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Overview

Renate Forkel is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on Atmospheric Science and Environmental Engineering. Forkel's work bridges various subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Automotive Engineering, and Process Chemistry and Technology.

The scientist's research topics focus extensively on atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, wind and air flow studies, meteorological phenomena and simulations, air quality and health impacts, as well as vehicle emissions and performance. Additional topics include urban heat island mitigation and odor and emission control technologies.

Forkel has contributed to multiple publications, frequently collaborating with researchers such as Sabine Banzhaf, Basit Khan, Björn Maronga, Farah Kanani-Sühring, and Klaus Ketelsen. The principal publication venues for their research include:

  • Geoscientific model development
  • Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Renate Forkel are:

  • Overview of the PALM model system 6.0, 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • Development of an atmospheric chemistry model coupled to the PALM model system 6.0: implementation and first applications, 2021, Geoscientific model development
  • Biogenic aerosol formation in the boreal forest, 2024, Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive
  • An enhanced emission module for the PALM model system 23.10 with application for PM 10 emission from urban domestic heating, 2025, Geoscientific model development

Best Publications

  • Online coupled regional meteorology chemistry models in Europe: current status and prospects

    A. Baklanov;K. Schlünzen;P. Suppan;J. Baldasano

  • Overview of the PALM model system 6.0

    Björn Maronga;Björn Maronga;Sabine Banzhaf;Cornelia Burmeister;Thomas Esch

  • Application of a multiscale, coupled MM5/chemistry model to the complex terrain of the VOTALP valley campaign

    Georg A Grell;Stefan Emeis;William R Stockwell;Thomas Schoenemeyer

  • Evaluation of operational on-line-coupled regional air quality models over Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII phase 2. Part I: Ozone

    Ulas Im;Roberto Bianconi;Efisio Solazzo;Ioannis Kioutsioukis

  • Secondary effects of urban heat island mitigation measures on air quality

    Joachim Fallmann;Renate Forkel;Stefan Emeis

  • Evaluation of operational online-coupled regional air quality models over Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII phase 2. Part II: Particulate matter

    Ulas Im;Roberto Bianconi;Efisio Solazzo;Ioannis Kioutsioukis

  • What is the benefit of ceilometers for aerosol remote sensing? An answer from EARLINET

    M. Wiegner;F. Madonna;I. Binietoglou;R. Forkel

  • Operational model evaluation for particulate matter in Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII

    Efisio Solazzo;Roberto Bianconi;Guido Pirovano;Volker Matthias

  • Model evaluation and ensemble modelling of surface-level ozone in Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII

    Efisio Solazzo;Roberto Bianconi;Robert Vautard;K. Wyat Appel

  • Effect of aerosol-radiation feedback on regional air quality – A case study with WRF/Chem

    Renate Forkel;Johannes Werhahn;Ayoe Buus Hansen;Stuart McKeen

  • Feedbacks between air pollution and weather, Part 1: Effects on weather

    P.A. Makar;W. Gong;J. Milbrandt;C. Hogrefe

  • Influence of the choice of gas-phase mechanism on predictions of key gaseous pollutants during the AQMEII phase-2 intercomparison

    Christoph Knote;Paolo Tuccella;Gabriele Curci;Louisa Emmons

  • Impact of the vertical mixing induced by low-level jets on boundary layer ozone concentration

    Xiao Ming Hu;Petra M. Klein;Ming Xue;Fuqing Zhang

  • Feedbacks between air pollution and weather, part 2: Effects on chemistry

    P.A. Makar;W. Gong;C. Hogrefe;Y. Zhang

  • Analysis of the WRF-Chem contributions to AQMEII phase2 with respect to aerosol radiative feedbacks on meteorology and pollutant distributions

    Renate Forkel;Alessandra Balzarini;Rocio Baró;Roberto Bianconi

  • Regional climate change and its impact on photooxidant concentrations in southern Germany: Simulations with a coupled regional climate‐chemistry model

    Renate Forkel;Richard Knoche

  • Uncertainties of simulated aerosol optical properties induced by assumptions on aerosol physical and chemical properties: An AQMEII-2 perspective

    G. Curci;C. Hogrefe;R. Bianconi;U. Im

  • Mixing layer height as an indicator for urban air quality

    Alexander Geiß;Alexander Geiß;Matthias Wiegner;Boris Bonn;Klaus Schäfer

  • Comparative analysis of meteorological performance of coupled chemistry-meteorology models in the context of AQMEII phase 2

    Dominik Brunner;Nicholas Savage;Oriol Jorba;Brian Eder

  • Impact analysis of climate change for an Alpine catchment using high resolution dynamic downscaling of ECHAM4 time slices

    Harald Kunstmann;Katrin Schneider;Renate Forkel;Richard Knoche

  • Trace gas exchange and gas phase chemistry in a Norway spruce forest: A study with a coupled 1-dimensional canopy atmospheric chemistry emission model

    Renate Forkel;Otto Klemm;Martin Graus;Bernhard Rappenglück

Frequent Co-Authors

Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero
Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero University of Murcia
Guido Pirovano
Guido Pirovano World Meteorological Organization
Dominik Brunner
Dominik Brunner Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Gabriele Curci
Gabriele Curci University of L'Aquila
Siegfried Raasch
Siegfried Raasch University of Hannover
Matthias Mauder
Matthias Mauder Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Christian Hogrefe
Christian Hogrefe Environmental Protection Agency
Oriol Jorba
Oriol Jorba Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Ulas Im
Ulas Im Aarhus University
Ranjeet S. Sokhi
Ranjeet S. Sokhi University of Hertfordshire

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