Publications

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(in alphabetical order)

• Amiridis, V., Zerefos, C., Kazadzis, S., Gerasopoulos, E., Eleftheratos, K., Vrekoussis, M., Stohl, A., Mamouri, R.E., Kokkalis, P., Papayannis, A., Eleftheriadis, K., Diapouli, E., Keramitsoglou, I., Kontoes, C., Kotroni, V., Lagouvardos, K., Marinou, E., Giannakaki, E., Kostopoulou, E., Giannakopoulos, C., Richter, A., Burrows, J.P., Mihalopoulos, N. Impact of the 2009 Attica wild fires on the air quality in urban Athens, Atmos. Environ., doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.07.056, 2011.
• Chang D., and Song Y., Estimates of biomass burning emissions in tropical Asia based on satellite-derived data, 2010, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 2335–2351. Link to online version.
• Colette, A., C. Granier, O. Hodnebrog, H. Jakobs, A. Maurizi, A. Nyiri, S. Rao, M. Amann, B. Bessagnet, A. D'Angiola, M. Gauss, C. Heyes, Z. Klimont, F. Meleux, M. Memmesheimer, A. Mieville, L. Rouïl, F. Russo, S. Schucht, D. Simpson, F. Stordal, F. Tampieri and M. Vrac, Future air quality in Europe: a multi-model assessment of projected exposure to ozone, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, pp. 10613-10630, 2012. Link to online version.
• Colette, A., R. Vautard and M. Vrac, Regional climate downscaling with prior statistical correction of the global climate forcing, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, p. L13707, 2012.
• Colette, A., C. Granier, Ø. Hodnebrog, H. Jakobs, A. Maurizi, A. Nyiri, B. Bessagnet, A. D'Angiola, M. D'Isidoro, M. Gauss, F. Meleux, M. Memmesheimer, A. Mieville, L. Rouïl, F. Russo, S. Solberg, F. Stordal, and F. Tampieri, Air quality trends in Europe over the past decade: a first multi-model assessment, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 11657-11678, 2011. Link to online version.
• Gerasopoulos, E., Amiridis, V., Kazadzis, S., Kokkalis, P., Eleftheratos, K., Andreae, M. O., Andreae, T. W., El-Askary, H., and Zerefos, C. S.: Three-year ground based measurements of aerosol optical depth over the Eastern Mediterranean: the urban environment of Athens, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 2145-2159, doi:10.5194/acp-11-2145-2011, 2011. Link to online version.
• Granier, C., B. Bessagnet, T. Bond, A. D’Angiola, H. Denier van der Gon, G. Frost, A. Heil, J. W. Kaiser, S. Kinne, Z. Klimont, S. Kloster, J.-F. Lamarque, C. Liousse, T. Masui, F. Meleux, A. Mieville, T. Ohara, J.-C. Raut, K. Riahi , M. G. Schultz, S. J. Smith, A. Thompson, J. van Aardenne, G. R. van der Werf, B. D. P. van Vuuren, Evolution of anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of air pollutants at global and regional scales during the 1980-2010 period, DOI 10.1007/s10584-011-0154-1, Climatic Change, 2011.Link to online version.
• Hatzianastassiou, N., A. Gkikas, N. Mihalopoulos, O. Torres, B. D. Katsoulis: Natural versus anthropogenic aerosols in the eastern Mediterranean basin derived from multi-year TOMS and MODIS satellite data, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D24202, doi:10.1029/2009JD011982, 2009.
• Heckel, A., Kim, S.-W., Frost, G. J., Richter, A., Trainer, M., and Burrows, J. P.: Influence of low spatial resolution a priori data on tropospheric NO2 satellite retrievals, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 4, 1805-1820, doi:10.5194/amt-4-1805-2011, 2011. Link to online version.
• Hilboll, A., Richter, A., Rozanov, A., Hodnebrog, Ø., Heckel, A., Solberg, S., Stordal, F., and Burrows, J. P.: Improvements to the retrieval of tropospheric NO2 from satellite - stratospheric correction using SCIAMACHY limb/nadir matching and comparison to Oslo CTM2 simulations, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 6, 3, 565-584, 10.5194/amt-6-565-2013, 2013. Link to online version.
