Publications of "Atmospheric Modelling and Remote Sensing" group

2024

Dumont Le Brazidec, J.; Vanderbecken, P.; Farchi, A.; Broquet, G.; Kuhlmann, G.; Bocquet, M. Deep learning applied to CO2 power plant emissions quantification using simulated satellite images. Geosci. Model Dev. 2024, 17 (5), 1995-2014. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-1995-2024
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Feng, X.; Zhang, X.; Henne, S.; Zhao, Y. B.; Liu, J.; Chen, T. L.; Wang, J. A hybrid model for enhanced forecasting of PM2.5 spatiotemporal concentrations with high resolution and accuracy. Environ. Pollut. 2024, 355, 124263 (9 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124263
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Hakkarainen, J.; Kuhlmann, G.; Koene, E.; Santaren, D.; Meier, S.; Krol, M. C.; van Stratum, B. J. H.; Ialongo, I.; Chevallier, F.; Tamminen, J.; et al. Analyzing nitrogen dioxide to nitrogen oxide scaling factors for data-driven satellite-based emission estimation methods: A case study of Matimba/Medupi power stations in South Africa. Atmos. Poll. Res. 2024, 15 (7), 102171 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2024.102171
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Hanfland, R.; Brunner, D.; Voigt, C.; Fiehn, A.; Roiger, A.; Pattantyús-Ábrahám, M. The Lagrangian Atmospheric Radionuclide Transport Model (ARTM) – sensitivity studies and evaluation using airborne measurements of power plant emissions. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2024, 24 (4), 2511-2534. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-2511-2024
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Koene, E. F. M.; Brunner, D.; Kuhlmann, G. On the theory of the divergence method for quantifying source emissions from satellite observations. J. Geophys. Res. D 2024, 129 (12), e2023JD039904 (26 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD039904
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Kuhlmann, G.; Koene, E.; Meier, S.; Santaren, D.; Broquet, G.; Chevallier, F.; Hakkarainen, J.; Nurmela, J.; Amorós, L.; Tamminen, J.; et al. The ddeq Python library for point source quantification from remote sensing images (version 1.0). Geosci. Model Dev. 2024, 17 (12), 4773-4789. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-4773-2024
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May, M.; Wald, S.; Suter, I.; Brunner, D.; Vardag, S. N. Evaluation of the GRAMM/GRAL model for high-resolution wind fields in Heidelberg, Germany. Atmos. Res. 2024, 300, 107207 (16 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2023.107207
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Mayer, L.; Degrendele, C.; Šenk, P.; Kohoutek, J.; Přibylová, P.; Kukučka, P.; Melymuk, L.; Durand, A.; Ravier, S.; Alastuey, A.; et al. Widespread pesticide distribution in the European atmosphere questions their degradability in air. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2024, 58 (7), 3342-3352. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c08488
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Steiner, M.; Peters, W.; Luijkx, I.; Henne, S.; Chen, H.; Hammer, S.; Brunner, D. European CH4 inversions with ICON-ART coupled to the carbontracker data assimilation shell. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2024, 24 (4), 2759-2782. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-2759-2024
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2023

Brunner, D.; Kuhlmann, G.; Henne, S.; Koene, E.; Kern, B.; Wolff, S.; Voigt, C.; Jöckel, P.; Kiemle, C.; Roiger, A.; et al. Evaluation of simulated CO2 power plant plumes from six high-resolution atmospheric transport models. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2023, 23 (4), 2699-2728. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-2699-2023
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Dumont Le Brazidec, J.; Vanderbecken, P.; Farchi, A.; Bocquet, M.; Lian, J.; Broquet, G.; Kuhlmann, G.; Danjou, A.; Lauvaux, T. Segmentation of XCO2 images with deep learning: application to synthetic plumes from cities and power plants. Geosci. Model Dev. 2023, 16 (13), 3997-4016. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-3997-2023
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Katharopoulos, I.; Rust, D.; Vollmer, M. K.; Brunner, D.; Reimann, S.; O'Doherty, S. J.; Young, D.; Stanley, K. M.; Schuck, T.; Arduini, J.; et al. Impact of transport model resolution and a priori assumptions on inverse modeling of Swiss F-gas emissions. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2023, 23 (22), 14159-14186. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-14159-2023
