Alain Heimo

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Alain Heimo is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Heimo has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Atmospheric Science, 7 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 4 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alain Heimo's work include Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (7 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (5 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (5 papers). Alain Heimo is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (7 papers), Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (5 papers) and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (5 papers). Alain Heimo collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Australia and Canada. Alain Heimo's co-authors include Rolf Philipona, Atsumu Ohmura, C. Fröhlich, Hans Gilgen, K. Dehne, Ellsworth G Dutton, Martin Wild, Guido Müller, C. H. Whitlock and Bruce Forgan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Geophysical Research Letters and IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.

In The Last Decade

Alain Heimo

12 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN/WCRP): New Precision Radiometry for Climate Research

1998 748 citations Atsumu Ohmura, Hans Gilgen et al. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alain Heimo Switzerland	7	868	773	283	85	78	13	1.1k
Guido Müller Switzerland	4	701 0.8×	579 0.7×	292 1.0×	43 0.5×	66 0.8×	5	885
Gerhard Gesell Germany	10	417 0.5×	368 0.5×	274 1.0×	38 0.4×	74 0.9×	31	681
K. Dehne Australia	4	632 0.7×	540 0.7×	241 0.9×	41 0.5×	64 0.8×	5	806
Richard Mueller Germany	14	521 0.6×	303 0.4×	512 1.8×	39 0.5×	92 1.2×	18	831
Pradeep Khatri Japan	18	989 1.1×	894 1.2×	154 0.5×	53 0.6×	103 1.3×	53	1.2k
Uwe Pfeifroth Germany	13	433 0.5×	310 0.4×	234 0.8×	44 0.5×	69 0.9×	22	654
Tara Jensen United States	15	719 0.8×	739 1.0×	134 0.5×	89 1.0×	65 0.8×	34	973
Isaac Moradi United States	15	338 0.4×	353 0.5×	371 1.3×	69 0.8×	107 1.4×	40	853
Evgueni Kassianov United States	21	1.3k 1.4×	1.2k 1.6×	144 0.5×	45 0.5×	94 1.2×	62	1.5k
Run Ma China	9	434 0.5×	366 0.5×	160 0.6×	44 0.5×	46 0.6×	21	551

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alain Heimo

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alain Heimo. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alain Heimo based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alain Heimo. Alain Heimo is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Heimo, Alain, et al.. (2010). WIRE - Weather Intelligence for Renewable Energies. 1 indexed citations

2.

Ruckstuhl, Christian, Rolf Philipona, Klaus Behrens, et al.. (2008). Aerosol and cloud effects on solar brightening and the recent rapid warming. Geophysical Research Letters. 35(12). 183 indexed citations

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Heimo, Alain, et al.. (2008). COST-727 Action: icing on structures. 1 indexed citations

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Fikke, Svein M., Alain Heimo, Stefan Kunz, et al.. (2007). COST-727 - Atmospheric Icing on Structures, Measurements and data collection on icing: State of the Art. 47 indexed citations

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Ingold, Thomas, Christian Mätzler, Christoph Wehrli, et al.. (2001). Ozone column density determination from direct irradiance measurements in the ultraviolet performed by a four-channel precision filter radiometer. Applied Optics. 40(12). 1989–1989. 4 indexed citations

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Ingold, Thomas, Christian Mätzler, Niklaus Kämpfer, & Alain Heimo. (2001). Aerosol optical depth measurements by means of a Sun photometer network in Switzerland. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 106(D21). 27537–27554. 24 indexed citations

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Staehelin, J., et al.. (2000). Influence of snow and clouds on erythemal UV radiation: Analysis of Swiss measurements and comparison with models. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 105(D4). 4961–4969. 27 indexed citations

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Ohmura, Atsumu, Hans Gilgen, Guido Müller, et al.. (1998). Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN/WCRP): New Precision Radiometry for Climate Research. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 79(10). 2115–2136. 748 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schmid, B., Christian Mätzler, Alain Heimo, & Niklaus Kämpfer. (1997). Retrieval of optical depth and particle size distribution of tropospheric and stratospheric aerosols by means of Sun photometry. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 35(1). 172–182. 48 indexed citations

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Philipona, Rolf, Alain Heimo, & Bruno Hoegger. (1993). Investigations of solar radiation detectors using a laboratory test facility for solar radiation meteorological instruments. Solar Energy. 51(2). 159–163. 6 indexed citations

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Heimo, Alain & Claus Fr�hlich. (1989). Influence of the El Chichon eruption in Central Europe determined as change in atmospheric transparency at Davos, Switzerland. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 40(1-2). 3–7. 1 indexed citations

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Heimo, Alain. (1985). Diagnosis of the atmosphere through optical measurements performed with a mobile station. ETH Zürich Research Collection. 2 indexed citations

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Heimo, Alain & Peter P. Valkó. (1977). First results obtained from the Swiss mobile system for solar radiation measurements. Solar Energy. 144. 1 indexed citations

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