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John P. Burrows

John P. Burrows

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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
117
Citations
55954
World Ranking
139
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John P. Burrows is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany. Their research centers on Earth and Planetary Sciences with a substantial focus on Environmental Science. The major subfields of study include Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, along with interests in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Spectroscopy, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, prominently featuring Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics. Other areas include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, as well as Spectroscopy and Laser Applications.

Frequent publication venues for John P. Burrows include:

  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • A chronology of global air quality, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Remote sensing of methane leakage from natural gas and petroleum systems revisited, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Atmospheric and Surface Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms Determining Arctic Amplification: A Review of First Results and Prospects of the (AC)3 Project, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Unexpected long-range transport of glyoxal and formaldehyde observed from the Copernicus Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite during the 2018 Canadian wildfires, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Arctic Ozone Depletion in 2019/20: Roles of Chemistry, Dynamics and the Montreal Protocol, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

Collaborations have been frequent with several co-authors, including Alexei Rozanov, H. Bovensmann, Andreas Richter, Michael Buchwitz, and Mark Weber.

John P. Burrows has been recognized through awards such as Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom in 2016 and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2003.

Best Publications

  • SCIAMACHY: Mission Objectives and Measurement Modes

    H. Bovensmann;J. P. Burrows;M. Buchwitz;J. Frerick

  • The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME): Mission Concept and First Scientific Results

    John P. Burrows;Mark Weber;Michael Buchwitz;Vladimir Rozanov

  • Increase in tropospheric nitrogen dioxide over China observed from space

    Andreas Richter;John P. Burrows;Hendrik Nüss;Claire Granier

  • The nitrate radical: Physics, chemistry, and the atmosphere

    R.P Wayne;I Barnes;P Biggs;J.P Burrows

  • Measurements of molecular absorption spectra with the SCIAMACHY pre-flight model: instrument characterization and reference data for atmospheric remote-sensing in the 230–2380 nm region

    K Bogumil;J Orphal;T Homann;S Voigt

  • The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission

    D Crisp;RM Atlas;FM Breon;LR Brown

  • Global budgets of atmospheric glyoxal and methylglyoxal, and implications for formation of secondary organic aerosols

    Tzung-May Fu;Tzung-May Fu;Daniel J. Jacob;Folkard Wittrock;John P. Burrows

  • Halogens and their role in polar boundary-layer ozone depletion

    W. R. Simpson;R. von Glasow;K. Riedel;P. Anderson

  • Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: Present-day distribution and trends of tropospheric ozone relevant to climate and global atmospheric chemistry model evaluation

    A. Gaudel;O. R. Cooper;G. Ancellet;B. Barret

  • NOx emission trends for China, 1995–2004: The view from the ground and the view from space

    Qiang Zhang;David G. Streets;Kebin He;Yuxuan Wang

  • TROPOSPHERIC NO2 FROM GOME MEASUREMENTS

    A. Richter;J.P. Burrows

  • SCIAMACHY—scanning imaging absorption spectrometer for atmospheric chartography

    J.P. Burrows;E. Hölzle;A.P.H. Goede;H. Visser

  • ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE-SENSING REFERENCE DATA FROM GOME: PART 1. TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT ABSORPTION CROSS-SECTIONS OF NO2 IN THE 231–794 nm RANGE

    J.P. Burrows;A. Richter;A. Dehn;B. Deters

  • High spectral resolution ozone absorption cross-sections - Part 2: Temperature dependence

    A. Serdyuchenko;V. Gorshelev;M. Weber;W. Chehade

  • Antarctic springtime depletion of atmospheric mercury.

    Ralf Ebinghaus;Hans H. Kock;Christian Temme;Jürgen W. Einax

  • Radiative transfer through terrestrial atmosphere and ocean: Software package SCIATRAN

    V.V. Rozanov;A.V. Rozanov;A.A. Kokhanovsky;J.P. Burrows

  • The temperature dependence (203-293 K) of the absorption cross sections of O3 in the 230-850 nm region measured by Fourier-transform spectroscopy

    S. Voigt;J. Orphal;K. Bogumil;J.P. Burrows

  • GOME observations of tropospheric BrO in northern hemispheric spring and summer 1997

    Andreas Richter;Folkard Wittrock;Michael Eisinger;John P. Burrows

  • Simultaneous global observations of glyoxal and formaldehyde from space

    Folkard Wittrock;Andreas Richter;Hilke Oetjen;John P. Burrows

  • SCIATRAN 2.0 – A new radiative transfer model for geophysical applications in the 175–2400 nm spectral region

    A. Rozanov;V. Rozanov;M. Buchwitz;A. Kokhanovsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Heinrich Bovensmann
Heinrich Bovensmann University of Bremen
Andreas Richter
Andreas Richter University of Bremen
Michael Buchwitz
Michael Buchwitz University of Bremen
Vladimir V. Rozanov
Vladimir V. Rozanov University of Bremen
Mark Weber
Mark Weber University of Bremen
Folkard Wittrock
Folkard Wittrock University of Bremen
Oliver Schneising
Oliver Schneising University of Bremen
Astrid Bracher
Astrid Bracher University of Bremen
Alexander A. Kokhanovsky
Alexander A. Kokhanovsky Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Mihalis Vrekoussis
Mihalis Vrekoussis University of Bremen

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