Publications of the Department

Vogel, B., Lauther, V., Köllner, F., Ekinci, F., Rolf, C., Strobel, J., van Luijt, R., Volk, C. M., Borrmann, S., Dragoneas, A., Eppers, O., Molleker, S., Hoor, P., Ort, L., Weyland, F., Zahn, A., Clemens, J., Gunther, G., Kachula, O., Müller, R., Ploeger, F. and Riese, M.: Continental and marine source regions contributing to the outflow of the Asian summer monsoon anticyclone during the PHILEAS campaign in summer 2023, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 26(9), 6283–6319, doi:10.5194/acp-26-6283-2026, 2026.

Piepoli, M., Weidinger, F., Aboyans, V., Abreu, A., Andersen, Z. J., Baneras, J., Carugno, M., Cerbai, E., Castelvecchio, S., Daiber, A., Forastiere, F., Gevaert, S., Guida, G., Hahad, O., Hoffmann, B., Kuzma, L., Lelieveld, J., Mannucci, P. M., Montgomery, H., Newby, D. E., Nieuwenhuijsen, M., Papadakis, M., Parati, G., Renzi, M., Roosli, M., Schnabel, R. B., van Laake, L. W., Van Linthout, S., Sorensen, M., Stafoggia, M., Traykov, V., Vaartjes, I., Luscher, T., Miller, M. R. and Münzel, T.: Environmental risk factors and cardiovascular health, European heart journal - acute cardiovascular care / European Society of Cardiology, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehag270, 2026.

Wüst, L., Moormann, L., Dewald, P., Jin, E., Schuladen, J., Williams, J., Drewnick, F., Pöschl, U., Lelieveld, J. and Crowley, J. N.: Formation and photolysis of multifunctional organic nitrates from the reaction of limonene and NO₃ radicals, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 28, doi:10.1039/D6CP00964F, 2026.

Hahad, O., Hakim-Meibodi, S.-N., Rastguye Haghi, S. H., Faridi, S., Daiber, A., Schneider, A., Wolf, K., Nikolaou, N., Schmitt, V. H., Lurz, P., Espinola-Klein, C., Cheng, Y., Pozzer, A., Lelieveld, J., Münzel, T., Wollschläger, D., Hobohm, L. and Keller, K.: Seasonal variations in hospital admissions and case-fatality of ischemic stroke: a nationwide analysis of >4.2 million cases in Germany, Frontiers in epidemiology, 6, doi:10.3389/fepid.2026.1750089, 2026.

Panagi, M., Nabavi, S. O., Kushta, J., Proestos, Y., Sciare, J., Lelieveld, J. and Christoudias, T.: Sources of black carbon and carbon monoxide air pollution over the Eastern Mediterranean, Atmospheric Pollution Research, 17, doi:10.1016/j.apr.2026.103035, 2026.

Vella, R., Steil, B., Meccia, V., Tost, H., Lelieveld, J. and Pozzer, A.: Air quality penalty in Southeast Asia driven by AMOC slowdown, Geophysical Research Letters, 53(8), doi:10.1029/2025GL121309, 2026.

Adams, T. J., Plant, G. and Kort, E. A.: Deriving cropland N₂O emissions from space-based NO₂ observations, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 26(8), 5517–5529, doi:10.5194/acp-26-5517-2026, 2026.

Yu, C., Formenti, P., de Brito, J. F., Bauville, A., Berge, A., Bouzidi, H., Cazaunau, M., Cirtog, M., Di Biagio, C., Di Antonio, L., Gaimoz, C., Maisonneuve, F., Zapf, P., Seubert, T., Andersen, S. T., Dewald, P., Türk, G. N. T. E., Crowley, J. N., Kukui, A., Xue, C., Denjean, C., Garrouste, O., Etienne, J.-C., Wu, H., Allan, J. D., Liu, D., Wu, Y., Cantrell, C. and Michoud, V.: Impacts of summertime photochemical aging on the physicochemical properties of aerosols in a Paris suburban forest region, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 26(8), 5313–5332, doi:10.5194/acp-26-5313-2026, 2026.

Pinheiro-Oliveira, D., Van Asperen, H., Caetano, M. G., Robin, M., Edtbauer, A., Zannoni, N., Byron, J., Williams, J., Demarchi, L. O., Piedade, M. T. F., Schöngart, J., Wittmann, F., Duvoisin-Junior, S., Batista, C., de Souza, R. A. F. and Gomes Alves, E.: Forest diversity and environmental factors shape contrasting soil-litter fluxes of biogenic volatile organic compounds and methane in three central Amazonian ecosystems, Biogeosciences, 23(7), 2451–2476, doi:10.5194/bg-23-2451-2026, 2026.

