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Michael Höpfner 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 Michael Höpfner sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 356 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Höpfner 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 Michael Höpfner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael Höpfner is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these broad domains, Höpfner's work focuses on several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Materials Chemistry, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's main research topics involve Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Catalytic Processes in Materials Science.

Recent scholarly contributions by Höpfner include publications such as:

  • Polar Stratospheric Clouds: Satellite Observations, Processes, and Role in Ozone Depletion (2021, Reviews of Geophysics)
  • Solid Ammonium Nitrate Aerosols as Efficient Ice Nucleating Particles at Cirrus Temperatures (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)
  • Design and description of the MUSICA IASI full retrieval product (2022, Earth system science data)
  • Reconstructing volcanic radiative forcing since 1990, using a comprehensive emission inventory and spatially resolved sulfur injections from satellite data in a chemistry-climate model (2023, Atmospheric chemistry and physics)
  • Modeling the Sulfate Aerosol Evolution After Recent Moderate Volcanic Activity, 2008-2012 (2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres)

Höpfner collaborates frequently with other researchers. Their top frequent co-authors include:

  • B. Funke
  • Quentin Errera
  • Jörn Ungermann
  • Björn-Martin Sinnhuber
  • Sören Johansson

The scientist has contributed extensively to several publication venues, particularly:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 17 publications
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics with 10 publications
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques with 10 publications
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres with 4 publications
  • Geophysical Research Letters with 3 publications

Best Publications

  • Intercomparison of retrieval codes used for the analysis of high-resolution, ground-based FTIR measurements

    F. Hase;J.W. Hannigan;M.T. Coffey;A. Goldman

  • Retrieval of temperature and tangent altitude pointing from limb emission spectra recorded from space by the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS)

    T. von Clarmann;N. Glatthor;U. Grabowski;M. Höpfner

  • Optimized forward model and retrieval scheme for MIPAS near-real-time data processing.

    Marco Ridolfi;Bruno Carli;Massimo Carlotti;Thomas von Clarmann

  • Retrieval of temperature, H 2 O, O 3 , HNO 3 , CH 4 , N 2 O, ClONO 2 and ClO from MIPAS reduced resolution nominal mode limb emission measurements

    T. von Clarmann;M. Höpfner;S. Kellmann;A. Linden

  • Sensitivity of trace gas abundances retrievals from infrared limb emission spectra to simplifying approximations in radiative transfer modelling

    Gabriele P. Stiller;Thomas von Clarmann;Bernd Funke;Norbert Glatthor

  • Ammonium nitrate particles formed in upper troposphere from ground ammonia sources during Asian monsoons

    Michael Höpfner;Jörn Ungermann;Stephan Borrmann;Stephan Borrmann;Robert Wagner

  • Observation of NO(x) Enhancement and Ozone Depletion in the Northern and Southern hemispheres after the October-November 2003 Solar Proton Events

    M. López-Puertas;B. Funke;S. Gil-López;T. von Clarmann

  • Satellite observation of lowermost tropospheric ozone by multispectral synergism of IASI thermal infrared and GOME-2 ultraviolet measurements over Europe

    J. Cuesta;M. Eremenko;X. Liu;G. Dufour

  • MIPAS level 2 operational analysis

    P. Raspollini;C. Belotti;A. Burgess;B. Carli

  • Validation of ozone measurements from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE)

    E. Dupuy;K.A. Walker;K.A. Walker;J. Kar;C.D. Boone

  • Polar Stratospheric Clouds: Satellite Observations, Processes, and Role in Ozone Depletion

    Ines Tritscher;Michael C. Pitts;Lamont R. Poole;Simon P. Alexander

  • GRANADA: A Generic RAdiative traNsfer AnD non-LTE population algorithm

    B. Funke;M. López-Puertas;M. García-Comas;M. Kaufmann

  • CO measurements from the ACE-FTS satellite instrument: data analysis and validation using ground-based, airborne and spaceborne observations

    Cathy Clerbaux;Maya George;Solène Turquety;K. A. Walker;K. A. Walker

  • Retrieval of stratospheric NOx from 5.3 and 6.2 μm nonlocal thermodynamic equilibrium emissions measured by Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) on Envisat

    Bernd Funke;M. López-Puertas;T. von Clarmann;G. P. Stiller

  • Global distribution of mean age of stratospheric air from MIPAS SF 6 measurements

    G.P. Stiller;T. von Clarmann;M. Höpfner;N. Glatthor

  • MIPAS detects Antarctic stratospheric belt of NAT PSCs caused by mountain waves

    M. Höpfner;N. Larsen;R. Spang;B. P. Luo

  • Instrument concept of the imaging Fourier transform spectrometer GLORIA

    F. Friedl-Vallon;T. Gulde;F. Hase;A. Kleinert

  • Gimballed Limb Observer for Radiance Imaging of the Atmosphere (GLORIA) scientific objectives

    M. Riese;H. Oelhaf;P. Preusse;J. Blank

  • Spectroscopic evidence for NAT, STS, and ice in MIPAS infrared limb emission measurements of polar stratospheric clouds

    M. Höpfner;B. P. Luo;P. Massoli;F. Cairo

  • Stratospheric sulfur and its implications for radiative forcing simulated by the chemistry climate model EMAC

    C. Brühl;J. Lelieveld;J. Lelieveld;H. Tost;M. Höpfner

  • Global peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) retrieval in the upper troposphere from limb emission spectra of the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS)

    N. Glatthor;T. von Clarmann;H. Fischer;B. Funke

Frequent Co-Authors

Norbert Glatthor
Norbert Glatthor Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Bernd Funke
Bernd Funke Spanish National Research Council
Gabriele Stiller
Gabriele Stiller Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Sylvia Kellmann
Sylvia Kellmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
T. von Clarmann
T. von Clarmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Andrea Linden
Andrea Linden Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Manuel López-Puertas
Manuel López-Puertas Spanish National Research Council
Herbert Fischer
Herbert Fischer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Hermann Oelhaf
Hermann Oelhaf Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Kaley A. Walker
Kaley A. Walker University of Toronto

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