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Caroline Leck is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and specializes in research within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work predominantly focuses on Atmospheric Science and its intersections with subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Oceanography, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research covers main topics including Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Air Quality and Health Impacts, as well as nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions.

Caroline Leck has contributed to several publications in frequent collaboration with coauthors such as Matthew Salter, Julia Schmale, Paul Zieger, Annica M. L. Ekman, and L. Karlsson. Their scientific output has been published regularly in notable venues:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Environmental Science Atmospheres
  • Scientific Data

Recent published papers include:

  • Ship-based measurements of ice nuclei concentrations over the Arctic, Atlantic, Pacific and Southern oceans (2020), published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • The ice-nucleating activity of Arctic sea surface microlayer samples and marine algal cultures (2020), published in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Highly Active Ice-Nucleating Particles at the Summer North Pole (2022), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Physical and Chemical Properties of Cloud Droplet Residuals and Aerosol Particles During the Arctic Ocean 2018 Expedition (2022), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • New Insights Into the Composition and Origins of Ultrafine Aerosol in the Summertime High Arctic (2021), published in Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Brown Clouds over South Asia: Biomass or Fossil Fuel Combustion?

    Örjan Gustafsson;Martin Kruså;Zdenek Zencak;Rebecca J. Sheesley

  • A global database of sea surface dimethylsulfide (DMS) measurements and a procedure to predict sea surface DMS as a function of latitude, longitude, and month

    A. J. Kettle;M. O. Andreae;D. Amouroux;T. W. Andreae

  • Experimental determination of the diffusion coefficient of dimethylsulfide in water

    E. S. Saltzman;D. B. King;K. Holmen;C. Leck

  • Marine microgels as a source of cloud condensation nuclei in the high Arctic

    Mónica V. Orellana;Patricia A. Matrai;Caroline Leck;Carlton D. Rauschenberg

  • Biogenic particles in the surface microlayer and overlaying atmosphere in the central Arctic Ocean during summer

    Caroline Leck;E. Keith Bigg

  • Source and evolution of the marine aerosol—A new perspective

    Caroline Leck;E. Keith Bigg

  • An Arctic CCN-limited cloud-aerosol regime

    T. Mauritsen;Joseph Sedlar;Michael Tjernström;Caroline Leck

  • Revising the hygroscopicity of inorganic sea salt particles.

    Paul Zieger;O. Vaisanen;J. C. Corbin;Dan G. Partridge;Dan G. Partridge

  • Dimethyl sulfide in the Baltic Sea: Annual variability in relation to biological activity

    Caroline Leck;Ulf Larsson;Lars Erik Bågander;Sif Johansson

  • Turbulent aerosol fluxes over the Arctic Ocean: 2. Wind‐driven sources from the sea

    E. D. Nilsson;Ü. Rannik;E. Swietlicki;C. Leck

  • The composition of fragments of bubbles bursting at the ocean surface

    E. Keith Bigg;Caroline Leck

  • Chemical composition and sources of the high Arctic aerosol relevant for cloud formation

    Caroline Leck;Michael Norman;E. Keith Bigg;Risto Hillamo

  • Cloud-active particles over the central Arctic Ocean

    E. Keith Bigg;Caroline Leck

  • A transitioning Arctic surface energy budget: the impacts of solar zenith angle, surface albedo and cloud radiative forcing

    Joseph Sedlar;Michael Tjernström;Thorsten Mauritsen;Matthew D. Shupe

  • Aerosol number size distributions from 3 to 500 nm diameter in the arctic marine boundary layer during summer and autumn

    David S. Covert;Alfred Wiedensohler;Alfred Wiedensohler;Pasi Aalto;Jost Heintzenberg

  • The Arctic Summer Cloud Ocean Study (ASCOS): Overview and experimental design

    Michael Tjernström;Caroline Leck;C. E. Birch;J. W. Bottenheim

  • Aerosol production over remote marine areas-A new route

    Caroline Leck;E. Keith Bigg

  • Cloud and boundary layer interactions over the Arctic sea ice in late summer

    M. D. Shupe;P. O. G. Persson;I. M. Brooks;Michael Tjernström

  • Seasonal and short-term variability in dimethyl sulfide, sulfur dioxide and biogenic sulfur and sea salt aerosol particles in the arctic marine boundary layer during summer and autumn

    Caroline Leck;Cecilia Persson

  • Occurrence of an ultrafine particle mode less than 20 nm in diameter in the marine boundary layer during Arctic summer and autumn

    Alfred Wiedensohler;David S. Covert;Erik Swietlicki;Pasi Aalto

  • Revising the hygroscopicity of inorganic sea salt particles

    M. E. Salter;O. Väisänen;J. Corbin;D. Partridge

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Tjernström
Michael Tjernström Stockholm University
Jost Heintzenberg
Jost Heintzenberg Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research
Erik Swietlicki
Erik Swietlicki Lund University
Joseph Sedlar
Joseph Sedlar National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ian M. Brooks
Ian M. Brooks University of Leeds
Annica M. L. Ekman
Annica M. L. Ekman Stockholm University
Pasi Aalto
Pasi Aalto University of Helsinki
Ilona Riipinen
Ilona Riipinen Stockholm University
Matthew D. Shupe
Matthew D. Shupe University of Colorado Boulder
Thorsten Mauritsen
Thorsten Mauritsen Stockholm University

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