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Petrescu, A. M. R.; Qiu, C.; McGrath, M. J.; Peylin, P.; Peters, G. P.; Ciais, P.; Thompson, R. L.; Tsuruta, A.; Brunner, D.; Kuhnert, M.; et al. The consolidated European synthesis of CH4 and N2O emissions for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990-2019. ESSD 2023, 15 (3), 1197-1268. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1197-2023
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Pieber, S. M.; Henne, S.; Nguyen, N. A.; Nguyen, D. L.; Steinbacher, M. Trace gases and air quality in Northwestern Vietnam during recurrent biomass burning on the Indochina Peninsula since 2014 - field observations and atmospheric simulations. In Vegetation fires and pollution in Asia; Vadrevu, K. P., Ohara, T., Justice, C., Eds.; Springer: Cham, 2023; pp 545-558. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29916-2_32
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Redington, A. L.; Manning, A. J.; Henne, S.; Graziosi, F.; Western, L. M.; Arduini, J.; Ganesan, A. L.; Harth, C. M.; Maione, M.; Mühle, J.; et al. Western European emission estimates of CFC-11, CFC-12 and CCl4 derived from atmospheric measurements from 2008 to 2021. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2023, 23 (13), 7383-7398. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-7383-2023
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Rust, D.; Vollmer, M. K.; Henne, S.; Bühlmann, T.; Frumau, A.; van den Bulk, P.; Emmenegger, L.; Zenobi, R.; Reimann, S. First atmospheric measurements and emission estimates of HFO-1336mzz(Z). Environ. Sci. Technol. 2023, 57 (32), 11903-11912. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c01826
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Stagakis, S.; Feigenwinter, C.; Vogt, R.; Brunner, D.; Kalberer, M. A high-resolution monitoring approach of urban CO2 fluxes. Part 2 - surface flux optimisation using eddy covariance observations. Sci. Total Environ. 2023, 903, 166035 (17 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166035
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Stavropoulou, F.; Vinković, K.; Kers, B.; de Vries, M.; van Heuven, S.; Korbeń, P.; Schmidt, M.; Wietzel, J.; Jagoda, P.; Necki, J. M.; et al. High potential for CH4 emission mitigation from oil infrastructure in one of EU's major production regions. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2023, 23 (18), 10399-10412. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-10399-2023
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2022

Agustí-Panareda, A.; McNorton, J.; Balsamo, G.; Baier, B. C.; Bousserez, N.; Boussetta, S.; Brunner, D.; Chevallier, F.; Choulga, M.; Diamantakis, M.; et al. Global nature run data with realistic high-resolution carbon weather for the year of the Paris Agreement. Sci. Data 2022, 9, 160 (13 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01228-2
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Bergamaschi, P.; Segers, A.; Brunner, D.; Haussaire, J. M.; Henne, S.; Ramonet, M.; Arnold, T.; Biermann, T.; Chen, H.; Conil, S.; et al. High-resolution inverse modelling of European CH4 emissions using the novel FLEXPART-COSMO TM5 4DVAR inverse modelling system. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2022, 22 (20), 13243-13268. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-13243-2022
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Hakkarainen, J.; Ialongo, I.; Koene, E.; Szeląg, M. E.; Tamminen, J.; Kuhlmann, G.; Brunner, D. Analyzing local carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from space using the divergence method: an application to the synthetic SMARTCARB dataset. Front. Remote Sens. 2022, 3, 878731 (13 pp.). https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2022.878731
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Hanfland, R.; Pattantyús-Ábrahám, M.; Richter, C.; Brunner, D.; Voigt, C. The Lagrangian Atmospheric Radionuclide Transport Model (ARTM) - development, description and sensitivity analysis. Air Qualit Atmos. Health 2022 (18 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11869-022-01188-x
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Harris, E.; Yu, L.; Wang, Y. P.; Mohn, J.; Henne, S.; Bai, E.; Barthel, M.; Bauters, M.; Boeckx, P.; Dorich, C.; et al. Warming and redistribution of nitrogen inputs drive an increase in terrestrial nitrous oxide emission factor. Nat. Commun. 2022, 13 (1), 4310 (16 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32001-z
