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Klaus Pfeilsticker

Klaus Pfeilsticker

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
55
Citations
7665
World Ranking
3927
National Ranking
270

Overview

Klaus Pfeilsticker is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with particular expertise in Atmospheric Science and related subfields. Their work encompasses Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, among other focal areas.

The scientist has contributed to research on topics such as:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Solar Radiation and Photovoltaics
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting

Their recent papers include:

  • Profiling of formaldehyde, glyoxal, methylglyoxal, and CO over the Amazon: normalized excess mixing ratios and related emission factors in biomass burning plumes (2020), published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Overview: On the transport and transformation of pollutants in the outflow of major population centres - observational data from the EMeRGe European intensive operational period in summer 2017 (2022), published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Modification of a conventional photolytic converter for improving aircraft measurements of NO 2 via chemiluminescence (2021), published in Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Dynamic model of photovoltaic module temperature as a function of atmospheric conditions (2020), published in Advances in science and research
  • Implementation of HONO into the chemistry-climate model CHASER (V4.0): roles in tropospheric chemistry (2023), published in Geoscientific model development

Klaus Pfeilsticker frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Anna Herman-Czezuch
  • Nicola Kimiaie
  • Stefanie Meilinger
  • Christopher Schirrmeister
  • Hartwig Deneke

The scientist publishes regularly in certain venues, notably:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Advances in science and research
  • Geoscientific model development

Best Publications

  • Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2002

    S. A. Montzka;P. J. Fraser;J. H. Butler;D. M. Cunnold

  • The Monte Carlo atmospheric radiative transfer model McArtim: Introduction and validation of Jacobians and 3D features

    T. Deutschmann;S. Beirle;U. Friess;M. Grzegorski

  • Analysis for BrO in zenith‐sky spectra: An intercomparison exercise for analysis improvement

    S. R. Aliwell;M. Van Roozendael;P. V. Johnston;A. Richter

  • ML-CIRRUS : The airborne experiment on natural cirrus and contrail cirrus with the high-altitude long-range research aircraft HALO

    Christiane Voigt;Ulrich Schumann;Andreas Minikin;Ahmed Abdelmonem

  • Atmospheric detection of water dimers via near-infrared absorption.

    K. Pfeilsticker;A. Lotter;C. Peters;H. Bösch

  • Spatial and temporal distribution of enhanced boundary layer BrO concentrations measured by the GOME instrument aboard ERS‐2

    T. Wagner;C. Leue;M. Wenig;K. Pfeilsticker

  • ACRIDICON–CHUVA Campaign: Studying Tropical Deep Convective Clouds and Precipitation over Amazonia Using the New German Research Aircraft HALO

    Manfred Wendisch;Ulrich Pöschl;Meinrat O. Andreae;Luiz A. T. Machado

  • Global tropospheric NO2 column distributions: Comparing three‐dimensional model calculations with GOME measurements

    Guus J. M. Velders;Claire Granier;Robert W. Portmann;Klaus Pfeilsticker

  • First profile measurements of tropospheric BrO

    R. Fitzenberger;H. Bösch;C. Camy-Peyret;M. P. Chipperfield

  • Lower stratospheric organic and inorganic bromine budget for the Arctic winter 1998/99

    K. Pfeilsticker;W. T. Sturges;H. Bösch;C. Camy-Peyret

  • Slant column measurements of O3 and NO2 during the NDSC intercomparison of zenith-sky UV-visible spectrometers in June 1996

    H. K. Roscoe;P. V. Johnston;M. Van Roozendael;A. Richter

  • On the influence of tropospheric clouds on zenith‐scattered‐light measurements of stratospheric species

    F. Erle;K. Pfeilsticker;U. Platt

  • Spectroscopic measurements of tropospheric iodine oxide at Neumayer Station, Antarctica

    U. Frieß;T. Wagner;I. Pundt;K. Pfeilsticker

  • THE NASA AIRBORNE TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE EXPERIMENT: High-Altitude Aircraft Measurements in the Tropical Western Pacific

    Eric J. Jensen;Leonhard Pfister;David E. Jordan;Thaopaul V. Bui

  • Intercomparison of BrO measurements from ERS-2 GOME, ground-based and balloon platforms

    M Van Roozendael;T Wagner;A Richter;I Pundt;I Pundt

  • First geometrical pathlengths probability density function derivation of the skylight from spectroscopically highly resolving oxygen A-band observations: 1. Measurement technique, atmospheric observations and model calculations

    K. Pfeilsticker;F. Erle;O. Funk;H. Veitel

  • Stratospheric BrO profiles measured at different latitudes and seasons: Atmospheric observations

    H. Harder;C. Camy-Peyret;F. Ferlemann;R. Fitzenberger

  • Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010

    S. A. Montzka;S. Reimann;A. Engel;K. Kruger

  • An intercomparison campaign of ground-based UV-visible measurements of NO2, BrO, and OClO slant columns: Methods of analysis and results for NO2

    A.-C. Vandaele;C. Fayt;F. Hendrick;C. Hermans

  • Bromine in the tropical troposphere and stratosphere as derived from balloon-borne BrO observations

    M. Dorf;A. Butz;C. Camy-Peyret;M. P. Chipperfield

  • Mid-latitude ozone changes: studies with a 3-D CTM forced by ERA-40 analyses

    W. Feng;M. P. Chipperfield;M. Dorf;K. Pfeilsticker

  • Global tropospheric NO2 column distributions' Comparing three-dimensional model calculations with GOME

    Guus J. M. Velders;Claire Granier;Robert W. Portmann;Klaus Pfeilsticker

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Platt
Ulrich Platt Heidelberg University
Martyn P. Chipperfield
Martyn P. Chipperfield University of Leeds
Florence Goutail
Florence Goutail Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
John P. Burrows
John P. Burrows University of Bremen
Jean-Pierre Pommereau
Jean-Pierre Pommereau Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Thomas Wagner
Thomas Wagner Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Hans Schlager
Hans Schlager German Aerospace Center
M. Van Roozendael
M. Van Roozendael Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Andreas Engel
Andreas Engel Goethe University Frankfurt
Ryan Hossaini
Ryan Hossaini Lancaster University

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