W. Renger

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

W. Renger is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Renger has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 21 papers in Atmospheric Science and 3 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in W. Renger's work include Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (17 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (17 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers). W. Renger is often cited by papers focused on Atmospheric aerosols and clouds (17 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (17 papers) and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (14 papers). W. Renger collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and United States. W. Renger's co-authors include Martin Wirth, Thomas Peter, A. Tsias, K. S. Carslaw, Martin Leutbecher, Andreas Dörnbrack, Hans Volkert, Julio T. Bacmeister, Beiping Luo and Gerhard Ehret and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

W. Renger

27 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 1998 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 1998
    1999 526 citations W. Renger, Martin Wirth elib (German Aerospace Center) profile →

Peers

W. Renger
Rumen D. Bojkov United States
S. M. Frith United States
Jean‐Luc Baray France
F. M. Luther United States
Dan Smale New Zealand
Marc von Hobe Germany
José M. Rodríguez United States
I. S. A. Isaksen Norway
A. Marenco France
F. E. Grahek United States
Rumen D. Bojkov United States
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Fields of papers citing papers by W. Renger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. Renger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of W. Renger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of W. Renger 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 W. Renger. W. Renger 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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Flentje, H., W. Renger, Martin Wirth, & W. A. Lahoz. (2000). Validation of contour advection simulations with airborne lidar measurements of filaments during the Second European Stratospheric Arctic and Midlatitude Experiment (SESAME). Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 105(D12). 15417–15437. 9 indexed citations
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Renger, W. & Martin Wirth. (1999). Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 1998. elib (German Aerospace Center). 526 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ḧopfner, M., C. E. Blom, N. Glatthor, et al.. (1998). HNO3 and PSC Measurements from the Transall: Sequestering of HNO3 in the Winter of 1994/95. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry. 30(1). 61–79. 6 indexed citations
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Carslaw, K. S., Martin Wirth, A. Tsias, et al.. (1998). Particle microphysics and chemistry in remotely observed mountain polar stratospheric clouds. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 103(D5). 5785–5796. 145 indexed citations
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Carslaw, K. S., Martin Wirth, A. Tsias, et al.. (1998). Increased stratospheric ozone depletion due to mountain-induced atmospheric waves. Nature. 391(6668). 675–678. 174 indexed citations
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Kerscher, M., et al.. (1997). The Influence of Multiple Scattering on Lidar Returns by Cirrus Clouds and an Effective Inversion Algorithm for the Extinction Coefficient. elib (German Aerospace Center). 70(2). 91–107. 4 indexed citations
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Pfeilsticker, K., H. Fischer, N. Glatthor, et al.. (1997). Aircraft‐borne detection of stratospheric column amounts of O3, NO2, OClO, ClNO3, HNO3, and aerosols around the arctic vortex (79°N to 39°N) during spring 1993: 1. Observational data. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 102(D9). 10801–10814. 11 indexed citations
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Wirth, Martin & W. Renger. (1996). Evidence of Large Scale Ozone Depletion within the Arctic Polar Vortex 94/95 based on Airborne LIDAR.. elib (German Aerospace Center). 3 indexed citations
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Pyle, J. A., Martyn P. Chipperfield, R. M. Stimpfle, et al.. (1995). Early modelling results from the SESAME and ASHOE campaigns. Faraday Discussions. 100. 371–371. 15 indexed citations
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Dameris, M., Martin Wirth, W. Renger, & Volker Grewe. (1995). Definition of the Polar Vortex Edge by LIDAR Data of Stratospheric Aerosol: A Comparison with Values of Potential Vorticity.. elib (German Aerospace Center). 68(2). 113–119. 10 indexed citations
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Wirth, Martin, et al.. (1995). <title>Airborne backscatter lidar measurements at three wavelengths during ELITE</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 2505. 55–65. 4 indexed citations
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Wirth, Martin, et al.. (1994). Two dimensional stratospheric aerosol distributions during EASOE. Geophysical Research Letters. 21(13). 1287–1290. 8 indexed citations
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Ehret, Gerhard, et al.. (1993). Airborne remote sensing of tropospheric water vapor with a near–infrared differential absorption lidar system. Applied Optics. 32(24). 4534–4534. 52 indexed citations
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Wirth, Martin, W. Renger, & Gerhard Ehret. (1992). Airborne DIAL remote sensing of the arctic ozone layer. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 1714. 234–234. 1 indexed citations
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Fischer, J., et al.. (1991). Detection of Cloud-Top Height from Backscattered Radiances within the Oxygen A Band. Part 2: Measurements. Journal of Applied Meteorology. 30(9). 1260–1267. 41 indexed citations
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Renger, W., et al.. (1991). Invertierung der Lidarsignale von Cirrus und Kondensstreifen unter Nutzung des Schattenwurfes. elib (German Aerospace Center). 3 indexed citations
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Renger, W., et al.. (1991). Shadow Technique for Improved Inversion of Lidar Data to Optical Depth.. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1 indexed citations
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Ehret, Gerhard & W. Renger. (1990). Atmospheric Aerosol and Humidity Profiling Using an Airborne DIAL System in the Near IR. ThA6–ThA6. 3 indexed citations
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Schumann, U., Gerhard Gesell, H. Höller, et al.. (1990). Analysis of Air Traffic Contrails from Satellite Data - A Case Study. elib (German Aerospace Center). 1 indexed citations
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Wendling, P., et al.. (1985). Calculated radiative effects of Arctic haze during a pollution episode in Spring 1983 based on ground-based and airborne measurements. Atmospheric Environment (1967). 19(12). 2181–2193. 23 indexed citations

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