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National Ranking
426

Overview

Alan Fried is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change.

Their work covers various subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Automotive Engineering. Key research topics focus on atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric ozone and climate, air quality and health impacts, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics. Additional interests include air quality monitoring and forecasting, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and fire effects on ecosystems.

Frequent publication venues for Alan Fried include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology

Notable recent papers authored by Alan Fried are:

  • "The Korea-United States Air Quality (KORUS-AQ) field study," 2021, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • "Ozone chemistry in western U.S. wildfire plumes," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Revisiting the effectiveness of HCHO/NO2 ratios for inferring ozone sensitivity to its precursors using high resolution airborne remote sensing observations in a high ozone episode during the KORUS-AQ campaign," 2020, Atmospheric Environment
  • "Secondary organic aerosols from anthropogenic volatile organic compounds contribute substantially to air pollution mortality," 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Characterization, sources and reactivity of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in Seoul and surrounding regions during KORUS-AQ," 2020, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene

Collaboration is a considerable aspect of their research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • D. R. Blake
  • Glenn S. Diskin
  • J. H. Crawford
  • J. Walega
  • Armin Wisthaler

Best Publications

  • Mid-Infrared Laser Applications in Spectroscopy

    Frank K. Tittel;Dirk Richter;Alan Fried

  • Emissions from biomass burning in the Yucatan

    R. J. Yokelson;J. D. Crounse;P. F. DeCarlo;P. F. DeCarlo;T. Karl

  • Effect of petrochemical industrial emissions of reactive alkenes and NOx on tropospheric ozone formation in Houston, Texas

    T. B. Ryerson;M. Trainer;W. M. Angevine;W. M. Angevine;C. A. Brock;C. A. Brock

  • Airborne measurement of OH reactivity during INTEX-B

    J. Mao;J. Mao;X. Ren;X. Ren;W. H. Brune;J. R. Olson

  • Organic aerosol formation in urban and industrial plumes near Houston and Dallas, Texas

    R. Bahreini;R. Bahreini;B. Ervens;B. Ervens;A. M. Middlebrook;C. Warneke;C. Warneke

  • Surface and Lightning Sources of Nitrogen Oxides over the United States: Magnitudes, Chemical Evolution, and Outflow

    R C Hudman;D J Jacob;S Turquety;Eric M Leibensperger

  • Analysis of the atmospheric distribution, sources, and sinks of oxygenated volatile organic chemicals based on measurements over the Pacific during TRACE‐P

    H. B. Singh;L. J. Salas;R. B. Chatfield;E. Czech

  • Ozone production rates as a function of NOx abundances and HOx production rates in the Nashville urban plume

    J. A. Thornton;P. J. Wooldridge;R. C. Cohen;R. C. Cohen;M. Martinez

  • Boreal forest fire emissions in fresh Canadian smoke plumes: C 1 -C 10 volatile organic compounds (VOCs), CO 2 , CO, NO 2 , NO, HCN and CH 3 CN

    Isobel J. Simpson;S. K. Akagi;B. Barletta;N. J. Blake

  • A ground‐based intercomparison of NO, NO x , and NO y measurement techniques

    F. C. Fehsenfeld;R. R. Dickerson;G. Hübler;W. T. Luke

  • Chemistry of hydrogen oxide radicals (HO x ) in the Arctic troposphere in spring

    Jialin Mao;Daniel J. Jacob;M. J. Evans;J. R. Olson

  • The Korea–United States Air Quality (KORUS-AQ) field study

    James H. Crawford;Joon-Young Ahn;Jassim Al-Saadi;Limseok Chang

  • Formaldehyde Distribution over North America: Implications for Satellite Retrievals of Formaldehyde Columns and Isoprene Emission

    Dylan B. Millet;Daniel J. Jacob;Solène Turquety;Rynda C. Hudman

  • Testing fast photochemical theory during TRACE‐P based on measurements of OH, HO2, and CH2O

    Jennifer R. Olson;J. H. Crawford;G. Chen;A. Fried

  • OH and HO2 concentrations, sources, and loss rates during the Southern Oxidants Study in Nashville, Tennessee, summer 1999

    Monica Martinez;H. Harder;T. A. Kovacs;James B. Simpas

  • The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Field Campaign

    Mary C. Barth;Christopher A. Cantrell;William H. Brune;Steven A. Rutledge

  • Primary and secondary sources of formaldehyde in urban atmospheres: Houston Texas region

    D. D. Parrish;T. B. Ryerson;Johan Mellqvist;John Johansson

  • Development of a tunable mid-IR difference frequency laser source for highly sensitive airborne trace gas detection.

    Richter D;Fried A;Wert Bp;Walega Jg

  • HOx chemistry during INTEX-A 2004: Observation, model calculation, and comparison with previous studies

    Xinrong Ren;Jennifer R. Olson;James H. Crawford;William H. Brune

  • Signatures of terminal alkene oxidation in airborne formaldehyde measurements during TexAQS 2000

    B. P. Wert;B. P. Wert;M. Trainer;A. Fried;T. B. Ryerson

  • Evaluating regional emission estimates using the TRACE-P observations

    G. R. Carmichael;Y. Tang;G. Kurata;Itsushi Uno

  • Regional-scale chemical transport modeling in support of the analysis of observations obtained during the TRACE-P experiment

    G. R. Carmichael;Y. Tang;G. Kurata;I. Uno

  • Regional-scale chemical transport modeling in support of the analysis of observations obtained during the TRACE-P experiment : NASA global tropospheric experiment transport and chemical evolution over the pacific (TRACE-P): Measurements and analysis (TRACEP1)

    G. R. Carmichael;Y. Tang;G. Kurata;I. Uno

Frequent Co-Authors

James Walega
James Walega Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Donald R. Blake
Donald R. Blake University of California, Irvine
Andrew J. Weinheimer
Andrew J. Weinheimer National Center for Atmospheric Research
Armin Wisthaler
Armin Wisthaler University of Oslo
William H. Brune
William H. Brune Pennsylvania State University
Christopher A. Cantrell
Christopher A. Cantrell University of Colorado Boulder
Brian G. Heikes
Brian G. Heikes University of Rhode Island
Frank Flocke
Frank Flocke National Center for Atmospheric Research
James H. Crawford
James H. Crawford Langley Research Center
Glenn S. Diskin
Glenn S. Diskin Langley Research Center

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