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Peter Knippertz is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their scholarly output includes 86 publications related to Earth and Planetary Sciences and 70 addressing Environmental Science, highlighting a broad engagement with geoscientific disciplines.

The scientist's work spans several specialized subfields, including Atmospheric Science with 75 publications, Global and Planetary Change with 64, Earth-Surface Processes and Oceanography each with 4, and Geochemistry and Petrology with 3. The research topics they focus on reflect interests in the dynamics and composition of the atmosphere and its interactions with climate and planetary systems.

Main topics covered in their research include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

The scientist has been published frequently in several academic journals, with the most recurrent venues including:

  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Weather and Climate Dynamics
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Weather and Forecasting

Frequent collaborators in their research network include Andreas H. Fink, Cyrille Flamant, Joaquim G. Pinto, Julian Quinting, and Marlon Maranan, indicating collaboration across various aspects of atmospheric and climate science.

Selected recent publications by Peter Knippertz demonstrate a focus on atmospheric phenomena, aerosols, and hydrometeorology:

  • "A review of coarse mineral dust in the Earth system" (2022) published in Aeolian Research
  • "A multi-disciplinary analysis of the exceptional flood event of July 2021 in central Europe - Part 01: Event description and analysis" (2023) published in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
  • "A Process-Based Validation of GPM IMERG and Its Sources Using a Mesoscale Rain Gauge Network in the West African Forest Zone" (2020) published in Journal of Hydrometeorology
  • "Unexpected Biomass Burning Aerosol Absorption Enhancement Explained by Black Carbon Mixing State" (2020) published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Overview of aerosol optical properties over southern West Africa from DACCIWA aircraft measurements" (2020) published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Best Publications

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

    Volker Freudenthaler;Michael Esselborn;Matthias Wiegner;Birgit Heese

  • Chemical composition and complex refractive index of Saharan Mineral Dust at Izaña, Tenerife (Spain) derived by electron microscopy

    Konrad Kandler;Nathalie Benker;Ulrich Bundke;Emilio Cuevas

  • Size distribution, mass concentration, chemical and mineralogical composition and derived optical parameters of the boundary layer aerosol at Tinfou, Morocco, during SAMUM 2006

    K. Kandler;L. Schütz;C. Deutscher;M. Ebert

  • Mineral dust aerosols over the Sahara: Meteorological controls on emission and transport and implications for modeling

    Peter Knippertz;Martin C. Todd

  • Long-term precipitation variability in Morocco and the link to the large-scale circulation in recent and future climates

    P. Knippertz;M. Christoph;P. Speth

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

    Matthias Tesche;Albert Ansmann;Detlef Müller;Dietrich Althausen

  • The mysterious long-range transport of giant mineral dust particles

    Michèlle van der Does;Peter Knippertz;Philipp Zschenderlein;R. Giles Harrison

  • Large-eddy simulations over Germany using ICON: a comprehensive evaluation

    Rieke Heinze;Rieke Heinze;Anurag Dipankar;Cintia Carbajal Henken;Christopher Moseley

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

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

  • A review of coarse mineral dust in the Earth system

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  • Mineral dust - a key player in the Earth system

    Peter Knippertz;Jan Berend W Stuut

  • A Lagrangian Climatology of Tropical Moisture Exports to the Northern Hemispheric Extratropics

    Peter Knippertz;Heini Wernli

  • Saharan dust absorption and refractive index from aircraft‐based observations during SAMUM 2006

    Andreas Petzold;Katharina Rasp;Bernadett Weinzierl;Michael Esselborn

  • Global Climatologies of Eulerian and Lagrangian Flow Features based on ERA-Interim

    Michael Sprenger;Georgios Fragkoulidis;Hanin Binder;Mischa Croci-Maspoli

  • The ``Year'' of Tropical Convection (May 2008-April 2010): Climate Variability and Weather Highlights

    Duane E. Waliser;Mitchell W. Moncrieff;David Burridge;Andreas H. Fink

  • The role of moist convection in the West African monsoon system: Insights from continental‐scale convection‐permitting simulations

    John H. Marsham;Nick S. Dixon;Luis Garcia-Carreras;Grenville M. S. Lister

  • Dust emissions over the Sahel associated with the West African monsoon intertropical discontinuity region: A representative case-study

    D. Bou Karam;C. Flamant;P. Knippertz;Oliver Reitebuch

  • The role of deep convection and nocturnal low‐level jets for dust emission in summertime West Africa: Estimates from convection‐permitting simulations

    B. Heinold;B. Heinold;P. Knippertz;J. H. Marsham;S. Fiedler

  • Changing cyclones and surface wind speeds over the North Atlantic and Europe in a transient GHG experiment

    P. Knippertz;U. Ulbrich;P. Speth

  • Climate of the Mediterranean: Synoptic Patterns, Temperature, Precipitation, Winds, and Their Extremes

    Uwe Ulbrich;Piero Lionello;Danijel Belušić;Jucundus Jacobeit

  • The importance of the representation of deep convection for modeled dust‐generating winds over West Africa during summer

    John H. Marsham;Peter Knippertz;Nick S. Dixon;Douglas J. Parker

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas H. Fink
Andreas H. Fink Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
John H. Marsham
John H. Marsham University of Leeds
Bernd Heinold
Bernd Heinold Leibniz Association
Kerstin Schepanski
Kerstin Schepanski Leibniz Association
Douglas J. Parker
Douglas J. Parker University of Leeds
Ina Tegen
Ina Tegen Leibniz Association
Joel Brito
Joel Brito IMT Lille Douai
Heini Wernli
Heini Wernli ETH Zurich
Konrad Kandler
Konrad Kandler Technical University of Darmstadt
Tilmann Gneiting
Tilmann Gneiting Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies

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