Peer-reviewed Publications
2026:
Nalam, A., Mertens, M., Grewe, V., van Caspel, W., Jonson, J. E., and Butler, T.: Understanding the effect of international ship
NOx emissions on surface O3 concentration using three different attribution approaches, Atmospheric Environment, 384, 122 328, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2026.122328 [external], 2026
Butler, T., Ansari, T., Belis, C. A., Bergas-Masso, E., van Caspel, W., Fagerli, H., Flemming, J., Garcia Vivanco, M., Griffiths, P., Hamilton, D. S., Hernandez Trujillo, C., Höglund-Isaksson, L., Huijnen, V., Kasoar, M., Kaiser, J. W., Koren, G., Klimont, Z., Lindl, F., Lupascu, A., Mertens, M., Schaap, M., Turnock, S. T., Wild, O., Weiss, P., Kaminski, J., Wu, R., and Keating, T.: HTAP3-OPNS: Ozone, PM, Nitrogen and Sulphur Deposition – multi-model experiments to support the revision of the CLRTAP Gothenburg Protocol, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1367 [external], 2026.
2025:
Collins, W. J., O’Connor, F. M., Byrom, R. E., Hodnebrog, Ø., Jöckel, P., Mertens, M., Myhre, G., Nützel, M., Olivié, D., Bieltvedt Skeie, R., Stecher, L., Horowitz, L. W., Naik, V., Faluvegi, G., Im, U., Murray, L. T., Shindell, D., Tsigaridis, K., Abraham, N. L., and Keeble, J.: Climate forcing due to future ozone changes: an intercomparison of metrics and methods, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 9031–9060, https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/25/9031/2025/ [external], 2025.
Whaley, C. H., Butler, T., Adame, J. A., Ambulkar, R., Arnold, S. R., Buchholz, R. R., Gaubert, B., Hamilton, D. S., Huang, M., Hung, H., Kaiser, J. W., Kaminski, J. W., Knote, C., Koren, G., Kouassi, J.-L., Lin, M., Liu, T., Ma, J., Manomaiphiboon, K., Bergas Masso, E., McCarty, J. L., Mertens, M., Parrington, M., Peiro, H., Saxena, P., Sonwani, S., Surapipith, V., Tan, D. Y. T., Tang, W., Tanpipat, V., Tsigaridis, K., Wiedinmyer, C., Wild, O., Xie, Y., and Zuidema, P.: HTAP3 Fires: towards a multi-model, multi-pollutant study of fire impacts, Geosci. Model Dev., 18, 3265–3309, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-3265-2025 [external], 2025.
2024:
Mertens, M., Brinkop, S., Graf, P., Grewe, V., Hendricks, J., Jöckel, P., Lanteri, A., Matthes, S., Rieger, V. S., Righi, M., and Thor, R. N.: The contribution of transport emissions to ozone mixing ratios and methane lifetime in 2015 and 2050 in the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 12079–12106, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-12079-2024 [external], 2024.
Conferences & Workshops
2027:
We are planning a high-profile event for 2027 to present our results and enable exchange with you. If you are interested to join, please contact us.
Updates will be announced soon.
2026:
14th MESSy Symposium, (19.-21.05.2026, Karlsruhe, Deutschland)
Götz, Anna and Jöckel, Patrick and Mertens, Mariano (2026): Quantifying aerosol source contributions over Europe using the newly implemented tagging submodel STAG. https://elib.dlr.de/226007/
International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and its Application (20.-24.04.2026, Sofia, Bulgarien)
Mertens, Mariano and Götz, Anna and Lanteri, Anna (2026): Consistent climate air quality simulations over Europe for 2030 and 2050. electronic library – Consistent climate air quality simulations over Europe for 2030 and 2050
41st International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and its Application (20.-24.04.2026, Sofia, Bulgarien)
Götz, Anna and Jöckel, Patrick and Mertens, Mariano (2026): Quantifying Contributions of Emission Sources to Aerosol Concentrations over Europe – A Newly Implemented Tagging Method. electronic library – Quantifying Contributions of Emission Sources to Aerosol Concentrations over Europe – A Newly Implemented Tagging Method
Lanteri, Anna and Mertens, Mariano and Götz, Anna (2026): Evaluation of NO2 and Ozone concentrations as simulated by MECO(n) over Germany.
2025:
Workshop „Luftqualität, Klimawandel und menschliche Gesundheit“ bei Helmholtz München (25.11.2025)
CACTI Workshop (16.9 – 18.9.2025)
Poster: Mertens et al., The contribution of transport emissions to ozone in 2015 and 2050 in the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs)
Vortrag: Stallmach et al., Unraveling the contributions of individual ozone sources to the ozone radiative forcing
Swiss Climate Summer School (24.08.-29.08.2025, Ascona)
Poster: Götz et al., 2025 Causes and Trends of ambient aerosol air pollution and its health effects in a changing climate, electronic library – Causes and trends of ambient aerosol air pollution and its health effects in a changing climate
MESSy Symposium 2025 (24 -26.6.2025, Oberpfaffenhofen)
Poster: Götz, Anna and Mertens, Mariano (2025): New diagnostic submodel STAG (Simple Tagging). 13th MESSy Symposium, 2025-06-24 – 2025-06-26, Oberpfaffenhofen, Deutschland. electronic library – New diagnostic submodel STAG (Simple Tagging)
Vortrag: Mertens et al., Effects of Ambient Air Pollution on human health and vegetation in a changing climate
Multi-Risk of Extreme Weather Events: focus on economic, social and health dimensions’ (12-13.6.2025, Berlin)
Vortrag: Mertens, Nikolaos (HMGU): Air pollution, human health and vegetation in Germany
Kolloqium Luftqualität an Straßen” (11. – 12.3.2025, Bergisch Gladbach)
Poster: Mertens et al., Einfluss von Verkehrsemissionen auf die Luftqualität und die menschliche Gesundheit in einem sich ändernden Klima
2024:
Poster: Changes of ambient air pollution and its effects on human health and vegetation in a changing climate, Anna Götz1, Anna Lanteri1, Ayodeji Oluleye2, Mariano Mertens1,3, CLM Assembly, 2.10-25.10.2024, Oberpfaffenhofen, electronic library – Regional air pollution modelling in a changing climate with MECO(n)
Poster: IMPAC2T: Regional air pollution modelling in a changing climate with MECO(n), Anna Götz1, Anna Lanteri1, Ayodeji Oluleye2, Mariano Mertens1,3, MESSy Symposium, 15.05-17.05.2024, Jülich electronic library – Regional air pollution modelling in a changing climate with MECO(n)
Datasets
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