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Pieternel F. Levelt publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pieternel F. Levelt sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 213 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Pieternel F. Levelt D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pieternel F. Levelt sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Pieternel F. Levelt is affiliated with the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main topics of Levelt's work include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • COVID-19 impact on air quality
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Levelt has published research in several prominent venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Science Advances

Some of the recent papers include:

  • Impact of Coronavirus Outbreak on NO2 Pollution Assessed Using TROPOMI and OMI Observations, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Ground-based validation of the Copernicus Sentinel-5P TROPOMI NO 2 measurements with the NDACC ZSL-DOAS, MAX-DOAS and Pandonia global networks, 2021, Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Abrupt decline in tropospheric nitrogen dioxide over China after the outbreak of COVID-19, 2020, Science Advances
  • Global fine-scale changes in ambient NO2 during COVID-19 lockdowns, 2022, Nature
  • Daily Satellite Observations of Methane from Oil and Gas Production Regions in the United States, 2020, Scientific Reports

Levelt often collaborates with other researchers, including frequent co-authors:

  • Pepijn Veefkind
  • Henk Eskes
  • J. A. de Gouw
  • Barbara Dix
  • Wenfu Tang

Best Publications

  • TROPOMI on the ESA Sentinel-5 Precursor: A GMES mission for global observations of the atmospheric composition for climate, air quality and ozone layer applications

    JP Veefkind;JP Veefkind;I Aben;K McMullan;H Forster

  • The ozone monitoring instrument

    P.F. Levelt;G.H.J. van den Oord;M.R. Dobber;A. Malkki

  • Aerosols and surface UV products from Ozone Monitoring Instrument observations: An overview

    Omar Torres;Aapo Tanskanen;Ben Veihelmann;Changwoo Ahn

  • Unprecedented Arctic ozone loss in 2011

    Gloria L. Manney;Gloria L. Manney;Michelle L. Santee;Markus Rex;Nathaniel J. Livesey

  • Aura OMI observations of regional SO2 and NO2 pollution changes from 2005 to 2015

    Nickolay A. Krotkov;Chris A. McLinden;Can Li;Lok N. Lamsal

  • Impact of coronavirus outbreak on NO 2 pollution assessed using TROPOMI and OMI observations.

    M Bauwens;S Compernolle;T Stavrakou;J-F Müller

  • Near-real time retrieval of tropospheric NO 2 from OMI

    K. F. Boersma;K. F. Boersma;H. J. Eskes;J. P. Veefkind;E. J. Brinksma

  • Science objectives of the ozone monitoring instrument

    P.F. Levelt;E. Hilsenrath;G.W. Leppelmeier;G.H.J. van den Oord

  • Overview of the EOS aura mission

    M.R. Schoeberl;A.R. Douglass;E. Hilsenrath;P.K. Bhartia

  • Tropospheric Ozone Determined from Aura OMI and MLS: Evaluation of Measurements and Comparison with the Global Modeling Initiative's Chemical Transport Model

    J. R. Ziemke;J. R. Ziemke;S. Chandra;S. Chandra;B. N. Duncan;B. N. Duncan;L. Froidevaux

  • ESA's sentinel missions in support of Earth system science

    Michael Berger;Jose Moreno;Johnny A. Johannessen;Johnny A. Johannessen;Pieternel F. Levelt;Pieternel F. Levelt

  • Earth surface reflectance climatology from 3 years of OMI data

    Q. L. Kleipool;M. R. Dobber;J. F. de Haan;P. F. Levelt

  • The Ozone Monitoring Instrument: overview of 14 years in space

    Pieternel F. Levelt;Joanna Joiner;Johanna Tamminen;J. Pepijn Veefkind

  • New Era of Air Quality Monitoring from Space: Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS)

    Jhoon Kim;Ukkyo Jeong;Myoung Hwan Ahn;Jae H. Kim

  • Global fine-scale changes in ambient NO2 during COVID-19 lockdowns

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  • Ground-based validation of the Copernicus Sentinel-5p TROPOMI NO 2 measurements with the NDACC ZSL-DOAS, MAX-DOAS and Pandonia global networks

    Tijl Verhoelst;Steven Compernolle;Gaia Pinardi;Jean-Christopher Lambert

  • Abrupt decline in tropospheric nitrogen dioxide over China after the outbreak of COVID-19.

    Fei Liu;Fei Liu;Aaron Page;Sarah A. Strode;Sarah A. Strode;Yasuko Yoshida

  • Validation of Ozone Monitoring Instrument nitrogen dioxide columns

    E.A. Celarier;E.J. Brinksma;J.F. Gleason;J.P. Veefkind

  • Total ozone from the ozone monitoring instrument (OMI) using the DOAS technique

    J.P. Veefkind;J.F. de Haan;E.J. Brinksma;M. Kroon

  • Retrieval of large volcanic SO2 columns from the Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument: Comparison and limitations

    Kai Yang;Nickolay A. Krotkov;Arlin J. Krueger;Simon A. Carn

  • Validation of the Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument total column ozone product

    RD McPeters;M Kroon;G Labow;EJ Brinksma

Frequent Co-Authors

Henk Eskes
Henk Eskes Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Nickolay A. Krotkov
Nickolay A. Krotkov Goddard Space Flight Center
Piet Stammes
Piet Stammes Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Lucien Froidevaux
Lucien Froidevaux California Institute of Technology
Joanna Joiner
Joanna Joiner Goddard Space Flight Center
Kai Yang
Kai Yang University of Maryland, College Park
Jerald R. Ziemke
Jerald R. Ziemke Goddard Space Flight Center
Mark R. Schoeberl
Mark R. Schoeberl Science and Technology Corporation (United States)
Ilse Aben
Ilse Aben Netherlands Institute for Space Research
Simon Carn
Simon Carn Michigan Technological University

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