Studied Meteorology at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany and Uppsala University of Uppsala, Sweden from 2004-2009
PhD from University of Leipzig, Germany from 2009-2014
Postdoctoral research associate at University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research in Leipzig, Germany from 2015-2019
Postdoctoral research associate at JPL from 2019-2022
Scientist at JPL since 2022
Research Interests
Remote sensing of stratospheric composition, cloud property retrievals, using machine learning in measurement science applications
Selected Awards
01/2010: Student Award of the ERCA Winter School in Grenoble, France
04/2012: Annual PhD Award of the Institute of Tropospheric Research in Leipzig, Germany
08/2012: ICCP Poster Award for Early Career Scientists of the International Conference on Clouds and Precipitations in Leipzig, Germany
Selected Publications
Santee, M. L., Lambert, A., Manney, G. L., Livesey, N. J., Froidevaux, L., Neu, J. L., Schwartz, M. J., Millán, L. F., Werner, F., Read,W. G., Park, M., Fuller, R. A., and Ward, B. M. (2022), Prolonged and pervasive perturbations in the composition of the Southern Hemisphere mid- latitude lower stratosphere from the Australian New Year’s fires., Geophys. Res. Lett., 49, doi: 10.1029/2021GL096270
Werner, F., Schwartz, M J., Livesey, N. J., Read, W. G., Santee, M. L., and Wind, G. (2021), Improved cloud detection for the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder: Training an artificial neural network on colocated MLS and Aqua-MODIS data, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 7749–7773, doi: 10.5194/amt-14-7749-2021
Schwartz, M. J., Santee, M. L., Pumphrey, H. C., Manney, G. L., Lambert, A., Livesey, N. J., Millán, L., Neu, J. L., Read, W. G., and Werner, F. (2020), Australian new year’s pyroCb impact on stratospheric composition., Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, doi: 10.1029/2020GL090831
Werner, F., Schwartz, M J., Livesey, N. J., Read, W. G., and Santee, M. L. (2020), Extreme outliers in lower stratospheric water vapor over North America observed by MLS: Relation to overshooting con- vection diagnosed from colocated Aqua-MODIS data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, doi:10.1029/2020GL090131
Werner, F., and Deneke, H. (2020), Increasing the spatial resolution of cloud property retrievals from Meteosat SEVIRI by use of its high-resolution visible channel: evaluation of candidate approaches with MODIS observations, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 1089–1111, doi: 10.5194/amt-13-1089- 2020
Grosvenor, D. P., Souderval, O., Zuidema, P., Ackerman, A. S., Alexandrov, M. D., Cairns, B., Chiu, C., Christensen, M., Feingold, G. , Hunerbein, A., Knist, C., McCoy, D. , Merk, D., Painemal, D., Rosenfeld, D., Russchenberg, H., Sinclair, K., van Diedenhoven, B., Werner, F., Wood, R., Zhang, Z., and Quaas, J. ( 2018), Remote sensing of droplet number concentration in warm clouds: A review of the current state of knowledge and perspectives, Rev. Geophys., 56, doi:10.1029/2017RG000593.
Miller, D. J., Zhang, Z., Platnick, S., Ackerman, A. S., Werner, F., Cornet, C., and Knobelspiesse, K. (2018), Comparisons of bispectral and polarimetric retrievals of marine boundary layer cloud microphysics: case studies using a LES–satellite retrieval simulator, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 3689—3715, doi: 10.5194/amt-11-3689-2018
Werner, F., Zhang, Z., Wind, G., Miller, D. J., and Platnick, S. (2018), Improving cloud optical property retrievals for partly cloudy pixels using coincident higher–resolution single band measurements: A feasibility study using ASTER observations, J. Geophys. Res., 123, doi: 10.1029/2018JD028902
Voigt, C., Schumann, U., Minikin, A., Abdelmonem, A., Afchine, A., Borrmann, S., Boettcher, M., Buchholz, B., Bugliaro, L., Costa, A., Curtius, J., Dollner, M., Dörnbrack, A., Dreiling, V., Ebert, V., Ehrlich, A., Fix, A., Forster, L., Frank, F., Fütterer, D., Giez, A., Graf, K., Grooß, J.- U., Groß, S., Heimerl, K., Heinold, B., Hüneke, T., Järvinen, E., Jurkat, T., Kaufmann, S., Kenntner, M., Klingebiel, M., Klimach, T., Kohl, R., Krämer, M., Krisna, T. C., Luebke, A., Mayer, B., Mertes, S., Molleker, S., Petzold, A., Pfeilsticker, K., Port, M., Rapp, M., Reutter, P., Rolf, C., Rose, D., Sauer, D., Schäfler, A., Schlage, R., Schnaiter, M., Schneider, J., Spelten, N., Spichtinger, P., Stock, P., Walser, A., Weigel, R., Weinzierl, B., Wendisch, M., Werner, F., Wernli, H., Wirth, M., Zahn, A., Ziereis, H., and Zöger, M. (2017), ML—CIRRUS – The airborne experiment on natural cirrus and contrail cirrus with the high–altitude long–range research aircraft HALO, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 98, 271–288, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00213.1
Wendisch, M., Pöschl, U., Andreae, M. O., Machado, L. A. T., Albrecht, R., Schlager, H., Rosenfeld, D., Martin, S. T., Abdelmonem, A., Afchine, A., C. Araùjo, A. C., Artaxo, P., Aufmhoff, H., Barbosa, H. M. J., Borrmann, S., Braga, R., Buchholz, B., Cecchini, M. A., Costa, A., Curtius, J., Dollner, M., Dorf, M., Dreiling, V., Ebert, V., Ehrlich, A., Ewald, F., Fisch, G., Fix, A., Frank, F., Fütterer, D., Heckl, C., Heidelberg, F., Hüneke, T., Jäkel, E., Järvinen, E., Jurkat, T., Kanter, S., Kästner, U., Kenntner, M., Kesselmeier, J., Klimach, T., Knecht, M., Kohl, R., Kölling, T., Krämer, M., Krüger, M., Krisna, T. C., Lavric, J. V., Longo, K., Mahnke, C., Manzi, A. O., Mayer, B., Mertes, S., Minikin, A., Molleker, S., Münch, S., Nillius, B., Pfeilsticker, K., Pöhlker, C., Roiger, A., Rose, D., Rosenow, D., Sauer, D., Schnaiter, M., Schneider, J., Schulz, C., de Souza, R. A. F., Spanu, A., Stock, P., Vila, D., Voigt, C., Walser, A., Walter, D., Weigel, R., Weinzierl, B., Werner, F., Yamasoe, M. A., Ziereis, H., Zinner, T.,
Werner, F., Ditas, F., Siebert, H., Simmel, M., Wehner, B., Pilewskie, P., Schmeissner, T., Shaw, R. A., Hartmann, S., Wex, H., Roberts, G. C., and Wendisch, M. (2014), Twomey effect observed from collocated microphysical and remote sensing measurements over shallow cumulus, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, doi:10.1002/2013JD020131.
Werner, F., H. Siebert, P. Pilewskie, T. Schmeissner, R. A. Shaw, and M. Wendisch (2013), New airborne retrieval approach for trade wind cumulus properties under overlying cirrus, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 3634–3649, doi: 10.1002/jgrd.50334