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Overview

Ben Johnson is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom and focuses research primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work intersects significantly with atmospheric science and global and planetary change, addressing key areas within atmospheric chemistry and aerosols as well as atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Their research spans several subfields, with notable contributions to atmospheric aerosols and clouds, climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, air quality and health impacts, oceanography, and molecular biology.

Johnson's recent papers demonstrate engagement with climate modeling, aerosol interactions, and radiative forcing in the atmosphere. Notable publications include:

  • Implementation of U.K. Earth System Models for CMIP6, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Description and evaluation of aerosol in UKESM1 and HadGEM3-GC3.1 CMIP6 historical simulations, 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Biomass burning aerosols in most climate models are too absorbing, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The Cloud-Aerosol-Radiation Interaction and Forcing: Year 2017 (CLARIFY-2017) measurement campaign, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Effective radiative forcing from emissions of reactive gases and aerosols - a multi-model comparison, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Johnson include:

  • Jane P. Mulcahy
  • Fiona M. O'Connor
  • Jim Haywood
  • Nicolas Bellouin
  • Kostas Tsigaridis

Johnson's studies have been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Best Publications

  • UKESM1: Description and Evaluation of the U.K. Earth System Model

    Alistair A. Sellar;Colin G. Jones;Jane P. Mulcahy;Yongming Tang

  • The Met Office Unified Model Global Atmosphere 7.0/7.1 and JULES Global Land 7.0 configurations

    David Walters;Anthony J. Baran;Anthony J. Baran;Ian Boutle;Malcolm Brooks

  • The semi‐direct aerosol effect: Impact of absorbing aerosols on marine stratocumulus

    B. T. Johnson;K. P. Shine;P. M. Forster

  • The spatial distribution of mineral dust and its shortwave radiative forcing over North Africa: modeling sensitivities to dust emissions and aerosol size treatments

    Chun Zhao;Xiaohong Liu;Lai-Yung R. Leung;Ben Johnson

  • Aging of biomass burning aerosols over West Africa: Aircraft measurements of chemical composition, microphysical properties, and emission ratios

    Gerard Capes;Ben Johnson;G. McFiggans;P. I. Williams

  • Strong constraints on aerosol–cloud interactions from volcanic eruptions

    Florent F. Malavelle;Jim M. Haywood;Jim M. Haywood;Andy Jones;Andrew Gettelman

  • Implementation of U.K. Earth system models for CMIP6

    Alistair A. Sellar;Jeremy Walton;Colin G. Jones;Richard Wood

  • Overview of the Dust and Biomass-burning Experiment and African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis Special Observing Period-0

    Jim M. Haywood;Jacques Pelon;Paola Formenti;N. A. Bharmal

  • Improved aerosol processes and effective radiative forcing in HadGEM3 and UKESM1

    J. P. Mulcahy;C. Jones;A. Sellar;B. Johnson

  • Physical and optical properties of mineral dust aerosol during the Dust and Biomass-burning Experiment

    S. R. Osborne;B. T. Johnson;J. M. Haywood;A. J. Baran

  • Biomass burning aerosols in most climate models are too absorbing

    Hunter Brown;Xiaohong Liu;Xiaohong Liu;Rudra Pokhrel;Rudra Pokhrel;Shane Murphy

  • Description and evaluation of aerosol in UKESM1 and HadGEM3-GC3.1 CMIP6 historical simulations

    Jane P. Mulcahy;Colin Johnson;Colin Johnson;Colin G. Jones;Adam C. Povey

  • Aircraft measurements of biomass burning aerosol over West Africa during DABEX

    B. T. Johnson;S. R. Osborne;J. M. Haywood;M. A. J. Harrison

  • Effective radiative forcing from emissions of reactive gases and aerosols – a multi-model comparison

    Gillian D. Thornhill;William J. Collins;Ryan J. Kramer;Ryan J. Kramer;Dirk Olivie

  • 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

  • The CLoud–Aerosol–Radiation interaction and forcing: year 2017 (CLARIFY-2017) measurement campaign

    Jim M. Haywood;Jim M. Haywood;Steven J. Abel;Paul A. Barrett;Nicolas Bellouin

  • Vertical distribution and radiative effects of mineral dust and biomass burning aerosol over West Africa during DABEX

    B. T. Johnson;B. Heese;S. A. McFarlane;P. Chazette

  • In situ observations of volcanic ash clouds from the FAAM aircraft during the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in 2010

    Ben Johnson;Kate Turnbull;Phil Brown;Rachel Burgess

  • Ground-based aerosol characterization during the South American Biomass Burning Analysis (SAMBBA) field experiment

    J. Brito;L. V. Rizzo;W. T. Morgan;H. Coe

  • Airborne lidar observations of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcanic ash plume

    Franco Marenco;Ben T. Johnson;Kate Turnbull;Stuart Newman

  • Observations of mesoscale and boundary-layer scale circulations affecting dust transport and uplift over the Sahara

    J. H. Marsham;D. J. Parker;C. M. Grams;B. T. Johnson

  • Large simulated radiative effects of smoke in the south-east Atlantic

    Hamish Gordon;Paul R. Field;Paul R. Field;Steven J. Abel;Mohit Dalvi

Frequent Co-Authors

Jim Haywood
Jim Haywood University of Exeter
Hugh Coe
Hugh Coe University of Manchester
Kenneth S. Carslaw
Kenneth S. Carslaw University of Leeds
Nicolas Bellouin
Nicolas Bellouin University of Reading
Graham W. Mann
Graham W. Mann University of Leeds
Paulo Artaxo
Paulo Artaxo Universidade de São Paulo
Susanne E. Bauer
Susanne E. Bauer Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Gunnar Myhre
Gunnar Myhre University of Oslo
Guang Zeng
Guang Zeng National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

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