Markus Fiebig

On optical and microphysical characteristics of contrails and cirrus (2008)

Febvre, Guy, Gayet, Jean-Francois, Minikin, Andreas, Schlager, Hans, Shcherbakov, Valéry, Jourdan, Olivier, ...

In situ measurements of light scattering and microphysical characteristics of young and 20 min aged persistent contrails and of frontal cirrus clouds were carried out with the airborne Polar...

Particle Emissions from Ship Engines: Emission Properties and Transformation in the Marine Boundary Layer (2007)

Petzold, Andreas, Weinzierl, Bernadett, Fiebig, Markus, Lichtenstern, Michael, Lauer, Peter, Gurk, Christian, ...

In the framework of a combined effort ship emission studies were conducted in 2004. Detailed aerosol microphysics and chemistry was measured in the raw exhaust gas of a single-cylinder test bed...

Airborne measurements of tropospheric aerosol up to 12 km over West Africa during the monsoon season in August 2006 (2007)

Hamburger, Thomas, Minikin, Andreas, Schlager, Hans, Virkkula, Aki, Fiebig, Markus, Petzold, Andreas

The German DLR Falcon 20 (D-F20) was successfully deployed during the monsoon season (AMMA SOP2a) from August 1 until August 18, 2006, in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) with a scientific payload...

Dust Particle Properties from Airborne HSRL, Ground-based Raman Lidar and in situ Observations (2007)

Petzold, Andreas, Weinzierl, Bernadett, Esselborn, Michael, Ehret, Gerhard, Fiebig, Markus, Fix, Andreas, ...

The Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment (SAMUM) is an initiative of several German universities and research establishments. Its goal is the characterisation of optical, physical, chemical, and radiative...

Retrieval and climatology of the aerosol asymmetry parameter in the NOAA aerosol monitoring network (2006)

Fiebig, Markus, Ogren, John A.

The aerosol monitoring network of the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory routinely provides data on the aerosol absorption and spectral scattering and backscattering coefficients. An algorithm is...

Inverse Methods: a Powerful Tool for Evaluating Aerosol Data, Exemplified on Cases With Relevance for the Atmosphere and the Aerosol Climate Effect (2006)

Fiebig, Markus, Ogren, John A., Petzold, Andreas

For a complete description of a given aerosol, more than one parameter is necessary, e.g. parameters concerning size distribution, chemical composition, and particle morphology. On the other hand,...

Properties of Aged Forest Fire Plumes after Intercontinental Transport across the Atlantic Ocean (2006)

Weinzierl, Bernadett, Petzold, Andreas, Fiebig, Markus, Huntrieser, Heidi, Minikin, Andreas, Stohl, Andreas, ...

In summer 2004 the long-range transport of particles emitted from large forest fires in Canada and Alaska contributed significantly to the aerosol loading of the free troposphere over Europe ....

Measurement of ultrafine aerosol size distributions by a combination of diffusion screen separators and condensation particle counters (2006)

Feldpausch, Philipp, Fiebig, Markus, Fritzsche, Lutz, Petzold, Andreas

The quasi-real-time measurement of ultrafine aerosol size distributions by a combination of a diffusion screen separator (DS), which is similar to a single stage of a screen-type diffusion battery,...

Properties of forest fire aerosols after transformation processes during long-range transport across the Atlantic Ocean (2006)

Weinzierl, Bernadett, Petzold, Andreas, Huntrieser, Heidi, Fiebig, Markus, Stohl, Andreas, Minkin, Andreas, ...

As part of the International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation (ICARTT) study in summer 2004, a field experiment on the Intercontinental Transport of Ozone and...

Comparison of methods for deriving aerosol asymmetry parameter (2006)

Andrews, Elisabeth, Sheridan, Patrick J., Fiebig, Markus, McComiskey, Allison, Ogren, John A., Arnott, Pat, ...

