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Greet Janssens-Maenhout

Greet Janssens-Maenhout

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
58
Citations
22799
World Ranking
3192
National Ranking
46

Overview

Greet Janssens-Maenhout is affiliated with the European Commission in Belgium and has contributed significantly to environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, as well as the interactions of atmospheric ozone with climate. They also engage with topics such as carbon dioxide capture technologies, vehicle emissions and performance, air quality and health impacts, and climate change policy and economics.

They have published extensively in several key scientific venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth system science data
  • Scientific Data
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a range of co-authors, with notable collaboration counts including:

  • Philippe Ciais (40 publications)
  • Monica Crippa (29 publications)
  • Glen P. Peters (27 publications)
  • Efisio Solazzo (25 publications)
  • Frédéric Chevallier (23 publications)

Among their recent papers are:

  • "The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017," published in 2020 by NOAA Institutional Repository
  • "A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks," published in 2020 in Nature
  • "High resolution temporal profiles in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research," published in 2020 in Scientific Data
  • "Uncertainties in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) emission inventory of greenhouse gases," published in 2021 in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Toward an Operational Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions Monitoring and Verification Support Capacity," published in 2020 in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Their work spans multiple subfields, including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, mechanical engineering, and automotive engineering, indicating a broad interdisciplinary approach.

This researcher's focus on quantitative assessments of greenhouse gases relates closely to environmental monitoring and atmospheric dynamics, contributing to the scientific framework needed for understanding and addressing climate-related issues.

Best Publications

  • The global methane budget 2000–2017

    Marielle Saunois;Ann R. Stavert;Ben Poulter;Philippe Bousquet

  • Historical (1750–2014) anthropogenic emissions of reactive gases and aerosols from the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS)

    Rachel M. Hoesly;Steven J. Smith;Leyang Feng;Zbigniew Klimont

  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks

    Hanquin Tian;Rongting Xu;Josep G. Canadell;Rona L. Thompson

  • Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security

    Drew Shindell;Johan C. I. Kuylenstierna;Elisabetta Vignati;Rita van Dingenen

  • The global methane budget 2000–2012

    Marielle Saunois;Philippe Bousquet;Ben Poulter;Anna Peregon

  • Emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases over Asian regions during 2000–2008: Regional Emission inventory in ASia (REAS) version 2

    J. Kurokawa;T. Ohara;T. Morikawa;S. Hanayama

  • HTAP_v2.2: a mosaic of regional and global emission grid maps for 2008 and 2010 to study hemispheric transport of air pollution

    G. Janssens-Maenhout;M. Crippa;D. Guizzardi;F. Dentener

  • Gridded emissions of air pollutants for the period 1970-2012 within EDGAR v4.3.2

    Monica Crippa;Diego Guizzardi;Marilena Muntean;Edwin Schaaf

  • EDGAR v4.3.2 Global Atlas of the three major greenhouse gas emissions for the period 1970–2012

    Greet Janssens-Maenhout;Monica Crippa;Diego Guizzardi;Marilena Muntean

  • High resolution temporal profiles in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research.

    Monica Crippa;Efisio Solazzo;Ganlin Huang;Diego Guizzardi

  • Anthropogenic emissions of methane in the United States

    Scot M. Miller;Steven C. Wofsy;Anna M. Michalak;Eric A. Kort

  • Global Air Quality and Health Co-Benefits of Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change through Methane and Black Carbon Emission Controls

    Susan C. Anenberg;Joel Schwartz;Drew Todd Shindell;Markus Amann

  • Forty years of improvements in European air quality: regional policy-industry interactions with global impacts

    Monica Crippa;Greet Janssens-Maenhout;Frank Dentener;Diego Guizzardi

  • Global distribution of methane emissions, emission trends, and OH concentrations and trends inferred from an inversion of GOSAT satellite data for 2010–2015

    Joannes D. Maasakkers;Joannes D. Maasakkers;Daniel J. Jacob;Melissa P. Sulprizio;Tia R. Scarpelli

  • EDGAR v 4 . 3 . 2 Global Atlas of the three major greenhouse gas emissions for the period 1970 – 2012

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  • Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) emission estimates for China: an inventory for 1990-2010 and a projection to 2020.

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  • Speciation of anthropogenic emissions of non-methane volatile organic compounds: a global gridded data set for 1970–2012

    Ganlin Huang;Rosie Brook;Monica Crippa;Greet Janssens-Maenhout

  • Data-driven estimates of global nitrous oxide emissions from croplands.

    Qihui Wang;Feng Zhou;Ziyin Shang;Philippe Ciais;Philippe Ciais

  • Uncertainties in the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) emission inventory of greenhouse gases

    Efisio Solazzo;Monica Crippa;Diego Guizzardi;Marilena Muntean

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

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

  • Countries’ contributions to climate change: effect of accounting for all greenhouse gases, recent trends, basic needs and technological progress

    Michel G. J. den Elzen;Jos G. J. Olivier;Niklas Höhne;Greet Janssens-Maenhout

  • EDGAR-HTAP: a harmonized gridded air pollution emission dataset based on national inventories

    Greet Janssens-Maenhout;Monica Crippa;Diego Guizzardi;Marilena Muntean

  • Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Methods to Support International Climate Agreements

    Greet Janssens-Maenhout;A.M.R. Petrescu;Marilena Muntean;Viorel Blujdea

  • Global Methane Budget 2000-2012

    M. Saunois;P. Bousquet;B. Poulter;A. Peregon

Frequent Co-Authors

Monica Crippa
Monica Crippa Directorate-General Joint Research Centre
Glen P. Peters
Glen P. Peters Center for International Climate and Environmental Research
Edward J. Dlugokencky
Edward J. Dlugokencky National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Akihiko Ito
Akihiko Ito University of Tokyo
Francesco N. Tubiello
Francesco N. Tubiello Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Shamil Maksyutov
Shamil Maksyutov National Institute for Environmental Studies
Prabir K. Patra
Prabir K. Patra Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Peter Bergamaschi
Peter Bergamaschi Heidelberg University
Frank Dentener
Frank Dentener European Commission Joint Research Centre
Johannes W. Kaiser
Johannes W. Kaiser German Meteorological Service

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