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2012
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Dominik Brunner is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular emphasis on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Additional subfields of study include Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Automotive Engineering.

The scientist's work covers several main research topics, such as Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies.

Recent academic contributions include several publications:

  • Toward an Operational Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions Monitoring and Verification Support Capacity, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Nanoplastics transport to the remote, high-altitude Alps, 2021, Environmental Pollution
  • Quantification of methane emissions from UK biogas plants, 2021, Waste Management
  • Quantifying CO2 Emissions of Power Plants With CO2 and NO2 Imaging Satellites, 2021, Frontiers in Remote Sensing
  • The fingerprint of the summer 2018 drought in Europe on ground-based atmospheric CO2 measurements, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Dominik Brunner frequently collaborates with several researchers including:

  • Gerrit Kuhlmann
  • Lukas Emmenegger
  • Stephan Henne
  • Rona L. Thompson
  • Aki Tsuruta

Their research has been published repeatedly in several scientific venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Geoscientific model development
  • Frontiers in Remote Sensing

Best Publications

  • An improved tropospheric NO 2 column retrieval algorithm for the Ozone Monitoring Instrument

    K.F. Boersma;K.F. Boersma;H.J. Eskes;R.J. Dirksen

  • The Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART version 10.4

    Ignacio Pisso;Espen Sollum;Henrik Grythe;Nina Iren Kristiansen;Nina Iren Kristiansen

  • Online coupled regional meteorology chemistry models in Europe: current status and prospects

    A. Baklanov;K. Schlünzen;P. Suppan;J. Baldasano

  • Unprecedented evidence for deep convection hydrating the tropical stratosphere

    T. Corti;B. P. Luo;M. de Reus;D. Brunner

  • Seasonal variations of a mixing layer in the lowermost stratosphere as identified by the CO‐O3 correlation from in situ measurements

    Peter Hoor;Horst Fischer;Lutz Lange;Jos Lelieveld

  • Origin and Variability of Upper Tropospheric Nitrogen Oxides and Ozone at Northern Mid-Latitudes

    V. Grewe;D. Brunner;M. Dameris;J.L. Grenfell

  • Evaluation of operational on-line-coupled regional air quality models over Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII phase 2. Part I: Ozone

    Ulas Im;Roberto Bianconi;Efisio Solazzo;Ioannis Kioutsioukis

  • Building Height Retrieval From VHR SAR Imagery Based on an Iterative Simulation and Matching Technique

    D. Brunner;G. Lemoine;L. Bruzzone;H. Greidanus

  • Data composites of airborne observations of tropospheric ozone and its precursors

    Louisa K. Emmons;Didier A. Hauglustaine;Jean-François Müller;Mary Anne Carroll

  • Evaluation of operational online-coupled regional air quality models over Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII phase 2. Part II: Particulate matter

    Ulas Im;Roberto Bianconi;Efisio Solazzo;Ioannis Kioutsioukis

  • The Greenhouse Gas Climate Change Initiative (GHG-CCI): Comparison and quality assessment of near-surface-sensitive satellite-derived CO2 and CH4 global data sets

    M Buchwitz;Markus Reuter;O Schneising;Hartmut Boesch

  • Assessment of parameters describing representativeness of air quality in-situ measurement sites

    Stephan Henne;Dominik Brunner;Doris Folini;Sverre Solberg

  • Seasonality and extent of extratropical TST derived from in-situ CO measurements during SPURT

    P. Hoor;C. Gurk;D. Brunner;M. I. Hegglin

  • Eight-component retrievals from ground-based MAX-DOAS observations

    H. Irie;H. Takashima;Y. Kanaya;K.F. Boersma;K.F. Boersma

  • Toward an operational anthropogenic CO2 emissions monitoring and verification support capacity

    G. Janssens-Maenhout;B. Pinty;M. Dowell;H. Zunker

  • Strong influence of lowermost stratospheric ozone on lower tropospheric background ozone changes over Europe

    C. Ordóñez;D. Brunner;J. Staehelin;P. Hadjinicolaou;P. Hadjinicolaou;P. Hadjinicolaou

  • Ozone trends at northern mid- and high latitudes - a European perspective

    N. R. P. Harris;E. Kyrö;J. Staehelin;Dennis Brunner

  • Validation of the Swiss methane emission inventory by atmospheric observations and inverse modelling

    Stephan Henne;Dominik Brunner;Brian Oney;Markus Leuenberger

  • In-situ observations of the isotopic composition of methane at the Cabauw tall tower site

    Thomas Röckmann;Simon Eyer;Carina van der Veen;Maria-Elena Popa

  • Influence of the choice of gas-phase mechanism on predictions of key gaseous pollutants during the AQMEII phase-2 intercomparison

    Christoph Knote;Paolo Tuccella;Gabriele Curci;Louisa Emmons

  • Evidence for the effectiveness of the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer

    Jörg A. Mäder;Johannes Staehelin;Thomas Peter;Dominik Brunner

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Henne
Stephan Henne Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Lukas Emmenegger
Lukas Emmenegger Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero
Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero University of Murcia
Renate Forkel
Renate Forkel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Brigitte Buchmann
Brigitte Buchmann Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Markus Leuenberger
Markus Leuenberger University of Bern
Stefan Reimann
Stefan Reimann Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Guido Pirovano
Guido Pirovano World Meteorological Organization
Oriol Jorba
Oriol Jorba Barcelona Supercomputing Center

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