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Robert Sausen 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 Robert Sausen sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 185 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Robert Sausen 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 Robert Sausen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Robert Sausen is affiliated with the German Aerospace Center in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work focuses extensively on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional contributions related to Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Aerospace Engineering.

The main topics covered by Robert Sausen's research include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • COVID-19 impact on air quality
  • Aerospace and Aviation Technology
  • Air Traffic Management and Optimization

Robert Sausen has published several papers across various scientific journals. Some selected publications are:

  • "Can we successfully avoid persistent contrails by small altitude adjustments of flights in the real world?", 2023, Meteorologische Zeitschrift
  • "Are contributions of emissions to ozone a matter of scale? - a study using MECO(n) (MESSy v2.50)", 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • "COVID-19 induced lower-tropospheric ozone changes", 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Attributing ozone and its precursors to land transport emissions in Europe and Germany", 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 to 2018", 2020, Atmospheric Environment

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert Sausen include Mariano Mertens, Volker Grewe, Patrick Jöckel, Astrid Kerkweg, and David S. Lee.

Publishing outlets regularly featuring Robert Sausen's research include:

  • Meteorologische Zeitschrift
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Geoscientific Model Development

Best Publications

  • Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing

    Piers Forster;Venkatachalam Ramaswamy;Paulo Artaxo;Terje Berntsen

  • The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 to 2018

    D.S. Lee;D.W. Fahey;A. Skowron;M.R. Allen

  • Aviation and global climate change in the 21st century.

    David S. Lee;David W. Fahey;Piers M. Forster;Peter J. Newton

  • Transport impacts on atmosphere and climate: Aviation

    D.S. Lee;G. Pitari;Volker Grewe;Klaus Martin Gierens

  • Time-dependent greenhouse warming computations with a coupled ocean-atmosphere model

    Ulrich Cubasch;Klaus Hasselmann;Heinke Höck;Ernst Maier-Reimer

  • Contributions of Anthropogenic and Natural Forcing to Recent Tropopause Height Changes

    B. D. Santer;M. F. Wehner;T. M. L. Wigley;R. Sausen

  • Aviation radiative forcing in 2000: an update on IPCC (1999)

    Robert Sausen;Ivar Isaksen;Volker Grewe;Didier Hauglustaine

  • Metrics of Climate Change: Assessing Radiative Forcing and Emission Indices

    Jan S. Fuglestvedt;Terje K. Berntsen;Odd Godal;Odd Godal;Robert Sausen

  • Estimations of global no, emissions and their uncertainties

    D.S. Lee;I. Köhler;E. Grobler;F. Rohrer

  • Transport impacts on atmosphere and climate

    Robert Sausen

  • European scientific assessment of the atmospheric effects of aircraft emissions

    G.P. Brasseur;R.A. Cox;D. Hauglustaine;I. Isaksen

  • Behavior of tropopause height and atmospheric temperature in models, reanalyses, and observations: Decadal changes

    B. D. Santer;R. Sausen;T. M. L. Wigley;J. S. Boyle

  • Coupled ocean-atmosphere models with flux correction

    R. Sausen;K. Barthel;Klaus Hasselmann

  • Determining the tropopause height from gridded data

    Thomas Reichler;Thomas Reichler;Martin Dameris;Robert Sausen

  • On the cold start problem in transient simulations with coupled atmosphere-ocean models

    Klaus Hasselmann;Robert Sausen;Ernst Maier-Reimer;Reinhard Voss

  • The impact of greenhouse gases and halogenated species on future solar UV radiation doses

    Petteri Taalas;Jussi Kaurola;Arve Kylling;Drew Shindell

  • Identification of anthropogenic climate change using a second-generation reanalysis

    Benjamin D. Santer;Tom M. L. Wigley;Adrian J. Simmons;Per W. Kållberg

  • Contrails in a comprehensive global climate model: Parameterization and radiative forcing results

    Michael Ponater;Susanne Marquart;Robert Sausen

  • The impact of traffic emissions on atmospheric ozone and OH: results from QUANTIFY

    P. Hoor;J. Borken-Kleefeld;D. Caro;O. Dessens

  • A comparison of climate response to different radiative forcings in three general circulation models: towards an improved metric of climate change

    M.M. Joshi;K.P. Shine;M. Ponater;N. Stuber

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Grewe
Volker Grewe German Aerospace Center
Michael Ponater
Michael Ponater German Aerospace Center
Martin Dameris
Martin Dameris German Aerospace Center
Ulrich Schumann
Ulrich Schumann German Aerospace Center
David S. Lee
David S. Lee Manchester Metropolitan University
Paul J. Crutzen
Paul J. Crutzen Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Johannes Hendricks
Johannes Hendricks German Aerospace Center
Veronika Eyring
Veronika Eyring University of Bremen
Klaus Gierens
Klaus Gierens German Aerospace Center
Ivar S. A. Isaksen
Ivar S. A. Isaksen University of Oslo

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