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Kaminski, T.; Scholze, M.; Rayner, P.; Houweling, S.; Voßbeck, M.; Silver, J.; Lama, S.; Buchwitz, M.; Reuter, M.; Knorr, W.; et al. Assessing the impact of atmospheric CO2 and NO2 measurements from space on estimating city-scale fossil fuel CO2 emissions in a data assimilation system. Front. Remote Sens. 2022, 3, 887456 (21 pp.). https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2022.887456
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Katharopoulos, I.; Brunner, D.; Emmenegger, L.; Leuenberger, M.; Henne, S. Lagrangian particle dispersion models in the grey zone of turbulence: adaptations to FLEXPART-COSMO for simulations at 1 km grid resolution. Bound. Layer Meteorol. 2022, 185, 129-160. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-022-00728-3
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Kim, H.; Müller, M.; Henne, S.; Hüglin, C. Long-term behavior and stability of calibration models for NO and NO2 low-cost sensors. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 2022, 15 (9), 2979-2992. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-2979-2022
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Kuhlmann, G.; Chan, K. L.; Donner, S.; Zhu, Y.; Schwaerzel, M.; Dörner, S.; Chen, J.; Hueni, A.; Nguyen, D. H.; Damm, A.; et al. Mapping the spatial distribution of NO2 with in situ and remote sensing instruments during the Munich NO2 imaging campaign. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 2022, 15 (6), 1609-1629. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-1609-2022
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Maksyutov, S.; Brunner, D.; Turner, A. J.; Zavala-Araiza, D.; Janardanan, R.; Bun, R.; Oda, T.; Patra, P. K. Applications of top-down methods to anthropogenic GHG emission estimation. In Balancing greenhouse gas budgets. Accounting for natural and anthropogenic flows of CO2 and other trace gases; Poulter, B., Canadell, J. G., Hayes, D. J., Thompson, R. L., Eds.; Elsevier: Amsterdam, 2022; pp 455-481. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-814952-2.00006-X
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Morales, R.; Ravelid, J.; Vinkovic, K.; Korbeń, P.; Tuzson, B.; Emmenegger, L.; Chen, H.; Schmidt, M.; Humbel, S.; Brunner, D. Controlled-release experiment to investigate uncertainties in UAV-based emission quantification for methane point sources. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 2022, 15 (7), 2177-2198. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-2177-2022
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Pieber, S. M.; Tuzson, B.; Henne, S.; Karstens, U.; Gerbig, C.; Koch, F. T.; Brunner, D.; Steinbacher, M.; Emmenegger, L. Analysis of regional CO2 contributions at the high Alpine observatory Jungfraujoch by means of atmospheric transport simulations and δ13C. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2022, 22 (16), 10721-10749. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10721-2022
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Rust, D.; Katharopoulos, I.; Vollmer, M. K.; Henne, S.; O'Doherty, S.; Say, D.; Emmenegger, L.; Zenobi, R.; Reimann, S. Swiss halocarbon emissions for 2019 to 2020 assessed from regional atmospheric observations. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2022, 22 (4), 2447-2466. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-2447-2022
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Shrestha, P.; Mendrok, J.; Brunner, D. Aerosol characteristics and polarimetric signatures for a deep convective storm over the northwestern part of Europe - modeling and observations. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2022, 22 (21), 14095-14117. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-14095-2022
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Suter, I.; Grylls, T.; Sützl, B. S.; Owens, S. O.; Wilson, C. E.; Van Reeuwijk, M. UDALES 1.0: a large-eddy simulation model for urban environments. Geosci. Model Dev. 2022, 15 (13), 5309-5335. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-5309-2022
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Thompson, R. L.; Groot Zwaaftink, C. D.; Brunner, D.; Tsuruta, A.; Aalto, T.; Raivonen, M.; Crippa, M.; Solazzo, E.; Guizzardi, D.; Regnier, P.; et al. Effects of extreme meteorological conditions in 2018 on European methane emissions estimated using atmospheric inversions. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. A 2022, 380 (2215), 20200443 (18 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0443
