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Vassilis Amiridis is affiliated with the National Observatory of Athens in Greece and has a substantial research portfolio in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work predominantly explores areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Aerospace Engineering.

The scientist's research topics primarily focus on atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, aeolian processes and effects, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric ozone and climate, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and fire effects on ecosystems.

Vassilis Amiridis has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • ModIs Dust AeroSol (MIDAS): a global fine-resolution dust optical depth data set (2021) in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Multi-sectoral impact assessment of an extreme African dust episode in the Eastern Mediterranean in March 2018 (2022) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Effects of dust particle sphericity and orientation on their gravitational settling in the earth's atmosphere (2020) in Journal of Aerosol Science
  • A Decade of Aerosol Optical Properties Measurements over Athens, Greece (2020) in Atmosphere
  • 15-year variability of desert dust optical depth on global and regional scales (2021) in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include Eleni Marinou, Alexandra Tsekeri, Emmanouil Proestakis, Antonis Gkikas, and Anna Gialitaki.

Amiridis publishes in a variety of venues, with frequent contributions to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Atmosphere, and Remote Sensing.

Best Publications

  • EARLINET: towards an advanced sustainable European aerosol lidar network

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

  • Systematic lidar observations of Saharan dust over Europe in the frame of EARLINET (2000-2002)

    A. Papayannis;V. Amiridis;L. Mona;G. Tsaknakis

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

    Ronny Engelmann;Thomas Kanitz;Holger Baars;Birgit Heese

  • 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

  • Three-dimensional evolution of Saharan dust transport towards Europe based on a 9-year EARLINET-optimized CALIPSO dataset

    Eleni Marinou;Vassilis Amiridis;Ioannis Binietoglou;Athanasios Tsikerdekis

  • Four‐year aerosol observations with a Raman lidar at Thessaloniki, Greece, in the framework of European Aerosol Research Lidar Network (EARLINET)

    V. Amiridis;D. S. Balis;S. Kazadzis;A. Bais

  • Raman lidar and sunphotometric measurements of aerosol optical properties over Thessaloniki, Greece during a biomass burning episode

    D. S. Balis;V. Amiridis;C. Zerefos;C. Zerefos;E. Gerasopoulos

  • Nine-year spatial and temporal evolution of desert dust aerosols over South and East Asia as revealed by CALIOP

    Emmanouil Proestakis;Vassilis Amiridis;Eleni Marinou;Aristeidis K. Georgoulias

  • Optimizing CALIPSO Saharan dust retrievals

    V. Amiridis;U. Wandinger;E. Marinou;E. Giannakaki

  • Measurements of Saharan dust aerosols over the Eastern Mediterranean using elastic backscatter-Raman lidar, spectrophotometric and satellite observations in the frame of the EARLINET project

    A. Papayannis;D. Balis;V. Amiridis;G. Chourdakis;G. Chourdakis

  • Optical characteristics of biomass burning aerosols over Southeastern Europe determined from UV-Raman lidar measurements

    V. Amiridis;D.S. Balis;E. Giannakaki;Andreas Stohl

  • Climatological aspects of aerosol optical properties in Northern Greece

    E. Gerasopoulos;E. Gerasopoulos;M. O. Andreae;C. S. Zerefos;T. W. Andreae

  • Lidar-Radiometer Inversion Code (LIRIC) for the retrieval of vertical aerosol properties from combined lidar/radiometer data: development and distribution in EARLINET

    Anatoli Chaikovsky;Oleg Dubovik;Brent Holben;Andrey Bril

  • Optical properties of Saharan dust layers as detected by a Raman lidar at Thessaloniki, Greece

    D. S. Balis;V. Amiridis;S. Nickovic;A. Papayannis

  • LIVAS: a 3-D multi-wavelength aerosol/cloud database based on CALIPSO and EARLINET

    V. Amiridis;E. Marinou;A. Tsekeri;U. Wandinger

  • Dust impact on surface solar irradiance assessed with model simulations, satellite observations and ground-based measurements

    Panagiotis G. Kosmopoulos;Stelios Kazadzis;Michael Taylor;Eleni Athanasopoulou

  • The unprecedented 2017–2018 stratospheric smoke event: decay phase and aerosol properties observed with the EARLINET

    Holger Baars;Albert Ansmann;Kevin Ohneiser;Moritz Haarig

  • Two decades of satellite observations of AOD over mainland China using ATSR-2, AATSR and MODIS/Terra: data set evaluation and large-scale patterns

    Gerrit de Leeuw;Larisa Sogacheva;Edith Rodriguez;Konstantinos Kourtidis

  • Inter-comparison of lidar and ceilometer retrievals for aerosol and Planetary Boundary Layer profiling over Athens, Greece

    G. Tsaknakis;A. Papayannis;P. Kokkalis;V. Amiridis

  • Validation of CALIPSO space-borne-derived attenuated backscatter coefficient profiles using a ground-based lidar in Athens, Greece

    R. E. Mamouri;V. Amiridis;A. Papayannis;E. Giannakaki

  • ModIs Dust AeroSol (MIDAS): a global fine-resolution dust optical depth data set

    Antonis Gkikas;Emmanouil Proestakis;Vassilis Amiridis;Stelios Kazadzis

Frequent Co-Authors

Eleni Marinou
Eleni Marinou National Observatory of Athens
Dimitris Balis
Dimitris Balis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Stelios Kazadzis
Stelios Kazadzis Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, World Radiation Center
Albert Ansmann
Albert Ansmann Leibniz Association
Holger Baars
Holger Baars Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research
Ulla Wandinger
Ulla Wandinger Leibniz Association
Alexandros Papayannis
Alexandros Papayannis National Technical University of Athens
Lucia Mona
Lucia Mona National Research Council (CNR)
Gelsomina Pappalardo
Gelsomina Pappalardo National Research Council (CNR)
Ronny Engelmann
Ronny Engelmann Leibniz Association

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