Gerrit De Leeuw Is a Professor in the Field of Satellite Remote Sensing of Aerosol Physical

Prof. Dr. Gerrit de Leeuwreceived his PhD from the Univ of Amsterdam (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics) I 1981. He worked at TNO since 1980, had a sabattical as an NRC Senior Research Associate at the Dept. of Meteorology of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey (CA, USA). He was a Visiting Prof. at the Univ. of Sunderland (1999-2001) and at the Univ. of Leeds (2001-2006). He is a full Professor in the field of Satellite Remote Sensing of Aerosol Physical and Optical Properties at the University of Helsinki and at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) since 1 January 2007. He leads the group on Atmospheric Radiation of the Climate Change Unit at FMI (15 people, incl. 7 PhD students), Supervised 5 PhD’s.He has (co-) authored ca. 120 peer reviewed articles in the fields of aerosols, remote sensing and ocean-atmosphere interaction and co-edited a book on ‘Aerosol Remote Sensing over Land’. He has participated as PI in 22 EU projects (3 as coordinator), often as Activity or WP leader, 13 ESA projects (2 as coordinator and in Aerosol-cci as science co-leader), and many other national or international research projects.

Selected Publications

Kokhanovsky, A.A., and G. de Leeuw (Editors), 2009: Satellite Aerosol Remote Sensing Over Land. Springer-Praxis (Berlin). ISBN 978-3-540-69396-3, 388 pp.

de Leeuw, G., S. Kinne, J.F. Leon, J. Pelon, D. Rosenfeld, M Schaap, P.J. Veefkind, B. Veihelmann, D.M. Winker and W. von Hoyningen-Huene (2011). Retrieval of aerosol properties. In: Burrows, J.P., U. Platt and P.Borrell (Editors) The Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Composition from Space, 536 pp., Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011. ISBN: 978-3-642-14790-6 doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-14791-3., pp. 359-313.

De Leeuw, G. (1986). Vertical profiles of giant particles close above the sea surface. Tellus 38B, 51-61.

Veefkind, J.P., G. de Leeuw and P.A. Durkee (1998). Retrieval of aerosol optical depth over land using two-angle view satellite radiometry during TARFOX. Geophys. Res. Letters. 25(16), 3135-3138.

Robles-Gonzalez, C., J.P. Veefkind and G. de Leeuw (2000). Mean aerosol optical depth over Europe in August 1997 derived from ATSR-2 data. Geophys. Res. Lett. 27, 955-959.

O’Dowd, C.D., and G. de Leeuw (2007). Marine Aerosol Production: a review of the current knowledge. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 365, 1753–1774, doi:10.1098/rsta.2007.2043.

Barnaba, F., G. P. Gobbi and G. de Leeuw (2007). Aerosol stratification, optical properties and radiative forcing in Venice (Italy) during ADRIEX. QJRM, (ADRIEX special issue), 133 (S1) 47-60 doi: 10.1002/qj.91.

Robles-Gonzalez, C., and G. de Leeuw (2008)., Aerosol properties over the SAFARI-2000 area retrieved from ATSR-2. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D05206, doi:10.1029/2007JD008636.

Curier R. L., J. P. Veefkind, R. Braak, B. Veihelmann, O. Torres, G. de Leeuw (2008), Retrieval of aerosol optical properties from OMI radiances using a multiwavelength algorithm: Application to western Europe, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D17S90, doi:10.1029/2007JD008738.

Mielonen, T., R.C. Levy, V. Aaltonen, M. Komppula, G. de leeuw, J. Huttunen, H. Lihavainen, P. Kolmonen, K.E.J. Lehtinen and A. Arola (2011). Evaluating the assumptions of surface reflectance and aerosol type selection within the MODIS aerosol retrieval over land: the problem of dust type selection.Atmos. Meas. Tech., 4, 201-214doi:10.5194/amt-4-201-2011.

de Leeuw, G., E. L. Andreas, M. D. Anguelova, C. W. Fairall, E. R. Lewis, C. O'Dowd, M. Schulz, and S. E. Schwartz (2011), Production flux of sea spray aerosol, Rev. Geophys., 49, RG2001, doi:10.1029/2010RG000349.

Kulmala,M., Arola,A., Nieminen,T., Riuttanen,L., Sogacheva,L., deLeeuw,G., Kerminen,V.-M., and Lehtinen,K.E.J.: The first estimates of global nucleation mode aerosol concentrations based on satellite measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 10791-10801, doi:10.5194/acp-11-10791-2011, 2011.

Mei,L., Xue,Y., deLeeuw,G., Guang,J., Wang,Y., Li,Y., Xu,H., Yang,L., Hou,T., He,X., Wu,C., Dong,J., and Chen,Z.: Integration of remote sensing data and surface observations to estimate the impact of the russian wildfires over Europe and Asia during August 2010, Biogeosciences Discuss., 8, 7741-7790, doi:10.5194/bgd-8-7741-2011, 2011.