• Hilboll, A., Richter, A., and Burrows, J. P., Long-term changes of tropospheric NO2 over megacities derived from multiple satellite instruments, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 4145-4169, doi:10.5194/acp-13-4145-2013, 2013. Link to online version.
• Hodnebrog, Ø., Stordal, F., and Berntsen, T. K.: Does the resolution of megacity emissions impact large scale ozone?, Atmospheric Environment, 45, 6852-6862, 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.01.012, 2011.
• Hodnebrog, Ø., Solberg, S., Stordal, F., Svendby, T. M., Simpson, D., Gauss, M., Hilboll, A., Pfister, G. G., Turquety, S., Richter, A., Burrows, J. P., and Denier van der Gon, H. A. C., Impact of forest fires, biogenic emissions and high temperatures on the elevated Eastern Mediterranean ozone levels during the hot summer of 2007, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 18, 8727-8750, 10.5194/acp-12-8727-2012, 2012. Link to online version.
• Hu X., Li Y., Li J., Wang X., Zhang Y., Interaction of Ambient PM10 among the Cities over the Pearl River Delta, 2011, Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis, 47(3), 519-524, (in Chinese).
• Im, U., K. Markakis, A. Unal, T. Kindap, A. Poupkou, S. Incecik, O. Yenigun, D. Melas, C. Theodosi, N. Mihalopoulos, Study of a winter PM episode in Istanbul using the high resolution WRF/CMAQ modeling system, Atmospheric Environment, 44, p. 3085-3094, 2010.
• Im, U., K. Markakis, A. Poupkou, D. Melas, A. Unal, E. Gerasopoulos, N. Daskalakis, T. Kindap, and M. Kanakidou, The impact of temperature changes on summer time ozone and its precursors in the Eastern Mediterranean, , Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 3847–3864, 2011. Link to online version.
• Im, U. and Kanakidou, M., Impacts of East Mediterranean megacity emissions on air quality, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 6335-6355, doi:10.5194/acp-12-6335-2012, 2012. Link to online version.
• Im, U. K. Markakis, M. Koçak, E. Gerasopoulos, N. Daskalakis, N. Mihalopoulos, A. Poupkou, T. Kındap, A. Unal, M. Kanakidou, Summertime aerosol chemical composition in the Eastern Mediterranean and its sensitivity to temperature, Atmospheric Environment 50, 164-173, 2012.
• Im, U., Impact of sea-salt emissions on the model performance and aerosol chemical composition and deposition in the East Mediterranean coastal regions, Atmospheric Environment, 75, 329-340, 2013.
• Im, U., S. Christodoulaki, K. Violaki, P. Zarmpas, M. Kocak, N. Daskalakis, N. Mihalopoulos, M. Kanakidou, Atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and sulfur over southern Europe with focus on the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, Atmospheric Environment, 81, 660-670, 2013.
• Im, U., Daskalakis N., Markakis K., Vrekoussis M., Hjorth J., Myriokefalitakis S., Gerasopoulos E., Kouvarakis G., Richter A., Burrows J.P., Pozzoli L., Unal A., Kindap T., Kanakidou M., Simulated Air Quality and Pollutant Budgets over Europe in 2008, Science of the Total Environment, 470-471, 270-281, 2014.
• Kanakidou, M., N. Mihalopoulos, T. Kindap, U. Im, M. Vrekoussis, E. Gerasopoulos, E. Dermitzaki, A. Unal, M. Koçak, K. Markakis, D. Melas, G. Kouvarakis, A. F. Youssef, A. Richter, N. Hatzianastassiou, A. Hilboll, F. Ebojie, F. Wittrock, C. von Savigny, J. P. Burrows, A. Ladstaetter-Weissenmayer, H. Moubasher, Megacities as hot spots of air pollution in the East Mediterranean, Atmospheric Environment, 45 (6), 1223-1235, 2011.
• Koçak, M., Theodosi, C., Zarmpas, P., Im, U., Bougiatioti., A., Yenigün, O., Mihalopoulos, N.: Particulate matter (PM10) in Istanbul: Origin, source areas and potential impact on surrounding regions, Atmos. Environ., doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.10.007, 2010.
