Stelios Kazadzis

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Stelios Kazadzis is a leading atmospheric scientist whose research centers on aerosol remote sensing, desert dust characterization, and the calibration and validation of ground-based and satellite aerosol measurements. His major contributions include pioneering improvements to satellite retrievals of Saharan dust, notably through the optimization of CALIPSO lidar algorithms and the development of the ModIs Dust AeroSol (MIDAS) dataset—a global, fine-resolution dust optical depth product that has become a critical resource for studying dust transport and its climatic impacts. Kazadzis has also advanced the understanding of aerosol climatology in the Mediterranean, with long-term studies over Athens revealing decadal trends in aerosol optical properties. His work on instrument intercomparison is foundational: he led the first multi-instrument nocturnal aerosol optical depth campaign and conducted extensive comparisons between GAW-PFR and AERONET radiometers, strengthening the global reference network for aerosol measurements. With several papers exceeding 100 citations—including his 2013 CALIPSO study (180 citations) and the MIDAS dataset (145 citations)—Kazadzis’s research has profoundly shaped how scientists monitor and model desert dust and aerosol variability, directly informing climate and air quality assessments worldwide.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Optimizing CALIPSO Saharan dust retrievals

   180 citations · 2013
2. 2
   The regime of intense desert dust episodes in the Mediterranean based on contemporary satellite observations and ground measurements

   155 citations · 2013
3. 3
   ModIs Dust AeroSol (MIDAS): a global fine-resolution dust optical depth data set

   145 citations · 2021
4. 4
   A Decade of Aerosol Optical Properties Measurements over Athens, Greece

   73 citations · 2020
5. 5
   Aerosol optical depth comparison between GAW-PFR and AERONET-Cimel radiometers from long-term (2005–2015) 1 min synchronous measurements

   66 citations · 2019
6. 6
   Evaluation of night-time aerosols measurements and lunar irradiance models in the frame of the first multi-instrument nocturnal intercomparison campaign

   56 citations · 2019
7. 7
   Charge-coupled device spectrograph for direct solar irradiance and sky radiance measurements

   42 citations · 2008
8. 8
   Global aerosol mixtures and their multiyear and seasonal characteristics

   38 citations · 2015
9. 9
   Satellite retrieval of aerosol microphysical and optical parameters using neural networks: a new methodology applied to the Sahara desert dust peak

   29 citations · 2014
10. 10
    Aerosol microphysical retrievals from precision filter radiometer direct solar radiation measurements and comparison with AERONET

    27 citations · 2014

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