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Overview

Michael Ponater is affiliated with the German Aerospace Center in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change as key subfields.

The main topics of Michael Ponater's work include:

  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies
  • Vehicle emissions and performance
  • Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory

The scientist has contributed to research published in several venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Geoscientific model development
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Aerospace
  • Journal of Climate

Michael Ponater's recent papers include:

  • "Coupling aerosols to (cirrus) clouds in the global EMAC-MADE3 aerosol-climate model," 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • "Towards Determining the Contrail Cirrus Efficacy," 2021, Aerospace
  • "Updating the radiation infrastructure in MESSy (based on MESSy version 2.55)," 2024, Geoscientific model development
  • "Slow feedbacks resulting from strongly enhanced atmospheric methane mixing ratios in a chemistry-climate model with mixed-layer ocean," 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Contrail Cirrus Climate Impact: From Radiative Forcing to Surface Temperature Change," 2025, Journal of Climate

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Patrick Jöckel
  • Laura Stecher
  • Franziska Winterstein
  • M. Dameris
  • Mattia Righi

Best Publications

  • Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing

    Piers Forster;Venkatachalam Ramaswamy;Paulo Artaxo;Terje Berntsen

  • Simulation of the present-day climate with the ECHAM model: Impact of model physics and resolution

    Erich Roeckner;Klaus Arpe;Lennart Bengtsson;S. Brinkop

  • On the Roles of Tropical and Midlatitude SSTs in Forcing Interannual to Interdecadal Variability in the Winter Northern Hemisphere Circulation

    Nicholas E. Graham;Tim P. Barnett;Robert Wilde;Michael Ponater

  • A comparison of model-simulated trends in stratospheric temperatures

    K. P. Shine;M. S. Bourqui;P. M. de F. Forster;S. H. E. Hare

  • Contrails in a comprehensive global climate model: Parameterization and radiative forcing results

    Michael Ponater;Susanne Marquart;Robert Sausen

  • A comparison of climate response to different radiative forcings in three general circulation models: towards an improved metric of climate change

    M.M. Joshi;K.P. Shine;M. Ponater;N. Stuber

  • Future Development of Contrail Cover, Optical Depth, and Radiative Forcing: Impacts of Increasing Air Traffic and Climate Change

    S. Marquart;M. Ponater;F. Mager;R. Sausen

  • A Diagnostic Study of the Global Distribution of Contrails. Part I: Present Day Climate

    Robert Sausen;Klaus Martin Gierens;Michael Ponater;Ulrich Schumann

  • Response of climate to regional emissions of ozone precursors: sensitivities and warming potentials

    T. K. Berntsen;J. S. Fuglestvedt;M. M. Joshi;K. P. Shine

  • Development of a chemistry module for GCMs: first results of a multiannual integration

    B. Steil;M. Dameris;C. Brühl;P. J. Crutzen

  • Potential of the cryoplane technology to reduce aircraft climate impact: A state-of-the-art assessment

    Michael Ponater;Susanne Pechtl;Robert Sausen;Ulrich Schumann

  • Quantifying the contributions of individual NOx sources to the trend in ozone radiative forcing

    Katrin Dahlmann;Volker Grewe;Michael Ponater;Sigrun Matthes

  • Long-term changes and variability in a transient simulation with a chemistry-climate model employing realistic forcing

    Martin Dameris;Volker Grewe;Michael Ponater;Rudolf Deckert

  • Results of an interactively coupled atmospheric chemistry – general circulation model: Comparison with observations

    R. Hein;M. Dameris;C. Schnadt;C. Land;C. Land

  • A new radiation infrastructure for the Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy, based on version 2.51)

    Simone Dietmüller;Simone Dietmüller;Patrick Jöckel;Holger Tost;Markus Kunze

  • Do aircraft black carbon emissions affect cirrus clouds on the global scale

    Johannes Hendricks;Bernd Kärcher;Ulrike Lohmann;Michael Ponater

  • Aviation-induced radiative forcing and surface temperature change in dependency of the emission altitude

    C. Frömming;M. Ponater;K. Dahlmann;V. Grewe

  • Aircraft routing with minimal climate impact: the REACT4C climate cost function modelling approach (V1.0)

    Volker Grewe;Christine Frömming;Sigrun Matthes;Sabine Brinkop

  • Stratosphere adjusted radiative forcing calculationsin a comprehensive climate model

    N. Stuber;R. Sausen;M. Ponater

  • On contrail climate sensitivity

    M. Ponater;S. Marquart;S. Marquart;R. Sausen;U. Schumann

  • Lagrangian transport of water vapor and cloud water in the ECHAM4 GCM and its impact on the cold bias

    Andrea Stenke;Volker Grewe;Michael Ponater

  • Interaction of atmospheric chemistry and climate and its impact on stratospheric ozone

    C. Schnadt;M. Dameris;M. Ponater;R. Hein

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Grewe
Volker Grewe German Aerospace Center
Martin Dameris
Martin Dameris German Aerospace Center
Robert Sausen
Robert Sausen German Aerospace Center
C. Brühl
C. Brühl Max Planck Society
Patrick Jöckel
Patrick Jöckel German Aerospace Center
Veronika Eyring
Veronika Eyring University of Bremen
Johannes Hendricks
Johannes Hendricks German Aerospace Center
Andrea Stenke
Andrea Stenke ETH Zurich
Ulrich Schumann
Ulrich Schumann German Aerospace Center
Keith P. Shine
Keith P. Shine University of Reading

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