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Overview

Daniel A. Knopf is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research spans multiple intersecting domains within Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Physics and Astronomy. The primary focus areas include subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Environmental Chemistry, Geophysics, Oceanography, and Atmospheric Science.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics related to ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, methane hydrates and related phenomena, seismic waves and analysis, geophysics and gravity measurements, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

Knopf has contributed extensively to academic literature, with notable recent publications including:

  • "Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA)" (2021), published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Tropospheric and stratospheric wildfire smoke profiling with lidar: mass, surface area, CCN, and INP retrieval" (2021), published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Atmospheric ice nucleation" (2023), published in Nature Reviews Physics
  • "Stochastic nucleation processes and substrate abundance explain time-dependent freezing in supercooled droplets" (2020), published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • "Aerosol-Ice Formation Closure: A Southern Great Plains Field Campaign" (2021), published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

The scholar frequently collaborates with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including Alexander Laskin, Swarup China, Felipe Rivera-Adorno, Abu Sayeed Shawon, and Steven Sharpe.

Common venues for Knopf's publications include:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Best Publications

  • A marine biogenic source of atmospheric ice-nucleating particles

    Theodore W. Wilson;Luis A. Ladino;Peter A. Alpert;Mark N. Breckels

  • The Role of Organic Aerosol in Atmospheric Ice Nucleation: A Review

    Daniel Alexander Knopf;Peter Alpert;Bingbing Wang

  • The formation of cubic ice under conditions relevant to Earth's atmosphere

    Benjamin J. Murray;Daniel A. Knopf;Allan K. Bertram

  • Ice-nucleating bacteria control the order and dynamics of interfacial water

    Ravindra Pandey;Kota Usui;Ruth A. Livingstone;Sean A. Fischer

  • Heterogeneous nucleation of ice on surrogates of mineral dust

    Daniel A. Knopf;Daniel A. Knopf;Thomas Koop

  • Stimulation of ice nucleation by marine diatoms

    D. A. Knopf;P. A. Alpert;B. Wang;J. Y. Aller

  • The deposition ice nucleation and immersion freezing potential of amorphous secondary organic aerosol: Pathways for ice and mixed‐phase cloud formation

    Bingbing Wang;Bingbing Wang;Andrew T. Lambe;Paola Massoli;Timothy B. Onasch

  • Multiphase OH oxidation kinetics of organic aerosol: The role of particle phase state and relative humidity

    Jonathan H. Slade;Daniel A. Knopf

  • Deposition ice nucleation on soot at temperatures relevant for the lower troposphere

    Magdalena Dymarska;Benjamin J. Murray;Limin Sun;Michael L. Eastwood

  • Heterogeneous OH oxidation of biomass burning organic aerosol surrogate compounds: assessment of volatilisation products and the role of OH concentration on the reactive uptake kinetics

    Jonathan H. Slade;Daniel A. Knopf

  • Reactive uptake of O3 by multicomponent and multiphase mixtures containing oleic acid.

    Daniel A. Knopf;Lori M. Anthony;Allan K. Bertram

  • Multiphase Chemical Kinetics of OH Radical Uptake by Molecular Organic Markers of Biomass Burning Aerosols: Humidity and Temperature Dependence, Surface Reaction, and Bulk Diffusion

    Andrea M. Arangio;Jonathan H. Slade;Thomas Berkemeier;Ulrich Pöschl

  • Heterogeneous ice nucleation on particles composed of humic‐like substances impacted by O3

    Bingbing Wang;Daniel A. Knopf

  • Deliquescence and Crystallization of Ammonium Sulfate Particles Internally Mixed with Water-Soluble Organic Compounds

    Matthew T. Parsons;Daniel A. Knopf;Allan K. Bertram

  • A water activity based model of heterogeneous ice nucleation kinetics for freezing of water and aqueous solution droplets

    Daniel A. Knopf;Peter A. Alpert

  • Comment on the "Thermodynamic dissociation constant of the bisulfate ion from Raman and ion interaction modeling studies of aqueous sulfuric acid at low temperatures".

    D. A. Knopf;B. P. Luo;U. K. Krieger;Thomas Koop

  • Atmospheric ice nucleation

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  • Chemical evolution of atmospheric organic carbon over multiple generations of oxidation.

    Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz;Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz;Paola Massoli;Rachel O’Brien;Christopher Lim

  • Heterogeneous oxidation kinetics of organic biomass burning aerosol surrogates by O3, NO2, N2O5, and NO3.

    Daniel A. Knopf;Seanna M. Forrester;Jonathan H. Slade

  • Heterogeneous nucleation of ice on anthropogenic organic particles collected in Mexico City

    Daniel A. Knopf;BingBing Wang;Alexander Laskin;Ryan C. Moffet

  • Ice nucleation from aqueous NaCl droplets with and without marine diatoms

    P. A. Alpert;J. Y. Aller;D. A. Knopf

  • Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA)

    Jian Wang;Jian Wang;Rob Wood;Michael P. Jensen;J. Christine Chiu

  • Tropospheric and stratospheric wildfire smoke profiling with lidar: mass, surface area, CCN, and INP retrieval

    Albert Ansmann;Kevin Ohneiser;Rodanthi-Elisavet Mamouri;Daniel A. Knopf

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Laskin
Alexander Laskin Purdue University West Lafayette
Ryan C. Moffet
Ryan C. Moffet University of the Pacific
Allan K. Bertram
Allan K. Bertram University of British Columbia
Jian Wang
Jian Wang Washington University in St. Louis
Paola Massoli
Paola Massoli Earth System Research Laboratory
Mary K. Gilles
Mary K. Gilles Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Thomas Koop
Thomas Koop Bielefeld University
Timothy B. Onasch
Timothy B. Onasch Boston College
Ann M. Fridlind
Ann M. Fridlind Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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