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  • 2003 - NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
  • 1994 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 1994 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • Fellow of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
  • Fellow of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
  • Fellow of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)

Overview

Daniel J. Jacob is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans a broad range of topics within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on atmospheric processes.

The primary fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these, subfields of notable emphasis are:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Mechanics of Materials

The main topics covered in their work are:

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

Frequent publication venues for Daniel J. Jacob's research include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Geoscientific model development
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Recent representative papers are:

  • "Increases in surface ozone pollution in China from 2013 to 2019: anthropogenic and meteorological influences" (2020), Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Quantifying methane emissions from the largest oil-producing basin in the United States from space" (2020), Science Advances
  • "Ozone pollution in the North China Plain spreading into the late-winter haze season" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Fast sulfate formation from oxidation of SO2 by NO2 and HONO observed in Beijing haze" (2020), Nature Communications
  • "Control of particulate nitrate air pollution in China" (2021), Nature Geoscience

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Melissa P. Sulprizio
  • Joannes D. Maasakkers
  • John R. Worden
  • Xiao Lu
  • Daniel J. Varon

Daniel J. Jacob has been recognized with the following awards:

  • NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, 2003
  • James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 1994
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 1994
  • Fellow of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)

Best Publications

  • Couplings between changes in the climate system and biogeochemistry

    Surabi Menon;Kenneth L. Denman;Guy Brasseur;Amnat Chidthaisong

  • Global modeling of tropospheric chemistry with assimilated meteorology : Model description and evaluation

    Isabelle Bey;Daniel James Jacob;Robert M. Yantosca;Jennifer A. Logan

  • Mercury as a Global Pollutant: Sources, Pathways, and Effects

    Charles T. Driscoll;Robert P. Mason;Hing Man Chan;Daniel James Jacob

  • Effect of Climate Change on Air Quality

    Daniel J. Jacob;Darrell A. Winner

  • Introduction to atmospheric chemistry

    Daniel J. Jacob

  • Anthropogenic drivers of 2013–2017 trends in summer surface ozone in China

    Ke Li;Daniel J. Jacob;Hong Liao;Lu Shen

  • Heterogeneous chemistry and tropospheric ozone

    Daniel J. Jacob

  • Assessment of methane emissions from the US oil and gas supply chain

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  • Correlations between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and meteorological variables in the United States: implications for the sensitivity of PM2.5 to climate change.

    Amos P.K. Tai;Loretta J. Mickley;Daniel James Jacob

  • Natural and transboundary pollution influences on sulfate‐nitrate‐ammonium aerosols in the United States: Implications for policy

    Rokjin J. Park;Daniel James Jacob;Brendan Field;Robert M. Yantosca

  • Jet energy scale and resolution measured in proton–proton collisions at �TeV with the ATLAS detector

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  • Atmospheric chemistry and greenhouse gases

    D. Ehhalt;M. Prather;F. Dentener;R. Derwent

  • Global simulation of tropospheric O3‐NO x ‐hydrocarbon chemistry: 1. Model formulation

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  • Constraints from 210Pb and 7Be on wet deposition and transport in a global three-dimensional chemical tracer model driven by assimilated meteorological fields

    Hongyu Liu;Daniel James Jacob;Isabelle Bey;Robert M. Yantosca

  • The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission

    D Crisp;RM Atlas;FM Breon;LR Brown

  • Global budgets of atmospheric glyoxal and methylglyoxal, and implications for formation of secondary organic aerosols

    Tzung-May Fu;Tzung-May Fu;Daniel J. Jacob;Folkard Wittrock;John P. Burrows

  • Contribution of different aerosol species to the global aerosol extinction optical thickness: Estimates from model results

    Ina Tegen;Peter Hollrig;Mian Chin;Mian Chin;Inez Fung;Inez Fung

  • Animatediff: Animate your personalized text-to-image diffusion models without specific tuning

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  • Chemistry of OH in remote clouds and its role in the production of formic acid and peroxymonosulfate

    Daniel James Jacob

  • A two-pollutant strategy for improving ozone and particulate air quality in China

    Ke Li;Ke Li;Daniel J. Jacob;Hong Liao;Jia Zhu

  • Biomass‐burning emissions and associated haze layers over Amazonia

    M. O. Andreae;E. V. Browell;M. Garstang;G. L. Gregory

  • High concentrations and photochemical fate of oxygenated hydrocarbons in the global troposphere

    Hanwant B. Singh;M. Kanakidou;P. J. Crutzen;D. J. Jacob

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Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Yantosca
Robert M. Yantosca Harvard University
Jennifer A. Logan
Jennifer A. Logan Harvard University
Loretta J. Mickley
Loretta J. Mickley Harvard University
Kelly Chance
Kelly Chance Harvard University
Donald R. Blake
Donald R. Blake University of California, Irvine
Randall V. Martin
Randall V. Martin Washington University in St. Louis
Paul I. Palmer
Paul I. Palmer University of Edinburgh
Rokjin J. Park
Rokjin J. Park Seoul National University
Robert W. Talbot
Robert W. Talbot University of Houston

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