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Overview

Chris A. McLinden is affiliated with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to earth and planetary sciences.

The key fields of study covered in their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these areas, McLinden specializes in several subfields of study such as:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Pharmacology

Their research topics are focused on atmospheric and environmental phenomena surrounding air quality and atmospheric chemistry. Specific topics include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • COVID-19 impact on air quality
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds

Chris A. McLinden has published extensively in several academic venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by McLinden include:

  • "Disentangling the Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdowns on Urban NO 2 From Natural Variability" (2020), Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Global fine-scale changes in ambient NO2 during COVID-19 lockdowns" (2022), Nature
  • "Inferring ground-level nitrogen dioxide concentrations at fine spatial resolution applied to the TROPOMI satellite instrument" (2020), Environmental Research Letters
  • "Assessment of the quality of TROPOMI high-spatial-resolution NO 2 data products in the Greater Toronto Area" (2020), Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • "A methodology to constrain carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants using satellite observations of co-emitted nitrogen dioxide" (2020), Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with McLinden are:

  • Debora Griffin
  • Vitali Fioletov
  • N. A. Krotkov
  • Xiaoyi Zhao
  • Adam Bourassa

Best Publications

  • Aura OMI observations of regional SO2 and NO2 pollution changes from 2005 to 2015

    Nickolay A. Krotkov;Chris A. McLinden;Can Li;Lok N. Lamsal

  • Stratospheric ozone in 3-D models : A simple chemistry and the cross-tropopause flux

    C. A. McLinden;S. C. Olsen;B. Hannegan;O. Wild

  • Tropospheric emissions: Monitoring of pollution (TEMPO)

    P. Zoogman;X. Liu;R.M. Suleiman;W.F. Pennington

  • A decade of global volcanic SO 2 emissions measured from space.

    S. A. Carn;V. E. Fioletov;C. A. McLinden;C. Li

  • The OSIRIS instrument on the Odin spacecraft

    E J Llewellyn;N D Lloyd;D A Degenstein;R L Gattinger

  • The Ozone Monitoring Instrument: overview of 14 years in space

    Pieternel F. Levelt;Joanna Joiner;Johanna Tamminen;J. Pepijn Veefkind

  • India Is Overtaking China as the World's Largest Emitter of Anthropogenic Sulfur Dioxide.

    Can Li;Can Li;Chris McLinden;Vitali Fioletov;Nickolay Krotkov

  • High resolution mapping of nitrogen dioxide with TROPOMI: First results and validation over the Canadian oil sands.

    Debora Griffin;Xiaoyi Zhao;Chris A. McLinden;Folkert Boersma;Folkert Boersma

  • Global fine-scale changes in ambient NO2 during COVID-19 lockdowns

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  • Sensitivity of Ozone to Bromine in the Lower Stratosphere

    R. J. Salawitch;D. K. Weisenstein;L. J. Kovalenko;C. E. Sioris

  • Quantifying CO2 Emissions From Individual Power Plants From Space

    Ray Nassar;Timothy G. Hill;Chris A. McLinden;Debra Wunch

  • A global catalogue of large SO 2 sources and emissions derived from theOzone Monitoring Instrument

    Vitali E. Fioletov;Chris A. McLinden;Nickolay Krotkov;Can Li;Can Li

  • Disentangling the impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns on urban NO 2 from natural variability.

    Daniel L. Goldberg;Daniel L. Goldberg;Susan C. Anenberg;Debora Griffin;Chris A. McLinden

  • Lifetimes and emissions of SO2 from point sources estimated from OMI

    V. E. Fioletov;C. A. McLinden;N. Krotkov;C. Li;C. Li

  • Space-based detection of missing sulfur dioxide sources of global air pollution

    Chris A. McLinden;Vitali Fioletov;Mark W. Shephard;Nick Krotkov

  • Estimation of SO2 emissions using OMI retrievals

    V. E. Fioletov;C. A. McLinden;N. Krotkov;M. D. Moran

  • Comparison of box-air-mass-factors and radiances for Multiple-Axis Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS) geometries calculated from different UV/visible radiative transfer models

    T. Wagner;T. Wagner;J. P. Burrows;T. Deutschmann;B. Dix

  • Enhanced Capabilities of TROPOMI NO2: Estimating NOX from North American Cities and Power Plants.

    Daniel L. Goldberg;Daniel L. Goldberg;Daniel L. Goldberg;Zifeng Lu;Zifeng Lu;David G. Streets;David G. Streets;Benjamin de Foy

  • Evidence for bromine monoxide in the free troposphere during the Arctic polar sunrise

    C. T. McElroy;C. T. McElroy;C. A. McLinden;J. C. McConnell

  • NH 3 emissions from large point sources derived from CrIS and IASI satellite observations

    Enrico Dammers;Chris A. McLinden;Debora Griffin;Mark W. Shephard

  • Air quality over the Canadian oil sands: A first assessment using satellite observations

    C. A. McLinden;V. Fioletov;K. F. Boersma;K. F. Boersma;N. Krotkov

  • Solar occultation satellite data and derived meteorological products: Sampling issues and comparisons with Aura Microwave Limb Sounder

    Gloria L. Manney;Gloria L. Manney;William H. Daffer;Joseph M. Zawodny;Peter F. Bernath;Peter F. Bernath

Frequent Co-Authors

Vitali E. Fioletov
Vitali E. Fioletov Environment and Climate Change Canada
Christopher E. Sioris
Christopher E. Sioris Environment and Climate Change Canada
Nickolay A. Krotkov
Nickolay A. Krotkov Goddard Space Flight Center
Kaley A. Walker
Kaley A. Walker University of Toronto
Can Li
Can Li Goddard Space Flight Center
Randall V. Martin
Randall V. Martin Washington University in St. Louis
C. T. McElroy
C. T. McElroy York University
Adam Bourassa
Adam Bourassa University of Saskatchewan
Peter F. Bernath
Peter F. Bernath Old Dominion University
Kimberly Strong
Kimberly Strong University of Toronto

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