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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
81
Citations
20164
World Ranking
932
National Ranking
61

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Hans Schlager is affiliated with the German Aerospace Center in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial body of work addressing Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change as key subfields. Their scientific inquiries also extend into Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Automotive Engineering, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

The main topics of Schlager's research encompass Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Vehicle emissions and performance.

Schlager has contributed to several recent publications including:

  • "Cleaner burning aviation fuels can reduce contrail cloudiness," 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Influx of African biomass burning aerosol during the Amazonian dry season through layered transatlantic transport of black carbon-rich smoke," 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Cleaner Skies during the COVID-19 Lockdown," 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Airborne Measurements of Contrail Ice Properties-Dependence on Temperature and Humidity," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Aircraft engine particulate matter emissions from sustainable aviation fuels: Results from ground-based measurements during the NASA/DLR campaign ECLIF2/ND-MAX," 2022, Fuel

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Schlager include Christiane Voigt, Daniel Sauer, Johannes Schneider, Stephan Borrmann, and Stefan Kaufmann.

Schlager's work is published regularly in several scientific venues, notably:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Transport impacts on atmosphere and climate: Shipping

    Veronika Eyring;Ivar S.A. Isaksen;Terje Berntsen;William J. Collins

  • Global air pollution crossroads over the Mediterranean

    J. Lelieveld;H. Berresheim;S. Borrmann;P. J. Crutzen

  • Stratospheric Aerosol--Observations, Processes, and Impact on Climate

    Stefanie Kremser;Larry W. Thomason;Marc von Hobe;Markus Hermann

  • Biofuel blending reduces particle emissions from aircraft engines at cruise conditions

    Richard H. Moore;Kenneth L. Thornhill;Bernadett Weinzierl;Bernadett Weinzierl;Daniel Sauer;Daniel Sauer

  • A Backward Modeling Study of Intercontinental Pollution Transport using Aircraft Measurements

    A. Stohl;C. Forster;S. Eckhardt;N. Spichtinger

  • Airborne observations of the Eyjafjalla volcano ash cloud over Europe during air space closure in April and May 2010

    U. Schumann;B. Weinzierl;O. Reitebuch;H. Schlager

  • Civil Aircraft for the regular investigation of the atmosphere based on an instrumented container: The new CARIBIC system

    C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer;P. J. Crutzen;F. Boumard;T. Dauer

  • Cleaner burning aviation fuels can reduce contrail cloudiness

    Christiane Voigt;Christiane Voigt;Jonas Kleine;Jonas Kleine;Daniel Sauer;Richard H. Moore

  • Experimental studies on particle emissions from cruising ship, their characteristic properties, transformation and atmospheric lifetime in the marine boundary layer

    Andreas Petzold;Jan Hasselbach;Peter Lauer;Robert Baumann

  • Validation of Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) CO retrievals with aircraft in situ profiles

    L. K. Emmons;M. N. Deeter;J. C. Gille;D. P. Edwards

  • International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation (ICARTT): North America to Europe—Overview of the 2004 summer field study

    Fred C. Fehsenfeld;Gérard Ancellet;Timothy S. Bates;A. H. Goldstein

  • The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Field Campaign

    Mary C. Barth;Christopher A. Cantrell;William H. Brune;Steven A. Rutledge

  • Large-scale overview of the summer monsoon over West Africa during the AMMA field experiment in 2006

    S. Janicot;C. D. Thorncroft;A. Ali;N. Asencio

  • Influence of fuel sulfur on the composition of aircraft exhaust plumes: The experiments SULFUR 1–7

    U. Schumann;F. Arnold;R. Busen;J. Curtius

  • Aerosol characteristics and particle production in the upper troposphere over the Amazon Basin

    Meinrat O. Andreae;Meinrat O. Andreae;Armin Afchine;Rachel I. Albrecht;Bruna Amorim Holanda

  • Processes influencing ozone levels in Alaskan forest fire plumes during long-range transport over the North Atlantic

    E. Real;K. Law;Bernadett Weinzierl;Monika Fiebig

  • DILUTION OF AIRCRAFT EXHAUST PLUMES AT CRUISE ALTITUDES

    Ulrich Schumann;Hans Schlager;Frank Arnold;Robert Baumann

  • Nitric Acid Trihydrate (NAT) formation at low NAT supersaturation in Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSCs)

    C. Voigt;H. Schlager;B. P. Luo;A. Dörnbrack

  • Transport and production of NO X in electrified thunderstorms: Survey of previous studies and new observations at midlatitudes

    H. Huntrieser;H. Schlager;C. Feigl;H. Höller

  • Estimate of diffusion parameters of aircraft exhaust plumes near the tropopause from nitric oxide and turbulence measurements

    U. Schumann;P. Konopka;R. Baumann;R. Busen

  • The South Asian monsoon-pollution pump and purifier.

    Jos Lelieveld;Jos Lelieveld;Efstratios Bourtsoukidis;Christoph Brühl;Horst Fischer

  • ACRIDICON–CHUVA Campaign: Studying Tropical Deep Convective Clouds and Precipitation over Amazonia Using the New German Research Aircraft HALO

    Manfred Wendisch;Ulrich Pöschl;Meinrat O. Andreae;Luiz A. T. Machado

Frequent Co-Authors

Christiane Voigt
Christiane Voigt German Aerospace Center
Ulrich Schumann
Ulrich Schumann German Aerospace Center
Andreas Minikin
Andreas Minikin German Aerospace Center
Heidi Huntrieser
Heidi Huntrieser German Aerospace Center
Stephan Borrmann
Stephan Borrmann Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Bernadett Weinzierl
Bernadett Weinzierl University of Vienna
Andreas Petzold
Andreas Petzold Forschungszentrum Jülich
Cornelius Schiller
Cornelius Schiller Forschungszentrum Jülich
Martina Krämer
Martina Krämer Forschungszentrum Jülich
Andreas Zahn
Andreas Zahn Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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