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Sascha Willmes

Sascha Willmes

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
33
Citations
2672
World Ranking
9585
National Ranking
571

Overview

Sascha Willmes is affiliated with the University of Trier in Germany and focuses research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. The scientist's work covers a significant number of topics, notably in areas related to Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, climate change and permafrost, cryospheric studies and observations, as well as atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

The main topics in Willmes' research include:

  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

The scientist has contributed to a number of peer-reviewed publications across several scientific journals. Their recent works include:

  • "Wintertime Airborne Measurements of Ice Nucleating Particles in the High Arctic: A Hint to a Marine, Biogenic Source for Ice Nucleating Particles" (2020), published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "MOSAiC drift expedition from October 2019 to July 2020: sea ice conditions from space and comparison with previous years" (2021), published in The Cryosphere
  • "A New Algorithm for Daily Sea Ice Lead Identification in the Arctic and Antarctic Winter from Thermal-Infrared Satellite Imagery" (2020), published in Remote Sensing
  • "Annual cycle observations of aerosols capable of ice formation in central Arctic clouds" (2022), published in Nature Communications
  • "High-resolution mapping of circum-Antarctic landfast sea ice distribution, 2000-2018" (2020), published in Earth System Science Data

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Cryosphere
  • Remote Sensing
  • Nature Communications
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Earth System Science Data

In their research collaborations, Sascha Willmes has coauthored frequently with several scientists such as:

  • Günther Heinemann
  • Matthew D. Shupe
  • Christian Haas
  • Stefan Hendricks
  • Jessie M. Creamean

Their extensive body of work spans observations and modeling related to cryospheric environments and atmospheric processes, contributing to the understanding of ice dynamics and aerosol-cloud interactions in polar regions.

Best Publications

  • Atmospheric and Surface Processes, and Feedback Mechanisms Determining Arctic Amplification: A Review of First Results and Prospects of the (AC)3 Project

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  • Wintertime Airborne Measurements of Ice Nucleating Particles in the High Arctic: A Hint to a Marine, Biogenic Source for Ice Nucleating Particles

    M. Hartmann;K. Adachi;O. Eppers;O. Eppers;C. Haas

  • Sea-Ice Wintertime Lead Frequencies and Regional Characteristics in the Arctic, 2003–2015

    Sascha Willmes;Günther Heinemann

  • Annual cycle observations of aerosols capable of ice formation in central Arctic clouds

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  • MOSAiC drift expedition from October 2019 to July 2020: sea ice conditions from space and comparison with previous years

    Thomas Krumpen;Luisa von Albedyll;Helge F. Goessling;Stefan Hendricks

  • Sea ice and snow thickness and physical properties of an ice floe in the western Weddell Sea and their changes during spring warming

    Christian Haas;Marcel Nicolaus;Sascha Willmes;Anthony Worby

  • Pan-Arctic lead detection from MODIS thermal infrared imagery

    Sascha Willmes;Günther Heinemann

  • A New Algorithm for Daily Sea Ice Lead Identification in the Arctic and Antarctic Winter from Thermal-Infrared Satellite Imagery

    Fabian Reiser;Sascha Willmes;Günther Heinemann

  • Arctic warming by abundant fine sea salt aerosols from blowing snow

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  • Long-term coastal-polynya dynamics in the southern Weddell Sea from MODIS thermal-infrared imagery

    S. Paul;S. Willmes;G. Heinemann

  • Spatio-temporal variability of polynya dynamics and ice production in the Laptev Sea between the winters of 1979/80 and 2007/08

    Sascha Willmes;Susanne Adams;David Schröder;Günther Heinemann

  • High-resolution mapping of circum-Antarctic landfast sea ice distribution, 2000???2018

    Alexander D. Fraser;Alexander D. Fraser;Robert A. Massom;Robert A. Massom;Kay I. Ohshima;Sascha Willmes

  • A New Structure for the Sea Ice Essential Climate Variables of the Global Climate Observing System

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  • Variability and trends in Laptev Sea ice outflow between 1992–2011

    Thomas Krumpen;Markus Janout;K. I. Hodges;Rüdiger Gerdes

  • Evolution of first‐year and second‐year snow properties on sea ice in the Weddell Sea during spring‐summer transition

    Marcel Nicolaus;Marcel Nicolaus;Christian Haas;Christian Haas;Sascha Willmes

  • A model study of differences of snow thinning on Arctic and Antarctic first-year sea ice during spring and summer

    Marcel Nicolaus;Christian Haas;Jörg Bareiss;Sascha Willmes

  • Retrieval of Wintertime Sea Ice Production in Arctic Polynyas Using Thermal Infrared and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing Data

    Andreas Preußer;Kay I. Ohshima;Katsushi Iwamoto;Katsushi Iwamoto;Sascha Willmes

  • Improvement and Sensitivity Analysis of Thermal Thin-Ice Thickness Retrievals

    S. Adams;S. Willmes;D. Schroder;G. Heinemann

  • Cross-validation of polynya monitoring methods from multisensor satellite and airborne data: a case study for the Laptev Sea

    S. Willmes;T. Krumpen;S. Adams;L. Rabenstein

  • Circumpolar polynya regions and ice production in the Arctic: results from MODIS thermal infrared imagery from 2002/2003 to 2014/2015 with a regional focus on the Laptev Sea

    Andreas Preußer;Günther Heinemann;Sascha Willmes;Stephan Paul

  • Multi-Decadal Variability of Polynya Characteristics and Ice Production in the North Water Polynya by Means of Passive Microwave and Thermal Infrared Satellite Imagery

    Andreas Preußer;Günther Heinemann;Sascha Willmes;Stephan Paul

  • Ice platelets below Weddell Sea landfast sea ice

    Mario Hoppmann;Marcel Nicolaus;Stephan Paul;Priska A. Hunkeler

  • Sea-ice production over the Laptev Sea shelf inferred from historical summer-to-winter hydrographic observations of 1960s-1990s

    Igor A. Dmitrenko;Sergey A. Kirillov;L. Bruno Tremblay;Dorothea Bauch

  • The microwave emissivity variability of snow covered first-year sea ice from late winter to early summer: a model study

    Sascha Willmes;Marcel Nicolaus;Christian Haas

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Haas
Christian Haas Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Marcel Nicolaus
Marcel Nicolaus Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Thomas Krumpen
Thomas Krumpen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ralph Timmermann
Ralph Timmermann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Stefan Hendricks
Stefan Hendricks Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Dorothea Bauch
Dorothea Bauch GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Rüdiger Gerdes
Rüdiger Gerdes Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Rüdiger Gerdes
Rüdiger Gerdes Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Kay I. Ohshima
Kay I. Ohshima Hokkaido University
Robert A. Massom
Robert A. Massom Australian Antarctic Division

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