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Western, L. M.; Redington, A. L.; Manning, A. J.; Trudinger, C. M.; Hu, L.; Henne, S.; Fang, X.; Kuijpers, L. J. M.; Theodoridi, C.; Godwin, D. S.; et al. A renewed rise in global HCFC-141b emissions between 2017-2021. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2022, 22 (14), 9601-9616. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-9601-2022
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2021

Bakkaloglu, S.; Lowry, D.; Fisher, R. E.; France, J. L.; Brunner, D.; Chen, H.; Nisbet, E. G. Quantification of methane emissions from UK biogas plants. Waste Manag. 2021, 124, 82-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2021.01.011
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Balsamo, G.; Engelen, R.; Thiemert, D.; Agusti-Panareda, A.; Bousserez, N.; Broquet, G.; Brunner, D.; Buchwitz, M.; Chevallier, F.; Choulga, M.; et al. The CO2 human emissions (CHE) project: first steps towards a European Operational capacity to monitor anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Front. Remote Sens. 2021, 2, 707247 (14 pp.). https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2021.707247
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Behringer, D.; Heydel, F.; Gschrey, B.; Osterheld, S.; Schwarz, W.; Warncke, K.; Freeling, F.; Nödler, K.; Henne, S.; Reimann, S.; et al. Persistent degradation products of halogenated refrigerants and blowing agents in the environment: type, environmental concentrations, and fate with particular regard to new halogenated substitutes with low global warming potential; Report No.: FB000452/ENG; German Environment Agency: Dessau-Roßlau, 2021; 258 p. https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/persistent-degradation-products-of-halogenated
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Behringer, D.; Heydel, F.; Gschrey, B.; Osterheld, S.; Schwarz, W.; Warncke, K.; Freeling, F.; Nödler, K.; Henne, S.; Reimann, S.; et al. Persistente Abbauprodukte halogenierter Kälte- und Treibmittel in der Umwelt: Art, Umweltkonzentrationen und Verbleib unter besonderer Berücksichtigung neuer halogenierter Ersatzstoffe mit kleinem Treibhauspotenzial; Umweltbundesamt: Texte; Report No.: 36; Umweltbundesamt: Dessau-Roßlau, 2021; 267 p. https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/persistente-abbauprodukte-halogenierter-kaelte
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Berchet, A.; Sollum, E.; Thompson, R. L.; Pison, I.; Thanwerdas, J.; Broquet, G.; Chevallier, F.; Aalto, T.; Berchet, A.; Bergamaschi, P.; et al. The Community Inversion Framework v1.0: a unified system for atmospheric inversion studies. Geosci. Model Dev. 2021, 14 (8), 5331-5354. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-5331-2021
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Brugger, S. O.; Schwikowski, M.; Gobet, E.; Schwörer, C.; Rohr, C.; Sigl, M.; Henne, S.; Pfister, C.; Jenk, T. M.; Henne, P. D.; et al. Alpine glacier reveals ecosystem impacts of Europe's prosperity and peril over the last millennium. Geophys. Res. Lett. 2021, 48 (20), e2021GL095039 (12 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095039
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Brunner, C.; Brem, B. T.; Collaud Coen, M.; Conen, F.; Hervo, M.; Henne, S.; Steinbacher, M.; Gysel-Beer, M.; Kanji, Z. A. The contribution of Saharan dust to the ice-nucleating particle concentrations at the High Altitude Station Jungfraujoch (3580 m a.s.l.), Switzerland. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2021, 21 (23), 18029-18053. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-18029-2021
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Cooper, A.; Turney, C. S. M.; Palmer, J.; Hogg, A.; McGlone, M.; Wilmshurst, J.; Lorrey, A. M.; Heaton, T. J.; Russell, J. M.; McCracken, K.; et al. A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago. Science 2021, 371 (6531), 811-818. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb8677
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Cooper, A.; Turney, C. S. M.; Palmer, J.; Hogg, A.; McGlone, M.; Wilmshurst, J.; Lorrey, A. M.; Heaton, T. J.; Russell, J. M.; McCracken, K.; et al. Response to comment on "A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago". Science 2021, 374 (6570), abi9756 (4 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abi9756
