2026 Pieternel F. Levelt: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	60	2861	2734	80	76	213	20543

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

2534
Citations
The ozone monitoring instrument

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

2080
Citations
Aerosols and surface UV products from Ozone Monitoring Instrument observations: An overview

Omar Torres;Aapo Tanskanen;Ben Veihelmann;Changwoo Ahn

926
Citations
Unprecedented Arctic ozone loss in 2011

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

854
Citations
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

779
Citations
Impact of coronavirus outbreak on NO 2 pollution assessed using TROPOMI and OMI observations.

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

690
Citations
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

666
Citations
Science objectives of the ozone monitoring instrument

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

561
Citations
Overview of the EOS aura mission

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

475
Citations
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

459
Citations
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

431
Citations
Earth surface reflectance climatology from 3 years of OMI data

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

429
Citations
The Ozone Monitoring Instrument: overview of 14 years in space

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

419
Citations
New Era of Air Quality Monitoring from Space: Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS)

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

401
Citations
Global fine-scale changes in ambient NO2 during COVID-19 lockdowns

Unknown

359
Citations
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

324
Citations
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

301
Citations
Validation of Ozone Monitoring Instrument nitrogen dioxide columns

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

276
Citations
Total ozone from the ozone monitoring instrument (OMI) using the DOAS technique

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

276
Citations
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

262
Citations
Validation of the Aura Ozone Monitoring Instrument total column ozone product

RD McPeters;M Kroon;G Labow;EJ Brinksma

246
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Henk Eskes Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

Nickolay A. Krotkov Goddard Space Flight Center

Piet Stammes Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

Lucien Froidevaux California Institute of Technology

Joanna Joiner Goddard Space Flight Center

Kai Yang University of Maryland, College Park

Jerald R. Ziemke Goddard Space Flight Center

Mark R. Schoeberl Science and Technology Corporation (United States)

Ilse Aben Netherlands Institute for Space Research

Simon Carn Michigan Technological University

External Links

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