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Paul Konopka is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. The scientist's research encompasses Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Their work also spans subfields related to Astronomy and Astrophysics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics covered in Konopka's research include Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate variability and models, Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Konopka are:

  • Felix Ploeger
  • Mengchu Tao
  • Jonathon S. Wright
  • Martin Riese
  • Xiaolu Yan

The scientist has published predominantly in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, with 17 papers there. Other publication venues include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Remote Sensing

Recent papers by Paul Konopka include:

  • Upward transport into and within the Asian monsoon anticyclone as inferred from StratoClim trace gas observations, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • The stratospheric Brewer-Dobson circulation inferred from age of air in the ERA5 reanalysis, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Differences in tropical high clouds among reanalyses: origins and radiative impacts, 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Stratospheric Moistening After 2000, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • 3-D tomographic observations of Rossby wave breaking over the North Atlantic during the WISE aircraft campaign in 2017, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Best Publications

  • From ERA-Interim to ERA5: the considerable impact of ECMWF's next-generation reanalysis on Lagrangian transport simulations

    Lars Hoffmann;Gebhard Günther;Dan Li;Dan Li;Olaf Stein

  • Impact of uncertainties in atmospheric mixing on simulated UTLS composition and related radiative effects

    Martin Riese;F. Ploeger;A. Rap;B. Vogel

  • A new Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS) 1. Formulation of advection and mixing

    Daniel S. McKenna;Paul Konopka;Jens-Uwe Grooß;Gebhard Günther

  • A new Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS) 2. Formulation of chemistry scheme and initialization

    Daniel S. McKenna;Jens-Uwe Grooß;Gebhard Günther;Paul Konopka

  • Nitric Acid Trihydrate (NAT) formation at low NAT supersaturation in Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSCs)

    C. Voigt;H. Schlager;B. P. Luo;A. Dörnbrack

  • Estimate of diffusion parameters of aircraft exhaust plumes near the tropopause from nitric oxide and turbulence measurements

    U. Schumann;P. Konopka;R. Baumann;R. Busen

  • In situ observations of air traffic emission signatures in the North Atlantic flight corridor

    Hans Schlager;Paul Konopka;P. Schulte;U. Schumann

  • Dynamical tropopause based on isentropic potential vorticity gradients

    A. Kunz;A. Kunz;P. Konopka;R. Müller;L. L. Pan

  • Tropospheric intrusions associated with the secondary tropopause

    L. L. Pan;W. J. Randel;J. C. Gille;W. D. Hall

  • Chemical and dynamical discontinuity at the extratropical tropopause based on START08 and WACCM analyses

    A. Kunz;A. Kunz;L. Pan;P. Konopka;Douglas Kinnison

  • Mixing and ozone loss in the 1999–2000 Arctic vortex: Simulations with the three-dimensional Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS)

    Paul Konopka;Hildegard-Maria Steinhorst;Jens-Uwe Grooß;Gebhard Günther

  • Observations of meteoric material and implications for aerosol nucleation in the winter Arctic lower stratosphere derived from in situ particle measurements

    J. Curtius;R. Weigel;H.-J. Vössing;H. Wernli

  • Tropical troposphere to stratosphere transport of carbon monoxide and long-lived trace species in the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS)

    R. Pommrich;R. Pommrich;R. Müller;J.-U. Grooß;P. Konopka

  • Horizontal water vapor transport in the lower stratosphere from subtropics to high latitudes during boreal summer

    F. Ploeger;G. Günther;P. Konopka;Stephan Andreas Fueglistaler

  • Annual cycle of ozone at and above the tropical tropopause: observations versus simulations with the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS)

    P. Konopka;J.-U. Grooß;G. Günther;F. Ploeger

  • Tropospheric ozone trend over Beijing from 2002–2010: ozonesonde measurements and modeling analysis

    Y. Wang;Y. Wang;P. Konopka;Y. Liu;H. Chen

  • Impact of the vertical velocity scheme on modeling transport in the tropical tropopause layer

    F. Ploeger;P. Konopka;G. Günther;J.-U. Grooß

  • Hydration and dehydration at the tropical tropopause

    C. Schiller;J.-U. Grooß;P. Konopka;F. Plöger

  • Contribution of mixing to upward transport across the Tropical Tropopause Layer (TTL)

    P. Konopka;G. Günther;R. Müller;F. H. S. dos Santos

  • A potential vorticity-based determination of the transport barrier in the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone

    F. Ploeger;C. Gottschling;S. Griessbach;J.-U. Grooß

  • Transport and effective diffusion of aircraft emissions

    Thomas Gerz;Tilman Dürbeck;Paul Konopka

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf Müller
Rolf Müller Forschungszentrum Jülich
Felix Ploeger
Felix Ploeger Forschungszentrum Jülich
Martin Riese
Martin Riese Forschungszentrum Jülich
Jens-Uwe Grooß
Jens-Uwe Grooß Forschungszentrum Jülich
Cornelius Schiller
Cornelius Schiller Forschungszentrum Jülich
Hans Schlager
Hans Schlager German Aerospace Center
C. M. Volk
C. M. Volk University of Wuppertal
Daniel S. McKenna
Daniel S. McKenna Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Bernard Legras
Bernard Legras Sorbonne University
Laura L. Pan
Laura L. Pan National Center for Atmospheric Research

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