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2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
102
Citations
31323
World Ranking
342
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Greece Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Greece Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Greece Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Greece Leader Award

Overview

Nikos Mihalopoulos is affiliated with the National Observatory of Athens in Greece and has a significant body of research contributions primarily focused on environmental and earth sciences. Their work spans multiple interconnected disciplines, including environmental science and earth and planetary sciences.

The main fields of study for Mihalopoulos include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broad areas, the subfields addressed in their research feature:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Automotive Engineering

Their research covers various specialized topics, prominently:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Mihalopoulos has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Atmosphere
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Environment International

Recent publications by Mihalopoulos include:

  • "Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East" (2022) published in Reviews of Geophysics
  • "European aerosol phenomenology − 8: Harmonised source apportionment of organic aerosol using 22 Year-long ACSM/AMS datasets" (2022) published in Environment International
  • "Field Evaluation of Low-Cost PM Sensors (Purple Air PA-II) Under Variable Urban Air Quality Conditions, in Greece" (2020) published in Atmosphere
  • "Human health risk assessment for toxic elements in the extreme ambient dust conditions observed in Sistan, Iran" (2020) published in Chemosphere
  • "A global analysis of climate-relevant aerosol properties retrieved from the network of Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) near-surface observatories" (2020) published in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors including:

  • Georgios Grivas
  • Iasonas Stavroulas
  • Eleni Liakakou
  • Evangelos Gerasopoulos
  • Andrés Alástuey

Best Publications

  • Global air pollution crossroads over the Mediterranean

    J. Lelieveld;H. Berresheim;S. Borrmann;P. J. Crutzen

  • A global database of sea surface dimethylsulfide (DMS) measurements and a procedure to predict sea surface DMS as a function of latitude, longitude, and month

    A. J. Kettle;M. O. Andreae;D. Amouroux;T. W. Andreae

  • Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

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  • Dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl sulfoxide and their oxidation in the atmosphere.

    Ian Barnes;Jens Hjorth;Nikos Mihalopoulos

  • The AeroCom evaluation and intercomparison of organic aerosol in global models

    K. Tsigaridis;K. Tsigaridis;N. Daskalakis;N. Daskalakis;M. Kanakidou;P. J. Adams

  • African dust contributions to mean ambient PM10 mass-levels across the Mediterranean Basin

    X. Querol;J. Pey;M. Pandolfi;A. Alastuey

  • Chemical composition of size-resolved atmospheric aerosols in the eastern Mediterranean during summer and winter

    H Bardouki;H Liakakou;C Economou;J Sciare

  • Past, present and future atmospheric nitrogen deposition

    M Kanakidou;Stelios Myriokefalitakis;Nikos Daskalakis;G Fanourgakis

  • Megacities as hot spots of air pollution in the East Mediterranean

    Maria Kanakidou;Nikolaos Mihalopoulos;Tayfun Kindap;Ulas Im

  • EUCAARI ion spectrometer measurements at 12 European sites – analysis of new particle formation events

    H. E. Manninen;T. Nieminen;E. Asmi;S. Gagné

  • Impacts on iron solubility in the mineral dust by processes in the source region and the atmosphere: A review

    Zongbo Shi;Michael D. Krom;Timothy D. Jickells;Steeve Bonneville

  • Tropospheric aerosol ionic composition in the Eastern Mediterranean region

    N. Mihalopoulos;E. Stephanou;M. Kanakidou;S. Pilitsidis

  • Inorganic bromine in the marine boundary layer: a critical review

    R. Sander;W. C. Keene;A. A. P. Pszenny;A. A. P. Pszenny;R. Arimoto

  • Number size distributions and seasonality of submicron particles in europe 2008–2009

    A. Asmi;A. Wiedensohler;P. Laj;A. M Fjaeraa

  • In-cloud oxalate formation in the global troposphere: a 3-D modeling study

    S. Myriokefalitakis;S. Myriokefalitakis;K. Tsigaridis;K. Tsigaridis;N. Mihalopoulos;J. Sciare

  • Origin and variability of particulate matter (PM10) mass concentrations over the Eastern Mediterranean

    E. Gerasopoulos;G. Kouvarakis;P. Babasakalis;M. Vrekoussis

  • A European aerosol phenomenology-5 : Climatology of black carbon optical properties at 9 regional background sites across Europe

    M. Zanatta;M. Gysel;N. Bukowiecki;T. Müller

  • Variability in regional background aerosols within the Mediterranean

    Xavier Querol;Andrés Alastuey;Jorge Pey;M. Cusack

  • Chemical composition and sources of fine and coarse aerosol particles in the Eastern Mediterranean

    E. Koulouri;S. Saarikoski;C. Theodosi;Z. Markaki

  • An FTIR product study of the photooxidation of dimethyl disulfide

    I. Barnes;K. H. Becker;N. Mihalopoulos

  • Explaining global surface aerosol number concentrations in terms of primary emissions and particle formation

    D. V. Spracklen;K. S. Carslaw;J. Merikanto;G. W. Mann

  • Primary versus secondary contributions to particle number concentrations in the European boundary layer

    C. L. Reddington;K. S. Carslaw;D. V. Spracklen;M. G. Frontoso

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Kanakidou
Maria Kanakidou University of Crete
Jean Sciare
Jean Sciare Cyprus Institute
Aikaterini Bougiatioti
Aikaterini Bougiatioti National Observatory of Athens
Mihalis Vrekoussis
Mihalis Vrekoussis University of Bremen
Evangelos Gerasopoulos
Evangelos Gerasopoulos National Observatory of Athens
Athanasios Nenes
Athanasios Nenes École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Giorgos Kouvarakis
Giorgos Kouvarakis University of Crete
Spyros N. Pandis
Spyros N. Pandis University of Patras
Konstantinos Eleftheriadis
Konstantinos Eleftheriadis National Centre of Scientific Research Demokritos
Eleni Liakakou
Eleni Liakakou Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research

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