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Anthony J. Prenni is affiliated with the National Park Service in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on Atmospheric Science and its related subfields, including Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Engineering.

Their scientific work extensively covers topics such as Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting, Air Quality and Health Impacts, and Vehicle Emissions and Performance.

Prenni has published research in a variety of scientific venues, notably including Atmospheric Environment, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. The number of publications with these major venues are:

  • Atmospheric Environment (4)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (4)
  • Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (4)
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (1)
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (1)

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Prenni include:

  • "A global analysis of climate-relevant aerosol properties retrieved from the network of Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) near-surface observatories," 2020, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • "Multidecadal trend analysis of in situ aerosol radiative properties around the world," 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Thirty years of the Clean Air Act Amendments: Impacts on haze in remote regions of the United States (1990-2018)," 2020, Atmospheric Environment
  • "Ammonia Dry Deposition in an Alpine Ecosystem Traced to Agricultural Emission Hotpots," 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Energy Development and Production in the Great Plains: Implications and Mitigation Opportunities," 2020, Rangeland Ecology & Management

Their frequent collaborators in research include:

  • Bret A. Schichtel (13 joint works)
  • Katherine Benedict (7 joint works)
  • Jeffrey L. Collett (7 joint works)
  • J. L. Hand (6 joint works)
  • B. C. Sive (6 joint works)

Best Publications

  • Predicting global atmospheric ice nuclei distributions and their impacts on climate

    Paul J. DeMott;Anthony J. Prenni;Xiaohong Liu;Sonia M. Kreidenweis

  • African Dust Aerosols as Atmospheric Ice Nuclei

    Paul J. DeMott;Kenneth Sassen;Michael R. Poellot;Darrel Baumgardner

  • Rainforest Aerosols as Biogenic Nuclei of Clouds and Precipitation in the Amazon

    U. Pöschl;S. T. Martin;B. Sinha;Q. Chen

  • Measurements of the concentration and composition of nuclei for cirrus formation

    P. J. DeMott;D. J. Cziczo;A. J. Prenni;D. M. Murphy

  • In situ detection of biological particles in cloud ice-crystals

    Kerri A. Pratt;Paul J. DeMott;Jeffrey R. French;Zhien Wang

  • High concentrations of biological aerosol particles and ice nuclei during and after rain

    J. A. Huffman;J. A. Huffman;A. J. Prenni;P. J. DeMott;C. Pohlker

  • Impacts of Nucleating Aerosol on Florida Storms. Part I: Mesoscale Simulations

    Susan C. van den Heever;Gustavo G. Carrió;William R. Cotton;Paul J. DeMott

  • Integrating laboratory and field data to quantify the immersion freezing ice nucleation activity of mineral dust particles

    P. J. DeMott;A. J. Prenni;A. J. Prenni;G. R. McMeeking;R. C. Sullivan

  • The Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment.

    J. Verlinde;J. Y. Harrington;G. M. McFarquhar;V. T. Yannuzzi

  • Cloud condensation nucleation activity of biomass burning aerosol

    Markus D. Petters;Markus D. Petters;Christian M. Carrico;Sonia M. Kreidenweis;Anthony J. Prenni

  • Relative roles of biogenic emissions and Saharan dust as ice nuclei in the Amazon basin

    Anthony J. Prenni;Markus D. Petters;Sonia M. Kreidenweis;Colette L. Heald

  • Can Ice-Nucleating Aerosols Affect Arctic Seasonal Climate?

    Anthony J. Prenni;Jerry Y. Harrington;Michael Tjernström;Paul J. Demott

  • The effects of low molecular weight dicarboxylic acids on cloud formation

    Anthony J. Prenni;Paul J. Demott;Sonia M. Kreidenweis;D. Eli Sherman

  • Cloud droplet activation of secondary organic aerosol

    Anthony J. Prenni;Markus D. Petters;Sonia M. Kreidenweis;Paul J. DeMott

  • Water activity and activation diameters from hygroscopicity data - Part I: Theory and application to inorganic salts

    S. M. Kreidenweis;K. Koehler;P. J. DeMott;A. J. Prenni

  • Ice properties of single-layer stratocumulus during the Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment: 2. Model results

    Ann M. Fridlind;A. S. Ackerman;Greg Michael McFarquhar;G. Zhang

  • Biological aerosol particles as a key determinant of ice nuclei populations in a forest ecosystem

    Yutaka Tobo;Anthony J. Prenni;Paul J. DeMott;J. Alex Huffman;J. Alex Huffman

  • Water uptake of internally mixed particles containing ammonium sulfate and dicarboxylic acids

    Anthony J. Prenni;Paul J. DeMott;Sonia M. Kreidenweis

  • Hygroscopicity and cloud droplet activation of mineral dust aerosol

    K. A. Koehler;S. M. Kreidenweis;P. J. DeMott;M. D. Petters

  • Flight-based chemical characterization of biomass burning aerosols within two prescribed burn smoke plumes

    K.A. Pratt;K.A. Pratt;K.A. Pratt;Shane Murphy;Shane Murphy;R. Subramanian;P.J. Demott

  • An overview of the Amazonian Aerosol Characterization Experiment 2008 (AMAZE-08)

    S. T. Martin;M. O. Andreae;D. Althausen;P. Artaxo

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul J. DeMott
Paul J. DeMott Colorado State University
Sonia M. Kreidenweis
Sonia M. Kreidenweis Colorado State University
Markus D. Petters
Markus D. Petters North Carolina State University
Christian M. Carrico
Christian M. Carrico New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Margaret A. Tolbert
Margaret A. Tolbert University of Colorado Boulder
James N. Smith
James N. Smith University of California, Irvine
Jeffrey L. Collett
Jeffrey L. Collett Colorado State University
Ulrich Pöschl
Ulrich Pöschl Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Ryan C. Sullivan
Ryan C. Sullivan Carnegie Mellon University
Andrew J. Heymsfield
Andrew J. Heymsfield National Center for Atmospheric Research

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