Dr. Johannes W. Kaiser's Homepage

Current Research Focus

• Atmospheric Aerosol and Trace Gas Monitoring and Forecasting
• Wildfire / Biomass Burning Emissions
• Global Data Assimilation

Current Project Involvements

• MACC-II: FIR & AER subprojects
• SAMBBA

Current Memberships

• MACC-II Management Board
• GEIA Steering Committee

Publications

• List of publications (PDF)
• Google scholar selection of publications

Employment History

• 2005-present: ECMWF, Research Department, Reading, UK
• 2002-2005: University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Remote Sensing Laboratories, Zurich, Switzerland
• 1997-2002: University of Bremen, Department of Physics, Institute of Environmental Physics, Bremen, Germany

Earlier Research Foci

• interactions between atmosphere, ocean, and land systems
• UV-visible-SWIR spectrometer calibration
• atmospheric composition retrieval from UV-visible-SWIR instruments aboard satellite and air-borne platforms
• radiative transfer of solar radiation in a spherical atmosphere
• stellar chemistry

Earlier Project Involvements

• MACC
• European Science Foundation (ESF) 2009 Exploratory Workshop on Improved Quantitative Fire Description With Multi-Species Inversions Of Observed Plumes
• GEMS
• HALO
• APEX
• SCIAMACHY