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Austria
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
92
Citations
63402
World Ranking
527
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Zbigniew Klimont is affiliated with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a concentration on health, toxicology, atmospheric science, global and planetary change, automotive engineering, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's work encompasses key topics such as air quality and health impacts, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, vehicle emissions and performance, climate change policy and economics, atmospheric ozone and climate, and climate change and health impacts.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Klimont include:

  • Atmospheric transport is a major pathway of microplastics to remote regions, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Constraining the atmospheric limb of the plastic cycle, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A chronology of global air quality, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Potential for future reductions of global GHG and air pollutants from circular waste management systems, 2022, Nature Communications
  • The generation of gridded emissions data for CMIP6, 2020, Geoscientific Model Development

Zbigniew Klimont has published books with TemaNord, including "Revising PM2.5 emissions from residential combustion, 2005-2019" (2022).

Frequent coauthors in Klimont's work include Steven J. Smith, Rachel Hoesly, Gregor Kiesewetter, Leyang Feng, and Shuxiao Wang.

The scientist's research has been published in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Atmospheric Environment, and Environmental Science & Technology.

Best Publications

  • Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment

    Tami C. Bond;Sarah J. Doherty;D. W. Fahey;Piers Forster

  • The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview

    Keywan Riahi;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Elmar Kriegler;Jae Edmonds

  • How a century of ammonia synthesis changed the world

    Jan Willem Erisman;Mark A. Sutton;James Galloway;Zbigniew Klimont

  • A technology-based global inventory of black and organic carbon emissions from combustion

    Tami C. Bond;Tami C. Bond;Tami C. Bond;David G. Streets;Kristen F. Yarber;Sibyl M. Nelson

  • An inventory of gaseous and primary aerosol emissions in Asia in the year 2000

    D. G. Streets;T. C. Bond;G. R. Carmichael;S. D. Fernandes

  • Asian emissions in 2006 for the NASA INTEX-B mission

    Q. Zhang;Q. Zhang;D. G. Streets;G. R. Carmichael;K. B. He

  • Historical (1850–2000) gridded anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of reactive gases and aerosols: methodology and application

    J.-F. Lamarque;T. C. Bond;V. Eyring;Claire Granier;Claire Granier;Claire Granier

  • Historical (1750–2014) anthropogenic emissions of reactive gases and aerosols from the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS)

    Rachel M. Hoesly;Steven J. Smith;Leyang Feng;Zbigniew Klimont

  • Simultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security

    Drew Shindell;Johan C. I. Kuylenstierna;Elisabetta Vignati;Rita van Dingenen

  • Anthropogenic sulfur dioxide emissions: 1850–2005

    S. J. Smith;J. Van Aardenne;Z. Klimont;Robert Joseph Andres

  • The marker quantification of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2: A middle-of-the-road scenario for the 21st century

    Oliver Fricko;Petr Havlik;Joeri Rogelj;Zbigniew Klimont

  • Atmospheric transport is a major pathway of microplastics to remote regions

    Nikolaos Evangeliou;Henrik Grythe;Zbigniew Klimont;Chris Heyes

  • Atmospheric composition change – global and regional air quality

    P.S. Monks;Claire Granier;Claire Granier;Claire Granier;S. Fuzzi;A. Stohl

  • Evolution of anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of air pollutants at global and regional scales during the 1980–2010 period

    Claire Granier;Bertrand Bessagnet;Tami Bond;Ariela D'Angiola

  • Cost-effective control of air quality and greenhouse gases in Europe: Modeling and policy applications

    Markus Amann;Imrich Bertok;Jens Borken-Kleefeld;Janusz Cofala

  • HTAP_v2.2: a mosaic of regional and global emission grid maps for 2008 and 2010 to study hemispheric transport of air pollution

    G. Janssens-Maenhout;M. Crippa;D. Guizzardi;F. Dentener

  • Global anthropogenic emissions of particulate matter including black carbon

    Zbigniew Klimont;Kaarle Kupiainen;Kaarle Kupiainen;Chris Heyes;Pallav Purohit

  • Impacts and mitigation of excess diesel-related NOx emissions in 11 major vehicle markets

    Susan C. Anenberg;Joshua Miller;Ray Minjares;Li Du

  • The last decade of global anthropogenic sulfur dioxide: 2000-2011 emissions

    Z. Klimont;Steven J. Smith;Janusz Cofala

  • Evaluation of black carbon estimations in global aerosol models

    D. Koch;D. Koch;M. Schulz;S. Kinne;C. McNaughton

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Amann
Markus Amann International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Janusz Cofala
Janusz Cofala International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Chris Heyes
Chris Heyes International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Fabian Wagner
Fabian Wagner International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Wilfried Winiwarter
Wilfried Winiwarter International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Kaarle Kupiainen
Kaarle Kupiainen Finnish Environment Institute
Pallav Purohit
Pallav Purohit International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Tami C. Bond
Tami C. Bond Colorado State University
Keywan Riahi
Keywan Riahi International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Claire Granier
Claire Granier National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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