Publications

Peer-reviewed publications / Review articles and book chapters / PhD and Diploma-theses

• Weller R., Wagenbach D., Legrand M., Elsässer C., Tian-Kunze X., König-Langlo G., 2011. Continuous 25-yr aerosol records at coastal Antarctica. Part 1: inter-annual variabilty of ionic compounds and links to climate indices. Tellus B, Vol. 63. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2011.00542.x.
• Elsässer C., Wagenbach D., Weller R., Auer M., Wallner A., Christl M., 2011. Continuous 25-yr aerosol records at coastal Antarctica. Part 2: variability of the radionuclides 7Be, 10Be and 210Pb. Tellus B, Vol. 63. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2011.00543.x.
• Levin, I., S. Hammer, E. Eichelmann, F. Vogel, 2010. Verification of greenhouse gas emission reductions: The prospect of atmospheric monitoring in polluted areas. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.

2010

• Birmili, W., T. Göbel, A. Sonntag, L. Ries, R. Sohmer, S. Gilge, I. Levin, and A. Stohl, 2010. A case of transatlantic aerosol transport detected at the Schneefernerhaus Observatory (2650 m) on the northern edge of the Alps. Meteorologische Zeitschrift.
• Vogel, F.R., S. Hammer, A. Steinhof, B. Kromer and I. Levin, 2010. Implication of weekly and diurnal 14C calibration on hourly estimates of CO-based fossil fuel CO2 at a moderately polluted site in south-western Germany. Tellus B,Vol 62, 5, DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2010.99466.x
• Levin, I., Naegler, T., Heinz, R., Osusko, D., Cuevas, E., Engel, A., Ilmberger, J., Langenfelds, R.L., Neininger, B., v. Rohden, C., Steele, L.P., Weller, R. and Worthy, D.E. 2010. The global SF6 source inferred from long-term high precision atmospheric measurements and its comparison with emission inventories. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 10, 2655-2662.
• Levin, I., Naegler, T., Kromer, E., Diehl, M., Francey, R. J., Gomez-Pelaez, A.J., Schäfer, A., Steele, L. P., Wagenbach, D., Weller, R., and Worthy, D. E. 2010. Observations and modelling of the global distribution and long-term trend of atmospheric 14CO2. Tellus 62B, 26-46, DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2009.00446.x.
• Ciais, P., Paris, J.-D., Marland, G., Peylin, P., Piao, S., Levin, I., Pregger, T., Scholz, I., Friedrich, R., River, L., Houweling, S., and Schulze, E.-D. 2010. The European carbon balance revisited. Part 4: fossil fuel emissions. Global Change Biology. 16, 1395-1408, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02098.x

