Johannes Kaiser

Senior Scientist

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Dr Johannes Kaiser started working at NILU’s Department for Atmosphere and Climate as a senior scientist in 2023. He has over 25 years of experience with satellite-based remote sensing of fires and atmospheric composition, as well as data assimilation, inversion and climate monitoring.

Kaiser has been the lead developer of the Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) during 2007-2019 and from 2022 onwards. During his career, he has also built a Research Group on fire emissions at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) in Mainz, Germany. He managed the operational activities of the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF) for the German national weather service (DWD) and run the scientific consultancy “SatFire Kaiser”.

He founded the Interdisciplinary Biomass Burning Activity (IBBI) for IGAC, WMO and iLEAPS in 2012, and he is currently a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of for IGAC Global Emissions Initiative (GEIA). He has also worked for ECMWF, King’s College London and the Universities of Zurich and Bremen.

Kaiser has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles with an h-index of 45 on Scopus. He has a PhD in Atmospheric Physics and Remote Sensing from the University of Bremen, Germany, and a Diploma (equiv. MSc) in Astrophysics from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.

Johannes Kaiser has 37 publications at NILU:

Constraining terrestrial biospheric CO2 fluxes over India by assimilating surface and satellite observations in a global inverse model

Nayagam, Lorna Raja; Maksyutov, Shamil S.; Oda, Tomohiro; Gaddamidi, Sreenivas; Jain, Jain Chaithanya D; Sinha, Vinayak; Terao, Yukio; Ahmed, Kawser; Zeng, Jiye; Someya, Yu; Matsunaga, Tsuneo; Achari, Rajesh Janardanan; Tiwari, Yogesh Kumar; Datye, Amey; Ratnam, M Venkat; Hakkim, Haseeb; Naja, Manish Kumar; Mukai, Hitoshi; Kaiser, Johannes; Yoshida, Yukio

