2026 Johannes Quaas: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	61	2760	2636	183	180	252	14612

Overview

Johannes Quaas is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and focuses on research within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work extensively covers subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Their research delves into topics such as Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Aeolian processes and effects, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Quaas has contributed to various scientific publications, including:

A microphysics guide to cirrus - Part 2: Climatologies of clouds and humidity from observations, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
The Added Value of Large-eddy and Storm-resolving Models for Simulating Clouds and Precipitation, 2020, Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II
An underestimated negative cloud feedback from cloud lifetime changes, 2021, Nature Climate Change
Constraining the Twomey effect from satellite observations: issues and perspectives, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
Opportunistic experiments to constrain aerosol effective radiative forcing, 2022, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Their frequent co-authors include Johannes Mülmenstädt, Odran Sourdeval, Edward Gryspeerdt, Hailing Jia, and Jan Kretzschmar.

Quaas has published frequently in journals such as Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Geophysical Research Letters, Nature Communications, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, and Tellus B. The number of their publications in these venues highlights their ongoing contributions to atmospheric and environmental research.

Best Publications

Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

Nicolas Bellouin;Johannes Quaas;Edward Gryspeerdt;Stefan Kinne

875
Citations
Global observations of aerosol-cloud-precipitation-climate interactions

Daniel Rosenfeld;Meinrat O. Andreae;Ari Asmi;Mian Chin

598
Citations
Aerosol indirect effects – general circulation model intercomparison and evaluation with satellite data

Johannes Quaas;Yi Ming;Surabi Menon;Surabi Menon;T. Takemura

468
Citations
Evaluating the climate and air quality impacts of short-lived pollutants

Andreas Stohl;Borgar Aamaas;M Amann;LH Baker

461
Citations
Remote Sensing of Droplet Number Concentration in Warm Clouds: A Review of the Current State of Knowledge and Perspectives

Daniel P. Grosvenor;Odran Sourdeval;Paquita Zuidema;Andrew Ackerman

403
Citations
Frequency of occurrence of rain from liquid-, mixed-, and ice-phase clouds derived from A-Train satellite retrievals.

Johannes Mülmenstädt;Odran Sourdeval;Julien Delanoë;Johannes Quaas

392
Citations
Satellite-based estimate of the direct and indirect aerosol climate forcing

Johannes Quaas;Olivier Boucher;Nicolas Bellouin;Stefan Kinne

392
Citations
The global aerosol-climate model ECHAM-HAM, version 2: sensitivity to improvements in process representations

K. Zhang;D. O'Donnell;D. O'Donnell;J. Kazil;J. Kazil;P. Stier

381
Citations
The Arctic Cloud Puzzle: Using ACLOUD/PASCAL Multiplatform Observations to Unravel the Role of Clouds and Aerosol Particles in Arctic Amplification

Manfred Wendisch;Andreas Macke;André Ehrlich;Christof Lüpkes

357
Citations
Global and Regional Trends of Atmospheric Sulfur

Wenche Aas;Augustin Mortier;Van C. Bowersox;Ribu Cherian

313
Citations
Large-eddy simulations over Germany using ICON: a comprehensive evaluation

Rieke Heinze;Rieke Heinze;Anurag Dipankar;Cintia Carbajal Henken;Christopher Moseley

275
Citations
Constraining the total aerosol indirect effect in the LMDZ and ECHAM4 GCMs using MODIS satellite data

Johannes Quaas;Olivier Boucher;Olivier Boucher;Ulrike Lohmann

268
Citations
Constraining the aerosol influence on cloud fraction

Edward Gryspeerdt;Johannes Quaas;Nicolas Bellouin

243
Citations
Weak average liquid-cloud-water response to anthropogenic aerosols.

Velle Toll;Velle Toll;Matthew Christensen;Johannes Quaas;Nicolas Bellouin

238
Citations
Model intercomparison of indirect aerosol effects

J. E. Penner;J. Quaas;J. Quaas;T. Storelvmo;T. Takemura

237
Citations
Constraining the aerosol influence on cloud liquid water path

Edward Gryspeerdt;Tom Goren;Odran Sourdeval;Odran Sourdeval;Johannes Quaas

232
Citations
Estimates of aerosol radiative forcing from the MACC re-analysis

Nicolas Bellouin;Nicolas Bellouin;Johannes Quaas;Jean-Jacques Morcrette;Olivier Boucher

230
Citations
Total aerosol effect: radiative forcing or radiative flux perturbation?

U. Lohmann;L. Rotstayn;T. Storelvmo;A. Jones

218
Citations
A microphysics guide to cirrus – Part 2: Climatologies of clouds and humidity from observations

Martina Krämer;Christian Rolf;Nicole Spelten;Armin Afchine

209
Citations
Aerosol nucleation and its role for clouds and Earth's radiative forcing in the aerosol-climate model ECHAM5-HAM

J. Kazil;P. Stier;K. Zhang;J. Quaas

202
Citations
Understanding Causes and Effects of Rapid Warming in the Arctic

Manfred Wendisch;Marlen Brückner;John Burrows;Susanne Crewell

199
Citations
The Added Value of Large-Eddy and Storm-Resolving Models for Simulating Clouds and Precipitation

Bjorn Stevens;Claudia Acquistapace;Akio Hansen;Rieke Heinze

195
Citations
Aerosol indirect effects -- general circulation model intercomparison and evaluation with satellite data

Johannes Quaas

8
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Boucher Sorbonne University

Philip Stier University of Oxford

Ulrike Lohmann ETH Zurich

Gunnar Myhre University of Oslo

Michael Schulz Norwegian Meteorological Institute

Nicolas Bellouin University of Reading

Stefan Kinne Max Planck Society

Bjorn Stevens Max Planck Society

Toshihiko Takemura Kyushu University

Julien Delanoë Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University

External Links

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