• Koçak, M., Kubilay, N., Tuğrul, S., and Mihalopoulos, N.: Atmospheric nutrient inputs to the northern levantine basin from a long-term observation: sources and comparison with riverine inputs, Biogeosciences, 7, 4037-4050, doi:10.5194/bg-7-4037-2010, 2010. Link to online version.
• Konovalov, I. B., Beekmann, M., Richter, A., Burrows, J. P., and Hilboll, A.: Multi-annual changes of NOx emissions in megacity regions: nonlinear trend analysis of satellite measurement based estimates, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 8481-8498, doi:10.5194/acp-10-8481-2010, 2010. Link to online version.
• Lamarque et al., Historical (1850-2000) gridded anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of reactive gases and aerosols: methodology and application, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 7017–7039, 2010. Link to online version.
• Markakis K., Im U., Unal A., Melas D., Yenigun O., Incecik S., Compilation of a GIS based high spatially and temporally resolved emission inventory for the greater Istanbul area. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 3, 112-125, 2012. Link to online version.
• Maurizi, A., F. Russo, M. D’Isidoro, and F. Tampieri, Nudging technique for scale bridging in air quality/climate atmospheric composition modelling, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 3677–3685, 2012. Link to online version.
• Maurizi, A., Russo, F., Tampieri, F., Local vs. external contribution to the budget of pollutants in the Po Valley (Italy) hot spot, Science of The Total Environment, Volumes 458–460, pp 459–465, 2013.
• Noguchi, K., Richter, A., Bovensmann, H., Hilboll, A., Burrows, J.P., Irie, H., Hayashida, S., Morino, Y., A feasibility study for the detection of the diurnal variation of tropospheric NO2 over Tokyo from a geostationary orbit, Advances in Space Research, In press, doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2011.06.029, 2011.
• Péré, J.C., A. Colette, P. Dubuisson, B. Bessagnet, M. Mallet and V. Pont, Impacts of future air pollution mitigation strategies on the aerosol direct radiative forcing over Europe, Atmospheric Environment, 62, pp. 451-460, 2012.
• Reuter, M., Buchwitz, M., Schneising, O., Heymann, J., Bovensmann, H., and Burrows, J. P., A method for improved SCIAMACHY CO2 retrieval in the presence of optically thin clouds, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 3, 209-232, 2010. Link to online version.
• Reuter, M., Bovensmann, H., Buchwitz, M., et al., Retrieval of atmospheric CO2 with enhanced accuracy and precision from SCIAMACHY: Validation with FTS measurements and comparison with model results, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D04301, doi:10.1029/2010JD015047, 2011.
• Richter, A., M. Begoin, A. Hilboll, and J. P. Burrows, An improved NO2 retrieval for the GOME-2 satellite instrument , Atmos. Meas. Tech., 4, 1147–1159, doi:10.5194/amt-4-1147-2011, 2011. Link to online version.
• Schneising, O., Buchwitz, M., Burrows, J. P., Bovensmann, H., Bergamaschi, P., and Peters, W., Three years of greenhouse gas column-averaged dry air mole fractions retrieved from satellite - Part 2: Methane, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 443-465, 2009. Link to online version.
• Schneising, O., Buchwitz, M., Reuter, M., Heymann, J., Bovensmann, H., Burrows, J. P., Long-term analysis of carbon dioxide and methane column-averaged mole fractions retrieved from SCIAMACHY, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 2881-2892, 2011. Link to online version.
• Siour, G., A. Colette, L. Menut, B. Bessagnet, I. Coll, F. Meleux, Bridging the scales in an eulerian air quality model to assess megacity export of pollution, Environmental Modelling & Software, in press (available online 18 May 2013), 2013.
• Song, Y., D. Chang, B. Liu, W. Miao, L. Zhu and Y. Zhang: A new emission inventory for nonagricultural open fires in Asia from 2000 to 2009, Environ. Res. Lett. 5, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/014014, 2010. Link to online version.