Values for Mie-equivalent aerosol asymmetry parameter (g) were derived using a variety of methods from the large suite of measurements (in situ and remote from surface and aircraft) made in Oklahoma...

Aircraft-based operation of an aerosol mass spectrometer: Measurements of tropospheric aerosol composition (2006)

Schneider, Johannes, Hings, Silke S., Nele Hock, B., Weimer, Silke, Borrmann, Stephan, Fiebig, Markus, ...

The Aerodyne quadrupole aerosol mass spectrometer was deployed on the Falcon twin jet research aircraft operated by Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR). This was the first deployment of...

Combining aerosol lidar and in-situ methods for the validation of current and future satellite-borne aerosol instruments: Lessons learned from LACE 98, ITOP 2004 and SAMUM 2006 (2006)

Petzold, Andreas, Ehret, Gerhard, Esselborn, Miachel, Fiebig, Markus, Fix, Andreas, Kiemle, Christoph, ...

The Institute of Atmospheric Physics of DLR has participated in recent years in several field experiments on the vertical aerosol distribution, aerosol radiative effects and long-range transport of...

Inversion of data containing information on the aerosol particle size distribution using multiple instruments (2005)

Fiebig, Markus, Stein, Claudia, Schröder, Franz, Feldpausch, Philipp, Petzold, Andreas

An algorithm for inversion of data containing information on particle size distributions is presented that is designed to be true to the input data, does not need an initial guess, does not assume a...

Experimental studies on long-range transport of aerosols in the troposphere (2005)

Weinzierl, Bernadett, Petzold, Andreas, Fiebig, Markus, Minikin, Andreas

The presented work focuses on the experimental investigation of atmospheric aerosols of various origins. Main objectives are the characterisation of aerosols and their impact on climate. The first...

Properties of aged forest fire plumes after intercontinental transport across the Atlantic Ocean (2005)

Petzold, Andreas, Weinzierl, Bernadett, Feldpausch, Philipp, Huntrieser, Heidi, Fiebig, Markus, Minikin, Andreas, ...

During the ICARTT study in summer 2004, measurements on the intercontinental transport of aerosols from biogenic and anthropogenic origin were performed at the European west coast as a part of the...

Particle Emissions from Aircraft Engines–A Survey of the European Project PartEmis (2005)

Petzold, Andreas, Fiebig, Markus, Fritzsche, Lutz, Stein, Claudia, Schumann, Ulrich, Wilson, Chris W., ...

An overview of the goals and achievements of the European PartEmis project (Measurement and prediction of emissions of aerosols and gaseous precursors from gas turbine engines) is presented. PartEmis...

Ground-Based Measured and Calculated Spectra of Actinic Flux Density and Downward UV Irradiance in Cloudless Conditions and their Sensitivity to Aerosol Microphysical Properties (2003)

Früh, Barbara, Eckstein, Eva, Trautmann, Thomas, Wendisch, Manfred, Fiebig, Markus, Feister, Uwe

Ground-based spectral measurements of actinic flux density (300–660 nm wavelength) and downward UV irradiance (300–324 nm) under cloudless conditions have been compared with the results of...

Ground-Based Measured and Calculated Spectra of Actinic Flux Density and Downward UV Irradiance in Cloudless Conditions and their Sensitivity to Aerosol Microphysical Properties (2003)

Früh, Barbara, Eckstein, Eva, Trautmann, Thomas, Wendisch, Manfred, Fiebig, Markus, Feister, Uwe

Ground-based spectral measurements of actinic flux density (300–660 nm wavelength) and downward UV irradiance (300–324 nm) under cloudless conditions have been compared with the results of...

Synergetic Retrieval Of Aerosol Properties: (2001)

Marion Schroedter, Peter Wendling, Gerhard Gesell, Christoph Kiemle, Andreas Petzold, Markus Fiebig

At the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) the new synergetic aerosol retrieval method SYNAER which exploits GOME and ATSR-2 data was developed. SYNAER...