KOSTAS ELEFTHERATOS

Kostas Eleftheratos

Position: Faculty Member
Rank: Assoc. Professor
Section of: Geography and Climatology
Scientific Topic: Atmospheric Physics with applications to Climatology

Tel: +30 2107274133
e-mail: kelef@geol.uoa.gr
Personal Webpage: http://scholar.uoa.gr/kelef/home

Research Interests

Changes in the composition of the atmosphere on short and long time and space scales (clouds, greenhouse gases, aerosols, ozone, solar irradiance), Study of natural climatic oscillations, Atmospheric effects from aircraft emissions, Atmospheric pollution, Changes in climatic parameters, Environmental effects on health

Indicative Teaching Topics

Undegraguate Program

Υ2203 - Climatology and Climate Change
Ε6201 - Renewable Energy Sources: Solar and Wind Energy – Geothermal Energy
Ε7216 - Atmospheric Pollution
Ε7219 - Applied Climatology

Indicative Publications

Zerefos, C. S., Eleftheratos, K., Balis, D. S., Zanis, P., Tselioudis, G., and Meleti, C.: Evidence of impact of aviation on cirrus cloud formation, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 3, 1633–1644, 2003.

Eleftheratos, K., Zerefos, C. S., Zanis, P., Balis, D. S., Tselioudis, G., Gierens, K., and Sausen, R.: A study on natural and manmade global interannual fluctuations of cirrus cloud cover for the period 1984–2004, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 7, 2631–2642, 2007.

Zerefos, C. S., Eleftheratos, K., Meleti, C., Kazadzis, S., Romanou, A., Ichoku, C., Tselioudis, G., and Bais, A.: Solar dimming and brightening over Thessaloniki, Greece, and Beijing, China, Tellus, 61B, 657–665, doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2009.00425.x, 2009.

Gerasopoulos, E., Amiridis, V., Kazadzis, S., Kokkalis, P., Eleftheratos, K., Andreae, M. O., Andreae, T. W., El-Askary, H., and Zerefos, C. S.: Three-year ground based measurements of aerosol optical depth over the Eastern Mediterranean: the urban environment of Athens, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11, 2145–2159, 2011.

Zerefos, C. S., Tourpali, K., Eleftheratos, K., Kazadzis, S., Meleti, C., Feister, U., Koskela, T., and Heikkila, A.: Evidence of a possible turning point in solar UV-B over Canada, Europe and Japan, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12, 2469–2477, doi: 10.5194/acp-12-2469-2012, 2012.

Zerefos, C. S., Tetsis, P., Kazantzidis, A., Amiridis, V., Zerefos, S. C., Luterbacher, J., Eleftheratos, K., Gerasopoulos, E., Kazadzis, S., and Papayannis, A.: Further evidence of important environmental information content in red-to-green ratios as depicted in paintings by great masters, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 14, 2987–3015, doi: 10.5194/acp-14-2987-2014, 2014.

Zerefos, C. S., Eleftheratos, K., Kapsomenakis, J., Solomos, S., Inness, A., Balis, D., Redondas, A., Eskes, H., Allaart, M., Amiridis, V., Dahlback, A., De Bock, V., Diémoz, H., Engelmann, R., Eriksen, P., Fioletov, V., Gröbner, J., Heikkilä, A., Petropavlovskikh, I., Jarosławski, J., Josefsson, W., Karppinen, T., Köhler, U., Meleti, C., Repapis, C., Rimmer, J., Savinykh, V., Shirotov, V., Siani, A. M., Smedley, A. R. D., Stanek, M., and Stübi, R.: Detecting volcanic sulfur dioxide plumes in the Northern Hemisphere using the Brewer spectrophotometers, other networks, and satellite observations, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 17, 551-574, doi: 10.5194/acp-17-551-2017, 2017.

Eleftheratos, K., Kapsomenakis, J., Fountoulakis, I., Zerefos, C. S., Jöckel, P., Dameris, M., Bais, A. F., Bernhard, G., Kouklaki, D., Tourpali, K., Stierle, S., Liley, J. B., Brogniez, C., Auriol, F., Diémoz, H., Simic, S., Petropavlovskikh, I., Lakkala, K., and Douvis, K.: Ozone, DNA-active UV radiation, and cloud changes for the near-global mean and at high latitudes due to enhanced greenhouse gas concentrations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 12827–12855, doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-12827-2022, 2022.

Masoom, A., Fountoulakis, I., Kazadzis, S., Raptis, I.-P., Kampouri, A., Psiloglou, B. E., Kouklaki, D., Papachristopoulou, K., Marinou, E., Solomos, S., Gialitaki, A., Founda, D., Salamalikis, V., Kaskaoutis, D., Kouremeti, N., Mihalopoulos, N., Amiridis, V., Kazantzidis, A., Papayannis, A., Zerefos, C. S., and Eleftheratos, K.: Investigation of the effects of the Greek extreme wildfires of August 2021 on air quality and spectral solar irradiance, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 8487–8514, doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-8487-2023, 2023.

Zerefos, C., Fountoulakis, I., Eleftheratos, K., and Kazantzidis A.: The long-term variability of human health related solar ultraviolet-B radiation doses for the 1980s to the end of 21st century, Physiological Reviews, 103, 1789–1826, doi.org/10.1152/physrev.00031.2022, 2023.