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Konrad Kandler is affiliated with the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their scholarly work focuses primarily on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Earth-Surface Processes, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

The main topics explored in their research fall into several key areas, including atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, aeolian processes and effects, air quality and health impacts, atmospheric ozone and climate, air quality monitoring and forecasting, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Among recent publications involving Konrad Kandler are:

  • Climate Models and Remote Sensing Retrievals Neglect Substantial Desert Dust Asphericity, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Newly identified climatically and environmentally significant high-latitude dust sources, 2022, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • The Unmanned Systems Research Laboratory (USRL): A New Facility for UAV-Based Atmospheric Observations, 2021, Atmosphere
  • Mineralogy, geochemistry and toxicity of size-segregated respirable deposited dust in underground coal mines, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Insights into the single-particle composition, size, mixing state, and aspect ratio of freshly emitted mineral dust from field measurements in the Moroccan Sahara using electron microscopy, 2023, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Atmosphere
  • Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM)

Their collaborations feature consistent partnerships with several researchers, including:

  • Xavier Querol
  • Andrés Alástuey
  • Cristina González-Flórez
  • Martina Klose
  • Carlos Pérez García-Pando

This profile reflects Konrad Kandler's research trajectory intersecting environmental and atmospheric sciences with applications in air quality and climate studies.

Best Publications

  • Chemical composition and complex refractive index of Saharan Mineral Dust at Izaña, Tenerife (Spain) derived by electron microscopy

    Konrad Kandler;Nathalie Benker;Ulrich Bundke;Emilio Cuevas

  • Size distribution, mass concentration, chemical and mineralogical composition and derived optical parameters of the boundary layer aerosol at Tinfou, Morocco, during SAMUM 2006

    K. Kandler;L. Schütz;C. Deutscher;M. Ebert

  • Recent progress in understanding physical and chemical properties of African and Asian mineral dust

    P. Formenti;L. Schütz;Y. Balkanski;K. Desboeufs

  • Bulk composition of northern African dust and its source sediments — A compilation

    Dirk Scheuvens;Dirk Scheuvens;Lothar Schütz;Konrad Kandler;Konrad Kandler;Martin Ebert

  • Airborne observations of the Eyjafjalla volcano ash cloud over Europe during air space closure in April and May 2010

    U. Schumann;B. Weinzierl;O. Reitebuch;H. Schlager

  • Saharan Mineral Dust Experiments SAMUM-1 and SAMUM-2 : what have we learned?

    Albert Ansmann;Andreas Petzold;Konrad Kandler;Ina Tegen

  • The Saharan Aerosol Long-Range Transport and Aerosol–Cloud-Interaction Experiment: Overview and Selected Highlights

    B. Weinzierl;A. Ansmann;J. Prospero;D. Althausen

  • A comprehensive laboratory study on the immersion freezing behavior of illite NX particles: a comparison of 17 ice nucleation measurement techniques

    Naruki Hiranuma;Stefanie Augustin-Bauditz;Heinz Bingemer;Carsten Budke

  • Airborne measurements of dust layer properties, particle size distribution and mixing state of Saharan dust during SAMUM 2006

    Bernadett Weinzierl;Andreas Petzold;Michael Esselborn;Martin Wirth

  • Saharan dust absorption and refractive index from aircraft‐based observations during SAMUM 2006

    Andreas Petzold;Katharina Rasp;Bernadett Weinzierl;Michael Esselborn

  • Complex refractive indices and single-scattering albedo of global dust aerosols in the shortwave spectrum and relationship to size and iron content

    Claudia Di Biagio;Paola Formenti;Yves Balkanski;Lorenzo Caponi

  • Electron microscopy of particles collected at Praia, Cape Verde, during the Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment: particle chemistry, shape, mixing state and complex refractive index

    K. Kandler;K. Lieke;N. Benker;C. Emmel

  • Modelling lidar‐relevant optical properties of complex mineral dust aerosols

    Josef Gasteiger;Matthias Wiegner;Silke Groß;Volker Freudenthaler

  • Ice nucleation properties of the most abundant mineral dust phases

    Frank Zimmermann;Stephan Weinbruch;Lothar Schütz;Heiko Hofmann

  • Global scale variability of the mineral dust long-wave refractive index: a new dataset of in situ measurements for climate modeling and remote sensing

    Claudia Di Biagio;Paola Formenti;Yves Balkanski;Lorenzo Caponi;Lorenzo Caponi

  • Complex refractive indices of Saharan dust samples at visible and near UV wavelengths: a laboratory study

    R. Wagner;T. Ajtai;K. Kandler;K. Lieke

  • Dust mobilization due to density currents in the Atlas region: Observations from the Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment 2006 field campaign

    P. Knippertz;C. Deutscher;K. Kandler;T. Müller

  • State of mixing, shape factor, number size distribution, and hygroscopic growth of the Saharan anthropogenic and mineral dust aerosol at Tinfou, Morocco.

    N. Kaaden;A. Massling;A. Massling;A. Schladitz;T. Müller

  • Spectral absorption coefficients and imaginary parts of refractive indices of Saharan dust during SAMUM-1

    T. Müller;A. Schladitz;A. Massling;N. Kaaden

  • Dry versus wet marine particle optical properties: RH dependence of depolarization ratio, backscatter, and extinction from multiwavelength lidar measurements during SALTRACE

    Moritz Haarig;Albert Ansmann;Josef Gasteiger;Konrad Kandler

  • Long-term profiling of mineral dust and pollution aerosol with multiwavelength polarization Raman lidar at the Central Asian site of Dushanbe, Tajikistan: case studies

    Julian Hofer;Dietrich Althausen;Sabur F. Abdullaev;Abduvosit N. Makhmudov

  • Solar radiative effects of a Saharan dust plume observed during SAMUM assuming spheroidal model particles

    Sebastian Otto;Eike Bierwirth;Bernadett Weinzierl;Konrad Kandler

  • Climate Models and Remote Sensing Retrievals Neglect Substantial Desert Dust Asphericity

    Yue Huang;Jasper F. Kok;Konrad Kandler;Hannakaisa Lindqvist

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Ebert
Martin Ebert Technical University of Darmstadt
Stephan Weinbruch
Stephan Weinbruch Technical University of Darmstadt
Bernadett Weinzierl
Bernadett Weinzierl University of Vienna
Andreas Petzold
Andreas Petzold Forschungszentrum Jülich
Albert Ansmann
Albert Ansmann Leibniz Association
Matthias Tesche
Matthias Tesche Leipzig University
Thomas J. Müller
Thomas J. Müller Leibniz Association
Carlos Toledano
Carlos Toledano University of Valladolid
Dietrich Althausen
Dietrich Althausen Leibniz Association
Volker Freudenthaler
Volker Freudenthaler Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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