Johannes Quaas

14.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
154 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Johannes Quaas is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Earth-Surface Processes. According to data from OpenAlex, Johannes Quaas has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 147 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 135 papers in Atmospheric Science and 16 papers in Earth-Surface Processes. Recurrent topics in Johannes Quaas's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (119 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (109 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (52 papers). Johannes Quaas is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (119 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (109 papers) and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate (52 papers). Johannes Quaas collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Johannes Quaas's co-authors include Oliviér Boucher, Nicolas Bellouin, Ulrike Lohmann, Edward Gryspeerdt, Odran Sourdeval, Johannes Mülmenstädt, Stefan Kinne, Philip Stier, Julien Delanoe͏̈ and Ribu Cherian and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Johannes Quaas

144 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Global observations of aerosol-cloud-precipitation-climate interactions

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Johannes Quaas Germany	40	5.2k	5.1k	507	459	244	154	5.8k
Peter R. Colarco United States	37	5.6k 1.1×	5.6k 1.1×	973 1.9×	541 1.2×	432 1.8×	123	6.4k
Hongbin Yu United States	43	5.8k 1.1×	5.8k 1.1×	1.1k 2.1×	570 1.2×	570 2.3×	100	6.9k
Chien Wang United States	34	3.2k 0.6×	3.1k 0.6×	553 1.1×	207 0.5×	339 1.4×	87	4.1k
Trude Storelvmo Norway	36	3.3k 0.6×	3.2k 0.6×	284 0.6×	306 0.7×	71 0.3×	99	3.8k
Philip Stier United Kingdom	47	6.8k 1.3×	7.2k 1.4×	1.3k 2.6×	422 0.9×	358 1.5×	163	7.7k
Minghuai Wang China	40	4.1k 0.8×	4.3k 0.8×	579 1.1×	238 0.5×	388 1.6×	149	4.9k
Jean‐Christophe Golaz United States	37	5.2k 1.0×	5.3k 1.0×	202 0.4×	355 0.8×	804 3.3×	86	6.0k
Manfred Wendisch Germany	46	5.6k 1.1×	5.5k 1.1×	731 1.4×	814 1.8×	297 1.2×	262	6.3k
Timothy J. Garrett United States	30	2.5k 0.5×	2.8k 0.5×	264 0.5×	291 0.6×	242 1.0×	79	3.2k
Johannes W. Kaiser Germany	36	4.3k 0.8×	3.9k 0.8×	656 1.3×	101 0.2×	313 1.3×	111	5.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Johannes Quaas

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Lei, Yao, Linfei Yu, Hongyi Li, et al.. (2025). Emergent constraints on global soil moisture projections under climate change. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 4 indexed citations

Peng, Yiran, Antonio Di Noia, Huazhe Shang, et al.. (2025). Global quantification of the dispersion effect with POLDER satellite data. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7087–7087.

Hodnebrog, Øivind, Gunnar Myhre, Caroline Jouan, et al.. (2024). Recent reductions in aerosol emissions have increased Earth’s energy imbalance. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 39 indexed citations

Zhao, Jianqi, Xiaoyan Ma, Johannes Quaas, & Hailing Jia. (2024). Exploring aerosol–cloud interactions in liquid-phase clouds over eastern China and its adjacent ocean using the WRF-Chem–SBM model. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 24(16). 9101–9118. 4 indexed citations

Luo, Hao, et al.. (2023). Examining cloud vertical structure and radiative effects from satellite retrievals and evaluation of CMIP6 scenarios. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 23(14). 8169–8186. 20 indexed citations

Sanaei, Anvar, Hartmut Herrmann, Olga Ferlian, et al.. (2023). Changes in biodiversity impact atmospheric chemistry and climate through plant volatiles and particles. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 17 indexed citations

Jia, Hailing & Johannes Quaas. (2023). Nonlinearity of the cloud response postpones climate penalty of mitigating air pollution in polluted regions. Nature Climate Change. 13(9). 943–950. 20 indexed citations

Stjern, Camilla W., Piers Forster, Matthew Kasoar, et al.. (2023). The Time Scales of Climate Responses to Carbon Dioxide and Aerosols. Journal of Climate. 36(11). 3537–3551. 11 indexed citations

Arola, Antti, Antti Lipponen, Pekka Kolmonen, et al.. (2022). Aerosol effects on clouds are concealed by natural cloud heterogeneity and satellite retrieval errors. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7357–7357. 29 indexed citations

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Krüger, Ovid O., Bruna A. Holanda, Sourangsu Chowdhury, et al.. (2022). Black carbon aerosol reductions during COVID-19 confinement quantified by aircraft measurements over Europe. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 22(13). 8683–8699. 12 indexed citations

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Sourdeval, Odran, et al.. (2022). Strong Ocean/Sea‐Ice Contrasts Observed in Satellite‐Derived Ice Crystal Number Concentrations in Arctic Ice Boundary‐Layer Clouds. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(13). 5 indexed citations

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Salzmann, Marc, Sylvaine Ferrachat, Steffen Münch, et al.. (2022). The Global Atmosphere‐aerosol Model ICON‐A‐HAM2.3–Initial Model Evaluation and Effects of Radiation Balance Tuning on Aerosol Optical Thickness. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 14(4). e2021MS002699–e2021MS002699. 11 indexed citations

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Dipu, Sudhakar, Johannes Quaas, Martin F. Quaas, et al.. (2021). Substantial Climate Response outside the Target Area in an Idealized Experiment of Regional Radiation Management. Climate. 9(4). 66–66. 3 indexed citations

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Krämer, Martina, Christian Rolf, Nicole Spelten, et al.. (2020). A microphysics guide to cirrus – Part 2: Climatologies of clouds and humidity from observations. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 20(21). 12569–12608. 118 indexed citations

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Jia, Hailing, et al.. (2019). Is positive correlation between cloud droplet effective radius and aerosol optical depth over land due to retrieval artifacts or real physical processes?. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(13). 8879–8896. 35 indexed citations

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Heinold, Bernd, Johannes Quaas, John Backman, et al.. (2019). The importance of the representation of air pollution emissions for the modeled distribution and radiative effects of black carbon in the Arctic. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(17). 11159–11183. 28 indexed citations

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Gryspeerdt, Edward, Tom Goren, Odran Sourdeval, et al.. (2019). Constraining the aerosol influence on cloud liquid water path. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 19(8). 5331–5347. 131 indexed citations

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Goren, Tom, Daniel Rosenfeld, Odran Sourdeval, & Johannes Quaas. (2018). Satellite Observations of Precipitating Marine Stratocumulus Show Greater Cloud Fraction for Decoupled Clouds in Comparison to Coupled Clouds. Geophysical Research Letters. 45(10). 5126–5134. 31 indexed citations

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Quaas, Johannes, et al.. (2017). A new statistical approach to improve the satellite-based estimation of the radiative forcing by aerosol–cloud interactions. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(5). 3687–3698. 5 indexed citations

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Kazil, J., Philip Stier, Kai Zhang, et al.. (2010). Aerosol nucleation and its role for clouds and Earth's radiative forcing in the aerosol-climate model ECHAM5-HAM. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 10(22). 10733–10752. 136 indexed citations

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