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10477
World Ranking
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National Ranking
312

Overview

Adrian F. Tuck is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields related to environmental science, earth and planetary sciences, and physics and astronomy.

The main fields of study covered in their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Physics and Astronomy

Within these fields, the scientist focuses on several subfields, notably:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics

Their research topics center around atmospheric and climate phenomena, complex system analysis, and thermodynamics. The main topics include:

  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols
  • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Adrian F. Tuck has published in several scientific venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Atmosphere
  • Meteorology
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Life
  • Processes

Recent publications include:

  • "Perspective on aircraft in the stratosphere: 50 years from COMESA through the ozone hole to climate" (2020), Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • "Theoretical Chemistry and the Calculation of the Atmospheric State" (2021), Atmosphere
  • "Turbulence: Vertical Shear of the Horizontal Wind, Jet Streams, Symmetry Breaking, Scale Invariance and Gibbs Free Energy" (2021), Atmosphere
  • "Scaling Up: Molecular to Meteorological via Symmetry Breaking and Statistical Multifractality" (2022), Meteorology
  • "Molecular Origins of Turbulence" (2024), Meteorology

Best Publications

  • The Halogen Occultation Experiment

    James M. Russell;Larry L. Gordley;Jae H. Park;S. Roland Drayson

  • Atmospheric processing of organic aerosols

    G. Barney Ellison;Adrian F. Tuck;Veronica Vaida

  • Airborne lidar observations in the wintertime Arctic stratosphere: Polar stratospheric clouds

    E. V. Browell;C. F. Butler;S. Ismail;P. A. Robinette

  • Observations of denitrification and dehydration in the winter polar stratospheres

    D. W. Fahey;K. K. Kelly;S. R. Kawa;A. F. Tuck

  • Atmospheric aerosols as prebiotic chemical reactors

    Christopher M. Dobson;G. Barney Ellison;Adrian F. Tuck;Veronica Vaida

  • Hemispheric asymmetries in water vapor and inferences about transport in the lower stratosphere

    Karen H. Rosenlof;Adrian F. Tuck;Kenneth K. Kelly;James M. Russell

  • New evidence of an organic layer on marine aerosols

    Heikki Tervahattu;Kari Hartonen;Veli-Matti Kerminen;Kaarle Kupiainen

  • Dehydration in the lower Antarctic stratosphere during late winter and early spring, 1987

    K. K. Kelly;A. F. Tuck;D. M. Murphy;M. H. Proffitt

  • Severe chemical ozone loss in the Arctic during the winter of 1995–96

    Rolf Müller;Paul J. Crutzen;Jens-Uwe Grooβ;Christoph Bürhl

  • On the evaluation of ozone depletion potentials

    S. Solomon;M. Mills;L. E. Heidt;W. H. Pollock

  • Validation of measurements of water vapor from the Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE)

    J. E. Harries;J. M. Russell;A. F. Tuck;L. L. Gordley

  • Synoptic and chemical evolution of the Antarctic vortex in late winter and early spring, 1987

    A. F. Tuck

  • Molecular beam studies of ethyl nitrite photodissociation

    A. F. Tuck

  • Fatty acids on continental sulfate aerosol particles

    H. Tervahattu;J. Juhanoja;V. Vaida;A. F. Tuck

  • The Brewer‐Dobson Circulation In the Light of High Altitude In Situ Aircraft Observations

    A. F. Tuck;D. Baumgardner;K. R. Chan;J. E. Dye

  • Atmospheric absorption of near infrared and visible solar radiation by the hydrogen bonded water dimer

    V. Vaida;J. S. Daniel;H. G. Kjaergaard;L. M. Goss

  • Chlorine activation and ozone depletion in the Arctic vortex: Observations by the Halogen Occultation Experiment on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite

    Rolf Müller;Paul J. Crutzen;Jens-Uwe Grooß;Christoph Brühl

  • In situ ozone measurements within the 1987 Antarctic ozone hole from a high-altitude ER-2 aircraft

    M. H. Proffitt;M. J. Steinkamp;J. A. Powell;R. J. McLaughlin

  • On the atmospheric photochemistry of nitric acid

    J. Austin;R. R. Garcia;J. M. Russell;S. Solomon

  • A comparison of ER-2 measurements of stratospheric water vapor between the 1987 Antarctic and 1989 Arctic Airborne missions

    K. K. Kelly;A. F. Tuck;L. E. Heidt;M. Loewenstein

Frequent Co-Authors

K. K. Kelly
K. K. Kelly National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
James M. Russell
James M. Russell Brown University
Daniel Schertzer
Daniel Schertzer École des Ponts ParisTech
Veronica Vaida
Veronica Vaida University of Colorado Boulder
Shaun Lovejoy
Shaun Lovejoy McGill University
Max Loewenstein
Max Loewenstein Ames Research Center
David W. Fahey
David W. Fahey National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Eric A. Ray
Eric A. Ray National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Daniel S. McKenna
Daniel S. McKenna Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Paul J. Crutzen
Paul J. Crutzen Max Planck Institute for Chemistry

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