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Peter Preusse is affiliated with Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany and has a research focus primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Physics and Astronomy. Their scholarly output spans 43 publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences and 27 in Physics and Astronomy. Within these fields, the emphasis is on Atmospheric Science and Astronomy and Astrophysics, alongside contributions to Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work frequently addresses several main topics, including:

  • Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Peter Preusse has coauthored extensively with researchers such as Jörn Ungermann (27 joint publications), Martin Riese (18), Manfred Ern (14), Karlheinz Nogai (13), and Quentin Errera (13). The frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 16 publications
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics - 10 publications
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres - 6 publications
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques - 5 publications
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society - 2 publications

Representative recent papers illustrate the scientist's research contributions over the past few years:

  • "SOUTHTRAC-GW: An Airborne Field Campaign to Explore Gravity Wave Dynamics at the World's Strongest Hotspot" (2020), published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "The semiannual oscillation (SAO) in the tropical middle atmosphere and its gravity wave driving in reanalyses and satellite observations" (2021), published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "The Mesoscale Gravity Wave Response to the 2022 Tonga Volcanic Eruption: AIRS and MLS Satellite Observations and Source Backtracing" (2022), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Determining Gravity Wave Sources and Propagation in the Southern Hemisphere by Ray-Tracing AIRS Measurements" (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Removing spurious inertial instability signals from gravity wave temperature perturbations using spectral filtering methods" (2020), published in Atmospheric measurement techniques

Best Publications

  • Recent developments in gravity-wave effects in climate models and the global distribution of gravity-wave momentum flux from observations and models

    M. J. Alexander;M. Geller;C. McLandress;S. Polavarapu

  • Absolute values of gravity wave momentum flux derived from satellite data

    Manfred Ern;Peter Preusse;M. Joan Alexander;Christopher D. Warner

  • Global Measurements of Stratospheric Mountain Waves from Space

    Stephen D Eckermann;Peter Preusse

  • A comparison between gravity wave momentum fluxes in observations and climate models

    Marvin A. Geller;M. Joan Alexander;Peter T. Love;Julio Bacmeister

  • Space-based measurements of stratospheric mountain waves by CRISTA 1. Sensitivity, analysis method, and a case study

    Peter Preusse;Andreas Dörnbrack;Stephen D. Eckermann;Martin Riese

  • Implications for atmospheric dynamics derived from global observations of gravity wave momentum flux in stratosphere and mesosphere

    M. Ern;P. Preusse;J. C. Gille;J. C. Gille;C. L. Hepplewhite

  • Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere (CRISTA) experiment and middle atmosphere variability

    D. Offermann;K.-U. Grossmann;P. Barthol;P. Knieling

  • GRACILE: a comprehensive climatology of atmospheric gravity wave parameters based on satellite limb soundings

    Manfred Ern;Quang Thai Trinh;Peter Preusse;John C. Gille;John C. Gille

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

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

  • Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere (CRISTA) data processing and atmospheric temperature and trace gas retrieval

    M. Riese;R. Spang;P. Preusse;M. Ern

  • Interaction of gravity waves with the QBO: A satellite perspective

    M. Ern;F. Ploeger;P. Preusse;J. C. Gille;J. C. Gille

  • Transparency of the atmosphere to short horizontal wavelength gravity waves

    Peter Preusse;Stephen D. Eckermann;Manfred Ern

  • Global Ray Tracing Simulations of the SABER Gravity Wave Climatology

    Peter Preusse;Stephen D. Eckermann;Manfred Ern;Jens Oberheide

  • Equatorial wave analysis from SABER and ECMWF temperatures

    M. Ern;P. Preusse;M. Krebsbach;M. Krebsbach;M. G. Mlynczak

  • Implications of Satellite OH Observations for Middle Atmospheric H2O and Ozone

    M. E. Summers;R. R. Conway;D. E. Siskind;M. H. Stevens

  • Remote sounding of atmospheric gravity waves with satellite limb and nadir techniques

    Dong L. Wu;Peter Preusse;Stephen D. Eckermann;Jonathan H. Jiang

  • Characteristics of gravity waves resolved by ECMWF

    P. Preusse;M. Ern;P. Bechtold;S. D. Eckermann

  • Role of gravity waves in the forcing of quasi two-day waves in the mesosphere: An observational study

    M. Ern;P. Preusse;S. Kalisch;M. Kaufmann

  • Instrument concept of the imaging Fourier transform spectrometer GLORIA

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

  • Tropopause to mesopause gravity waves in August: Measurement and modeling

    Peter Preusse;Manfred Ern;Stephen D. Eckermann;Christopher D. Warner

  • SOUTHTRAC-GW: An airborne field campaign to explore gravity wave dynamics at the world’s strongest hotspot

    Markus Rapp;Bernd Kaifler;Andreas Dörnbrack;Sonja Gisinger

  • Directional gravity wave momentum fluxes in the stratosphere derived from high-resolution AIRS temperature data

    M. Ern;L. Hoffmann;P. Preusse

  • GRACILE: A comprehensive climatology of atmospheric gravity wave parameters based on satellite limb soundings, link to data in NetCDF format

    Manfred Ern;Quang Thai Trinh;Peter Preusse;John C Gille

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Riese
Martin Riese Forschungszentrum Jülich
Stephen D. Eckermann
Stephen D. Eckermann United States Naval Research Laboratory
Hermann Oelhaf
Hermann Oelhaf Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Michael Höpfner
Michael Höpfner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
John C. Gille
John C. Gille National Center for Atmospheric Research
Markus Rapp
Markus Rapp German Aerospace Center
Jens Oberheide
Jens Oberheide Clemson University
James M. Russell
James M. Russell Brown University
Andreas Dörnbrack
Andreas Dörnbrack German Aerospace Center
Peter Hoor
Peter Hoor Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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