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Collaborators | Frank Hase

Frank Hase

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KIT, Germany

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Frank Hase is the head of the groundbased remote sensing group of IMK-ASF, KIT, and leads the COCCON network, which is based on a new type of portable FTIR spectrometer for the measurement of the main greenhouse gases was developed by the KIT in cooperation with Bruker Optics (Ettlingen, Germany).

Education

  • PhD in Physics | University of Karlsruhe | 1997 - 2000
  • Diploma in Physics | University of Karlsruhe | 1995

Professional Experience

  • 2022 Habilitation at KIT (Department of Civil Engineering, Geo and Environmental Sciences),
  • 2021-now Head of the groundbased remote sensing group of IMK-ASF, KIT
  • 2017-now Head of COCCON project
  • 2002-2021 Staff scientist in groundbased remote sensing group of IMK-ASF, KIT,
  • 2002 Visiting Scientist at NCAR 2002
  • 2000-2002 Postdoc in groundbased remote sensing group of IMK-ASF, KIT

Closing tropical data gaps to resolve global carbon-budget uncertainties

References

Butz, A., Bösch, H., Camy-Peyret, C., Dorf, M., Engel, A., Payan, S., & Pfeilsticker, K. (2007). Observational constraints on the kinetics of the ClO-BrO and ClO-ClO ozone loss cycles in the Arctic winter stratosphere. Geophys. Res. Lett., 34(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL028718
Butz, A., Bösch, H., Camy-Peyret, C., Chipperfield, M. P., Dorf, M., Kreycy, S., et al. (2009). Constraints on inorganic gaseous iodine in the tropical upper troposphere and stratosphere inferred from balloon-borne solar occultation observations. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9(18), 7229–7242. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-9-7229-2009
Butz, A., Guerlet, S., Hasekamp, O., Schepers, D., Galli, A., Aben, I., et al. (2011). Toward accurate CO\(_{\textrm{2}}\) and CH\(_{\textrm{4}}\) observations from GOSAT. Geophys. Res. Lett., 38(14), n/a–n/a. https://doi.org/10.1029/2011GL047888
Butz, André, Hanft, V., Kleinschek, R., Frey, M. M., Müller, A., Knapp, M., et al. (2022). Versatile and Targeted Validation of Space-Borne XCO\(_{\textrm{2}}\), XCH\(_{\textrm{4}}\) and XCO Observations by Mobile Ground-Based Direct-Sun Spectrometers. Front. Remote Sens., 2, 775805. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2021.775805
Hu, H., Landgraf, J., Detmers, R., Borsdorff, T., Aan de Brugh, J., Aben, I., et al. (2018). Toward Global Mapping of Methane With TROPOMI: First Results and Intersatellite Comparison to GOSAT. Geophys. Res. Lett., 45(8), 3682–3689. https://doi.org/10.1002/2018GL077259
Jungmann, M., Vardag, S. N., Kutzner, F., Keppler, F., Schmidt, M., Aeschbach, N., et al. (2022). Zooming-in for climate action—hyperlocal greenhouse gas data for mitigation action? Clim. Action, 1(1), 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44168-022-00007-4
Knapp, M., Scheidweiler, L., Külheim, F., Kleinschek, R., Necki, J., Jagoda, P., & Butz, A. (2023). Spectrometric imaging of sub-hourly methane emission dynamics from coal mine ventilation. Environmental Research Letters, 18(4), 044030. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acc346
Löw, B. A., Kleinschek, R., Enders, V., Sander, S. P., Pongetti, T. J., Schmitt, T. D., et al. (2023). A portable reflected-sunlight spectrometer for CO\(_{\textrm{2}}\) and CH\(_{\textrm{4}}\). Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16(21), 5125–5144. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-5125-2023
Metz, E.-M., Vardag, S. N., Basu, S., Jung, M., Ahrens, B., El-Madany, T., et al. (2023). Soil respiration-driven CO\(_{\textrm{2}}\) pulses dominate Australia’s flux variability. Science, 379(6639), 1332–1335. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.add7833
Palmer, P. I., Woodwark, A. J. P., Finch, D. P., Taylor, T. E., Butz, A., Tamminen, J., et al. (2022). Role of space station instruments for improving tropical carbon flux estimates using atmospheric data. Npj Microgravity, 8(1), 51. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41526-022-00231-6
Schmitt, T. D., Kuhn, J., Kleinschek, R., Löw, B. A., Schmitt, S., Cranton, W., et al. (2023). An open-path observatory for greenhouse gases based on near-infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16(24), 6097–6110. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-6097-2023
Strandgren, J., Krutz, D., Wilzewski, J., Paproth, C., Sebastian, I., Gurney, K. R., et al. (2020). Towards spaceborne monitoring of localized CO\(_{\textrm{2}}\) emissions: An instrument concept and first performance assessment. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13(6), 2887–2904. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-2887-2020
Voss, K., Holzbeck, P., Pfeilsticker, K., Kleinschek, R., Wetzel, G., Fuentes Andrade, B., et al. (2024). A novel, balloon-borne UV/visible spectrometer for direct sun measurements of stratospheric bromine. EGUsphere, 2024, 1–33.


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