2025

Poster

State of the Climate in 2025: Global Climate

Dunn, R. J. H.; Blannin, J.; Willett, K. M.; Gobron, N.; Morris, G. A.; Ades, Melanie; Adler, Robert; Alexe, Mihai; Allan, Richard P.; Anderson, John; Anneville, Orlane; Aono, Yasuyuki; Arguez, Anthony; Armenteras-Pascual, Dolors; Arosio, Carlo; Asher, Elizabeth; Augustine, John A.; Azorin-Molina, Cesar; Baez-Villanueva, Oscar M.; Barichivich, Jonathan; Baron, Alexandre; Beck, Hylke E.; Bellouin, Nicolas; Benedetti, Angela; Blenkinsop, Stephen; Bock, Olivier; Bodin, Xavier; Bonte, Olivier; Bosilovich, Michael G.; Boucher, Olivier; Bowman, Kevin; Buehler, Sarah A.; Bunno, Ayaka; Byrne, Michael; Campos, Diego; Cappucci, Fabrizio; Carrea, Laura; Casado-Rodríguez, Jesús; Chang, Kai-Lan; Christiansen, Hanne H; Christy, John R.; Chung, Eui-Seok; Ciasto, Laura M.; Clingan, Scott; Coldewey-Egbers, Melanie; Cooley, Sarah; Cooper, Owen R.; Cornes, Richard C.; Covey, Curt; Crétaux, Jean-Francois; Crimmins, Theresa; Crotwell, Molly; Culpepper, Joshua; Cusicanqui, Diego; Davis, Sean M.; Jeu, Richard A. M. de; Laat, Jos de; Degenstein, Doug; Delaloye, Reynald; Tomaso, Enza Di; Dokulil, Martin T.; Donat, Markus G.; Dorigo, Wouter A.; Dugan, Hilary; Durre, Imke; Dutton, Geoff; Effertz, Peter; Enno, Sven-Erik; Estilow, Thomas W.; Estrella, Nicole; Fereday, David; Fioletov, Vitali E.; Flemming, Johannes; Formanek, Maud; Foster, Michael J.; Frederikse, Thomas; Frith, Stacey M.; Froidevaux, Lucien; Füllekrug, Martin; Gallemann, Thomas; Garforth, Judith; Garg, Jay; Ghent, Darren; Gollop, Amee; Good, Elizabeth; Goodman, Steven; Goto, Atsushi; Grimaldi, Stefania; Gruber, Alexander; Gu, Guojun; Guglielmin, Mauro; Haghdoost, Shekoofeh; Hahn, Sebastian; Haimberger, Leopold; Hall, Brad D.; Harlan, Merritt E.; Harris, Bethan L.; Harris, Ian; Hemming, Deborah L.; Ho, Shu-peng (Ben); Holliday, Rebecca; Holzworth, Robert; Horton, Radley M.; Hrbáček, Filip; Hu, Guojie; Inness, Antje; Isaksen, Ketil; John, Viju O.; Jones, Philip D.; Junod, Robert; Kääb, Andreas; Kaiser, Johannes; Kaufmann, Viktor; Kellerer-Pirklbauer, Andreas; Kent, Elizabeth C.; Khaykin, Sergey; Kidd, Richard; Kipling, Zak; Kirkpatrick, Sarah; Kondragunta, Shobha; Kovács, Dávid D.; Kraemer, Benjamin M.; Laas, Alo; Lan, Xin; Lantz, Kathleen O.; Lavers, David A.; Leibensperger, Eric; Lems, Johanna; Lennard, Chris; Levenson, Eric S.; Liley, Ben; Lo, Y. T. Eunice; Loeb, Norman G.; Loyola, Diego; Macara, Gregor; Magnin, Florence; Matsuzaki, Shin-Ichiro; Matthews, Tom; Mayer, Michael; McVicar, Tim R.; Mears, Carl A.; Menzel, Annette; Merchant, Christopher J.; Meyer, Michael F.; Miralles, Diego G.; Montzka, Stephan A.; Morice, Colin; Morino, Isamu; Mrekaj, Ivan; Mühle, Jens; Nance, D.; Nicolas, Julien P.; Noetzli, Jeannette; O’Keefe, John; Ollinik, Jessica Erin; Osborn, Timothy J.; Parrington, Mark; Pellet, Cécile; Pelto, Mauri; Pennington, Elyse; Petersen, Kyle; Phillips, Coda; Pierson, Don; Pinto, Izidine; Po-Chedley, Stephen; Pogliotti, Paolo; Polvani, Lorenzo; Preimesberger, Wolfgang; Price, Colin; Pulkkanen, Merja; Randel, William J.; Raymond, Colin; Remy, Samuel; Ricciardulli, Lucrezia; Richardson, Andrew D.; Robinson, David A.; Rodell, Matthew; Rodriguez-Fernandez, Nemesio; Rogers, Cassandra D.W.; Rohini, P.; Rosenlof, Karen H.; Rozanov, Alexei; Rozkošný, Jozef; Rusanovskaya, Olga O.; Rutishauser, This; Sabeerali, C. T.; Sakai, Tetsu; Salamon, Peter; Sánchez-Lugo, Ahira; Sawaengphokhai, Parnchai; Schenzinger, Verena; Schmid, Martin; Sezaki, Fumi; Shao, Xi; Sharma, Sapna; Shi, Lei; Shimaraeva, Svetlana V.; Shinohara, Ryuichiro; Silow, Eugene A.; Simmons, Adrian J.; Smith, Katie; Smith, Sharon L.; Soden, Brian J.; Sofieva, Viktoria; Soldo, Logan; Sreejith, O. P.; Stackhouse, Jr.; Stauffer, Ryan M.; Steinbrecht, Wolfgang; Steiner, Andrea K.; Stevens, Thea; Stoy, Paul C.; Streletskiy, Dmitry A.; Taha, Ghassan; Thackeray, Stephen J.; Thibert, Emmanuel; Timofeyev, Maxim A.; Tourpali, Kleareti; Tronquo, Emma; Tye, Mari R.; Urraca, Ruben; A, Ronald van der; Schrier, Gerard van der; VanScoy, Greta; Vliet, Arnold J. H. van; Veal, Karen; Verburg, Piet; Vernier, Jean-Paul; Vimont, Isaac J.; Viticchie, Bartolomeo; Vivero, Sebastián; Vömel, Holger; Vose, Russell S.; Wang, Donqian; Wang, Ray H. J.; Waring, Abigail Marie; Warnock, Taran; Weber, Mark; Wei, Zigang; Wiese, David N.; Wild, Jeannette D.; Williams, Earle; Wong, Takmeng; Wood, Tom; Woolway, Richard Iestyn; Worden, John; Yang, Kai; Yin, Xungang; Zeng, Zhenzhong; Zhao, Lin; Ziemke, Jerry R.; Ziese, Markus; Zotta, Ruxandra-Maria; Zou, Cheng-Zhi

