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Zamin A. Kanji

Zamin A. Kanji

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
47
Citations
8280
World Ranking
5796
National Ranking
143

Overview

Zamin A. Kanji is a researcher affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their work focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on Atmospheric Science and related subfields. Kanji's research extensively covers aspects of atmospheric aerosols, clouds, ozone, and their interactions with climate and air quality.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting

Kanji has published a significant number of papers in leading scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Geoscience

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Potential impacts of atmospheric microplastics and nanoplastics on cloud formation processes" (2022), Nature Geoscience
  • "Black Carbon Particles Do Not Matter for Immersion Mode Ice Nucleation" (2020), Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Future warming exacerbated by aged-soot effect on cloud formation" (2020), Nature Geoscience
  • "The Ny-Ålesund Aerosol Cloud Experiment (NASCENT): Overview and First Results" (2022), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "The role of contact angle and pore width on pore condensation and freezing" (2020), Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Kanji has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Ulrike Lohmann
  • Fabian Mahrt
  • Jan Henneberger
  • Franz Friebel
  • Erik S. Thomson

Best Publications

  • Overview of Ice Nucleating Particles

    Zamin A. Kanji;Luis A. Ladino;Heike Wex;Yvonne Boose

  • Solid Ammonium Sulfate Aerosols as Ice Nuclei: A Pathway for Cirrus Cloud Formation

    J. P. D. Abbatt;S. Benz;D. J. Cziczo;Z. Kanji

  • Secondary Ice Production: Current State of the Science and Recommendations for the Future

    P. R. Field;P. R. Field;R. P. Lawson;P. R. A. Brown;G. Lloyd

  • A comprehensive laboratory study on the immersion freezing behavior of illite NX particles: a comparison of 17 ice nucleation measurement techniques

    Naruki Hiranuma;Stefanie Augustin-Bauditz;Heinz Bingemer;Carsten Budke

  • Resurgence in Ice Nuclei Measurement Research

    Paul J. DeMott;Ottmar Möhler;Olaf Stetzer;Gabor Vali

  • Pore condensation and freezing is responsible for ice formation below water saturation for porous particles

    Robert O. David;Claudia Marcolli;Jonas Fahrni;Yuqing Qiu

  • Marine and Terrestrial Organic Ice-Nucleating Particles in Pristine Marine to Continentally Influenced Northeast Atlantic Air Masses

    Christina S. McCluskey;Christina S. McCluskey;Jurgita Ovadnevaite;Matteo Rinaldi;James Atkinson

  • Heterogeneous ice nucleation on dust particles sourced from nine deserts worldwide – Part 1: Immersion freezing

    Yvonne Boose;Yvonne Boose;André Welti;André Welti;James Atkinson;Fabiola Ramelli

  • Ice nuclei properties within a Saharan dust event at the Jungfraujoch in the Swiss Alps

    C. Chou;O. Stetzer;E. Weingartner;Z. Jurányi

  • Potential impacts of atmospheric microplastics and nanoplastics on cloud formation processes

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  • Ice nucleating particles in the Saharan Air Layer

    Yvonne Boose;Berko Sierau;M. Isabel García;Sergio Rodríguez

  • Intercomparing different devices for the investigation of ice nucleating particles using Snomax ® as test substance

    Heike Wex;Stefanie Augustin-Bauditz;Yvonne Boose;Carsten Budke

  • Time dependence of immersion freezing: an experimental study on size selected kaolinite particles

    A. Welti;F. Lüönd;Z. A. Kanji;O. Stetzer

  • Laboratory studies of ice formation via deposition mode nucleation onto mineral dust and n‐hexane soot samples

    Zamin A. Kanji;Jonathan P. D. Abbatt

  • The Fifth International Workshop on Ice Nucleation phase 2 (FIN-02): laboratory intercomparison of ice nucleation measurements

    Paul J. DeMott;Ottmar Möhler;Daniel J. Cziczo;Naruki Hiranuma;Naruki Hiranuma

  • Background Free‐Tropospheric Ice Nucleating Particle Concentrations at Mixed‐Phase Cloud Conditions

    Larissa Lacher;Larissa Lacher;Paul J. DeMott;Ezra J. T. Levin;Kaitlyn J. Suski;Kaitlyn J. Suski

  • A comprehensive laboratory study on the immersion freezing behavior of illite NX particles: A comparison of 17 ice nucleation measurement techniques

    Unknown

  • Ice nucleation abilities of soot particles determined with the Horizontal Ice Nucleation Chamber

    Fabian Mahrt;Claudia Marcolli;Robert O. David;Philippe Grönquist;Philippe Grönquist

  • Ice formation via deposition nucleation on mineral dust and organics: dependence of onset relative humidity on total particulate surface area

    Zamin A Kanji;Octavian Florea;Jonathan P D Abbatt

  • Black Carbon Particles Do Not Matter for Immersion Mode Ice Nucleation

    Zamin A. Kanji;André Welti;André Welti;Joel C. Corbin;Joel C. Corbin;Amewu A. Mensah

  • Laboratory studies of immersion and deposition mode ice nucleation of ozone aged mineral dust particles

    Z. A. Kanji;Z. A. Kanji;A. Welti;C. Chou;C. Chou;O. Stetzer

  • Ice Nucleating Particle Measurements at 241 K during Winter Months at 3580 m MSL in the Swiss Alps

    Yvonne Boose;Zamin A. Kanji;Monika Kohn;Berko Sierau

  • Results from the University of Toronto continuous flow diffusion chamber at ICIS 2007: instrument intercomparison and ice onsets for different aerosol types

    Z. A. Kanji;Z. A. Kanji;P. J. DeMott;O. Möhler;J. P. D. Abbatt

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrike Lohmann
Ulrike Lohmann ETH Zurich
Ottmar Möhler
Ottmar Möhler Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Paul J. DeMott
Paul J. DeMott Colorado State University
Heike Wex
Heike Wex Leibniz Association
Martin Steinbacher
Martin Steinbacher Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Nicolas Bukowiecki
Nicolas Bukowiecki University of Basel
Harald Saathoff
Harald Saathoff Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Thomas C. J. Hill
Thomas C. J. Hill Colorado State University

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