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Fabien Solmon is affiliated with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy and specializes in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric science and global and planetary change, with additional work in health, toxicology and mutagenesis, plant science, and environmental engineering.

The main topics covered in their research include atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, air quality and health impacts, climate variability and models, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric ozone and climate, and plant responses to elevated CO2.

Fabien Solmon has contributed to several publications, including:

  • West African monsoon precipitation impacted by the South Eastern Atlantic biomass burning aerosol outflow, 2021, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Delivering an Improved Framework for the New Generation of CMIP6-Driven EURO-CORDEX Regional Climate Simulations, 2024, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Impact of biomass burning aerosols (BBA) on the tropical African climate in an ocean-atmosphere-aerosol coupled climate model, 2024, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Intercomparison of Magnitudes and Trends in Anthropogenic Surface Emissions From Bottom-Up Inventories, Top-Down Estimates, and Emission Scenarios, 2020, Earth s Future
  • Direct and semi-direct radiative forcing of biomass-burning aerosols over the southeast Atlantic (SEA) and its sensitivity to absorbing properties: a regional climate modeling study, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent co-authors in their work include Nellie Elguindi, Pierre Nabat, Paola Formenti, Marc Mallet, and Cyrille Flamant.

Fabien Solmon's research has appeared predominantly in the following publication venues:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Earth s Future
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Climate Dynamics

Best Publications

  • RegCM4 : model description and preliminary tests over multiple CORDEX domains

    F. Giorgi;E. Coppola;F. Solmon;L. Mariotti

  • Nitrogen and sulfur deposition on regional and global scales:a multimodel evaluation

    F. Dentener;J. Drevet;Jean-François Lamarque;Isabelle Bey

  • Regional Climate Modeling for the Developing World: The ICTP RegCM3 and RegCNET

    Jeremy S. Pal;Filippo Giorgi;Xunqiang Bi;Nellie Elguindi

  • Implementation and testing of a desert dust module in a regional climate model

    A. S. Zakey;F. Solmon;F. Giorgi

  • Dust aerosol impact on regional precipitation over western Africa, mechanisms and sensitivity to absorption properties

    Fabien Solmon;Marc Mallet;Nellie Elguindi;Filippo Giorgi

  • Increase in summer European ozone amounts due to climate change

    Frederik Meleux;Fabien Solmon;Filippo Giorgi

  • Aerosol modelling for regional climate studies: application to anthropogenic particles and evaluation over a European/African domain

    F. Solmon;F. Giorgi;C. Liousse

  • Effects of climate change and seed dispersal on airborne ragweed pollen loads in Europe

    Lynda Hamaoui-Laguel;Robert Vautard;Li Liu;Fabien Solmon

  • A regional climate modeling study of the effect of desert dust on the West African monsoon

    A. Konare;A. S. Zakey;F. Solmon;F. Giorgi

  • Quantifying uncertainty in estimates of mineral dust flux: An intercomparison of model performance over the Bodélé Depression, northern Chad

    M. C. Todd;D. Bou Karam;C. Cavazos;C. Bouet

  • Intercomparison of Magnitudes and Trends in Anthropogenic Surface Emissions From Bottom-Up Inventories, Top-Down Estimates, and Emission Scenarios

    N. Elguindi;C. Granier;C. Granier;T. Stavrakou;S. Darras

  • Updated African biomass burning emission inventories in the framework of the AMMA-IDAF program, with an evaluation of combustion aerosols

    C. Liousse;B. Guillaume;J. M. Grégoire;M. Mallet

  • A 4-D climatology (1979–2009) of the monthly tropospheric aerosol optical depth distribution over the Mediterranean region from a comparative evaluation and blending of remote sensing and model products

    P. Nabat;S. Somot;M. Mallet;I. Chiapello

  • The Aerosols, Radiation and Clouds in Southern Africa Field Campaign in Namibia: Overview, Illustrative Observations, and Way Forward

    Paola Formenti;Barbara d'Anna;Cyrille Flamant;Marc Mallet

  • Increasing Arabian dust activity and the Indian summer monsoon

    F. Solmon;V. S. Nair;M. Mallet

  • Impact of dust aerosols on the radiative budget, surface heat fluxes, heating rate profiles and convective activity over West Africa during March 2006

    M. Mallet;M. Mallet;Pierre Tulet;D. Serça;D. Serça;F. Solmon;F. Solmon

  • Overview of the Chemistry-Aerosol Mediterranean Experiment/Aerosol Direct Radiative Forcing on the Mediterranean Climate (ChArMEx/ADRIMED) summer 2013 campaign

    Marc Mallet;François Dulac;Paola Formenti;Pierre Nabat

  • Simulation of dust aerosol and its regional feedbacks over East Asia using a regional climate model

    D. F. Zhang;D. F. Zhang;A. S. Zakey;X. J. Gao;X. J. Gao;F. Giorgi

  • Simulation of South Asian aerosols for regional climate studies

    Vijayakumar S. Nair;Vijayakumar S. Nair;Fabien Solmon;Filippo Giorgi;Laura Mariotti

  • Direct and semi-direct radiative forcing of biomass-burning aerosols over the southeast Atlantic (SEA) and its sensitivity to absorbing properties: a regional climate modeling study

    Marc Mallet;Fabien Solmon;Pierre Nabat;Nellie Elguindi

  • Erratum: "Climate Change and Future Pollen Allergy in Europe".

    Iain R. Lake;Natalia R. Jones;Maureen Agnew;Clare M. Goodess

Frequent Co-Authors

Filippo Giorgi
Filippo Giorgi International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Marc Mallet
Marc Mallet University of Tasmania
Catherine Liousse
Catherine Liousse Paul Sabatier University
Pierre Nabat
Pierre Nabat Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques
Claire Granier
Claire Granier National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Samuel Somot
Samuel Somot Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Eleni Katragkou
Eleni Katragkou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Paola Formenti
Paola Formenti Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Prodromos Zanis
Prodromos Zanis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Corinne Galy-Lacaux
Corinne Galy-Lacaux Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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