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Manfred Wendisch

Manfred Wendisch

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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
75
Citations
18353
World Ranking
1287
National Ranking
85

Manfred Wendisch publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Manfred Wendisch sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 488 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Manfred Wendisch D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Manfred Wendisch sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Manfred Wendisch is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and contributes extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research emphasizes Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, complemented by work in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Aerospace Engineering, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's research topics cover key areas such as:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Wendisch's publication record includes notable papers such as:

  • "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
  • "Overview of the MOSAiC expedition: Physical oceanography," 2022, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • "Constraining the Twomey effect from satellite observations: issues and perspectives," 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Influx of African biomass burning aerosol during the Amazonian dry season through layered transatlantic transport of black carbon-rich smoke," 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "The COMBLE Campaign: A Study of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds in Arctic Cold-Air Outbreaks," 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Frequent co-authors with whom Wendisch has collaborated include:

  • André Ehrlich
  • Michael Schäfer
  • Evelyn Jäkel
  • Mario Mech
  • Susanne Crewell

The scientist publishes regularly in venues such as:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • AIP conference proceedings
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene

Best Publications

  • Divergent consensuses on Arctic amplification influence on midlatitude severe winter weather

    J. Cohen;X. Zhang;J. Francis;T. Jung;T. Jung

  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition—Atmosphere

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  • Mixed-Phase Clouds: Progress and Challenges

    A. Korolev;G. McFarquhar;P. R. Field;P. R. Field;C. Franklin

  • 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

  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition

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  • 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

  • Introduction: Observations and Modeling of the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/5)

    S. T. Martin;P. Artaxo;L. A. T. Machado;A. O. Manzi

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

    Albert Ansmann;Andreas Petzold;Konrad Kandler;Ina Tegen

  • Optical and microphysical characterization of biomass-burning and industrial-pollution aerosols from multiwavelength lidar and aircraft measurements.

    Ulla Wandinger;Detlef Müller;Christine Böckmann;Dietrich Althausen

  • Overview of the MOSAiC expedition

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  • 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

  • EUREC4A: A Field Campaign to Elucidate the Couplings Between Clouds, Convection and Circulation

    Sandrine Bony;Bjorn Stevens;Felix Ament;Sebastien Bigorre

  • EUREC 4 A

    Bjorn Stevens;Sandrine Bony;David Farrell;Felix Ament

  • Relative humidity dependence of aerosol optical properties and direct radiative forcing in the surface boundary layer at Xinken in Pearl River Delta of China : An observation based numerical study

    Y. F. Cheng;Y. F. Cheng;A. Wiedensohler;H. Eichler;J. Heintzenberg

  • Assessing 1D atmospheric solar radiative transfer models: Interpretation and handling of unresolved clouds

    Howard W. Barker;G. L. Stephens;P. T. Partain;J. W. Bergman

  • The North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment

    Andreas Schäfler;George Craig;Heini Wernli;Philippe Arbogast

  • Understanding Causes and Effects of Rapid Warming in the Arctic

    Manfred Wendisch;Marlen Brückner;John Burrows;Susanne Crewell

  • Aerosol characteristics and particle production in the upper troposphere over the Amazon Basin

    Meinrat O. Andreae;Meinrat O. Andreae;Armin Afchine;Rachel I. Albrecht;Bruna Amorim Holanda

  • Airborne instruments to measure atmospheric aerosol particles, clouds and radiation: A cook's tour of mature and emerging technology

    D. Baumgardner;J.L. Brenguier;A. Bucholtz;H. Coe

  • Measurements and modelling of aerosol single-scattering albedo : Progress, problems and prospects

    J. Heintzenberg;R. J. Charlson;A. D. Clarke;C. Liousse

  • An Airborne Spectral Albedometer with Active Horizontal Stabilization

    Manfred Wendisch;Dörthe Müller;Dieter Schell;Jost Heintzenberg

  • The Green Ocean Amazon Experiment (GoAmazon2014/5) Observes Pollution Affecting Gases, Aerosols, Clouds, and Rainfall over the Rain Forest

    S. T. Martin;P. Artaxo;L. Machado;A. O. Manzi

  • 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

  • Observations of Small-Scale Turbulence and Energy Dissipation Rates in the Cloudy Boundary Layer

    Holger Siebert;Katrin Lehmann;Manfred Wendisch

Frequent Co-Authors

Meinrat O. Andreae
Meinrat O. Andreae Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Stephan Borrmann
Stephan Borrmann Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Susanne Crewell
Susanne Crewell University of Cologne
Christiane Voigt
Christiane Voigt German Aerospace Center
Ulrich Pöschl
Ulrich Pöschl Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Bernadett Weinzierl
Bernadett Weinzierl University of Vienna
Bernhard Mayer
Bernhard Mayer University of Calgary
Luiz A. T. Machado
Luiz A. T. Machado Max Planck Society
Martina Krämer
Martina Krämer Forschungszentrum Jülich
Daniel Rosenfeld
Daniel Rosenfeld Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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