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Cooper, A.; Turney, C. S. M.; Palmer, J.; Hogg, A.; McGlone, M.; Wilmshurst, J.; Lorrey, A. M.; Heaton, T. J.; Russell, J. M.; McCracken, K.; et al. Response to comment on “A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago”. Science 2021, 374 (6570), eabh3655 (3 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abh3655
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Kim, M.; Brunner, D.; Kuhlmann, G. Importance of satellite observations for high-resolution mapping of near-surface NO2 by machine learning. Remote Sens. Environ. 2021, 264, 112573 (13 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112573
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Kuhlmann, G.; Henne, S.; Meijer, Y.; Brunner, D. Quantifying CO2 emissions of power plants with CO2 and NO2 imaging satellites. Front. Remote Sens. 2021, 2, 689838 (18 pp.). https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2021.689838
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Kuhlmann, G.; Henne, S.; Brunner, D.; Löscher, A.; Meijer, Y. SMARTCARB 2. Use of satellite measurements of auxiliary reactive trace gases for fossil fuel carbon dioxide emission estimation (phase 2); Empa: Dübendorf, 2021; 78 p. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4674167
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Lacher, L.; Clemen, H. C.; Shen, X.; Mertes, S.; Gysel-Beer, M.; Moallemi, A.; Steinbacher, M.; Henne, S.; Saathoff, H.; Möhler, O.; et al. Sources and nature of ice-nucleating particles in the free troposphere at Jungfraujoch in winter 2017. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2021, 21 (22), 16925-16953. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-16925-2021
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Materić, D.; Ludewig, E.; Brunner, D.; Röckmann, T.; Holzinger, R. Nanoplastics transport to the remote, high-altitude Alps. Environ. Pollut. 2021, 288, 117697 (11 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.117697
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Nguyen, D. L.; Czech, H.; Pieber, S. M.; Schnelle-Kreis, J.; Steinbacher, M.; Orasche, J.; Henne, S.; Popovicheva, O. B.; Abbaszade, G.; Engling, G.; et al. Carbonaceous aerosol composition in air masses influenced by large-scale biomass burning: a case study in northwestern Vietnam. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2021, 21 (10), 8293-8312. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-8293-2021
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Park, S.; Western, L. M.; Saito, T.; Redington, A. L.; Henne, S.; Fang, X.; Prinn, R. G.; Manning, A. J.; Montzka, S. A.; Fraser, P. J.; et al. A decline in emissions of CFC-11 and related chemicals from eastern China. Nature 2021, 590, 433-437. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03277-w
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Petrescu, A. M. R.; Qiu, C.; Ciais, P.; Thompson, R. L.; Peylin, P.; McGrath, M. J.; Solazzo, E.; Janssens-Maenhout, G.; Tubiello, F. N.; Bergamaschi, P.; et al. The consolidated European synthesis of CH4 and N2O emissions for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990-2017. ESSD 2021, 13 (5), 2307-2362. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2307-2021
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Schwaerzel, M.; Brunner, D.; Jakub, F.; Emde, C.; Buchmann, B.; Berne, A.; Kuhlmann, G. Impact of 3D radiative transfer on airborne NO2 imaging remote sensing over cities with buildings. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 2021, 14 (10), 6469-6482. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-6469-2021
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Vollmer, M. K.; Mühle, J.; Henne, S.; Young, D.; Rigby, M.; Mitrevski, B.; Park, S.; Lunder, C. R.; Rhee, T. S.; Harth, C. M.; et al. Unexpected nascent atmospheric emissions of three ozone-depleting hydrochlorofluorocarbons. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 2021, 118 (5), e2010914118 (7 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2010914118
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2020

Grylls, T.; Suter, I.; van Reeuwijk, M. Steady-state large-eddy simulations of convective and stable urban boundary layers. Bound. Layer Meteorol. 2020, 175 (3), 309-341. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-020-00508-x
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Janssens-Maenhout, G.; Pinty, B.; Dowell, M.; Zunker, H.; Andersson, E.; Balsamo, G.; Bézy, J. L.; Brunhes, T.; Bösch, H.; Bojkov, B.; et al. Towards an operational anthropogenic CO2 emissions monitoring and verification support capacity. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc. 2020, 101 (8), E1439-E1451. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0017.1
