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D-Index
40
Citations
7313
World Ranking
8002
National Ranking
502

Silke Groß 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 Silke Groß sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 156 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Silke Groß 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 Silke Groß sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Silke Groß is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany, where their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans several subfields including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, earth-surface processes, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The main research topics addressed in their publications cover atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, meteorological phenomena and simulations, advanced aircraft design and technologies, aeolian processes and effects, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Silke Groß include:

  • Martin Wirth
  • Florian Ewald
  • Christiane Voigt
  • Georgios Dekoutsidis
  • Qiang Li

Their research has been published extensively in journals such as:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Earth system science data
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • EPJ Web of Conferences

Recent papers by Silke Groß include:

  • "EUREC 4 A", 2021, Earth system science data
  • "Cleaner Skies during the COVID-19 Lockdown", 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "EUREC 4 A's HALO", 2021, Earth system science data
  • "EARLINET observations of Saharan dust intrusions over the northern Mediterranean region (2014-2017): properties and impact on radiative forcing", 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Dual-field-of-view high-spectral-resolution lidar: Simultaneous profiling of aerosol and water cloud to study aerosol-cloud interaction", 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Vertically resolved separation of dust and smoke over Cape Verde using multiwavelength Raman and polarization lidars during Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment 2008

    M. Tesche;A. Ansmann;D. Müller;D. Müller;D. Althausen

  • Characterization of Saharan dust, marine aerosols and mixtures of biomass-burning aerosols and dust by means of multi-wavelength depolarization and Raman lidar measurements during SAMUM 2

    Silke Groß;Matthias Tesche;Volker Freudenthaler;Carlos Toledano;Carlos Toledano

  • Airborne observations of the Eyjafjalla volcano ash cloud over Europe during air space closure in April and May 2010

    U. Schumann;B. Weinzierl;O. Reitebuch;H. Schlager

  • Aerosol classification by airborne high spectral resolution lidar observations

    Silke Groß;Michael Esselborn;Michael Esselborn;Bernadett Weinzierl;Martin Wirth

  • The Saharan Aerosol Long-Range Transport and Aerosol–Cloud-Interaction Experiment: Overview and Selected Highlights

    B. Weinzierl;A. Ansmann;J. Prospero;D. Althausen

  • The 16 April 2010 major volcanic ash plume over central Europe: EARLINET lidar and AERONET photometer observations at Leipzig and Munich, Germany

    A. Ansmann;M. Tesche;S. Groß;V. Freudenthaler

  • ML-CIRRUS : The airborne experiment on natural cirrus and contrail cirrus with the high-altitude long-range research aircraft HALO

    Christiane Voigt;Ulrich Schumann;Andreas Minikin;Ahmed Abdelmonem

  • Profiling of Saharan dust and biomass‐burning smoke with multiwavelength polarization Raman lidar at Cape Verde

    Matthias Tesche;Matthias Tesche;Silke Gross;Silke Gross;Albert Ansmann;Detlef Müller;Detlef Müller

  • Ash and fine-mode particle mass profiles from EARLINET-AERONET observations over central Europe after the eruptions of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in 2010

    A. Ansmann;M. Tesche;P. Seifert;S. Groß

  • Modelling lidar‐relevant optical properties of complex mineral dust aerosols

    Josef Gasteiger;Matthias Wiegner;Silke Groß;Volker Freudenthaler

  • The North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment

    Andreas Schäfler;George Craig;Heini Wernli;Philippe Arbogast

  • Volcanic ash from Iceland over Munich: mass concentration retrieved from ground-based remote sensing measurements

    J. Gasteiger;S. Groß;V. Freudenthaler;M. Wiegner

  • Microphysical and optical properties of dust and tropical biomass burning aerosol layers in the Cape Verde region—an overview of the airborne in situ and lidar measurements during SAMUM‐2

    Bernadett Weinzierl;Daniel Sauer;Daniel Sauer;Michael Esselborn;Michael Esselborn;Andreas Petzold

  • Optical properties of long-range transported Saharan dust over Barbados as measured by dual-wavelength depolarization Raman lidar measurements

    Silke Groß;Volker Freudenthaler;Kerstin Schepanski;C. Toledano

  • Triple-wavelength depolarization-ratio profiling of Saharan dust over Barbados during SALTRACE in 2013 and 2014

    Moritz Haarig;Albert Ansmann;Dietrich Althausen;André Klepel

  • Optical and microphysical properties of smoke over Cape Verde inferred from multiwavelength lidar measurements

    Matthias Tesche;Matthias Tesche;Detlef Müller;Detlef Müller;Silke Gross;Silke Gross;Albert Ansmann

  • Dual-wavelength linear depolarization ratio of volcanic aerosols: Lidar measurements of the Eyjafjallajökull plume over Maisach, Germany

    Silke Groß;Volker Freudenthaler;Matthias Wiegner;Josef Gasteiger

  • A High-Altitude Long-Range Aircraft Configured as a Cloud Observatory: The NARVAL Expeditions

    Bjorn Stevens;Felix Ament;Sandrine Bony;Susanne Crewell

  • Retrieval of ice-nucleating particle concentrations from lidar observations and comparison with UAV in situ measurements

    Eleni Marinou;Eleni Marinou;Matthias Tesche;Matthias Tesche;Athanasios Nenes;Athanasios Nenes;Albert Ansmann

  • Four-dimensional distribution of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic cloud over Europe observed by EARLINET

    G. Pappalardo;L. Mona;G. D'Amico;U. Wandinger

  • Towards an aerosol classification scheme for future EarthCARE lidar observations and implications for research needs

    Silke Groß;Volker Freudenthaler;Martin Wirth;Bernadett Weinzierl;Bernadett Weinzierl

Frequent Co-Authors

Volker Freudenthaler
Volker Freudenthaler Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Albert Ansmann
Albert Ansmann Leibniz Association
Bernadett Weinzierl
Bernadett Weinzierl University of Vienna
Carlos Toledano
Carlos Toledano University of Valladolid
Matthias Wiegner
Matthias Wiegner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Bernhard Mayer
Bernhard Mayer University of Calgary
Matthias Tesche
Matthias Tesche Leipzig University
Ina Mattis
Ina Mattis German Meteorological Service
Dietrich Althausen
Dietrich Althausen Leibniz Association
Christiane Voigt
Christiane Voigt German Aerospace Center

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