Tzyrkalli, A., Georgiades, P., Economou, T., Kekkou, F., Giannaros, C., Parliari, D., Neira, M., Tobias, A. and Lelieveld, J.: On the compound effect of humidity and temperature on mortality in the Eastern Mediterranean, PLOS climate, 5(4), doi:10.1371/journal.pclm.0000821, 2026.

Whiting, E., Plant, G., Kort, E. A., Aben, I., Biener, K. J., Leguijt, G. and Maasakkers, J. D.: Space-based observation of global increase in urban methane emissions from 2019-2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 123(16), doi:10.1073/pnas.2504211123, 2026.

Gustafsson, O., Budhavant, K., Chimurkar, N., Clarke, S., Dreyfus, G., Gong, X., Klimont, Z., Klingmüller, K., Kim, S.-woo, Lelieveld, J., Myhre, G., Nair, H. R. C. R., Peng, J., Ramanathan, V., Rana, A., Manoj, M. R., Satheesh, S. K., Venkataraman, C. and Zhang, Q.: Atmospheric black carbon in the climate system, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 7, 312–332, doi:10.1038/s43017-026-00773-3, 2026.

Nelson, C., Kohl, M., Gromov, S., Pozzer, A., Andersen, S. T., Dörich, R., Lelieveld, J. and Crowley, J. N.: Airborne measurements of peroxyacetyl nitric anhydride (PAN) and peroxyacetic acid (PAA) over the Amazon rainforest: the role of isoprene and the fate of the peroxyacetyl radical, Environmental science: Atmospheres, 6, 687–702, doi:10.1039/d5ea00169b, 2026.

Silva, P. S. C., Tappiz, B., Maduar, M. F., Lakis, O. S., Bustillos, J. O. W. V., Botia, S., Trumbore, S. E., Marks, R. H., Linhares, H. M. S. M. D., Silva, F. A. G., Barbosa, C. G. G., Gachkivskyi, M., Bulthuis, S., Tsokankunku, A. and Harder, H.: Long-term measurements of ²²²Rn in soil gas and at different height levels in Amazon Amazon tall tower observatory, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 295, doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2026.107940, 2026.

Andersen, S. T., Nelson, C., Wüst, L., Dewald, P., Türk, G. N. T. E., Schuladen, J., Fischer, H., Ehn, M., Petaja, T., Rannik, U., Ylivinkka, I., Ahonen, L. R., Rynek, R., Borsdorf, H., Mayer, T., Lelieveld, J. and Crowley, J. N.: Nocturnal vertical gradients in O₃, PAN and PAA in a boreal forest: the role of chemical reactions, deposition and entrainment, Environmental science: Atmospheres, 6(4), 496–514, doi:10.1039/d5ea00159e, 2026.

Kuntic, M., Lelieveld, J. and Münzel, T.: From heavy smog to healthy hearts: China's clean air act as a blueprint for cardiovascular disease prevention, European journal of preventive cardiology / EAPC, European Association of Preventive Cardiology, doi:10.1093/eurjpc/zwag157, 2026.

Moormann, L., Crowley, J. N., Fachinger, F. and Drewnick, F.: Quantification, diel variation and photochemistry of inorganic chlorine trace gases in continental Germany, Environmental science: Atmospheres, 6(4), 579–594, doi:10.1039/d5ea00142k, 2026.

Garg, A., Desservettaz, M., Christodoulou, A., Christoudias, T., Kanawade, V. P., Savvides, C., Vrekoussis, M., Naqui, S., Jokinen, T., Byron, J., Williams, J., Mihalopoulos, N., Liakakou, E., Sciare, J. and Bourtsoukidis, E.: Heat and continental transport shape the variability of volatile organic compounds in the Eastern Mediterranean: insights from multi-year observations and regional modeling, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 26(4), 2597–2622, doi:10.5194/acp-26-2597-2026, 2026.

Lashus, D. C., Gomez, A., Hummel, T., Jacobs, L. F., Majid, A., Raju, R. M., Smith, C. J., Williams, J. and Bratman, G. N.: Associations of forest vs. urban environmental exposure with well-being and nasal microbiome composition: An exploratory pilot study, Environmental Research, 291, doi:10.1016/j.envres.2025.123582, 2026.

Dewald, P., Andersen, S. T., Türk, G. N. T. E., Wüst, L., Nelson, C., Schuladen, J., Ehn, M., Petaja, T., Ylivinkka, I., Ahonen, L. R., Fischer, H., Lelieveld, J. and Crowley, J. N.: Vertical profiles of NO₃ reactivity within the surface layer of a boreal forest, Environmental science: Atmospheres, 6(4), 551–564, doi:10.1039/d5ea00153f, 2026.

