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Erik Swietlicki

Erik Swietlicki

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Environmental Sciences
Sweden
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
85
Citations
25119
World Ranking
751
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Erik Swietlicki is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and specializes in research within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work predominantly focuses on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional contributions related to Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Automotive Engineering, and Plant Science.

The core topics in Swietlicki's research include:

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

Swietlicki has frequently published in several scientific venues, with the majority of their contributions appearing in:

  • Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Tellus B
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Geoscientific model development

The scientist has collaborated recurrently with researchers such as Markku Kulmala, Tuukka Petäjä, Hans-Christen Hansson, Radovan Krejčí, and Tuomo Nieminen.

Recent published papers by Erik Swietlicki include:

  • Tropical and Boreal Forest - Atmosphere Interactions: A Review, 2022, Tellus B
  • CO2-induced terrestrial climate feedback mechanism: From carbon sink to aerosol source and back, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Aerosol, Clouds and Trace Gases Research Infrastructure (ACTRIS): The European Research Infrastructure Supporting Atmospheric Science, 2024, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Deterioration of air quality across Sweden due to transboundary agricultural burning emissions, 2024, Helda (University of Helsinki)
  • Comparison of particle number size distribution trends in ground measurements and climate models, 2022, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Best Publications

  • Organic aerosol and global climate modelling: a review

    M. Kanakidou;J. H. Seinfeld;S. N. Pandis;I. Barnes

  • Mobility particle size spectrometers: harmonization of technical standards and data structure to facilitate high quality long-term observations of atmospheric particle number size distributions

    A. Wiedensohler;W. Birmili;A. Nowak;A. Sonntag

  • Hygroscopic properties of submicrometer atmospheric aerosol particles measured with H-TDMA instruments in various environments—a review

    Erik Swietlicki;H-C Hansson;K Hameri;Birgitta Svenningsson

  • Chemical and physical characterization of emissions from birch wood combustion in a wood stove

    Emma Hedberg;Adam Kristensson;Michael Ohlsson;Christer Johansson

  • Hygroscopic growth and critical supersaturations for mixed aerosol particles of inorganic and organic compounds of atmospheric relevance

    B. Svenningsson;J. Rissler;E. Swietlicki;M. Mircea

  • Organic aerosol components derived from 25 AMS data sets across Europe using a consistent ME-2 based source apportionment approach

    M. Crippa;F. Canonaco;V.A. Lanz;M. Äijälä

  • Sources and properties of Amazonian aerosol particles

    Scot T. Martin;Meinrat O. Andreae;Paulo Artaxo;Darrel Baumgardner

  • General overview: European Integrated project on Aerosol Cloud Climate and Air Quality interactions (EUCAARI) - integrating aerosol research from nano to global scales

    M. Kulmala;A. Asmi;H. K. Lappalainen;H. K. Lappalainen;U. Baltensperger

  • Real-world traffic emission factors of gases and particles measured in a road tunnel in Stockholm, Sweden

    Adam Kristensson;Christer Johansson;Roger Westerholm;Erik Swietlicki

  • Size distribution and hygroscopic properties of aerosol particles from dry-season biomass burning in Amazonia

    Jenny Rissler;A Vestin;Erik Swietlicki;G Fisch

  • Cloud condensation nuclei production associated with atmospheric nucleation: a synthesis based on existing literature and new results

    Veli-Matti Kerminen;Mikhail Paramonov;Tatu Anttila;Ilona Riipinen

  • Warming-induced increase in aerosol number concentration likely to moderate climate change

    Pauli Paasonen;Pauli Paasonen;Ari Asmi;Tuukka Petäjä;Maija K. Kajos

  • EUCAARI ion spectrometer measurements at 12 European sites – analysis of new particle formation events

    H. E. Manninen;T. Nieminen;E. Asmi;S. Gagné

  • Traffic-generated emissions of ultrafine particles from pavement-tire interface

    Andreas Dahl;Arash Gharibi;Erik Swietlicki;Anders Gudmundsson

  • Ubiquity of organic nitrates from nighttime chemistry in the European submicron aerosol

    A. Kiendler-Scharr;A. A. Mensah;A. A. Mensah;E. Friese;David Topping

  • Properties and toxicological effects of particles from the interaction between tyres, road pavement and winter traction material.

    Mats Gustafsson;Göran Blomqvist;Anders Gudmundsson;Andreas Dahl

  • Number size distributions and seasonality of submicron particles in europe 2008–2009

    A. Asmi;A. Wiedensohler;P. Laj;A. M Fjaeraa

  • An Arctic CCN-limited cloud-aerosol regime

    T. Mauritsen;Joseph Sedlar;Michael Tjernström;Caroline Leck

  • Size-Resolved Respiratory-Tract Deposition of Fine and Ultrafine Hydrophobic and Hygroscopic Aerosol Particles During Rest and Exercise

    Jakob Löndahl;Andreas Massling;Joakim Pagels;Erik Swietlicki

  • A European aerosol phenomenology-5 : Climatology of black carbon optical properties at 9 regional background sites across Europe

    M. Zanatta;M. Gysel;N. Bukowiecki;T. Müller

  • Turbulent aerosol fluxes over the Arctic Ocean: 2. Wind‐driven sources from the sea

    E. D. Nilsson;Ü. Rannik;E. Swietlicki;C. Leck

Frequent Co-Authors

Joakim Pagels
Joakim Pagels Lund University
Birgitta Svenningsson
Birgitta Svenningsson Lund University
Markku Kulmala
Markku Kulmala University of Helsinki
Alfred Wiedensohler
Alfred Wiedensohler Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research
Christoffer Boman
Christoffer Boman Umeå University
Andreas Massling
Andreas Massling Aarhus University
Paulo Artaxo
Paulo Artaxo Universidade de São Paulo
Colin D. O'Dowd
Colin D. O'Dowd University of Galway
Paolo Laj
Paolo Laj Grenoble Alpes University
Roy M. Harrison
Roy M. Harrison University of Birmingham

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