• Theodosi, C., U. Im, A. Bougiatioti, P. Zarmpas, O. Yenigun, N. Mihalopoulos, Aerosol chemical composition over Istanbul, Science of the Total Environment, 408, p. 2482–2491, 2010.
• Theodosi, C., G. Grivas, P. Zarmpas, A. Chaloulakou, and N. Mihalopoulos, Mass and chemical composition of size-segregated aerosols (PM1, PM2.5, PM10) over Athens, Greece: local versus regional sources, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 11895-11911, 2011. Link to online version.
• von Hoyningen-Huene, W., Yoon, J., Vountas, M., Istomina, L. G., Rohen, G., Dinter, T., Kokhanovsky, A. A., and Burrows, J. P.: Retrieval of spectral aerosol optical thickness over land using ocean color sensors MERIS and SeaWiFS, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 4, 151-171, doi:10.5194/amt-4-151-2011, 2011. Link to online version.
• von Schneidemesser, E., P. S. Monks, C. Plass-Duelmer: Global comparison of VOC and CO observations in urban areas, Atmos. Environ., 44, 5053-5064, 2010. Link to online version.
• von Schneidemesser, E., P. S. Monks, V. Gros, J. Gauduin, O. Sanchez: How Important is Biogenic Isoprene in an Urban Environment? - A Study in London and Paris, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2011GL048647. Link to online version.
• Vrekoussis, M., F. Wittrock, A. Richter, and J. P. Burrows: GOME-2 observations of oxygenated VOCs: what can we learn from the ratio glyoxal to formaldehyde on a global scale? Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 10145–10160, 2010. Link to online version.
• Vrekoussis, M., A. Richter, A. Hilboll, J. P. Burrows, E. Gerasopoulos, J. Lelieveld, L. Barrie, C. Zerefos, and N. Mihalopoulos, Economic crisis detected from space: Air quality observations over Athens/Greece, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 458–463, doi:10.1002/grl.50118, 2013.
• Wang, X., Zhang Y, Hu Y, Zhou W, Lu K, Zhong L, Zeng L, Shao M, Hu M, Russell AG. Process analysis and sensitivity study of regional ozone formation over the Pearl River Delta, China, during the PRIDE-PRD2004 campaign using the Community Multiscale Air Quality modeling system. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 10: 4423-4437, 2010. Link to online version.
• Wang, Xuesong, Yuanhang Zhang, Yongtao Hu, Wei Zhou, Limin Zeng, Min Hu, Daniel S. Cohan and Armistead G. Russell, Decoupled direct sensitivity analysis of regional ozone pollution over the Pearl River Delta during the PRIDE-PRD2004 campaign, Atmos. Environ., doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.06.006, 2011.
• Xiao, R., N. Takegawa, M. Zheng, Y. Kondo, Y. Miyazaki, T. Miyakawa, M. Hu, M. Shao, L. Zeng, Y. Gong, K. Lu, Z. Deng, Y. Zhao, and Y. H. Zhang, Characterization and source apportionment of submicron aerosol with aerosol mass spectrometer during the PRIDE-PRD 2006 campaign, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 6911-6929, 2011. Link to online version.
• Yoon, J., W. von Hoyningen-Huene, M. Vountas, and J. P. Burrows, Analysis of linear long-term trend of Aerosol Optical Thickness derived from SeaWiFS using BAER over Europe and South China, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 12149-12167, 2011. Link to online version.

(in chronological order, latest at the top)

• Article in International Innovation, based on input from met.no, IUP-UB and ECPL (International Innovation is the leading global dissemination resource for the wider scientific, technology and research communities, dedicated to disseminating the latest science, research and technological innovations on a global level. More information and a complimentary subscription offer to the publication can be found at: www.researchmedia.eu)
• Newspaper article by the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) group in 'ETHNOS' in June 2011 http://www.ethnos.gr/article.asp?catid=23106&subid=2&pubid=63144991 (in Greek) - this article attracted the interest of journalists and two interviews were given to radio stations in Athens (national broadcast), one of which in the English spoken part of its program
• Newspaper article in enet.gr (Greece) in October 2009 http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=91825 (in Greek)
• Newspaper article in Aftenposten (Norway) in April 2008 (scanned version) (in Norwegian)