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Ewan J. O'Connor is affiliated with the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Finland. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular focus on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, wind and air flow studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Among recent publications are:

  • Atmospheric boundary layer height from ground-based remote sensing: a review of capabilities and limitations, 2023, Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Influence of biogenic emissions from boreal forests on aerosol-cloud interactions, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • CloudnetPy: A Python package for processing cloud remote sensing data, 2020, The Journal of Open Source Software
  • Validation of the Sentinel-5 Precursor TROPOMI cloud data with Cloudnet, Aura OMI O 2 -O 2, MODIS, and Suomi-NPP VIIRS, 2021, Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Optical and geometrical aerosol particle properties over the United Arab Emirates, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ewan J. O'Connor include Ville Vakkari, Antti Manninen, Anne Hirsikko, Mika Komppula, and Lucia Mona.

The scientist's work has appeared repeatedly in publication venues such as Atmospheric measurement techniques, Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Remote Sensing, and Geoscientific model development. The Finnish Meteorological Institute affiliation aligns with their focus on atmospheric and environmental sciences.

Best Publications

  • The CloudSat mission and the A-train: a new dimension of space-based observations of clouds and precipitation

    Graeme L. Stephens;Deborah G. Vane;Ronald J. Boain;Gerald G. Mace

  • Cloudnet: Continuous Evaluation of Cloud Profiles in Seven Operational Models Using Ground-Based Observations

    A. J. Illingworth;R. J. Hogan;E.J. O'Connor;D. Bouniol

  • Toward understanding of differences in current cloud retrievals of ARM ground-based measurements

    Chuanfeng Zhao;Shaocheng Xie;Stephen A. Klein;Alain Protat

  • A Method for Estimating the Turbulent Kinetic Energy Dissipation Rate from a Vertically Pointing Doppler Lidar, and Independent Evaluation from Balloon-Borne In Situ Measurements

    Ewan J. O'Connor;Ewan J. O'Connor;Anthony J. Illingworth;Ian M. Brooks;Christopher D. Westbrook

  • A Technique for Autocalibration of Cloud Lidar

    Ewan J. O'Connor;Anthony J. Illingworth;Robin J. Hogan

  • Boundary layer dynamics over London, UK, as observed using Doppler lidar during REPARTEE-II

    Janet F. Barlow;T. M. Dunbar;E. G. Nemitz;Curtis R. Wood

  • Retrieving Stratocumulus Drizzle Parameters Using Doppler Radar and Lidar

    Ewan J. O’Connor;Robin J. Hogan;Anthony J. Illingworth

  • Vertical velocity variance and skewness in clear and cloud-topped boundary layers as revealed by Doppler lidar

    Robin J. Hogan;Alan L. M. Grant;Anthony J. Illingworth;Guy N. Pearson

  • Clouds, Aerosols, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer: An Arm Mobile Facility Deployment

    Robert Wood;Matthew Wyant;Christopher S. Bretherton;Jasmine Remillard

  • Verification of cloud‐fraction forecasts

    Robin J. Hogan;Ewan J. O'Connor;Anthony J. Illingworth

  • Atmospheric Boundary Layer Classification With Doppler Lidar

    A. J. Manninen;T. Marke;M. Tuononen;M. Tuononen;E. J. O'Connor;E. J. O'Connor

  • Characteristics of mixed-phase clouds. II: A climatology from ground-based lidar

    R. J. Hogan;A. J. Illingworth;E. J. O'connor;J. P. V. Poiares Baptista

  • Assessment of Cloudsat Reflectivity Measurements and Ice Cloud Properties Using Ground-Based and Airborne Cloud Radar Observations

    Alain Protat;D. Bouniol;Julien Delanoë;P.T. May

  • Atmospheric boundary layer height from ground-based remote sensing: a review of capabilities and limitations

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  • Doppler lidar measurements of oriented planar ice crystals falling from supercooled and glaciated layer clouds

    C. D. Westbrook;A. J. Illingworth;E. J. O'Connor;R. J. Hogan

  • Recommendations for processing atmospheric attenuated backscatter profiles from Vaisala CL31 ceilometers

    Simone Kotthaus;Ewan O'Connor;Ewan O'Connor;Christoph Münkel;Cristina Charlton-Perez

  • JOYCE: Jülich Observatory for cloud evolution

    U. Löhnert;J. H. Schween;C. Acquistapace;K. Ebell

  • Estimate of the global distribution of stratiform supercooled liquid water clouds using the LITE lidar

    Robin J. Hogan;Mukunda D. Behera;Mukunda D. Behera;Ewan J. O'Connor;Anthony J. Illingworth

  • Influence of biogenic emissions from boreal forests on aerosol–cloud interactions

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  • BAECC: A Field Campaign to Elucidate the Impact of Biogenic Aerosols on Clouds and Climate

    Tuukka Petäjä;Ewan J. O’Connor;Dmitri Moisseev;Victoria A. Sinclair

  • Low-level mixing height detection in coastal locations with a scanning Doppler lidar

    V. Vakkari;E. J. O'Connor;E. J. O'Connor;A. Nisantzi;R. E. Mamouri

  • Observing wind, aerosol particles, cloud and precipitation: Finland's new ground-based remote-sensing network

    A. Hirsikko;A. Hirsikko;Ewan O'Connor;Ewan O'Connor;M. Komppula;K. Korhonen

Frequent Co-Authors

Robin J. Hogan
Robin J. Hogan European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Anthony J. Illingworth
Anthony J. Illingworth University of Reading
Mika Komppula
Mika Komppula Finnish Meteorological Institute
Tuukka Petäjä
Tuukka Petäjä University of Helsinki
Eija Asmi
Eija Asmi Finnish Meteorological Institute
Alain Protat
Alain Protat Bureau of Meteorology
Ulrich Löhnert
Ulrich Löhnert University of Cologne
Markku Kulmala
Markku Kulmala University of Helsinki
Martial Haeffelin
Martial Haeffelin École Polytechnique
Susanne Crewell
Susanne Crewell University of Cologne

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