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Herman G. J. Smit is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric and environmental sciences, with considerable contributions in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science fields.

Their work encompasses several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Spectroscopy, Environmental Engineering, and Strategy and Management.

The main research topics covered by their publications include:

  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Earth and Space Science
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Some notable recent papers include:

  • Improving ECC Ozonesonde Data Quality: Assessment of Current Methods and Outstanding Issues, 2021, Earth and Space Science
  • A Post-2013 Dropoff in Total Ozone at a Third of Global Ozonesonde Stations: Electrochemical Concentration Cell Instrument Artifacts?, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Ice-supersaturated air masses in the northern mid-latitudes from regular in situ observations by passenger aircraft: vertical distribution, seasonality and tropospheric fingerprint, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • An Examination of the Recent Stability of Ozonesonde Global Network Data, 2022, Earth and Space Science
  • Homogenization of the Observatoire de Haute Provence electrochemical concentration cell (ECC) ozonesonde data record: comparison with lidar and satellite observations, 2022, Atmospheric measurement techniques

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Ryan M. Stauffer
  • Roeland Van Malderen
  • D. W. Tarasick
  • Anne M. Thompson
  • B. J. Johnson

Best Publications

  • Measurement of ozone and water vapor by Airbus in-service aircraft: The MOZAIC airborne program, an overview

    Alain Marenco;Valérie Thouret;Philippe Nédélec;Herman Smit

  • Assessment of the performance of ECC‐ozonesondes under quasi‐flight conditions in the environmental simulation chamber: Insights from the Juelich Ozone Sonde Intercomparison Experiment (JOSIE)

    Herman G.J. Smit;Wolfgang Straeter;Bryan J. Johnson;Samuel J. Oltmans

  • Global-scale atmosphere monitoring by in-service aircraft – current achievements and future prospects of the European Research Infrastructure IAGOS

    Andreas Petzold;Valerie Thouret;Christoph Gerbig;Andreas Zahn

  • Observations of Near-Zero Ozone Concentrations Over the Convective Pacific: Effects on Air Chemistry

    D. Kley;P. J. Crutzen;H. G. J Smit;H. Vomel

  • A distribution law for relative humidity in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere derived from three years of MOZAIC measurements

    K. Gierens;U. Schumann;M. Helten;H. Smit

  • A mechanism for moistening the lower stratosphere involving the Asian summer monsoon

    A. Dethof;A. O'Neill;J. M. Slingo;H. G. J. Smit

  • Electrochemical concentration cell (ECC) ozonesonde pump efficiency measurements and tests on the sensitivity to ozone of buffered and unbuffered ECC sensor cathode solutions

    Bryan J. Johnson;Samuel J. Oltmans;Holger Vömel;Herman G. J. Smit

  • Atmospheric comparison of electrochemical cell ozonesondes from different manufacturers, and with different cathode solution strengths: The Balloon Experiment on Standards for Ozonesondes

    Terry Deshler;Jennifer L. Mercer;Herman G. J. Smit;Rene Stubi

  • Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes (SHADOZ) 1998–2004 tropical ozone climatology: 3. Instrumentation, station‐to‐station variability, and evaluation with simulated flight profiles

    Anne M. Thompson;Jacquelyn C. Witte;Herman G. J. Smit;Samuel J. Oltmans

  • Ubiquity of quasi-horizontal layers in the troposphere

    Reginald E. Newell;Valerie Thouret;Valerie Thouret;John Y. N. Cho;Patrick Stoller;Patrick Stoller

  • First Reprocessing of Southern Hemisphere ADditional OZonesondes (SHADOZ) Profile Records (1998-2015): 1. Methodology and Evaluation

    Jacquelyn C. Witte;Anne M. Thompson;Herman G.J. Smit;Masatomo Fujiwara

  • Ground-based assessment of the bias and long-term stability of 14 limb and occultation ozone profile data records

    Daan Hubert;Jean Christopher Lambert;Tijl Verhoelst;José Granville

  • Calibration and performance of automatic compact instrumentation for the measurement of relative humidity from passenger aircraft

    M. Helten;H. G. J. Smit;W. Sträter;D. Kley

  • In situ measurements of stratospheric ozone depletion rates in the Arctic winter 1991/1992: A Lagrangian approach

    M Rex;P von der Gathen;N R P Harris;D Lucic

  • Regional and Global Tropopause Fold Occurrence and Related Ozone Flux Across the Tropopause

    M. Beekmann;G. Ancellet;S. Blonsky;D. De Muer

  • Air pollution during the 2003 European heat wave as seen by MOZAIC airliners.

    Marc Tressol;Carlos Ordóñez;Régina Zbinden;Jérôme Brioude

  • Cirrus cloud formation and ice supersaturated regions in a global climate model

    Ulrike Lohmann;Peter Spichtinger;Stephanie Jess;Thomas Peter

  • First Reprocessing of Southern Hemisphere ADditional OZonesondes Profile Records: 3. Uncertainty in Ozone Profile and Total Column

    Jacquelyn C. Witte;Anne M. Thompson;Herman G. J. Smit;Holger Vömel

  • Intercomparison campaign of vertical ozone profiles including electrochemical sondes of ECC and Brewer-Mast type and a ground based UV-differential absorption lidar

    M. Beekmann;G. Ancellet;G. Mégie;H. G. J. Smit

  • Tropical Atlantic convection as revealed by ozone and relative humidity measurements

    Dieter Kley;Dieter Kley;Herman G. J. Smit;Susanne Nawrath;Zhengzhao Luo

  • Ice‐supersaturated regions and subvisible cirrus in the northern midlatitude upper troposphere

    Klaus Gierens;Ulrich Schumann;Manfred Helten;Herman Smit

  • Improving ECC Ozonesonde Data Quality: Assessment of Current Methods and Outstanding Issues

    David W. Tarasick;Herman G. J. Smit;Anne M. Thompson;Gary A. Morris

  • Homogenizing and estimating the uncertainty in NOAA's long-term vertical ozone profile records measured with the electrochemical concentration cell ozonesonde

    Chance W. Sterling;Chance W. Sterling;Bryan J. Johnson;Samuel J. Oltmans;Herman G. J. Smit

Frequent Co-Authors

Valérie Thouret
Valérie Thouret University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
Philippe Nédélec
Philippe Nédélec Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Bryan J. Johnson
Bryan J. Johnson National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Anne M. Thompson
Anne M. Thompson Goddard Space Flight Center
Andreas Petzold
Andreas Petzold Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jacquelyn C. Witte
Jacquelyn C. Witte National Center for Atmospheric Research
René Stübi
René Stübi Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
David W. Tarasick
David W. Tarasick Environment and Climate Change Canada
Martina Krämer
Martina Krämer Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jean-Pierre Cammas
Jean-Pierre Cammas Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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