2025

Scientific journal publication

Forecasting and analysing wildfire plumes in the European atmosphere, demonstrated by the case of Canadian wildfire plumes in June 2025

Eckhardt, Sabine; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Sollum, Espen; Stebel, Kerstin; Kaiser, Johannes; Myhre, Cathrine Lund; Murberg, Lise Eder; Janicka, Lucja; Stachlewska, Ivona

2025

Poster

Biomass burning emission estimation in the MODIS era: State-of-the-art and future directions

Parrington, Mark; Whaley, Cynthia H.; French, Nancy H. F.; Buchholz, Rebecca R.; Pan, Xiaohua; Wiedinmyer, Christine; Hyer, Edward J.; Kondragunta, Shobha; Kaiser, Johannes; Tomaso, Enza Di; Werf, Guido R. van der; Sofiev, Mikhail; Barsanti, Kelley C.; Silva, Arlindo M. da; Darmenov, Anton S.; Tang, Wenfu; Griffin, Debora; Desservettaz, Maximilien; Carter, Therese (Tess); Paton-Walsh, Clare; Liu, Tianjia; Uppstu, Andreas; Palamarchuk, Julia

2025

Scientific journal publication

A global assemblage of regional prescribed burn records — GlobalRx

Hsu, Alice; Jones, Matthew W.; Thurgood, Jane R.; Smith, Adam J. P.; Carmenta, Rachel; Abatzoglou, John T.; Anderson, Liana O.; Clarke, Hamish; Doerr, Stefan H.; Fernandes, Paulo M.; Kolden, Crystal A.; Santín, Cristina; Strydom, Tercia; Quéré, Corinne Le; Ascoli, Davide; Castellnou, Marc; Goldammer, Johann G.; Guiomar, Nuno Ricardo Gracinhas Nunes; Kukavskaya, Elena A.; Rigolot, Eric; Tanpipat, Veerachai; Varner, Morgan; Yamashita, Youhei; Baard, Johan; Barreto, Ricardo; Becerra, Javier; Brunn, Egbert; Bergius, Niclas; Carlsson, Julia; Cheney, Chad; Druce, Dave; Elliot, Andy; Evans, Jay; Falleiro, Rodrigo De Moraes; Prat-Guitart, Nuria; Hiers, J. Kevin; Kaiser, Johannes; Macher, Lisa; Morris, Dave; Park, Jane; Robles, César; Román-Cuesta, Rosa María; Rücker, Gernot; Senra, Francisco; Steil, Lara; Valverde, Jose Alejandro Lopez; Zerr, Emma

2025

Scientific journal publication

Brann i tropiske skoger påvirker ikke bare skogen

Solbakken, Christine Forsetlund

2025

Journal publication

Arctic and Northern Latitude Peat and Non-peat Wildfire Aerosols During 2018-2024

Stebel, Kerstin; Schneider, Philipp; Kaiser, Johannes; Aun, Margit

2025

Poster

Methane emissions from Australia estimated by inverse analysis using in-situ and Satellite (GOSAT) atmospheric observations

Wang, Fenjuan; Maksyutov, Shamil; Janardanan, Rajesh; Ito, Akihiko; Morino, Isamu; Yoshida, Yukio; Someya, Yu; Tohjima, Yasunori; Kelly, Bryce F. J.; Kaiser, Johannes; Xin, Lan; Mammarella, Ivan; Matsunaga, Tsuneo

2025

Scientific journal publication

Burning of woody debris dominates fire emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado

Forkel, Matthias; Wessollek, Christine; Huijnen, Vincent; Andela, Niels; Laat, Adrianus de; Kinalczyk, Daniel; Marrs, Christopher; Wees, Dave van; Bastos, Ana; Ciais, Philippe; Fawcett, Dominic; Kaiser, Johannes; Klauberg, Carine; Kutchartt, Erico; Leite, Rodrigo V.; Li, Wei; Silva, Carlos; Sitch, Stephen; Souza, Jefferson Goncalves De; Zaehle, Sönke; Plummer, Stephen

2025

Scientific journal publication

GFAS status

Kaiser, Johannes

2025

Senior Scientist

Johannes Kaiser has 37 publications at NILU:

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Johannes Kaiser has 37 publications at NILU:

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