2009

• Schulze, E.D., Ciais, P., Luyssaert, S., Freibauer, A., Janssens, I.A., Soussana, J.F., Smith, P., Grace, J., Levin, I., Thiruchittampalam, B., Heimann, M., Dolman, A.J., Valentini, R., Bousquet, P., Peylin, P., Peters, W., Rödenbeck, C., Etiope, G., Vuichard, N., Wattenbach, M., Nabuurs, G.J., Poussi, Z., Nieschulze, J., Gash, J.H. and the CarboEurope Team 2009. Europe s Greenhouse-Gas Balance: Methane and nitrous oxide emissions compensate CO2 sinks. Nature Geoscience 2, 842 - 850, DOI: 101038/NGEO686.
• Bergamaschi, P., Frankenberg, C., Meirink, J.F., Krol, M., Villani, M.G., Houweling, S., Dentener, F., Dlugokencky, E.J., Miller, J.B., Gatti, L.V., Engel, A. and Levin, I. 2009. Inverse modeling of global and regional CH4 emissions using SCIAMACHY satellite retrievals. J. Geophys. Res. 114, D22301, 28 PP., 2009 doi:10.1029/2009JD012287.
• Naegler, T. and Levin, I. 2009, Observation-based global biospheric excess radiocarbon inventory 1963 - 2005. J. Geophys. Res. 114, D17302, doi:10.1029/2008JD011100.
• Naegler, T. and Levin, I. 2009, Biosphere-atmosphere gross carbon exchange flux and the &delta¹³CO₂ and &Delta¹⁴CO₂ disequilibria constrained by the biospheric excess radiocarbon inventory. J. Geophys. Res. 114, D17302, doi:10.1029/2008JD011116.
• Worthy, D. E. J., Chan, E., Ishizawa, M. Chan, D. Poss, C., Dlugokencky, E. J., Maksyutov, S. and Levin, I. 2009. Decreasing anthropogenic methane emissions in Europe and Siberia inferred from continuous carbon dioxide and methane observations at Alert, Canada. J. Geophys. Res. 114, D10301, DOI: 10.1029/2008JD011239.
• Hammer, S., Vogel, F., Kaul, M., and Levin, I., 2009. The H₂/CO ratio of emissions from combustion sources: Comparison of top-down with bottom-up measurements in south-west Germany. Tellus 61B, 547-555, doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2009.00418.x.
• Hammer, S. and Levin, I., 2009. Seasonal variation of the molecular hydrogen uptake by soils inferred from continuous atmospheric observations in Heidelberg, south-west Germany. Tellus B, 556-565, doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2009.00417.x.
• Naegler, T. 2009. Reconciliation of excess ¹⁴C-constrained global CO₂ piston velocity estimates. Tellus 61B, 372-384, doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2008.00408.x.
• Schmitt, S., Hanselmann, A., Wollschläger, U., Hammer, S., and Levin, I., 2009. Investigation of parameters controlling the soil sink of atmospheric molecular hydrogen. Tellus 61B, doi:10.1111/j.1600-0889.2008.00402.x
• Engel, A., Möbius, T., Bönisch, H., Schmidt, U., Heinz, R., Levin, I., Atlas, E., Aoki, S., Nakazawa, T., Sugawara, S., Moore, F., Hurst, D., Elkins, J., Schauffler, S., Andrews, A., and Boering, K., 2009. Age of stratospheric air unchanged within uncertainties over the past 30 years. Nature Geosci. 2, doi:10.1038/NGEO388.

2008

• Levin, I., Hammer, S., Kromer, B., and Meinhard, F., 2008. Radiocarbon Observations in Atmospheric CO₂: Determining Fossil Fuel CO₂ over Europe using Jungfraujoch Observations as Background. Sci. Tot. Environ., doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.10.019.

2007

• Levin, I. and Rödenbeck, C., 2007. Can the envisaged reductions of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions be detected by atmospheric observations? Naturwissenschaften, doi:10.1007/s00114-007-0313-4.
• Vautard, R., Ciais, P., Fisher, R., Lowry, D., Bréon, F.-M., Vogel, F., Levin, I., Miglietta, F., and Nisbet, E., 2007. The dispersion of the Buncefield oil fire plume: An extreme accident without air quality consequences. Atmos. Environ. 41, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.08.055.
• Levin, I. and Karstens, U., 2007. Inferring high-resolution fossil CO₂ records at continental sites from combined ¹⁴CO₂ and CO observations. Tellus 59 B (2), doi:10.1111/j.1600-0889.2006.00244.x.

2006

• Gamnitzer, U., Karstens, U., Kromer, B., Neubert, R., Meijer, H., Schröder, H., and Levin, I., 2006. Carbon Monoxide: A quantitative tracer for fossil fuel CO₂?
  J. Geophys. Res. 111, D22302, doi:1029/2005JD006966. Download pdf .
• Rohs, S., Schiller, C., Riese, M., Engel, A., Schmidt, U., Wetter, T., Levin, I., Nakazawa, T., and Aoki, S., 2006. Long-term changes of methane and hydrogen in the stratosphere in the period 1978-2003 and their impact on the abundance of stratospheric water vapor.
  J. Geophys. Res. 111, D14315, doi:10.1029/2005JD006877.
• Naegler, T., and Levin, I., 2006. Closing the global radiocarbon budget 1945-2005.
  J. Geophys. Res. 111, D12311, doi:10.1029/2005JD006758. Download pdf .
• Naegler, T., Ciais, P., Rodgers, K., and Levin, I., 2006. Excess radiocarbon constraints on air-sea gas exchange and the uptake of CO₂ by the oceans.
  Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L11802, doi:10.1029/2005GL025408. Download pdf .