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Jähn, M.; Kuhlmann, G.; Mu, Q.; Haussaire, J. M.; Ochsner, D.; Osterried, K.; Clément, V.; Brunner, D. An online emission module for atmospheric chemistry transport models: implementation in COSMO-GHG v5.6a and COSMO-ART v5.1-3.1. Geosci. Model Dev. 2020, 13 (5), 2379-2392. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-2379-2020
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Klausner, T.; Mertens, M.; Huntrieser, H.; Galkowski, M.; Kuhlmann, G.; Baumann, R.; Fiehn, A.; Jöckel, P.; Pühl, M.; Roiger, A. Urban greenhouse gas emissions from the Berlin area: a case study using airborne CO2 and CH4 in situ observations in summer 2018. Elem. Sci. Anthr. 2020, 8, 15 (24 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.411
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Kuhlmann, G.; Brunner, D.; Broquet, G.; Meijer, Y. Quantifying CO2 emissions of a city with the copernicus anthropogenic CO2 monitoring satellite mission. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 2020, 13 (12), 6733-6754. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-6733-2020
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Menoud, M.; van der Veen, C.; Scheeren, B.; Chen, H.; Szénási, B.; Morales, R. P.; Pison, I.; Bousquet, P.; Brunner, D.; Röckmann, T. Characterisation of methane sources in Lutjewad, The Netherlands, using quasi-continuous isotopic composition measurements. Tellus B 2020, 72 (1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/16000889.2020.1823733
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Mussetti, G.; Brunner, D.; Henne, S.; Allegrini, J.; Krayenhoff, E. S.; Schubert, S.; Feigenwinter, C.; Vogt, R.; Wicki, A.; Carmeliet, J. COSMO-BEP-Tree v1.0: a coupled urban climate model with explicit representation of street trees. Geosci. Model Dev. 2020, 13 (3), 1685-1710. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1685-2020
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Mussetti, G.; Brunner, D.; Allegrini, J.; Wicki, A.; Schubert, S.; Carmeliet, J. Simulating urban climate at sub‐kilometre scale for representing the intra‐urban variability of Zurich, Switzerland. Int. J. Climatol. 2020, 40 (1), 458-476. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6221
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Müller, M.; Graf, P.; Meyer, J.; Pentina, A.; Brunner, D.; Perez-Cruz, F.; Hüglin, C.; Emmenegger, L. Integration and calibration of non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) CO2 low-cost sensors and their operation in a sensor network covering Switzerland. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 2020, 13 (7), 3815-3834. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3815-2020
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Ramonet, M.; Ciais, P.; Apadula, F.; Bartyzel, J.; Bastos, A.; Bergamaschi, P.; Blanc, P. E.; Brunner, D.; Caracciolo di Torchiarolo, L.; Calzolari, F.; et al. The fingerprint of the summer 2018 drought in Europe on ground-based atmospheric CO2 measurements. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B 2020, 375 (1810), 20190513 (14 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0513
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Reimann, S.; Vollmer, M. K.; Hill, M.; Schlauri, P.; Guillevic, M.; Brunner, D.; Henne, S.; Rust, D.; Emmenegger, L. Long-term observations of atmospheric halogenated organic trace gases. Chimia 2020, 74 (3), 136-141. https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2020.136
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Schwaerzel, M.; Emde, C.; Brunner, D.; Morales, R.; Wagner, T.; Berne, A.; Buchmann, B.; Kuhlmann, G. Three-dimensional radiative transfer effects on airborne and ground-based trace gas remote sensing. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 2020, 13 (8), 4277-4293. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4277-2020
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Simmonds, P. G.; Rigby, M.; Manning, A. J.; Park, S.; Stanley, K. M.; McCulloch, A.; Henne, S.; Graziosi, F.; Maione, M.; Arduini, J.; et al. The increasing atmospheric burden of the greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride (SF6). Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2020, 20 (12), 7271-7290. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-7271-2020
