H. De Backer

3.4k total citations
49 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

H. De Backer is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, H. De Backer has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Atmospheric Science, 36 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 4 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in H. De Backer's work include Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (38 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (36 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (20 papers). H. De Backer is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (38 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (36 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (20 papers). H. De Backer collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. H. De Backer's co-authors include D. De Muer, Andy Delcloo, Costas A. Varotsos, Roeland Van Malderen, G. Vaughan, E. Kyrö, Geir Braathen, René Stübi, Veerle De Bock and H. G. J. Smit and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

H. De Backer

48 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
H. De Backer Belgium 21 1.0k 864 191 126 76 49 1.3k
Glen Jaross United States 15 1.2k 1.2× 1000 1.2× 128 0.7× 122 1.0× 97 1.3× 54 1.4k
S. M. Frith United States 24 1.6k 1.6× 1.4k 1.6× 116 0.6× 90 0.7× 180 2.4× 45 1.8k
Irina Petropavlovskikh United States 20 1.5k 1.5× 1.2k 1.4× 276 1.4× 154 1.2× 52 0.7× 79 1.7k
John Deluisi United States 13 1.0k 1.0× 956 1.1× 82 0.4× 66 0.5× 88 1.2× 22 1.2k
Maria-Elissavet Koukouli Greece 27 1.8k 1.7× 1.4k 1.7× 428 2.2× 275 2.2× 83 1.1× 84 2.0k
D. I. Wardle Canada 21 907 0.9× 731 0.8× 74 0.4× 35 0.3× 29 0.4× 41 1.0k
H. Claude Germany 27 2.0k 1.9× 1.6k 1.9× 182 1.0× 101 0.8× 167 2.2× 47 2.1k
Sergey Gromov Germany 14 1.1k 1.1× 802 0.9× 293 1.5× 124 1.0× 35 0.5× 36 1.3k
Omaira García Spain 18 1.0k 1.0× 975 1.1× 153 0.8× 72 0.6× 15 0.2× 76 1.2k
William C. Conant United States 18 1.2k 1.2× 1.2k 1.4× 277 1.5× 45 0.4× 38 0.5× 26 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by H. De Backer

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Fields of papers citing papers by H. De Backer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of H. De Backer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of H. De Backer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of H. De Backer 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 H. De Backer. H. De Backer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Steinbrecht, Wolfgang, Voltaire A. Velazco, Ruud Dirksen, et al.. (2025). Ground‐Based Monitoring of Stratospheric Ozone and Temperature Over Germany Since the 1960s. Earth and Space Science. 12(3).
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Malderen, Roeland Van, D. De Muer, H. De Backer, et al.. (2021). Fifty years of balloon-borne ozone profile measurements at Uccle, Belgium: a short history, the scientific relevance, and the achievements in understanding the vertical ozone distribution. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 21(16). 12385–12411. 9 indexed citations
3.
Jegou, David, et al.. (2016). Seasonal variation in cutaneous melanoma incidence, link with recent UV levels. Melanoma Research. 26(2). 195–201. 2 indexed citations
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Malderen, Roeland Van, Marc Allaart, H. De Backer, H. G. J. Smit, & D. De Muer. (2016). On instrumental errors and related correction strategies of ozonesondes: possible effect on calculated ozone trends for the nearby sites Uccle and De Bilt. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 9(8). 3793–3816. 20 indexed citations
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Haeffelin, Martial, Quentin Laffineur, Juan Antonio Bravo-Aranda, et al.. (2016). Radiation fog formation alerts using attenuated backscatter power from automatic lidars and ceilometers. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 9(11). 5347–5365. 38 indexed citations
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Gielen, C., Michel Van Roozendaël, F. Hendrick, et al.. (2014). A simple and versatile cloud-screening method for MAX-DOAS retrievals. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 7(10). 3509–3527. 39 indexed citations
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Laffineur, Quentin, et al.. (2014). Observation of an intercontinental smoke plume over Europe on June 2013: some ambiguity in the determination of the source. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 16. 2173. 1 indexed citations
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Malderen, Roeland Van, Hugues Brenot, Eric Pottiaux, et al.. (2014). A multi-site intercomparison of integrated water vapour observations for climate change analysis. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 7(8). 2487–2512. 57 indexed citations
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Bock, Veerle De, H. De Backer, Roeland Van Malderen, Alexander Mangold, & Andy Delcloo. (2014). Relations between erythemal UV dose, global solar radiation, total ozone column and aerosol optical depth at Uccle, Belgium. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(22). 12251–12270. 29 indexed citations
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Laffineur, Quentin, et al.. (2013). Quality control on the mixing layer height retrieved from LIDAR-ceilometer measurements. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations
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Malderen, Roeland Van, Hugues Brenot, Eric Pottiaux, et al.. (2012). Inter-technique comparison of integrated water vapour measurements for climate change analysis. EGUGA. 10788. 1 indexed citations
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Outer, P. N. den, Arjan van Dijk, H. Slaper, et al.. (2012). Applying spaceborne reflectivity measurements for calculation of the solar ultraviolet radiation at ground level. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 5(12). 3041–3054. 5 indexed citations
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Bock, Veerle De, H. De Backer, Alexander Mangold, & Andy Delcloo. (2010). Aerosol Optical Depth measurements at 340 nm with a Brewer spectrophotometer and comparison with Cimel sunphotometer observations at Uccle, Belgium. Atmospheric measurement techniques. 3(6). 1577–1588. 11 indexed citations
14.
Vanhoenacker‐Janvier, Danielle, et al.. (2009). Scintillation prediction using improved pre-processed radiosounding data. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 3849–3851. 5 indexed citations
15.
Lam, K. S., et al.. (2009). Intercomparison of Aerosol Optical Depth from Brewer Ozone spectrophotometers and CIMEL sunphotometers measurements. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 9(2). 733–741. 13 indexed citations
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Mangold, Alexander, Jens‐Uwe Grooß, H. De Backer, et al.. (2009). A model study of the January 2006 low total ozone episode over Western Europe and comparison with ozone sonde data. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 9(17). 6429–6451. 1 indexed citations
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Schnadt, C., J. Staehelin, Dominik Brunner, et al.. (2009). Long-term changes in UT/LS ozone between the late 1970s and the 1990s deduced from the GASP and MOZAIC aircraft programs and from ozonesondes. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 9(14). 5343–5369. 22 indexed citations
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Backer, H. De, et al.. (2001). Assessment of the Uccle ozone sounding time series quality using SAGEII data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 106(D13). 14515–14523. 16 indexed citations
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Gathen, Peter von der, Markus Rex, Neil Harris, et al.. (1995). Observational evidence for chemical ozone depletion over the Arctic in winter 1991–92. Nature. 375(6527). 131–134. 152 indexed citations
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Reid, Steve, G. Vaughan, N. J. Mitchell, et al.. (1994). Distribution of ozone laminae during EASOE and the possible influence of inertia‐gravity waves. Geophysical Research Letters. 21(13). 1479–1482. 69 indexed citations

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