosol formation in the Southeastern US

    Detlev Helmig;John Ortega;Alex Guenther;Jeffrey D. Herrick

  • Air analysis by gas chromatography

    Detlev Helmig

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex Guenther
Alex Guenther University of California, Irvine
Laurens Ganzeveld
Laurens Ganzeveld Wageningen University & Research
Samuel J. Oltmans
Samuel J. Oltmans National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Richard E. Honrath
Richard E. Honrath Michigan Technological University
Peter Edwards
Peter Edwards University of York
Mark W. Williams
Mark W. Williams Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Carsten Warneke
Carsten Warneke National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Daniel Obrist
Daniel Obrist University of Massachusetts Lowell
Gabrielle Pétron
Gabrielle Pétron National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Donald R. Blake
Donald R. Blake University of California, Irvine

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