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Matthias Tesche

Matthias Tesche

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
55
Citations
10805
World Ranking
3861
National Ranking
263

Overview

Matthias Tesche is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric phenomena, particularly in the areas of atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and related climate interactions.

Their scholarly output includes numerous publications, with notable papers such as:

  • Constraining the Twomey effect from satellite observations: issues and perspectives (2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics)
  • A First Case Study of CCN Concentrations from Spaceborne Lidar Observations (2020, Remote Sensing)
  • Aerosol-enhanced high precipitation events near the Himalayan foothills (2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics)
  • Changing air pollution scenario during COVID-19: Redefining the hotspot regions over India (2020, Environmental Pollution)
  • Estimating cloud condensation nuclei concentrations from CALIPSO lidar measurements (2022, Atmospheric measurement techniques)

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Goutam Choudhury
  • Johannes Quaas
  • Torsten Seelig
  • Hartwig Deneke
  • Detlef Müller

Publication venues where Matthias Tesche's work appears often are:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Remote Sensing
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Earth's Future

Their main fields of study encompass:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Ecological Modeling

The primary topics of their work span:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Aeolian processes and effects

Best Publications

  • Depolarization ratio profiling at several wavelengths in pure Saharan dust during SAMUM 2006.

    Volker Freudenthaler;Michael Esselborn;Matthias Wiegner;Birgit Heese

  • Aerosol-type-dependent lidar ratios observed with Raman lidar

    D. Müller;A. Ansmann;I. Mattis;M. Tesche

  • Vertically resolved separation of dust and smoke over Cape Verde using multiwavelength Raman and polarization lidars during Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment 2008

    M. Tesche;A. Ansmann;D. Müller;D. Müller;D. Althausen

  • Characterization of Saharan dust, marine aerosols and mixtures of biomass-burning aerosols and dust by means of multi-wavelength depolarization and Raman lidar measurements during SAMUM 2

    Silke Groß;Matthias Tesche;Volker Freudenthaler;Carlos Toledano;Carlos Toledano

  • 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

  • An overview of the first decade of Polly NET : an emerging network of automated Raman-polarization lidars for continuous aerosol profiling

    Holger Baars;Thomas Kanitz;Thomas Kanitz;Ronny Engelmann;Dietrich Althausen

  • The 16 April 2010 major volcanic ash plume over central Europe: EARLINET lidar and AERONET photometer observations at Leipzig and Munich, Germany

    A. Ansmann;M. Tesche;S. Groß;V. Freudenthaler

  • Vertical profiling of Saharan dust with Raman lidars and airborne HSRL in southern Morocco during SAMUM

    Matthias Tesche;Albert Ansmann;Detlef Müller;Dietrich Althausen

  • Influence of Saharan dust on cloud glaciation in southern Morocco during the Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment

    A. Ansmann;M. Tesche;D. Althausen;D. Müller

  • Airborne high spectral resolution lidar for measuring aerosol extinction and backscatter coefficients

    Michael Esselborn;Martin Wirth;Andreas Fix;Matthias Tesche

  • Profiling of Saharan dust and biomass‐burning smoke with multiwavelength polarization Raman lidar at Cape Verde

    Matthias Tesche;Matthias Tesche;Silke Gross;Silke Gross;Albert Ansmann;Detlef Müller;Detlef Müller

  • Ash and fine-mode particle mass profiles from EARLINET-AERONET observations over central Europe after the eruptions of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in 2010

    A. Ansmann;M. Tesche;P. Seifert;S. Groß

  • Dust and smoke transport from Africa to South America: Lidar profiling over Cape Verde and the Amazon rainforest

    Albert Ansmann;Holger Baars;Matthias Tesche;Detlef Müller

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

    Josef Gasteiger;Matthias Wiegner;Silke Groß;Volker Freudenthaler

  • Evolution of the ice phase in tropical altocumulus: SAMUM lidar observations over Cape Verde

    A. Ansmann;M. Tesche;P. Seifert;D. Althausen

  • 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

  • Microphysical and optical properties of dust and tropical biomass burning aerosol layers in the Cape Verde region—an overview of the airborne in situ and lidar measurements during SAMUM‐2

    Bernadett Weinzierl;Daniel Sauer;Daniel Sauer;Michael Esselborn;Michael Esselborn;Andreas Petzold

  • Profiling of fine and coarse particle mass: case studies of Saharan dust and Eyjafjallajökull/Grimsvötn volcanic plumes

    A. Ansmann;P. Seifert;Matthias Tesche;U. Wandinger

  • Saharan dust and heterogeneous ice formation : Eleven years of cloud observations at a central European EARLINET site

    P. Seifert;A. Ansmann;I. Mattis;U. Wandinger

  • 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

  • Optical and microphysical properties of smoke over Cape Verde inferred from multiwavelength lidar measurements

    Matthias Tesche;Matthias Tesche;Detlef Müller;Detlef Müller;Silke Gross;Silke Gross;Albert Ansmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Detlef Müller
Detlef Müller University of Hertfordshire
Albert Ansmann
Albert Ansmann Leibniz Association
Dietrich Althausen
Dietrich Althausen Leibniz Association
Volker Freudenthaler
Volker Freudenthaler Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Patric Seifert
Patric Seifert Leibniz Association
Ina Mattis
Ina Mattis German Meteorological Service
Bernadett Weinzierl
Bernadett Weinzierl University of Vienna
Konrad Kandler
Konrad Kandler Technical University of Darmstadt
Ronny Engelmann
Ronny Engelmann Leibniz Association
Matthias Wiegner
Matthias Wiegner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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