Thomas Karl, Dr. DI

Research Unit

Position

Deputy Head of Institute
Full Professor

E-Mail

Phone:

+43 512 507 / 54455

Room

60830

Personal Homepage:

http://acinn.uibk.ac.at/tkarl/

Research Interests

Physical, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences

Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions

Atmospheric Chemistry

Air Quality

Micrometeorology

Biogeochemistry

Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry (CIMS)

PI

Projects

Sparkling Science - Tracegas analysis in an inneralpine region

Publications

Kaser, L. and Coauthors, 2013: Comparison of different real time VOC measurement techniques in a ponderosa pine forest. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13, 2896 - 2906, doi:10.5194/acp-13-2893-2013.

Jardine, K. J. and Coauthors, 2013: Emissions of putative isoprene oxidation products from mango branches under abiotic stress. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY, 64, 3669 - 3679, doi:10.1093/jxb/ert202. http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/lookup/doi/10.1093/jxb/ert202.

Kim, S. and Coauthors, 2013: Evaluation of HOx sources and cycling using measurement-constrained model calculations in a 2-methyl-3-butene-2-ol (MBO) and monoterpene (MT) dominated ecosystem. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13, 2031 - 2044, doi:10.5194/acp-13-2031-2013. http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/2031/2013/acp-13-2031-2013.pdf.

Winkler, P. M., J. Ortega, T. Karl, P. H. McMurry, and J. N. Smith, 2013: A Fast-Scanning DMA Train for Precision Quantification of Early Nanoparticle Growth. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1527, 165 - 168, doi:10.1063/1.4803229.

Hodzic, A., S. Madronich, B. Aumont, J. Lee-Taylor, T. Karl, M. Camredon, and M. - V. C., 2013: Limited influence of dry deposition of semivolatile organic vapors on secondary organic aerosol formation in the urban plume. Geophysical Research Letters, 40, 3302 - 3307, doi:10.1002/grl.50611. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/grl.50611http://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fgrl.50611.

Mak, J. E., L. Su, A. Guenther, and T. Karl, 2013: A novel Whole Air Sample Profiler (WASP) for the quantification of volatile organic compounds in the boundary layer. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 6, 2703 - 2712, doi:10.5194/amt-6-2703-2013. http://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/6/2703/2013/amt-6-2703-2013.html.

Fry, J. L. and Coauthors, 2013: Observations of gas- and aerosol-phase organic nitrates at BEACHON-RoMBAS 2011. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13, 8585 - 8605, doi:10.5194/acp-13-8585-2013. http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/8585/2013/http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/8585/2013/acp-13-8585-2013.pdf.

Unger, N. and Coauthors, 2013: Photosynthesis-dependent isoprene emission from leaf to planet in a global carbon-chemistry-climate model. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13, 10243 - 10269, doi:10.5194/acp-13-10243-2013. http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/10243/2013/http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/10243/2013/acp-13-10243-2013.pdf.

Kaser, L. and Coauthors, 2013: Undisturbed and disturbed above canopy ponderosa pine emissions: PTR-TOF-MS measurements and MEGAN 2.1 model results. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13, 11935 - 11947, doi:10.5194/acp-13-11935-2013. http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/11935/2013/http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/13/11935/2013/acp-13-11935-2013.pdf.

2012

Peischl, J. and Coauthors, 2012: Airborne observations of methane emissions from rice cultivation in the Sacramento Valley of California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 117, n/a - n/a, doi:10.1029/2012JD017994. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1029/2012JD017994http://www.agu.org/journals/jd/jd1223/2012JD017994/2012JD017994.pdf.

Greenberg, J. P., D. Asensio, A. Turnipseed, A. B. Guenther, T. Karl, and D. Gochis, 2012: Contribution of leaf and needle litter to whole ecosystem BVOC fluxes. Atmospheric Environment, 59, 302 - 311, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.04.038. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1352231012003688.

Wu, Z. and Coauthors, 2012: Evaluation and improvements of two community models in simulating dry deposition velocities for peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) over a coniferous forest. Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, doi:10.1029/2011JD016751. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1029/2011JD016751http://www.agu.org/journals/jd/jd1204/2011JD016751/2011JD016751.pdf.

Winkler, P. M., J. Ortega, T. Karl, L. Cappellin, H. R. Friedli, K. Barsanti, P. H. McMurry, and J. N. Smith, 2012: Identification of the biogenic compounds responsible for size-dependent nanoparticle growth. Geophysical Research Letters, 39, n/a - n/a, doi:10.1029/2012GL053253. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1029/2012GL053253http://www.agu.org/journals/gl/gl1220/2012GL053253/2012GL053253.pdf.

DiGangi, J. P. and Coauthors, 2012: Observations of glyoxal and formaldehyde as metrics for the anthropogenic impact on rural photochemistry. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12, 9529 - 9543, doi:10.5194/acp-12-9529-201210.5194/acp-12-9529-2012-supplement. http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/9529/2012/http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/9529/2012/acp-12-9529-2012.pdfhttp://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/9529/2012/acp-12-9529-2012-supplement.pdf.

Cappellin, L. and Coauthors, 2012: On Quantitative Determination of Volatile Organic Compound Concentrations Using Proton Transfer Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry. Environmental Science & Technology, 46, 2283 - 2290, doi:10.1021/es203985t. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es203985t.

Karl, T., A. Hansel, L. Cappellin, L. Kaser, I. Herdlinger-Blatt, and W. Jud, 2012: Selective measurements of isoprene and 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol based on NO+ ionization mass spectrometry. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12, 11877 - 11884, doi:10.5194/acp-12-11877-2012. http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/11877/2012/http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/12/11877/2012/acp-12-11877-2012.pdf.

Jardine, K. J. and Coauthors, 2012: Within-plant isoprene oxidation confirmed by direct emissions of oxidation products methyl vinyl ketone and methacrolein. Global Change Biology, 18, 973 - 984, doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02610.x. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02610.x.