Ronny Engelmann
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About
Ronny Engelmann is a leading atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on the vertical profiling of aerosols using advanced multiwavelength Raman and polarization lidar systems. His major contributions include pioneering the separation of desert dust and biomass burning smoke layers in the atmosphere—a technique demonstrated in his highly cited 2009 work (558 citations) during the Saharan Mineral Dust Experiment. He also documented extreme stratospheric smoke levels over central Europe from Canadian wildfires in 2017 (190 citations), revealing aerosol loads 20 times higher than after the Pinatubo eruption. Engelmann provided the first-ever triple-wavelength lidar observations of Saharan dust depolarization and lidar ratios (84 citations), and tracked Saharan Air Layer transport across the tropical Atlantic using shipborne lidar (83 citations). His long-term profiling in Central Asia (52 citations) and contributions to the MOSAiC Arctic expedition (24 citations) have advanced understanding of aerosol-cloud interactions and climate forcing. Engelmann’s work is instrumental in improving satellite aerosol retrievals and calibrating water vapor profiles, making him a key figure in lidar remote sensing and atmospheric aerosol research.
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