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Ulla Wandinger

Ulla Wandinger

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
80
Citations
19148
World Ranking
980
National Ranking
64

Ulla Wandinger 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 Ulla Wandinger sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 229 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ulla Wandinger 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 Ulla Wandinger sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ulla Wandinger is affiliated with the Leibniz Association in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in environmental and earth sciences, focusing on atmospheric aerosols and cloud dynamics. Their work spans several interconnected fields including Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular emphasis on Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science as primary subfields.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum within atmospheric and environmental studies, specifically:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Ulla Wandinger has authored multiple papers in high-profile publication venues, with notable frequent publication in:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • EPJ Web of Conferences
  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

Examples of recent published papers include:

  • Smoke of extreme Australian bushfires observed in the stratosphere over Punta Arenas, Chile, in January 2020: optical thickness, lidar ratios, and depolarization ratios at 355 and 532 nm, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Californian Wildfire Smoke Over Europe: A First Example of the Aerosol Observing Capabilities of Aeolus Compared to Ground-Based Lidar, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Wildfire smoke, Arctic haze, and aerosol effects on mixed-phase and cirrus clouds over the North Pole region during MOSAiC: an introduction, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Validation of Aeolus wind products above the Atlantic Ocean, 2020, Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Optical properties of Central Asian aerosol relevant for spaceborne lidar applications and aerosol typing at 355 and 532 nm, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Holger Baars
  • Albert Ansmann
  • Ronny Engelmann
  • Martin Radenz
  • Moritz Haarig

Best Publications

  • Independent measurement of extinction and backscatter profiles in cirrus clouds by using a combined Raman elastic-backscatter lidar

    Albert Ansmann;Ulla Wandinger;Maren Riebesell;Claus Weitkamp

  • The EarthCARE Satellite: The Next Step Forward in Global Measurements of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Radiation

    A. J. Illingworth;H. W. Barker;A. Beljaars;Marie Ceccaldi

  • Aerosol-type-dependent lidar ratios observed with Raman lidar

    D. Müller;A. Ansmann;I. Mattis;M. Tesche

  • Combined raman elastic-backscatter LIDAR for vertical profiling of moisture, aerosol extinction, backscatter, and LIDAR ratio

    A. Ansmann;M. Riebesell;U. Wandinger;C. Weitkamp

  • EARLINET: towards an advanced sustainable European aerosol lidar network

    G. Pappalardo;A. Amodeo;A. Apituley;A. Comeron

  • Microphysical particle parameters from extinction and backscatter lidar data by inversion with regularization: simulation.

    Detlef Müller;Ulla Wandinger;Albert Ansmann

  • Long-range transport of Saharan dust to northern Europe : The 11-16 October 2001 outbreak observed with EARLINET

    Albert Ansmann;Jens Bösenberg;Anatoli Chaikovsky;Adolfo Comerón

  • Transport of boreal forest fire emissions from Canada to Europe

    Caroline Forster;Ulla Wandinger;Gerhard Wotawa;Paul James

  • Inversion with regularization for the retrieval of tropospheric aerosol parameters from multiwavelength lidar sounding

    Igor Veselovskii;Alexei Kolgotin;Vadim Griaznov;Detlef Müller

  • Experimental determination of the lidar overlap profile with Raman lidar.

    Ulla Wandinger;Albert Ansmann

  • The automated multiwavelength Raman polarization and water-vapor lidar Polly XT : the neXT generation

    Ronny Engelmann;Thomas Kanitz;Holger Baars;Birgit Heese

  • Around the world in 17 days - hemispheric-scale transport of forest fire smoke from Russia in May 2003

    R. Damoah;N. Spichtinger;C. Forster;P. James

  • Aerosol lidar intercomparison in the framework of the EARLINET project. 3. Raman lidar algorithm for aerosol extinction, backscatter, and lidar ratio

    G. Pappalardo;A. Amodeo;M. Pandolfi;U. Wandinger

  • An overview of the first decade of Polly NET : an emerging network of automated Raman-polarization lidars for continuous aerosol profiling

    Holger Baars;Thomas Kanitz;Thomas Kanitz;Ronny Engelmann;Dietrich Althausen

  • Aerosol lidar intercomparison in the framework of the EARLINET project. 2.Aerosol backscatter algorithms

    Ch. Böckmann;U. Wandinger;A. Ansmann;J. Bösenberg

  • Aerosol lidar intercomparison in the framework of the EARLINET project. 1. Instruments.

    V. Matthais;V. Freudenthaler;A. Amodeo;I. Balin

  • Raman lidar observations of aged Siberian and Canadian forest fire smoke in the free troposphere over Germany in 2003 : Microphysical particle characterization

    Detlef Müller;Ina Mattis;Ulla Wandinger;Albert Ansmann

  • 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

  • EARLINET correlative measurements for CALIPSO: First intercomparison results

    Gelsomina Pappalardo;Ulla Wandinger;Lucia Mona;Anja Hiebsch

  • Optical and microphysical characterization of biomass-burning and industrial-pollution aerosols from multiwavelength lidar and aircraft measurements.

    Ulla Wandinger;Detlef Müller;Christine Böckmann;Dietrich Althausen

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert Ansmann
Albert Ansmann Leibniz Association
Ina Mattis
Ina Mattis German Meteorological Service
Gelsomina Pappalardo
Gelsomina Pappalardo National Research Council (CNR)
Holger Baars
Holger Baars Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research
Ronny Engelmann
Ronny Engelmann Leibniz Association
Vassilis Amiridis
Vassilis Amiridis National Observatory of Athens
Detlef Müller
Detlef Müller University of Hertfordshire
Volker Freudenthaler
Volker Freudenthaler Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Dietrich Althausen
Dietrich Althausen Leibniz Association
Patric Seifert
Patric Seifert Leibniz Association

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