Yang, S., Wang, N., Arnoldi-Meadows, T., Bekö, G., Zhang, M., Merizak, M., Wargocki, P., Williams, J., Täubel, M. and Licina, D.: Our Best Friends: How Dogs Alter Indoor Air Quality, Environmental Science & Technology, 60, doi:10.1021/acs.est.5c13324, 2026.

Neira, M., Georgiades, P., Proestos, Y., Economou, T., Araya, J., Malas, S., Omirou, M., Sparaggis, D., Hadjipavlou, G. and Lelieveld, J.: Climate change and thermal stress in cattle: Global projections with high temporal resolution, PLOS climate, 5(1), doi:10.1371/journal.pclm.0000761, 2026.

Surawski, N., Steil, B., Brühl, C., Gromov, S., Klingmüller, K., Martin, A., Pozzer, A. and Lelieveld, J.: Global atmospheric hydrogen chemistry and source-sink budget equilibrium simulation with the EMAC v2.55 model, Geoscientific Model Development, 19(2), 911–931, doi:10.5194/gmd-19-911-2026, 2026.

Constantinidou, K., Hadjinicolaou, P., Tzyrkalli, A., Zittis, G. and Lelieveld, J.: Urban Heat Island in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East: Multi-City Approach in Regional Climate Modelling, International Journal of Climatology, 46(4), doi:10.1002/joc.70255, 2026.

Leppla, D., Hildmann, S., Zannoni, N., Kremper, L., Hollanda, B., Williams, J., Pöhlker, C., Wolff, S., Sà, M., Solci, M. C., Pöschl, U. and Hoffmann, T.: Comprehensive non-targeted molecular characterization of organic aerosols in the Amazon rainforest, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 26(1), 365–390, doi:10.5194/acp-26-365-2026, 2026.

Brill, S., Nillius, B., Förster, J.-D., Artaxo, P., Ditas, F., Geis, D., Gurk, C., Kenntner, T., Klimach, T., Lamneck, M., Valiati , R., Weber, B., Wolff, S., Pöschl, U. and Pöhlker, C.: Automated atmospheric profiling with the Robotic Lift (RoLi) at the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 19(1), 101–118, doi:10.5194/amt-19-101-2026, 2026.

Roberts, S. C., Damon, F., Durand, K., Havlicek, J., Kourtis, D., Langford, B., Sorokowska, A., Sorokowski, P., Swanson, V., Williams, J., Arnoldi-Meadows, T., Brimaud, D., Dlouha, D., Jelinkova, L., Kohkova, S., Kapicova, L., Poirier, A. C., Roberts, K., Sander, J. C., Schwambergova, D., Silvestri, M., Wang, N., Simon, E. and Schaal, B.: Breastfeeding, bonding, and olfaction: unlocking the potential of mother-infant odour exchange, EBioMedicine, 123, doi:10.1016/j.ebiom.2025.106086, 2026.

Williams, H., Andersen, Z. J., Boogaard, H., Brage, S., Browningd, M. H. E. M., Cai, S., Chen, X., Desouza, P., Dzhambov, A. M., Fenechk, B., Flowerl, G., Forastieren, F., Garcia, L., Gasparrini, A., Gehring, U., Gowers, A. M., Hoek, G., Khomenko, S., Lim, C. C., Lu, C., Mitsakou, C., Pozzer, A., Ramani, T., Roscoe, C., V. Spadaro, J., Tatah, L., Vienneau, D., Woodcock, J., Yeager, R., Zapata-Diomedi, B., Nieuwenhuijsen, M. and Khreis, H.: Expert perspectives on exposure-response functions for urban health policy: Lessons from a UBDPolicy workshop, Environmental Research, 288, doi:10.1016/j.envres.2025.123150, 2026.

Brühl, C., Kohl, M. and Lelieveld, J.: Radiative forcing and stratospheric ozone changes due to major forest fires and recent volcanic eruptions including Hunga Tonga, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 25(24), 18697–18718, doi:10.5194/acp-25-18697-2025, 2025.

Li, J., Yu, H., Pozzer, A., Tang, K., Jia, C., Hu, Z., Chen, S., Zhu, Y., Hu, Y., Zhang, B., Luo, H., Jiang, Z., Wang, G. and Lu, F.: Anthropogenic aerosol feedbacks intensify air pollution and weather variability over China, Atmospheric Environment, 362, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2025.121535, 2025.