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Folkard Wittrock

Folkard Wittrock

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
8747
World Ranking
4785
National Ranking
329

Overview

Folkard Wittrock is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany. Their research predominantly lies within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a specific focus on Atmospheric Science and related subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Automotive Engineering, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The scientist's main topics of study revolve around atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric ozone and climate, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics. Other notable areas include maritime transport emissions and efficiency, vehicle emissions and performance, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and water quality monitoring and analysis.

Folkard Wittrock has contributed significantly to peer-reviewed publications, particularly in the journal Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, with eight papers published there, and an additional publication in Gefahrstoffe Reinhaltung der Luft. Recent papers include:

  • Ground-based validation of the Copernicus Sentinel-5P TROPOMI NO 2 measurements with the NDACC ZSL-DOAS, MAX-DOAS and Pandonia global networks, 2021, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Intercomparison of NO 2, O 4, O 3 and HCHO slant column measurements by MAX-DOAS and zenith-sky UV-visible spectrometers during CINDI-2, 2020, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Intercomparison of MAX-DOAS vertical profile retrieval algorithms: studies on field data from the CINDI-2 campaign, 2021, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Validation of tropospheric NO 2 column measurements of GOME-2A and OMI using MAX-DOAS and direct sun network observations, 2020, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Validation of Sentinel-5P TROPOMI tropospheric NO 2 products by comparison with NO 2 measurements from airborne imaging DOAS, ground-based stationary DOAS, and mobile car DOAS measurements during the S5P-VAL-DE-Ruhr campaign, 2023, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Folkard Wittrock's collaborative work includes frequent co-authors such as Andreas Richter, Michel Van Roozendaël, Thomas Wagner, Gaïa Pinardi, and François Hendrick.

Best Publications

  • Global budgets of atmospheric glyoxal and methylglyoxal, and implications for formation of secondary organic aerosols

    Tzung-May Fu;Tzung-May Fu;Daniel J. Jacob;Folkard Wittrock;John P. Burrows

  • GOME observations of tropospheric BrO in northern hemispheric spring and summer 1997

    Andreas Richter;Folkard Wittrock;Michael Eisinger;John P. Burrows

  • Simultaneous global observations of glyoxal and formaldehyde from space

    Folkard Wittrock;Andreas Richter;Hilke Oetjen;John P. Burrows

  • Ground-based validation of the Copernicus Sentinel-5p TROPOMI NO 2 measurements with the NDACC ZSL-DOAS, MAX-DOAS and Pandonia global networks

    Tijl Verhoelst;Steven Compernolle;Gaia Pinardi;Jean-Christopher Lambert

  • Megacities as hot spots of air pollution in the East Mediterranean

    Maria Kanakidou;Nikolaos Mihalopoulos;Tayfun Kindap;Ulas Im

  • MAX-DOAS measurements of atmospheric trace gases in Ny- ˚ Alesund - Radiative transfer studies and their application

    F. Wittrock;H. Oetjen;A. Richter;S. Fietkau

  • Validation of Ozone Monitoring Instrument nitrogen dioxide columns

    E.A. Celarier;E.J. Brinksma;J.F. Gleason;J.P. Veefkind

  • Comparison of box-air-mass-factors and radiances for Multiple-Axis Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS) geometries calculated from different UV/visible radiative transfer models

    T. Wagner;T. Wagner;J. P. Burrows;T. Deutschmann;B. Dix

  • MAX-DOAS measurements of formaldehyde in the Po-Valley

    A. Heckel;A. Richter;T. Tarsu;F. Wittrock

  • The influence of natural and anthropogenic secondary sources on the glyoxal global distribution

    S. Myriokefalitakis;M. Vrekoussis;K. Tsigaridis;K. Tsigaridis;F. Wittrock

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

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

  • Dynamical control of NH and SH winter/spring total ozone from GOME observations in 1995-2002

    M. Weber;S. Dhomse;F. Wittrock;A. Richter

  • GOME MEASUREMENTS OF STRATOSPHERIC AND TROPOSPHERIC BrO

    A. Richter;F. Wittrock;A. Ladstätter-Weißenmayer;J.P. Burrows

  • The continental source of glyoxal estimated by the synergistic use of spaceborne measurements and inverse modelling

    T. Stavrakou;J.-F. Müller;I. De Smedt;M. Van Roozendael

  • The 2005 and 2006 DANDELIONS NO2 and aerosol intercomparison campaigns

    EJ Brinksma;G Pinardi;H Volten;R Braak

  • Observations of iodine monoxide columns from satellite

    A. Schönhardt;A. Richter;F. Wittrock;H. Kirk

  • GOME-2 observations of oxygenated VOCs: what can we learn from the ratio glyoxal to formaldehyde on a global scale?

    M. Vrekoussis;M. Vrekoussis;F. Wittrock;A. Richter;J. P. Burrows

  • Temporal and spatial variability of glyoxal as observed from space

    M. Vrekoussis;F. Wittrock;A. Richter;J. P. Burrows

  • The Cabauw Intercomparison campaign for Nitrogen Dioxide measuring Instruments (CINDI): design, execution, and early results

    A. J. M. Piters;K. F. Boersma;M. Kroon;J. C. Hains

  • Intercomparison of BrO measurements from ERS-2 GOME, ground-based and balloon platforms

    M Van Roozendael;T Wagner;A Richter;I Pundt;I Pundt

  • Intercomparison of NO2, O4, O3 and HCHO slant column measurements by MAX-DOAS and zenith-sky UV-visible spectrometers during CINDI-2

    Karin Kreher;Michel Van Roozendael;Francois Hendrick;Arnoud Apituley

  • Intercomparison of slant column measurements of NO 2 and O 4 by MAX-DOAS and zenith-sky UV and visible spectrometers

    HK Roscoe;Van M Roozendael;C Fayt;du A Piesanie

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Burrows
John P. Burrows University of Bremen
Andreas Richter
Andreas Richter University of Bremen
Mihalis Vrekoussis
Mihalis Vrekoussis University of Bremen
Thomas Wagner
Thomas Wagner Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
M. Van Roozendael
M. Van Roozendael Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Gaia Pinardi
Gaia Pinardi Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Ulrich Platt
Ulrich Platt Heidelberg University
Hitoshi Irie
Hitoshi Irie Chiba University
Howard K. Roscoe
Howard K. Roscoe British Antarctic Survey
Jean-Christopher Lambert
Jean-Christopher Lambert Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

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