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Thorsten Warneke

Thorsten Warneke

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
62
Citations
12750
World Ranking
2630
National Ranking
175

Overview

Thorsten Warneke is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany and has extensive experience in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric science, with significant contributions in subfields such as global and planetary change, ecology, mechanics of materials, and spectroscopy.

Their work spans several main topics including atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, spectroscopy and laser applications, fire effects on ecosystems, and coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics.

Warneke has published multiple papers in notable journals. Some recent publications include:

  • "Methane retrieved from TROPOMI: improvement of the data product and validation of the first 2 years of measurements" (2021) in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • "Validation of methane and carbon monoxide from Sentinel-5 Precursor using TCCON and NDACC-IRWG stations" (2021) in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • "A decade of GOSAT Proxy satellite CH 4 observations" (2020) in Earth System Science Data
  • "National CO 2 budgets (2015-2020) inferred from atmospheric CO 2 observations in support of the global stocktake" (2023) in Earth System Science Data
  • "Emission Monitoring Mobile Experiment (EMME): an overview and first results of the St. Petersburg megacity campaign 2019" (2021) in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Frequent co-authors in Warneke's work include Justus Notholt, Frank Hase, Rigel Kivi, Voltaire A. Velazco, and Isamu Morino, with whom they have collaborated on numerous projects.

Common publication venues for Warneke are:

  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Remote Sensing
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth System Science Data

Warneke's body of work has contributed significantly to the understanding of atmospheric gases, climate dynamics, and environmental monitoring through satellite data and ground-based observations. Their research integrates data analysis and atmospheric spectroscopy to assess gas distributions and climate-related changes at regional to global scales.

Best Publications

  • Toward accurate CO2 and CH4 observations from GOSAT

    A Butz;A Butz;S Guerlet;O Hasekamp;D Schepers

  • Comparisons of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) X CO 2 measurements with TCCON

    Debra Wunch;Debra Wunch;Paul O. Wennberg;Gregory Osterman;Gregory Osterman;Brendan Fisher;Brendan Fisher

  • Improvement of the retrieval algorithm for GOSAT SWIR XCO2 and XCH4 and their validation using TCCON data

    Y. Yoshida;N. Kikuchi;I. Morino;O. Uchino

  • Importance of secondary sources in the atmospheric budgets of formic and acetic acids

    F. Paulot;D. Wunch;J. D. Crounse;G. C. Toon

  • Estimating global and North American methane emissions with high spatial resolution using GOSAT satellite data

    A J Turner;Daniel J Jacob;K J Wecht;J D Maasakkers

  • Process-evaluation of tropospheric humidity simulated by general circulation models using water vapor isotopologues: 1. Comparison between models and observations

    Camille Risi;Camille Risi;David Noone;John Worden;Christian Frankenberg

  • Atmospheric methane and carbon dioxide from SCIAMACHY satellite data: initial comparison with chemistry and transport models

    M. Buchwitz;R. de Beek;J. Burrows;H. Bovensmann

  • A method for evaluating bias in global measurements of CO 2 total columns from space

    D. Wunch;P. O. Wennberg;G. C. Toon;B. J. Connor

  • Methane retrieved from TROPOMI: Improvement of the data product and validation of the first 2 years of measurements

    Alba Lorente;Tobias Borsdorff;Andre Butz;Otto Hasekamp

  • Preliminary validation of column-averaged volume mixing ratios of carbon dioxide and methane retrieved from GOSAT short-wavelength infrared spectra

    I. Morino;O. Uchino;M. Inoue;Y. Yoshida

  • Atmospheric carbon dioxide retrieved from the Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT): Comparison with ground‐based TCCON observations and GEOS‐Chem model calculations

    A Cogan;H Boesch;R Parker;L Feng

  • Tropical methane emissions: A revised view from SCIAMACHY onboard ENVISAT

    Christian Frankenberg;Peter Bergamaschi;André Butz;Sander Houweling;Sander Houweling

  • A new ground-level fallout record of uranium and plutonium isotopes for northern temperate latitudes

    Thorsten Warneke;Ian W. Croudace;Phillip E. Warwick;Rex N. Taylor

  • Dynamic Processes Governing Lower-Tropospheric HDO/H2O Ratios as Observed from Space and Ground

    Christian Frankenberg;Kei Yoshimura;Thorsten Warneke;Ilse Aben

  • The Greenhouse Gas Climate Change Initiative (GHG-CCI): Comparison and quality assessment of near-surface-sensitive satellite-derived CO2 and CH4 global data sets

    M Buchwitz;Markus Reuter;O Schneising;Hartmut Boesch

  • Three years of greenhouse gas column-averaged dry air mole fractions retrieved from satellite – Part 1: Carbon dioxide

    O. Schneising;M. Buchwitz;J. Burrows;H. Bovensmann

  • Retrieval of atmospheric CO2 with enhanced accuracy and precision from SCIAMACHY: validation with FTS measurements and comparison with model results

    M. Reuter;H. Bovensmann;M. Buchwitz;J. P. Burrows

  • Calibration of TCCON column-averaged CO2: the first aircraft campaign over European TCCON sites

    Janina Messerschmidt;Janina Messerschmidt;Marc Christoph Geibel;Thomas Blumenstock;Hilin Chen;Hilin Chen

  • Validation of methane and carbon monoxide from Sentinel-5 Precursor using TCCON and NDACC-IRWG stations

    Mahesh Kumar Sha;Bavo Langerock;Jean-François L. Blavier;Thomas Blumenstock

  • Inferring regional sources and sinks of atmospheric CO 2 from GOSAT XCO 2 data

    F Deng;D Jones;D Jones;D Henze;N Bousserez

  • Comparisons between SCIAMACHY and ground-based FTIR data for total columns of CO, CH 4 , CO 2 and N 2 O

    B. Dils;M. de Mazière;J. F. Müller;T. Blumenstock

  • Consistent evaluation of ACOS-GOSAT, BESD-SCIAMACHY, CarbonTracker, and MACC through comparisons to TCCON

    Susan Kulawik;Debra Wunch;Christopher O'Dell;Christian Frankenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Justus Notholt
Justus Notholt University of Bremen
Nicholas M. Deutscher
Nicholas M. Deutscher University of Wollongong
Ralf Sussmann
Ralf Sussmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
David W. T. Griffith
David W. T. Griffith University of Wollongong
Frank Hase
Frank Hase Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Debra Wunch
Debra Wunch University of Toronto
Rigel Kivi
Rigel Kivi Finnish Meteorological Institute
Voltaire A. Velazco
Voltaire A. Velazco University of Wollongong
Isamu Morino
Isamu Morino National Institute for Environmental Studies
Paul O. Wennberg
Paul O. Wennberg California Institute of Technology

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