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Petra Seibert

Petra Seibert

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
13872
World Ranking
6243
National Ranking
52

Overview

Petra Seibert is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with particular expertise in Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. The subfields of their work also include Earth-Surface Processes, Radiation, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's main topics of research encompass:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Petra Seibert has contributed to several scientific publications, with some recent papers including:

  • "Climate Changes and Their Elevational Patterns in the Mountains of the World," 2022, Reviews of Geophysics
  • "Flex_extract v7.1.2 - a software package to retrieve and prepare ECMWF data for use in FLEXPART," 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • "FLEXPART version 11: improved accuracy, efficiency, and flexibility," 2024, Geoscientific Model Development
  • "Third international challenge to model the medium- to long-range transport of radioxenon to four Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty monitoring stations," 2022, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
  • "Characterization of the airborne aerosol inlet and transport system used during the A-LIFE aircraft field experiment," 2024, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Frequent collaborators in their research include Anne Tipka, Maximilian Dollner, Bernadett Weinzierl, Manuel Schöberl, and Josef Gasteiger.

Their work has appeared regularly in publication venues such as:

  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Reviews of Geophysics
  • Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Best Publications

  • Technical note: The Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART version 6.2

    A. Stohl;C. Forster;A. Frank;P. Seibert

  • Review and intercomparison of operational methods for the determination of the mixing height

    Petra Seibert;Frank Beyrich;Sven-Erik Gryning;Sylvain Joffre

  • Xenon-133 and caesium-137 releases into the atmosphere from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant: determination of the source term, atmospheric dispersion, and deposition

    Andreas Stohl;P. Seibert;G Wotawa;D. Arnold;D. Arnold

  • Stratosphere-troposphere exchange: A review, and what we have learned from STACCATO

    A. Stohl;P. Bonasoni;P. Cristofanelli;W. Collins

  • Climate Changes and Their Elevational Patterns in the Mountains of the World

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  • Source-receptor matrix calculation with a Lagrangian particle dispersion model in backward mode

    P. Seibert;A. Frank

  • The Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART version 10.4

    Ignacio Pisso;Espen Sollum;Henrik Grythe;Nina Iren Kristiansen;Nina Iren Kristiansen

  • Interpolation Errors in Wind Fields as a Function of Spatial and Temporal Resolution and Their Impact on Different Types of Kinematic Trajectories

    Andreas Stohl;Gerhard Wotawa;Petra Seibert;Helga Kromp-Kolb

  • Determination of time- and height-resolved volcanic ash emissions and their use for quantitative ash dispersion modeling: the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption

    Andreas Stohl;Alfredo Prata;Sabine Eckhardt;Lieven Clarisse

  • Accuracy of trajectories as determined from the conservation of meteorological tracers

    A. Stohl;P. Seibert

  • The Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART-WRF version 3.1

    J Brioude;J Brioude;D Arnold;D Arnold;Andreas Stohl;Massimo Cassiani

  • An analytical inversion method for determining regional and global emissions of greenhouse gases: Sensitivity studies and application to halocarbons

    A. Stohl;P. Seibert;J. Arduini;S. Eckhardt

  • A replacement for simple back trajectory calculations in the interpretation of atmospheric trace substance measurements

    Andreas Stohl;Sabine Eckhardt;Caroline Forster;Paul James

  • Aerosol climatology at the high‐alpine site Jungfraujoch, Switzerland

    U. Baltensperger;H. W. Gäggeler;D. T. Jost;M. Lugauer

  • Parameterization of Convective Transport in a Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model and Its Evaluation

    Caroline Forster;Andreas Stohl;Petra Seibert

  • Estimation of the vertical profile of sulfur dioxide injection into the atmosphere by a volcanic eruption using satellite column measurements and inverse transport modeling

    S. Eckhardt;A. J. Prata;P. Seibert;K. Stebel

  • A New Perspective of Stratosphere–Troposphere Exchange

    Andreas Stohl;Heini Wernli;Paul James;Michel Bourqui

  • A study of an outstanding Saharan dust event at the high-alpine site Jungfraujoch, Switzerland

    M. Schwikowski;P. Seibert;U. Baltensperger;H.W. Gaggeler

  • A 15‐year climatology of stratosphere–troposphere exchange with a Lagrangian particle dispersion model 2. Mean climate and seasonal variability

    P. James;A. Stohl;C. Forster;S. Eckhardt

  • Coarse and giant particles are ubiquitous in Saharan dust export regions and are radiatively significant over the Sahara

    Claire L. Ryder;Elleanor J. Highwood;Adrian Walser;Petra Seibert

  • South foehn studies since the ALPEX experiment

    P. Seibert

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas Stohl
Andreas Stohl University of Vienna
Sabine Eckhardt
Sabine Eckhardt Norwegian Institute for Air Research
Urs Baltensperger
Urs Baltensperger Paul Scherrer Institute
Caroline Forster
Caroline Forster German Aerospace Center
John F. Burkhart
John F. Burkhart University of Oslo
Bernadett Weinzierl
Bernadett Weinzierl University of Vienna
Heinz W. Gäggeler
Heinz W. Gäggeler Paul Scherrer Institute
Stephan Henne
Stephan Henne Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Margit Schwikowski
Margit Schwikowski Paul Scherrer Institute

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