2005

• Röckmann, T., and Levin, I., 2005. High-precision determination of the changing isotopic composition of atmospheric N₂O from 1990 to 2002.
  J. Geophys. Res. 110, D21304, doi:10.1029/2005JD006066.

2004

• Levin, I., and Kromer, B., 2004. The tropospheric &Delta¹⁴C level in mid-latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere (1959-2003).
  Radiocarbon 46(3), 1261-1272. Download pdf .

2003

• Levin, I., Kromer, B., Schmidt, M., and Sartorius, H., 2003. A novel approach for independent budgeting of fossil fuel CO₂ over Europe by ¹⁴CO₂ observations.
  Geophys. Res. Lett. 30(23), 2194 doi. 10.1029/2003GL018477. Download pdf .
• Manning, S.W., Barbetti, M., Kromer, B., Kuniholm, P.I., Levin, I., Newton, M.W., Reimer, P.J., 2003. No systematic early bias to Mediterranean ¹⁴C ages: radiocarbon measurements from tree-ring and air samples provide tight limits to age offsets.
  Radiocarbon44, 739-754.
• Cuntz, M., Ciais, P. Hoffmann, G., Allison, C.E., Francey, R.J., Knorr, W., Tans, P.P., White, J.W.C., and Levin, I. 2003. A comprehensive global 3D model of d¹⁸O in atmospheric CO₂: Mapping the atmospheric signal.
  J. Geophys. Res. 108(D17), 4528
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• Schmidt, M., Graul, R., Sartorius, H., and Levin, I. 2003. The Schauinsland CO₂ record: 30 years of continental observations and their implications for the variability of the European CO₂ budget.
  J. Geophys. Res. 108(D19), 4619 doi: 10.1029/2002JD003085 Download pdf .
• Kanzawa, H., T. Sugita, H. Nakajima, G.E. Bodeker, H. Oelhaf, M. Stowasser, G. Wetzel, A. Engel, U. Schmidt, I. Levin, G.C. Toon, B. Sen, J.-F. Blavier, S. Aoki, T. Nakazawa, K.W. Jucks, D.G. Johnson, W.A. Traub, C. Camy-Peyret, S. Payan, P. Jeseck, I. Murata, H. Fukunishi, M. von Koenig, H. Bremer, H. Kuellmann, J.H. Park, L.L. Pan, T. Yokota, M. Suzuki, M. Shiotani, and Y. Sasano, 2003. Validation and data characteristics of nitrous oxide and methane profiles observed by the Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer (ILAS) and processed with the Version 5.20 algorithm.
  J. Geophys. Res. 108(D16), 8003
• Necki, J., M. Schmidt, K. Rozanski, M. Zimnoch, A. Korus, J. Lasa, R. Graul and I. Levin, 2003. Six-years record of atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane at a high-altitude mountain site in Poland.
  Tellus 55B, 94-104

