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Alistair J. Manning

Alistair J. Manning

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
59
Citations
10087
World Ranking
3153
National Ranking
244

Alistair J. Manning publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alistair J. Manning sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 189 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Alistair J. Manning D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alistair J. Manning sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Alistair J. Manning is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily centers on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant focus in atmospheric science and global and planetary change.

Their work covers a range of topics related to atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, and atmospheric ozone and climate. Additional areas of research include carbon dioxide capture technologies, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and the health impacts of air quality.

Among recent publications, several papers illustrate core themes in Manning's research:

  • The increasing atmospheric burden of the greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6) (2020), published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • A decline in emissions of CFC-11 and related chemicals from eastern China (2021), published in Nature
  • A decline in global CFC-11 emissions during 2018−2019 (2021), published in Nature
  • The regional European atmospheric transport inversion comparison, EUROCOM: first results on European-wide terrestrial carbon fluxes for the period 2006-2015 (2020), published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Rapid increase in dichloromethane emissions from China inferred through atmospheric observations (2021), published in Nature Communications

Frequent coauthors of Alistair J. Manning include Matthew Rigby, Simon O'Doherty, Dickon Young, Anita L. Ganesan, and Jens Mühle, with collaboration counts ranging from 14 to 29 joint works.

Key publication venues where Manning's work appears regularly comprise Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, and Atmospheric Environment.

Best Publications

  • Review : Untangling the influence of air-mass history in interpreting observed atmospheric composition

    Zoë L. Fleming;Paul S. Monks;Alistair J. Manning

  • Role of atmospheric oxidation in recent methane growth

    Matthew Rigby;Stephen A. Montzka;Ronald G. Prinn;James W. C. White

  • An unexpected and persistent increase in global emissions of ozone-depleting CFC-11

    Stephen A. Montzka;Geoff S. Dutton;Geoff S. Dutton;Pengfei Yu;Pengfei Yu;Eric Ray;Eric Ray

  • History of chemically and radiatively important atmospheric gases from the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE)

    Ronald G. Prinn;Ray F. Weiss;Jgor Arduini;Tim Arnold

  • Increase in CFC-11 emissions from eastern China based on atmospheric observations.

    M. Rigby;S. Park;T. Saito;L. M. Western

  • Observations of 1,1‐difluoroethane (HFC‐152a) at AGAGE and SOGE monitoring stations in 1994–2004 and derived global and regional emission estimates

    B. R. Greally;A. J. Manning;S. Reimann;A. McCulloch

  • Trends over a 20-year period from 1987 to 2007 in surface ozone at the atmospheric research station, Mace Head, Ireland

    R.G. Derwent;P.G. Simmonds;A.J. Manning;T.G. Spain

  • Estimating UK methane and nitrous oxide emissions from 1990 to 2007 using an inversion modeling approach

    A.J Manning;Simon O'Doherty;A.R Jones;P.G Simmonds

  • Rapid growth of hydrofluorocarbon 134a and hydrochlorofluorocarbons 141b, 142b, and 22 from Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE) observations at Cape Grim, Tasmania, and Mace Head, Ireland

    S. O'Doherty;D. M. Cunnold;A. Manning;B. R. Miller

  • Ensemble dispersion forecasting—Part I: concept, approach and indicators

    S. Galmarini;R. Bianconi;W. Klug;T. Mikkelsen

  • Rapid increase in ozone-depleting chloroform emissions from China

    Xuekun Fang;Sunyoung Park;Takuya Saito;Rachel Tunnicliffe

  • Estimating European emissions of ozone-depleting and greenhouse gases using observations and a modeling back-attribution technique

    AJ Manning;DB Ryall;RG Derwent;PG Simmonds

  • Global environmental impacts of the hydrogen economy

    Richard Derwent;Peter Simmonds;Simon O'Doherty;Alistair Manning

  • Characterization of uncertainties in atmospheric trace gas inversions using hierarchical Bayesian methods

    A. L. Ganesan;A. L. Ganesan;M. Rigby;A. Zammit-Mangion;A. J. Manning

  • Operational prediction of ash concentrations in the distal volcanic cloud from the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption

    H.N. Webster;D.J. Thomson;B.T. Johnson;I.P.C. Heard

  • Global trends, seasonal cycles and European emissions of dichloromethane, trichloroethene and tetrachloroethene from the AGAGE observations at Mace Head, Ireland and Cape Grim, Tasmania

    PG Simmonds;AJ Manning;DM Cunnold;A McCulloch

  • The increasing atmospheric burden of the greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 )

    Peter G. Simmonds;Matthew Rigby;Alistair J. Manning;Sunyoung Park

  • Advancing Scientific Understanding of the Global Methane Budget in Support of the Paris Agreement

    Anita L. Ganesan;Stefan Schwietzke;Benjamin Poulter;Tim Arnold;Tim Arnold

  • A burning question. Can recent growth rate anomalies in the greenhouse gases be attributed to large-scale biomass burning events?

    P.G. Simmonds;A.J. Manning;R.G. Derwent;P. Ciais

  • Inverse modelling of European CH4 emissions during 2006–2012 using different inverse models and reassessed atmospheric observations

    Peter Bergamaschi;Ute Karstens;Ute Karstens;Alistair J. Manning;Marielle Saunois

  • Seasonal characteristics of tropical marine boundary layer air measured at the Cape Verde Atmospheric Observatory

    L. J. Carpenter;Z. L. Fleming;K. A. Read;J. D. Lee

  • Top-down estimates of European CH4 and N2O emissions based on four different inverse models

    P. Bergamaschi;M. Corazza;U. Karstens;M. Athanassiadou

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon O'Doherty
Simon O'Doherty University of Bristol
Peter Simmonds
Peter Simmonds University of Oxford
Matthew Rigby
Matthew Rigby University of Bristol
Ray F. Weiss
Ray F. Weiss University of California, San Diego
Paul B. Krummel
Paul B. Krummel Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Peter K. Salameh
Peter K. Salameh University of California, San Diego
Jens Mühle
Jens Mühle University of California, San Diego
Stefan Reimann
Stefan Reimann Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Mark Lunt
Mark Lunt University of Manchester

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