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Hartmut Boesch

Hartmut Boesch

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
7541
World Ranking
5599
National Ranking
376

Overview

Hartmut Boesch is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable activity in the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Mechanics of Materials, Environmental Chemistry, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's work covers main topics including Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Climate variability and models, and Air Quality and Health Impacts.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Global methane budget and trend, 2010-2017: complementarity of inverse analyses using in situ (GLOBALVIEWplus CH 4 ObsPack) and satellite (GOSAT) observations, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Attribution of the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane during 2010-2018 by inverse analysis of GOSAT observations, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • A decade of GOSAT Proxy satellite CH 4 observations, 2020, Earth system science data
  • Post-monsoon air quality degradation across Northern India: assessing the impact of policy-related shifts in timing and amount of crop residue burnt, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Observed changes in China's methane emissions linked to policy drivers, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors in their research include Robert J. Parker, Yuzhong Zhang, Joannes D. Maasakkers, A. Anthony Bloom, and Frank Hase.

The most common venues where this researcher publishes are Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Atmospheric measurement techniques, Environmental Research Letters, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • Precision Requirements for Space-based XCO2 Data

    C. E. Miller;D. Crisp;P. L. DeCola;S. C. Olsen

  • Orbiting Carbon Observatory: Inverse method and prospective error analysis

    Brian J. Connor;Hartmut Boesch;Geoffrey Toon;Bhaswar Sen

  • Estimating global and North American methane emissions with high spatial resolution using GOSAT satellite data

    A J Turner;Daniel J Jacob;K J Wecht;J D Maasakkers

  • Methane observations from the Greenhouse Gases Observing SATellite: Comparison to ground‐based TCCON data and model calculations

    Robert Parker;Hartmut Boesch;Austin Cogan;Annemarie Fraser

  • Global Characterization of CO2 Column Retrievals from Shortwave-Infrared Satellite Observations of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 Mission

    Hartmut Boesch;David Baker;Brian Connor;David Crisp

  • Atmospheric carbon dioxide retrieved from the Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT): Comparison with ground‐based TCCON observations and GEOS‐Chem model calculations

    A Cogan;H Boesch;R Parker;L Feng

  • Toward robust and consistent regional CO2 flux estimates from in situ and spaceborne measurements of atmospheric CO2

    Frédéric Chevallier;Paul I. Palmer;Liang Feng;Hartmut Boesch

  • 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

  • An intercomparison of inverse models for estimating sources and sinks of CO2 using GOSAT measurements

    S. Houweling;D. Baker;S. Basu;Hartmut Boesch

  • Inverse modelling of CH 4 emissions for 2010–2011 using different satellite retrieval products from GOSAT and SCIAMACHY

    M. Alexe;P. Bergamaschi;A. Segers;R. Detmers

  • Carbon Monitoring Satellite (CarbonSat): assessment of atmospheric CO 2 and CH 4 retrieval errors by error parameterization

    M. Buchwitz;M. Reuter;H. Bovensmann;D. Pillai

  • Attribution of the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane during 2010–2018 by inverse analysis of GOSAT observations

    Yuzhong Zhang;Yuzhong Zhang;Daniel J. Jacob;Xiao Lu;Joannes D. Maasakkers

  • Global methane budget and trend, 2010–2017: complementarity of inverse analyses using in situ (GLOBALVIEWplus CH 4 ObsPack) and satellite (GOSAT) observations

    Xiao Lu;Daniel J. Jacob;Yuzhong Zhang;Yuzhong Zhang;Joannes D. Maasakkers

  • Advancing Scientific Understanding of the Global Methane Budget in Support of the Paris Agreement

    Anita L. Ganesan;Stefan Schwietzke;Benjamin Poulter;Tim Arnold;Tim Arnold

  • A decade of GOSAT Proxy satellite CH 4 observations

    Robert J. Parker;Alex Webb;Hartmut Boesch;Peter Somkuti

  • The greenhouse gas climate change initiative (GHG-CCI): Comparative validation of GHG-CCI SCIAMACHY/ENVISAT and TANSO-FTS/GOSAT CO2 and CH4 retrieval algorithm products with measurements from the TCCON

    B Dils;M Buchwitz;Markus Reuter;O Schneising

  • An increase in methane emissions from tropical Africa between 2010 and 2016 inferred from satellite data

    Mark F. Lunt;Paul I. Palmer;Liang Feng;Christopher M. Taylor

  • Estimating regional methane surface fluxes: the relative importance of surface and GOSAT mole fraction measurements

    Annemarie Fraser;Paul Palmer;Liang Feng;H. Boesch

  • Effects of atmospheric light scattering on spectroscopic observations of greenhouse gases from space: Validation of PPDF‐based CO2 retrievals from GOSAT

    Sergey Oshchepkov;Andrey Bril;Tatsuya Yokota;Isamu Morino

  • Satellite-derived methane hotspot emission estimates using a fast data-driven method

    Michael Buchwitz;Oliver Schneising;Maximilian Reuter;Jens Heymann

  • Attribution of recent increases in atmospheric methane through 3-D inverse modelling

    Joe McNorton;Joe McNorton;Chris Wilson;Manuel Gloor;Rob J. Parker;Rob J. Parker

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Parker
Robert J. Parker University of Leicester
Paul I. Palmer
Paul I. Palmer University of Edinburgh
Nicholas M. Deutscher
Nicholas M. Deutscher University of Wollongong
Justus Notholt
Justus Notholt University of Bremen
F. Chevallier
F. Chevallier University of Paris-Saclay
Ralf Sussmann
Ralf Sussmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Otto Hasekamp
Otto Hasekamp Netherlands Institute for Space Research
Heinrich Bovensmann
Heinrich Bovensmann University of Bremen
André Butz
André Butz Heidelberg University
Thorsten Warneke
Thorsten Warneke University of Bremen

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