2002

• Chevillard A., Ciais, P., Karstens, U., Heimann, M., Schmidt, M., Levin, I., Jacob, D. and Podzun, R. 2002. Transport of ²²²Rn using the on-line regional scale model REMO: A detailed comparison with measurements over Europe.
  Tellus 54B, 850-871
• Sidorov, K., Sorgachev, A., Langendörfer, U., Lloyd, J., Nepomnjashiy, I. L.,   Vygodskaya, N. N., Schmidt, M.and Levin, I. 2002. Seasonal variability of greenhouse gases in the lower troposphere above the middle eastern European Taiga (Syktyvkar, Russia).
  Tellus 54B, 735-748
• Langendörfer, U., Cuntz, M., Ciais, P., Peylin, P., Bariac, T., Milyukova, I., Kolle, O., Naegler, T. and Levin, I. 2002. Modelling of biospheric CO₂ gross fluxes via oxygen isotopes in a spruce forest canopy: A ²²²Radon-calibrated box model approach.
  Tellus 54B, 476-496 Download pdf .
• Levin, I., M. Born, M. Cuntz, U. Langendörfer, S. Mantsch, T. Naegler, M. Schmidt, A. Varlagin, S. Verclas and D. Wagenbach, 2002. Observations of atmospheric variability and soil exhalation rate of Radon-222 at a Russian forest site: Technical approach and deployment for boundary layer studies.
  Tellus 54B, 462-475. Download pdf .
• Levin, I., P. Ciais, R. Langenfelds, M. Schmidt, M. Ramonet, M. Gloor, K. Sidorov, N. Tchebakova, M. Heimann, E.D. Schulze, N.N. Vygodskaya, O. Shibistova and J. Lloyd, 2002. Three years of trace gas observations over the EuroSiberian domain derived from aircraft sampling - a concerted action.
  Tellus 54B, 696-712. Download pdf .
• Winckler, G., W. Aeschbach-Hertig, J. Holocher, R. Kipfer, I. Levin, C. Poss, G. Rehder and E. Suess, 2002. Noble Gases and radiocarbon in natural gas hydrates from Hydrate Ridge.
  Geophys. Res. Lett.m 29, 10, 10.1029/2001GL014013.
• Schiller, C. R. Bauer, F. Cairo, T. Deshler, A. Dörnbrack, J. Elkins, A. Engel, H. Flentje, N. Larsen, I. Levin, M. Müller, S. Oltmans, H. Ovarlez, J. Ovarlez, J. Schreiner, F. Stroh, C. Voigt and H. Vömel, 2002. Dehydration in the Arctic stratosphere during the THESEO2000 / SOLVE campaigns. J. Geophys. Res. 107, D20, doi:10.1029/2001JD000463, 2002
• Engel, A., M. Strunk, M. Müller, H.-P. Haase, C. Poss, I. Levin, U. Schmidt, 2002. Temporal development of total chlorine in the high latitude stratosphere based on reference distributions of mean age derived from CO₂ and SF₆. J. Geophys. Res. 107, D12, 10.1029/2001JD000584, 2002.

2001

• Kromer, B., S.W. Manning, P.I. Kunniholm, M.W. Newton, M. Spurk and I. Levin, 2001. Regional ¹⁴CO₂ gradients in the troposphere: magnitude, mechanisms and consequences. Science 294, 2529-2535.
• Schmidt, M., H. Glatzel-Mattheier, H. Sartorius, D.E. Worthy, and I. Levin, 2001. Western European N₂O emissions - a top down approach based on atmospheric observations. J. Geophys. Res. 106, D6, 5507-5516. Download pdf .

2000

• Strunk, M., A. Engel, U. Schmidt, C.M. Volk, T. Wetter, I. Levin, and H. Glatzel-Mattheier, 2000. CO₂ and SF₆ as stratospheric age tracers: consistency and the effect of mesospheric SF6-loss. Geophys. Res. Lett. 27, 3, 341-344.
• Worthy, D.E.J., I. Levin, J.F. Hopper and N.B.A. Trivett, 2000. Evidence for a link between climate change and northern wetlands methane emissions. J. Geophys. Res.105, D3, 4031-4038.
• Hesshaimer, V. and I. Levin, 2000. Revision of the stratospheric bomb ¹⁴CO₂ inventory. J. Geophys. Res.105, D9, 11,641-11,658. Download pdf .
• Levin, I. and V. Hesshaimer, 2000. Radiocarbon - a unique tracer of global carbon cycle dynamics. Radiocarbon 42, 69-80. Download pdf .
• Schüßler, W., R. Neubert, I. Levin, N. Fischer and C. Sonntag, 2000. Determination of microbial vs. root produced CO₂ in an agricultural ecosystem by means of ¹³CO₂ measurements in soil air. Tellus 52B, 909-918.

1999

• Denning, A.S., M. Holzer, K.R. Gurney, M. Heimann, R.M. Law, P.J. Rayner, I.Y. Fung, S.-M. Fan, S. Taguchi, P. Friedlingstein, Y. Balkanski, M. Maiss and I. Levin, 1999. Three-Dimensional transport and concentration of SF₆: A model intercomparison study (TransCom 2). Tellus 51B, 266-297.
• Levin, I., H. Glatzel-Mattheier, T. Marik, M. Cuntz, M. Schmidt and D.E: Worthy, 1999. Verification of German methane emission inventories and their recent changes based on atmospheric observations. J. Geophys. Res., 104, D3, 3447 - 3456. Download pdf .