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Tunnicliffe, R. L.; Ganesan, A. L.; Parker, R. J.; Boesch, H.; Gedney, N.; Poulter, B.; Zhang, Z.; Lavrič, J. V.; Walter, D.; Rigby, M.; et al. Quantifying sources of Brazil's CH4 emissions between 2010 and 2018 from satellite data. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2020, 20 (21), 13041-13067. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13041-2020
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Yu, L.; Harris, E.; Henne, S.; Eggleston, S.; Steinbacher, M.; Emmenegger, L.; Zellweger, C.; Mohn, J. The isotopic composition of atmospheric nitrous oxide observed at the high-altitude research station Jungfraujoch, Switzerland. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2020, 20 (11), 6495-6519. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-6495-2020
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Zhu, Y.; Chen, J.; Bi, X.; Kuhlmann, G.; Chan, K. L.; Dietrich, F.; Brunner, D.; Ye, S.; Wenig, M. Spatial and temporal representativeness of point measurements for nitrogen dioxide pollution levels in cities. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2020, 20 (21), 13241-13251. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-13241-2020
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2019

Brunner, D.; Kuhlmann, G.; Marshall, J.; Clément, V.; Fuhrer, O.; Broquet, G.; Löscher, A.; Meijer, Y. Accounting for the vertical distribution of emissions in atmospheric CO2 simulations. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2019, 19 (7), 4541-4559. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-4541-2019
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Bukowiecki, N.; Steinbacher, M.; Henne, S.; Nguyen, N. A.; Nguyen, X. A.; Hoang, A. L.; Nguyen, D. L.; Duong, H. L.; Engling, G.; Wehrle, G.; et al. Effect of large-scale biomass burning on aerosol optical properties at the GAW regional station Pha Din, Vietnam. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. 2019, 19 (5), 1172-1187. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.2018.11.0406
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Ibraim, E.; Wolf, B.; Harris, E.; Gasche, R.; Wei, J.; Yu, L.; Kiese, R.; Eggleston, S.; Butterbach-Bahl, K.; Zeeman, M.; et al. Attribution of N2O sources in a grassland soil with laser spectroscopy based isotopocule analysis. Biogeosciences 2019, 16 (16), 3247-3266. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3247-2019
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Kuhlmann, G.; Broquet, G.; Marshall, J.; Clément, V.; Löscher, A.; Meijer, Y.; Brunner, D. Detectability of CO2 emission plumes of cities and power plants with the Copernicus Anthropogenic CO2 monitoring (CO2M) mission. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 2019, 12 (12), 6695-6719. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-6695-2019
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Kuhlmann, G.; Clément, V.; Marshall, J.; Fuhrer, O.; Broquet, G.; Schnadt-Poberaj, C.; Brunner, D. SMARTCARB - use of satellite measurements of auxiliary reactive trace gases for fossil fuel carbon dioxide emission estimation; Empa: Dübendorf, 2019; 107 p. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4034265
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Pisso, I.; Sollum, E.; Grythe, H.; Kristiansen, N. I.; Cassiani, M.; Eckhardt, S.; Arnold, D.; Morton, D.; Thompson, R. L.; Groot Zwaaftink, C. D.; et al. The Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART version 10.4. Geosci. Model Dev. 2019, 12 (12), 4955-4997. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-4955-2019
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Rigby, M.; Park, S.; Saito, T.; Western, L. M.; Redington, A. L.; Fang, X.; Henne, S.; Manning, A. J.; Prinn, R. G.; Dutton, G. S.; et al. Increase in CFC-11 emissions from eastern China based on atmospheric observations. Nature 2019, 569 (7757), 546-550. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1193-4
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2018

Baró, R.; Jiménez-Guerrero, P.; Stengel, M.; Brunner, D.; Curci, G.; Forkel, R.; Neal, L.; Palacios-Peña, L.; Savage, N.; Schaap, M.; et al. Evaluating cloud properties in an ensemble of regional online coupled models against satellite observations. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2018, 18 (20), 15183-15199. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-15183-2018
