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Martin Schnaiter is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and conducts research primarily in the domains of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work extensively covers the subfields of Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering.

The scientist's research interests focus on key topics such as:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Icing and De-icing Technologies

Schnaiter has contributed to several publications in prominent scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques

Their scientific output includes papers published between 2020 and 2022, among them:

  • Observations of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Surface Radiation over the Southern Ocean: An Overview of CAPRICORN, MARCUS, MICRE, and SOCRATES, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • High homogeneous freezing onsets of sulfuric acid aerosol at cirrus temperatures, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Sources, Occurrence and Characteristics of Fluorescent Biological Aerosol Particles Measured Over the Pristine Southern Ocean, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Evidence for Secondary Ice Production in Southern Ocean Maritime Boundary Layer Clouds, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Aerosol-optics model for the backscatter depolarisation ratio of mineral dust particles, 2020, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Schnaiter's work, with frequent co-authors including Emma Järvinen, Greg M. McFarquhar, Fritz Waitz, Guanglang Xu, and Paul J. DeMott. Among these, the collaboration with Emma Järvinen stands out as the most frequent, followed by Greg M. McFarquhar and Fritz Waitz.

Best Publications

  • Absorption of light by soot particles: determination of the absorption coefficient by means of aethalometers

    E. Weingartner;H. Saathoff;M. Schnaiter;N. Streit

  • UV-VIS-NIR spectral optical properties of soot and soot-containing aerosols

    M. Schnaiter;H. Horvath;O. Möhler;K.-H. Naumann

  • Absorption amplification of black carbon internally mixed with secondary organic aerosol

    M. Schnaiter;C. Linke;O. Möhler;K.-H. Naumann

  • Mixed-Phase Clouds: Progress and Challenges

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

  • Heterogeneous nucleation of ice particles on glassy aerosols under cirrus conditions

    Benjamin J. Murray;Theodore W. Wilson;Steven Dobbie;Zhiqiang Cui

  • 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

  • Efficiency of the deposition mode ice nucleation on mineral dust particles

    O. Möhler;P. R. Field;P. R. Field;P. Connolly;S. Benz

  • Spectral light absorption by ambient aerosols influenced by biomass burning in the Amazon Basin ? I. Comparison and field calibration of absorption measurement techniques

    O. Schmid;P. Artaxo;W. P. Arnott;D. Chand

  • The effect of organic coating on the heterogeneous ice nucleation efficiency of mineral dust aerosols

    O. Möhler;S. Benz;H. Saathoff;M. Schnaiter

  • The absorption Ångström exponent of black carbon: from numerical aspects

    Chao Liu;Chul Eddy Chung;Yan Yin;Martin Schnaiter

  • Observations of clouds, aerosols, precipitation, and surface radiation over the southern ocean

    Greg Michael McFarquhar;Christopher S. Bretherton;Roger Marchand;Alain Protat

  • Effect of sulfuric acid coating on heterogeneous ice nucleation by soot aerosol particles

    O. Möhler;S. Büttner;C. Linke;M. Schnaiter

  • Coating of soot and (NH4)2SO4 particles by ozonolysis products of α-pinene

    H. Saathoff;K.-H. Naumann;M. Schnaiter;W. Schöck

  • Experimental investigation of homogeneous freezing of sulphuric acid particles in the aerosol chamber AIDA

    O. Möhler;O. Stetzer;S. Schaefers;C. Linke

  • Relationship of visibility, aerosol optical thickness and aerosol size distribution in an ageing air mass over South-West Germany

    D. Bäumer;B. Vogel;S. Versick;R. Rinke

  • 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

  • Fluorescent biological aerosol particles measured with the Waveband Integrated Bioaerosol Sensor WIBS-4: laboratory tests combined with a one year field study

    E. Toprak;M. Schnaiter

  • 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

  • Some ice nucleation characteristics of Asian and Saharan desert dust

    P. R. Field;P. R. Field;O. Möhler;P. Connolly;M. Krämer

  • Single Particle Soot Photometer intercomparison at the AIDA chamber

    M. Laborde;M. Schnaiter;C. Linke;H. Saathoff

  • Optical properties and mineralogical composition of different Saharan mineral dust samples: a laboratory study

    C. Linke;O. Möhler;A. Veres;Á. Mohácsi

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Ottmar Möhler
Ottmar Möhler Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Harald Saathoff
Harald Saathoff Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Martina Krämer
Martina Krämer Forschungszentrum Jülich
Bernadett Weinzierl
Bernadett Weinzierl University of Vienna
Manfred Wendisch
Manfred Wendisch Leipzig University
Martin Gallagher
Martin Gallagher University of Manchester
Meinrat O. Andreae
Meinrat O. Andreae Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Martin Gysel
Martin Gysel Paul Scherrer Institute
Paul Connolly
Paul Connolly University of Manchester
Johannes Schneider
Johannes Schneider Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

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