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Overview

Becky Alexander is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and has contributed extensively to fields related to Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research focuses on atmospheric science and aims to understand the chemical and physical processes influencing the composition and behavior of the atmosphere.

The primary fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these broader areas, they have specialized in several subfields such as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Ecology

Their research topics cover a range of atmospheric and environmental processes, including:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Chemical Analysis and Environmental Impact
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Becky Alexander has published work extensively in several key scientific venues related to atmospheric and geophysical sciences. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • ACS ES&T Air
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Becky Alexander are:

  • Global inorganic nitrate production mechanisms: comparison of a global model with nitrate isotope observations, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • The acidity of atmospheric particles and clouds, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Global tropospheric halogen (Cl, Br, I) chemistry and its impact on oxidants, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Acidity and the multiphase chemistry of atmospheric aqueous particles and clouds, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Global Importance of Hydroxymethanesulfonate in Ambient Particulate Matter: Implications for Air Quality, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

They have collaborated frequently with fellow researchers such as Lyatt Jaeglé, Shuting Zhai, Joël Savarino, Jihong Cole-Dai, and William R. Simpson.

Best Publications

  • Global distribution of sea salt aerosols: new constraints from in situ and remote sensing observations

    L. Jaeglé;P. K. Quinn;T. S. Bates;B. Alexander

  • A large atomic chlorine source inferred from mid-continental reactive nitrogen chemistry

    Joel A. Thornton;James P. Kercher;Theran P. Riedel;Nicholas L. Wagner

  • The acidity of atmospheric particles and clouds

    Havala O. T. Pye;Athanasios Nenes;Becky Alexander;Andrew P. Ault

  • Sulfate Formation in Sea-Salt Aerosols: Constraints from Oxygen Isotopes

    B. Alexander;Rokjin J. Park;Daniel J. Jacob;Q. B. Li

  • The role of chlorine in global tropospheric chemistry

    Xuan Wang;Daniel J. Jacob;Sebastian D. Eastham;Melissa P. Sulprizio

  • Transition Metal-Catalyzed Oxidation of Atmospheric Sulfur: Global Implications for the Sulfur Budget

    Becky Alexander;Rokjin J. Park;Daniel J. Jacob;Sunling Gong

  • Quantifying atmospheric nitrate formation pathways based on a global model of the oxygen isotopic composition (Δ 17 O) of atmospheric nitrate

    B. Alexander;M.G. Hastings;D.J. Allman;Jordi Dachs

  • Impact of mineral dust on nitrate, sulfate, and ozone in transpacific Asian pollution plumes

    T. D. Fairlie;T. D. Fairlie;Daniel J. Jacob;J. E. Dibb;B. Alexander

  • Transpacific Transport of Asian Anthropogenic Aerosols and its Impact on Surface Air Quality in the United States

    Colette L. Heald;Colette L. Heald;Daniel J. Jacob;Rokjin J. Park;Becky Alexander;Becky Alexander

  • DMS oxidation and sulfur aerosol formation in the marine troposphere: a focus on reactive halogen and multiphase chemistry

    Qianjie Chen;Qianjie Chen;Tomás Sherwen;Mathew Evans;Becky Alexander

  • Global inorganic nitrate production mechanisms: comparison of a global model with nitrate isotope observations

    Becky Alexander;Tomás Sherwen;Christopher D. Holmes;Jenny A. Fisher

  • Heterogeneous sulfate aerosol formation mechanisms during wintertime Chinese haze events: air quality model assessment using observations of sulfate oxygen isotopes in Beijing

    Jingyuan Shao;Jingyuan Shao;Qianjie Chen;Qianjie Chen;Yuxuan Wang;Xiao Lu

  • Global tropospheric halogen (Cl, Br, I) chemistry and its impact on oxidants

    Xuan Wang;Daniel J. Jacob;William Downs;Shuting Zhai

  • Acidity and the multiphase chemistry of atmospheric aqueous particles and clouds.

    Andreas Tilgner;Thomas Schaefer;Becky Alexander;Mary Barth

  • Factors controlling variability in the oxidative capacity of the troposphere since the Last Glacial Maximum

    L. T. Murray;L. T. Murray;L. J. Mickley;J. O. Kaplan;E. D. Sofen

  • Impact of preindustrial biomass-burning emissions on the oxidation pathways of tropospheric sulfur and nitrogen

    B. Alexander;B. Alexander;J. Savarino;Karl J. Kreutz;M. H. Thiemens

  • Nitrogen isotopes in ice core nitrate linked to anthropogenic atmospheric acidity change

    Lei Geng;Becky Alexander;Jihong Cole-Dai;Eric J. Steig

  • Annual distributions and sources of Arctic aerosol components, aerosol optical depth, and aerosol absorption

    Thomas J. Breider;Loretta J. Mickley;Daniel James Jacob;Qiaoqiao Wang

  • Isotopic constraints on heterogeneous sulfate production in Beijing haze

    Pengzhen He;Becky Alexander;Lei Geng;Xiyuan Chi

  • Isotopic constraints on the formation pathways of sulfate aerosol in the marine boundary layer of the subtropical northeast Atlantic Ocean

    B. Alexander;D. J. Allman;H. M. Amos;H. M. Amos;T. D. Fairlie

  • Isotopic composition of atmospheric nitrate in a tropical marine boundary layer.

    Joel Savarino;Samuel Morin;Joseph Erbland;Francis Grannec

  • Global impact of nitrate photolysis in sea-salt aerosol on NO x , OH, and O 3 in the marine boundary layer

    Prasad Kasibhatla;Tomás Sherwen;Mathew J. Evans;Lucy J. Carpenter

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel Savarino
Joel Savarino Grenoble Alpes University
Mark H. Thiemens
Mark H. Thiemens University of California, San Diego
Eric J. Steig
Eric J. Steig University of Washington
Lyatt Jaeglé
Lyatt Jaeglé University of Washington
Daniel J. Jacob
Daniel J. Jacob Harvard University
Loretta J. Mickley
Loretta J. Mickley Harvard University
Naohiro Yoshida
Naohiro Yoshida Tokyo Institute of Technology
Qiang Fu
Qiang Fu University of Washington
Joel A. Thornton
Joel A. Thornton University of Washington
Joseph R. McConnell
Joseph R. McConnell Desert Research Institute

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