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Wolfgang Steinbrecht

Wolfgang Steinbrecht

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
6758
World Ranking
6488
National Ranking
420

Overview

Wolfgang Steinbrecht is affiliated with the German Meteorological Service in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric sciences, particularly in the study of atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics. The work also intersects with topics related to the COVID-19 impact on air quality, climate variability and models, as well as air quality and health impacts.

The main fields of study for Steinbrecht include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these broader fields, their subfields of study concentrate on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional work in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Spectroscopy.

Steinbrecht frequently publishes in several scientific venues. These include:

  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "COVID-19 Crisis Reduces Free Tropospheric Ozone Across the Northern Hemisphere" (2021) in Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Validation of SAGE III/ISS Solar Occultation Ozone Products With Correlative Satellite and Ground-Based Measurements" (2020) in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Zonal Similarity of Long-Term Changes and Seasonal Cycles of Baseline Ozone at Northern Midlatitudes" (2020) in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Impact of the COVID-19 Economic Downturn on Tropospheric Ozone Trends: An Uncertainty Weighted Data Synthesis for Quantifying Regional Anomalies Above Western North America and Europe" (2022) in AGU Advances
  • "Ozone Anomalies in the Free Troposphere During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2021) in Geophysical Research Letters

Steinbrecht has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Thierry Leblanc
  • Sophie Godin-Beekmann
  • Roeland Van Malderen
  • Richard Querel
  • G. Ancellet

Best Publications

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • The Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC): history, status and perspectives

    Martine De Mazière;Anne M. Thompson;Michael J. Kurylo;Jeannette D. Wild

  • Correlations between tropopause height and total ozone: Implications for long‐term changes

    W. Steinbrecht;H. Claude;U. Köhler;K. P. Hoinka

  • Detecting recovery of the stratospheric ozone layer

    Martyn P. Chipperfield;Slimane Bekki;Sandip Dhomse;Neil R. P. Harris

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • An update on ozone profile trends for the period 2000 to 2016

    Wolfgang Steinbrecht;Lucien Froidevaux;Ryan Fuller;Ray Wang

  • The Eyjafjallajökull eruption in April 2010 – detection of volcanic plume using in-situ measurements, ozone sondes and lidar-ceilometer profiles

    H. Flentje;H. Claude;T. Elste;S. Gilge

  • Past changes in the vertical distribution of ozone – Part 3: Analysis and interpretation of trends

    Neil R. P Harris;B Hassler;B Hassler;F Tummon;G E Bodeker

  • First near-global retrievals of OH rotational temperatures from satellite-based Meinel band emission measurements

    C. von Savigny;K.-U. Eichmann;E. J. Llewellyn;E. J. Llewellyn;H. Bovensmann

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Ground-based assessment of the bias and long-term stability of 14 limb and occultation ozone profile data records

    Daan Hubert;Jean Christopher Lambert;Tijl Verhoelst;José Granville

  • Automated method for lidar determination of cloud-base height and vertical extent.

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  • COVID-19 Crisis Reduces Free Tropospheric Ozone across the Northern Hemisphere

    Wolfgang Steinbrecht;Dagmar Kubistin;Christian Plass-Dülmer;Jonathan Davies

  • Global distribution of total ozone and lower stratospheric temperature variations

    W. Steinbrecht;B. Hassler;H. Claude;P. Winkler

  • Long‐term trends and solar cycle variations of mesospheric temperature and dynamics

    D. Offermann;P. Hoffmann;P. Knieling;R. Koppmann

  • Ozone and temperature trends in the upper stratosphere at five stations of the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change

    W. Steinbrecht;H. Claude;F. Schönenborn;I. S. McDermid

  • Attributing ozone to NOx emissions: Implications for climate mitigation measures

    Volker Grewe;Katrin Dahlmann;Sigrun Matthes;Wolfgang Steinbrecht

  • Review of ozone and temperature lidar validations performed within the framework of the Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change

    Philippe Keckhut;Stuart McDermid;Daan Swart;Thomas McGee

  • State of the Climate in 2013

    Jessica Blunden;Derek S. Arndt;Kate M. Willett;A. Johannes Dolman

  • Long-Term Evolution of Upper Stratospheric Ozone at Selected Stations of the Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Change (NDSC)

    W. Steinbrecht;H. Claude;F. Schönenborn;I. S. McDermid

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Claude
Hans Claude German Meteorological Service
Irina Petropavlovskikh
Irina Petropavlovskikh Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Stacey M. Frith
Stacey M. Frith Goddard Space Flight Center
René Stübi
René Stübi Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Lucien Froidevaux
Lucien Froidevaux California Institute of Technology
Mark Weber
Mark Weber University of Bremen
Ralf Koppmann
Ralf Koppmann University of Wuppertal
Gérard Ancellet
Gérard Ancellet Sorbonne University
Jean-Christopher Lambert
Jean-Christopher Lambert Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Bryan J. Johnson
Bryan J. Johnson National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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