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71
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1569
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Overview

Bruce C. Daube is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a specialized emphasis on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. These fields encompass a broad range of scientific inquiries into the dynamics and chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere and climate systems.

Their work contributes to several interconnected topics including:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

Daube has published extensively in notable scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center for Biogeochemical Dynamics
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Science

Their recent papers reflect collaboration with diverse research teams and cover significant atmospheric and environmental topics. Notable recent publications are:

  • "Large contribution of biomass burning emissions to ozone throughout the global remote troposphere," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) Mission: Imaging the Chemistry of the Global Atmosphere," 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Carbon Monitoring System Flux Net Biosphere Exchange 2020 (CMS-Flux NBE 2020)," 2021, Earth System Science Data
  • "Strong Southern Ocean carbon uptake evident in airborne observations," 2021, Science
  • "Global-scale distribution of ozone in the remote troposphere from the ATom and HIPPO airborne field missions," 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Daube's research, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Steven C. Wofsy
  • R. Commane
  • Kathryn McKain
  • Jeff Peischl
  • Thomas B. Ryerson

The scientist's multidisciplinary interests and extensive collaboration highlight an engagement with complex atmospheric processes and global environmental dynamics. Their body of work addresses chemical and physical changes in the atmosphere with applications that relate to air quality, climate variability, and biosphere interactions.

Best Publications

  • Measurements of carbon sequestration by long‐term eddy covariance: methods and a critical evaluation of accuracy

    Michael L. Goulden;J. William Munger;Song-Miao Fan;Bruce C. Daube

  • Net Exchange of CO2 in a Mid-Latitude Forest

    S. C. Wofsy;M. L. Goulden;J. W. Munger;S.-M. Fan

  • Sensitivity of boreal forest carbon balance to soil thaw

    M. L. Goulden;S. C. Wofsy;J. W. Harden;Susan E. Trumbore

  • Exchange of Carbon Dioxide by a Deciduous Forest: Response to Interannual Climate Variability

    Michael L. Goulden;J. William Munger;Song-Miao Fan;Bruce C. Daube

  • Carbon in Amazon Forests: Unexpected Seasonal Fluxes and Disturbance-Induced Losses

    Scott R. Saleska;Scott D. Miller;Daniel M. Matross;Michael L. Goulden

  • A near-field tool for simulating the upstream influence of atmospheric observations: The Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model

    J. C. Lin;Christoph Gerbig;S. C. Wofsy;A. E. Andrews

  • Calibration of the Total Carbon Column Observing Network using aircraft profile data

    Debra Wunch;Geoffrey C. Toon;Paul O. Wennberg;Steven C. Wofsy

  • Physiological responses of a black spruce forest to weather

    Michael L. Goulden;Bruce C. Daube;Song-Miao Fan;Douglas J. Sutton

  • A long‐term record of carbon exchange in a boreal black spruce forest: means, responses to interannual variability, and decadal trends

    Allison L. Dunn;Carol C. Barford;Steven C. Wofsy;Michael L. Goulden

  • Enhanced Seasonal Exchange of CO2 by Northern Ecosystems Since 1960

    H. D. Graven;R. F. Keeling;S. C. Piper;P. K. Patra

  • Seasonal controls on the exchange of carbon and water in an Amazonian rain forest

    Lucy R. Hutyra;Lucy R. Hutyra;J. William Munger;Scott R. Saleska;Ellaine W. Gottlieb

  • Toward constraining regional‐scale fluxes of CO2 with atmospheric observations over a continent: 2. Analysis of COBRA data using a receptor‐oriented framework

    Christoph Gerbig;J. C. Lin;S. C. Wofsy;B. C. Daube

  • High-accuracy continuous airborne measurements of greenhouse gases (CO2 and CH4) using the cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) technique

    H. Chen;J. Winderlich;C. Gerbig;A. Hoefer

  • Carbon dioxide column abundances at the Wisconsin Tall Tower site

    R. A. Washenfelder;R. A. Washenfelder;G. C. Toon;J.-F. Blavier;Z. Yang

  • Stratospheric Mean Ages and Transport Rates from Observations of Carbon Dioxide and Nitrous Oxide

    K. A. Boering;S. C. Wofsy;B. C. Daube;H. R. Schneider

  • Toward constraining regional‐scale fluxes of CO2 with atmospheric observations over a continent: 1. Observed spatial variability from airborne platforms

    Christoph Gerbig;J. C. Lin;S. C. Wofsy;B. C. Daube

  • Cloudwater chemistry from ten sites in North America

    Kathleen C. Weathers;Gene E. Likens;F. Herbert. Bormann;Susan H. Bicknell

  • Quantifying sources of methane using light alkanes in the Los Angeles basin, California

    J. Peischl;J. Peischl;T. B. Ryerson;J. Brioude;J. Brioude;K. C. Aikin;K. C. Aikin

  • Carbon dioxide sources from Alaska driven by increasing early winter respiration from Arctic tundra.

    Roisin Commane;Jakob Lindaas;Joshua Benmergui;Kristina A. Luus

  • On the Caltech Active Strand Cloudwater Collectors

    B.B. Demoz;J.L. Collett;B.C. Daube

  • ATom: Merged Atmospheric Chemistry, Trace Gases, and Aerosols

    S.C. Wofsy;S. Afshar;H.M. Allen;E.C. Apel

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven C. Wofsy
Steven C. Wofsy Harvard University
Colm Sweeney
Colm Sweeney National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jeff Peischl
Jeff Peischl Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Fred L. Moore
Fred L. Moore National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Arlyn E. Andrews
Arlyn E. Andrews National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Eric J. Hintsa
Eric J. Hintsa Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Christoph Gerbig
Christoph Gerbig Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Eric A. Kort
Eric A. Kort University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Max Loewenstein
Max Loewenstein Ames Research Center
Eric A. Ray
Eric A. Ray National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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