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Kristian Schlegel

Kristian Schlegel

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
37
Citations
6192
World Ranking
8850
National Ranking
540

Overview

Kristian Schlegel is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research contributions focus primarily on the fields of Physics and Astronomy, with particular attention to subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics as well as Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics addressed in Kristian Schlegel's work cover Climate variability and models, Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, and Lightning and Electromagnetic Phenomena.

Schlegel has authored several papers published in the journal History of geo- and space sciences, demonstrating a consistent focus within this venue. Notable recent publications include:

  • Atmospheric electricity observations by Reinhold Reiter around Garmisch-Partenkirchen (2023), History of geo- and space sciences
  • Lightning and thunder explanations in encyclopedias - from ancient Greece to Wikipedia (2024), History of geo- and space sciences
  • Editorial: Ten years of History of Geo- and Space Sciences (2020), History of geo- and space sciences

Collaboration has included work with coauthor R. G. Harrison, with whom Schlegel has published at least one joint paper. This relationship suggests a network within the atmospheric and space sciences research community.

Best Publications

  • A review of atmospheric gravity waves and travelling ionospheric disturbances: 1982-1995

    K. Hocke;K. Schlegel

  • Direct penetration of the polar electric field to the equator during a DP 2 event as detected by the auroral and equatorial magnetometer chains and the EISCAT radar

    T. Kikuchi;H. Lühr;T. Kitamura;O. Saka

  • Anomalous heating of the polar E region by unstable plasma waves 1. Observations

    Kristian Schlegel;J. P. St.-Maurice

  • Penetration of auroral electric fields to the equator during a substorm

    T. Kikuchi;H. Lühr;K. Schlegel;H. Tachihara

  • Coherent radar Doppler measurements and their relationship to the ionospheric electron drift velocity

    E. Nielsen;K. Schlegel

  • A first comparison of STARE and EISCAT electron drift velocity measurements

    E. Nielsen;K. Schlegel

  • Anomalous heating of the polar E region by unstable plasma waves - 2. Theory

    J. P. St.-Maurice;Kristian Schlegel;P. M. Banks

  • Schumann resonance parameter changes during high‐energy particle precipitation

    Kristian Schlegel;Martin Füllekrug

  • An explanation for type 1 radar echoes from the midlatitude E-region ionosphere

    C. Haldoupis;K. Schlegel;D. T. Farley

  • Thunderstorms, lightning and solar activity—Middle Europe

    K. Schlegel;G. Diendorfer;S. Thern;M. Schmidt

  • Observation of the modified two‐stream plasma instability in the midlatitude E region ionosphere

    K. Schlegel;C. Haldoupis

  • Auroral zone E-region conductivities during solar minimum derived from EISCAT data

    Kristian Schlegel

  • CHAMP observation of intense kilometer-scale field-aligned currents, evidence for an ionospheric Alfvén resonator

    M. Rother;K. Schlegel;H. Lühr

  • The gravity wave-TID relationship: insight via theoretical model—EISCAT data comparison

    G. Kirchengast;K. Hocke;K. Schlegel

  • Temperature structure of plasma bubbles in the low latitude ionosphere around 600 km altitude

    K.-I. Oyama;K. Schlegel;S. Watanabe

  • The generation and propagation of atmospheric gravity waves observed during the Worldwide Atmospheric Gravity-wave Study (WAGS)

    P. J. S. Williams;G. Crowley;K. Schlegel;T. S. Virdi

  • Temperatures and collision frequency in the polar E region measured with the incoherent scatter technique

    K. Schlegel;H. Kohl;K. Rinnert

  • Evidence for non-Maxwellian ion velocity distributions in the F-region

    D. R. Moorcroft;K. Schlegel

  • Thermospheric density structures over the polar regions observed with CHAMP

    K. Schlegel;H. Lühr;J.-P. St.-Maurice;G. Crowley

  • Neutral winds in the lower thermosphere at high latitudes from five years of EISCAT data

    M. Kunitake;K. Schlegel

  • Coherent backscatter from ionospheric E-region plasma irregularities

    K. Schlegel

Frequent Co-Authors

Christos Haldoupis
Christos Haldoupis University of Crete
Erling Nielsen
Erling Nielsen Max Planck Society
Klemens Hocke
Klemens Hocke University of Bern
Gottfried Kirchengast
Gottfried Kirchengast University of Graz
Donald T. Farley
Donald T. Farley Cornell University
Hermann Lühr
Hermann Lühr University of Potsdam
Takuji Nakamura
Takuji Nakamura National Institute of Polar Research
Shigeto Watanabe
Shigeto Watanabe Hokkaido Information University
Shoichiro Fukao
Shoichiro Fukao Kyoto University

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