1998

• Rohrer, F., D. Brüning, E.S. Grobler, M. Weber, D.H. Ehhalt, R. Neubert, W. Schüßler, and I. Levin, 1998. Mixing ratios and photostationary state of NO and NO₂ observed during the POPCORN field campaign at a rural site in Germany. J. Atmos. Chem. 31, 119-137.
• Worthy D.E.J., I. Levin, N.B.A. Trivett, A.J. Kuhlmann, J.F. Hopper and M.K. Ernst, 1998. Seven years of continuous methane observations at a remote boreal site in Ontario, Canada. J. Geophys. Res. 103, D103, 15 995 - 16 007.
• Kuhlmann, A.J., D. Worthy, N.B.A. Trivett and I. Levin, 1998. Methane emissions from a wetland region within the Hudson Bay Lowland: An atmospheric approach. J. Geophys. Res. 103, 16 009 - 16 016.

1997

• Levin, I. and B. Kromer, 1997. Twenty years of atmospheric ¹⁴CO₂ observations at Schauinsland station, Germany. Radiocarbon 39, 205-218.
• Kromer, B., J. Ambers, M.G.L. Baillie, P.E. Damon, V. Hesshaimer, J. Hofmann, L. Jöris, I. Levin, S. Manning, F.G. McCormac, J. van der Plicht, M. Spurk, M Stuiver and B. Weninger, 1997. Report: Summary of the Workshop "Aspects of high precision radiocarbon calibration". Radiocarbon 38, 607-610.

1996

• Schmidt, M., R. Graul, H. Sartorius, and I. Levin, 1996. Carbon dioxide and methane in continental Europe: a climatology, and ²²²Radon-based emission estimates. Tellus 48B, 457-473. Download pdf .
• Schrimpf, W., K. Lienaerts. K.P. Mueller, J. Rudolph, R. Neubert, W. Schuessler and I. Levin, 1996. Dry deposition of peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN): determination of its deposition velocity at night from measurements of the atmospheric PAN and ²²²Radon concentration gradient. Geophys. Res. Lett. 23, 3599-3602.
• Levin, I. and V. Hesshaimer, 1996. Refining of atmospheric transport model entries by the globally observed passiv tracer distributions of ⁸⁵Krypton and sulfur hexafluoride (SF₆). J. Geophys. Res. 101, D11, 16 745 - 16 755. Download pdf .
• Marik, T. and I. Levin, 1996. A new tracer experiment to estimate the methane emissions from a dairy cow shed using sulphur hexafluoride (SF₆). Global Biogeochemical Cycles 10, 413-418. Download pdf .
• Maiss, M., L.P. Steele, R.J. Francey, P.J. Fraser, R.L. Langenfels, N.B.A. Trivett and I. Levin, 1996. Sulfur hexafluoride - a powerful new atmospheric tracer. Atmosph. Environment 30, 1621-1629. Download pdf .

1995

• Rozanski, K., I. Levin, J. Stock, R.E. Guevara Falcon and F. Rubio, 1995. Atmospheric ¹⁴CO₂ variations in the equatorial region. Radiocarbon 37, 509-515.
• Levin, I., R. Graul, and N.B.A. Trivett, 1995. Long term observations of atmospheric CO₂ and carbon isotopes at continental sites in Germany. Tellus 47B, 23-34. Download pdf .

1994

• Worthy, D.E.J., N.B.A. Trivett, J.F. Hopper, J.W. Bottenheim and I. Levin, 1994. Analysis of long range transport events at Alert, N.W.T., during the Polar Sunrise Experiment. J. Geophys. Res. 99, D12, 25 329-25 344.
• Hesshaimer, V., M. Heimann and I. Levin, 1994. Radiocarbon evidence for a smaller oceanic carbon dioxide sink than previously believed. Nature 370, 201-203. Download pdf .
• Maiss, M. and I. Levin, 1994. Global increase of SF₆ observed in the atmosphere. Geophys. Res. Lett. 21, 569-572. Download pdf .