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Bergamaschi, P.; Danila, A.; Weiss, R. F.; Ciais, P.; Thompson, R. L.; Brunner, D.; Levin, I.; Meijer, Y.; Chevallier, F.; Janssens-Maenhout, G.; et al. Atmospheric monitoring and inverse modelling for verification of greenhouse gas inventories; JRC Science for policy report; Report No.: EUR 29276 EN; Publications Office of the European Union: Luxembourg, 2018; 109 p. https://doi.org/10.2760/759928
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El Yazidi, A.; Ramonet, M.; Ciais, P.; Broquet, G.; Pison, I.; Abbaris, A.; Brunner, D.; Conil, S.; Delmotte, M.; Gheusi, F.; et al. Identification of spikes associated with local sources in continuous time series of atmospheric CO, CO2 and CH4. Atmos. Meas. Tech. 2018, 11 (3), 1599-1614. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-1599-2018
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Groot Zwaaftink, C. D.; Henne, S.; Thompson, R. L.; Dlugokencky, E. J.; Machida, T.; Paris, J. D.; Sasakawa, M.; Segers, A.; Sweeney, C.; Stohl, A. Three-dimensional methane distribution simulated with FLEXPART 8-CTM-1.1 constrained with observation data. Geosci. Model Dev. 2018, 11 (11), 4469-4487. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-4469-2018
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Kuhlmann, G.; Clément, V.; Fuhrer, O.; Marshal, J.; Broquet, G.; Meijer, Y.; Löscher, A.; Brunner, D. Using NO2 satellite observations to support satellite-based CO2 emission estimates of cities and power plants. In Optics and photonics for energy and the environment, presented at the Light, energy and the environment congress 2018, Singapore, Singapore, November 5-8, 2018; OSA, 2018; Vol. F120, p (2 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1364/HISE.2018.HW3C.3
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Lunt, M. F.; Park, S.; Li, S.; Henne, S.; Manning, A. J.; Ganesan, A. L.; Simpson, I. J.; Blake, D. R.; Liang, Q.; O'Doherty, S.; et al. Continued emissions of the ozone-depleting substance carbon tetrachloride from Eastern Asia. Geophys. Res. Lett. 2018, 45 (20), 11423-11430. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079500
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Palacios-Peña, L.; Baró, R.; Baklanov, A.; Balzarini, A.; Brunner, D.; Forkel, R.; Hirtl, M.; Honzak, L.; López-Romero, J. M.; Montávez, J. P.; et al. An assessment of aerosol optical properties from remote-sensing observations and regional chemistry–climate coupled models over Europe. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2018, 18 (7), 5021-5043. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-5021-2018
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Reimann, S.; Vollmer, M. K.; Brunner, D.; Steinbacher, M.; Hill, M.; Henne, S.; Emmenegger, L. Kontinuierliche Messung von Nicht-CO2-Treibhausgasen auf dem Jungfraujoch (HALCLIM-2015-18). Schlussbericht; Empa: Dübendorf, 2018; 84 p.
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Schoenenberger, F.; Henne, S.; Hill, M.; Vollmer, M. K.; Kouvarakis, G.; Mihalopoulos, N.; O'Doherty, S.; Maione, M.; Emmenegger, L.; Peter, T.; et al. Abundance and sources of atmospheric halocarbons in the Eastern Mediterranean. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2018, 18 (6), 4069-4092. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4069-2018
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Simmonds, P. G.; Rigby, M.; McCulloch, A.; Vollmer, M. K.; Henne, S.; Mühle, J.; O'Doherty, S.; Manning, A. J.; Krummel, P. B.; Fraser, P. J.; et al. Recent increases in the atmospheric growth rate and emissions of HFC-23 (CHF3) and the link to HCFC-22 (CHClF2) production. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2018, 18 (6), 4153-4169. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4153-2018
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Vollmer, M. K.; Young, D.; Trudinger, C. M.; Mühle, J.; Henne, S.; Rigby, M.; Park, S.; Li, S.; Guillevic, M.; Mitrevski, B.; et al. Atmospheric histories and emissions of chlorofluorocarbons CFC-13 (CClF3), ΣCFC-114 (C2Cl2F4), and CFC-115 (C2ClF5). Atmos. Chem. Phys. 2018, 18 (2), 979-1002. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-979-2018
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Wang, Z.; Wang, Y.; Li, J.; Henne, S.; Zhang, B.; Hu, J.; Zhang, J. Impacts of the degradation of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene into trifluoroacetic acid from its application in automobile air conditioners in China, the United States, and Europe. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2018, 52 (5), 2819-2826. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b05960
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