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2023

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Environmental Sciences

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68
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15550
World Ranking
1882
National Ranking
126

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Ingeborg Levin is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and specializes primarily in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses on areas including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, Mechanics of Materials, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Themes central to their research encompass Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Radioactivity and Radon Measurements, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and Climate variability and models.

Levin has contributed to multiple recent publications. Notable papers include:

  • "Standards and Open Access are the ICOS Pillars Reply to 'Comments on 'The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe''" (2023), published in HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • "ATMOSPHERIC RADIOCARBON FOR THE PERIOD 1950-2019" (2021), published in Radiocarbon
  • "The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe" (2021), published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "The fingerprint of the summer 2018 drought in Europe on ground-based atmospheric CO2 measurements" (2020), published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "A dedicated flask sampling strategy developed for Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) stations based on CO2 and CO measurements and Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) footprint modelling" (2020), published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Frequent collaborators in their research include Samuel Hammer, Armin Jordan, Michel Ramonet, Fabian Maier, and Ute Karstens.

Levin's work is often published in peer-reviewed journals such as Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Radiocarbon, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe).

Best Publications

  • Very Strong Atmospheric Methane Growth in the 4 Years 2014–2017:Implications for the Paris Agreement

    E. G. Nisbet;M. R. Manning;E. J. Dlugokencky;R. E. Fisher

  • The Tropospheric 14CO2 Level in Mid-Latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere (1959–2003)

    Ingeborg Levin;Bernd Kromer

  • A 21st century shift from fossil-fuel to biogenic methane emissions indicated by 13CH4

    Hinrich Schaefer;Sara E. Mikaloff Fletcher;Cordelia Veidt;Keith R. Lassey

  • Inverse Modeling of Global and Regional CH4 Emissions Using SCIAMACHY Satellite Retrievals

    Peter Bergamaschi;Christian Frankenberg;Jan Fokke Meirink;Maarten Krol;Maarten Krol

  • RADIOCARBON - A UNIQUE TRACER OF GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE DYNAMICS

    Ingeborg Levin;Vago Hesshaimer

  • Methane consumption in aerated soils of the temperate zone

    Matthias Born;Helmut Dörr;Ingeborg Levin

  • Importance of methane and nitrous oxide for Europe's terrestrial greenhouse-gas balance

    E. D. Schulze;S. Luyssaert;S. Luyssaert;P. Ciais;A. Freibauer

  • ATMOSPHERIC RADIOCARBON FOR THE PERIOD 1950–2019

    Quan Hua;Jocelyn C Turnbull;Guaciara M Santos;Andrzej Z Rakowski

  • Observations and modelling of the global distribution and long-term trend of atmospheric 14CO2

    Ingeborg Levin;Tobias Naegler;Bernd Kromer;Moritz Diehl

  • Age of stratospheric air unchanged within uncertainties over the past 30 years

    A. Engel;T. Möbius;H. Bönisch;U. Schmidt

  • Soil texture parameterization of the methane uptake in aerated soils

    Helmut Dörr;Luisa Katruff;Ingeborg Levin

  • A novel approach for independent budgeting of fossil fuel CO2 over Europe by 14CO2 observations

    Ingeborg Levin;Bernd Kromer;Martina Schmidt;Hartmut Sartorius

  • Twenty Years of Atmospheric 14CO2 Observations at Schauinsland Station, Germany

    Ingeborg Levin;Bernd Kromer

  • 25 Years of trospheric 14C observations

    Ingeborg Levin;Bernd Kromer;Hildegard Schoch-Fischer;Michael Bruns

  • Radiocarbon observations in atmospheric CO2: determining fossil fuel CO2 over Europe using Jungfraujoch observations as background.

    Ingeborg Levin;Samuel Hammer;Bernd Kromer;Frank Meinhardt

  • Sulfur hexafluoride—A powerful new atmospheric tracer

    Manfred Maiss;L.Paul Steele;Roger J. Francey;Paul J. Fraser;Paul J. Fraser

  • Three-dimensional transport and concentration of SF6 A model intercomparison study (TransCom 2)

    A. Scott Denning;Mark Holzer;Kevin R. Gurney;Martin Heimann

  • Biogeochemical protocols and diagnostics for the CMIP6 Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (OMIP)

    James C. Orr;Raymond G. Najjar;Olivier Aumont;Laurent Bopp

  • The Integrated Carbon Observation System in Europe

    Jouni Heiskanen;Christian Brümmer;Nina Buchmann;Carlo Calfapietra

  • The Effect of Anthropogenic CO2 and 14C Sources on the Distribution of 14C in the Atmosphere

    Ingeborg Levin;K O Münnich;Wolfgang Weiss

  • Compiled records of carbon isotopes in atmospheric CO2 for historical simulations in CMIP6

    Heather Graven;Colin E. Allison;David M. Etheridge;Samuel Hammer

  • Long‐term observations of atmospheric CO2 and carbon isotopes at continental sites in Germany

    Ingeborg Levin;Rolf Graul;Neil B. A. Trivett

Frequent Co-Authors

Martina Schmidt
Martina Schmidt Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Bernd Kromer
Bernd Kromer Heidelberg University
Ute Karstens
Ute Karstens Lund University
David Etheridge
David Etheridge Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
James W. C. White
James W. C. White University of Colorado Boulder
Andreas Engel
Andreas Engel Goethe University Frankfurt
Douglas E. J. Worthy
Douglas E. J. Worthy Environment and Climate Change Canada
Ray L. Langenfelds
Ray L. Langenfelds Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Roger J. Francey
Roger J. Francey Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Edward J. Dlugokencky
Edward J. Dlugokencky National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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