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Germany
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
91
Citations
25103
World Ranking
565
National Ranking
36

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Ulrich Schumann is affiliated with the German Aerospace Center in Germany. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Environmental Science and Engineering, with a focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Aerospace Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their work covers numerous topics including Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies, Air Traffic Management and Optimization, Vehicle Emissions and Performance, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds, COVID-19 Impact on Air Quality, and Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols.

Frequent publication venues for Ulrich Schumann include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Aeronautical Journal
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

They have collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors such as Christiane Voigt, Roger Teoh, Marc Stettler, Andreas Dörnbrack, and Daniel Sauer.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Ulrich Schumann include:

  • "Mitigating the Climate Forcing of Aircraft Contrails by Small-Scale Diversions and Technology Adoption," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Targeted Use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel to Maximize Climate Benefits," 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Cleaner Skies during the COVID-19 Lockdown," 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Air traffic and contrail changes over Europe during COVID-19: a model study," 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Aviation contrail climate effects in the North Atlantic from 2016 to 2021," 2022, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Best Publications

  • Clouds and Aerosols

    O. Boucher;D. Randall;P. Artaxo;C. Bretherton

  • Transport impacts on atmosphere and climate: Aviation

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

  • COHERENT STRUCTURE OF THE CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER DERIVED FROM LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS

    Helmut Schmidt;Ulrich Schumann

  • The global lightning-induced nitrogen oxides source

    Ulrich Schumann;Heidi Huntrieser

  • Realizability of Reynolds-Stress Turbulence Models

    U. Schumann

  • Large-eddy simulation of turbulent flow above and within a forest

    Roger H. Shaw;Ulrich Schumann

  • On conditions for contrail formation from aircraft exhausts

    Ulrich Schumann

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

    Robert Sausen;Ivar Isaksen;Volker Grewe;Didier Hauglustaine

  • Determination of time- and height-resolved volcanic ash emissions and their use for quantitative ash dispersion modeling: the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption

    Andreas Stohl;Alfredo Prata;Sabine Eckhardt;Lieven Clarisse

  • Direct numerical simulation of stratified homogeneous turbulent shear flows

    T. Gerz;U. Schumann;S. E. Elghobashi

  • 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

  • European scientific assessment of the atmospheric effects of aircraft emissions

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

  • Large-Eddy Simulation of the Convective Boundary Layer: A Comparison of Four Computer Codes

    F. T. M. Nieuwstadt;P. J. Mason;C. H. Moeng;U. Schumann

  • Civil Aircraft for the regular investigation of the atmosphere based on an instrumented container: The new CARIBIC system

    C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer;P. J. Crutzen;F. Boumard;T. Dauer

  • The Convective and Orographically Induced Precipitation Study. A Research and Development Project of the World Weather Research Program for Improving Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting in Low-Mountain Regions

    Volker Wulfmeyer;Andreas Behrendt;Hans-Stefan Bauer;Christoph Kottmeier

  • Large-eddy simulation of a neutrally stratified boundary layer: A comparison of four computer codes

    A. Andren;A. R. Brown;P. J. Mason;J. Graf

  • A distribution law for relative humidity in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere derived from three years of MOZAIC measurements

    K. Gierens;U. Schumann;M. Helten;H. Smit

  • Turbulent Mixing in Stably Stratified Shear Flows.

    U. Schumann;T. Gerz

  • In situ observations of particles in jet aircraft exhausts and contrails for different sulfur-containing fuels

    U. Schumann;J. Ström;R. Busen;R. Baumann

  • How sharp is the tropopause at midlatitudes

    Thomas Birner;Andreas Dörnbrack;Ulrich Schumann

  • The Initial Composition of Jet Condensation Trails

    B. Kärcher;Th Peter;U. M. Biermann;U. Schumann

  • Radiative forcing by contrails

    R. Meerkötter;U. Schumann;D. R. Doelling;P. Minnis

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Schlager
Hans Schlager German Aerospace Center
Christiane Voigt
Christiane Voigt German Aerospace Center
Andreas Minikin
Andreas Minikin German Aerospace Center
Andreas Petzold
Andreas Petzold Forschungszentrum Jülich
Heidi Huntrieser
Heidi Huntrieser German Aerospace Center
Bernadett Weinzierl
Bernadett Weinzierl University of Vienna
Jean-François Gayet
Jean-François Gayet University of Clermont Auvergne
Bernhard Mayer
Bernhard Mayer University of Calgary
Robert Sausen
Robert Sausen German Aerospace Center
Johan Ström
Johan Ström Stockholm University

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