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Fiona M. O'Connor

Fiona M. O'Connor

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
55
Citations
15099
World Ranking
3786
National Ranking
287

Overview

Fiona M. O'Connor is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on atmospheric and environmental sciences, with extensive contributions to understanding atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, and climate dynamics.

Their main fields of study include Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these disciplines, they have specialized in subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

O'Connor has published numerous papers in well-regarded venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geoscientific model development
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Environmental Research Letters

Recent significant papers include:

  • Effective radiative forcing and adjustments in CMIP6 models, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Historical and future changes in air pollutants from CMIP6 models, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Description and evaluation of the UKCA stratosphere-troposphere chemistry scheme (StratTrop vn 1.0) implemented in UKESM1, 2020, Geoscientific model development
  • Implementation of U.K. Earth System Models for CMIP6, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Tropospheric ozone in CMIP6 simulations, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Fiona M. O'Connor often collaborates with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Steven T. Turnock
  • Larry W. Horowitz
  • Makoto Deushi
  • Vaishali Naïk
  • James Keeble

Best Publications

  • Development and evaluation of an Earth-System model – HadGEM2

    W J Collins;Nicolas Bellouin;M. Doutriaux-Boucher;N. Gedney

  • UKESM1: Description and Evaluation of the U.K. Earth System Model

    Alistair A. Sellar;Colin G. Jones;Jane P. Mulcahy;Yongming Tang

  • The HadGEM2-ES implementation of CMIP5 centennial simulations

    C. D. Jones;J. K. Hughes;Nicolas Bellouin;S. C. Hardiman

  • The HadGEM2 family of Met Office Unified Model climate configurations

    N. Bellouin;W. J. Collins;I. D. Culverwell

  • Global air quality and climate

    Arlene M. Fiore;Vaishali Naik;Dominick V. Spracklen;Allison Steiner

  • Review of the global models used within phase 1 of the Chemistry–Climate Model Initiative (CCMI)

    Olaf Morgenstern;Michaela I. Hegglin;Eugene Rozanov;Fiona M. O'Connor

  • Effective radiative forcing and adjustments in CMIP6 models

    Christopher J. Smith;Christopher J. Smith;Ryan J. Kramer;Ryan J. Kramer;Gunnar Myhre;Kari Alterskjær

  • Tropospheric bromine chemistry and its impacts on ozone: A model study

    Xin Yang;Richard A. Cox;Nicola J. Warwick;John A. Pyle

  • Evaluation of the new UKCA climate-composition model – Part 2: The Troposphere

    F. M. O'Connor;C. E. Johnson;O. Morgenstern;O. Morgenstern;N. L. Abraham

  • Possible role of wetlands, permafrost, and methane hydrates in the methane cycle under future climate change: A review

    Fiona M. O'Connor;O. Boucher;N. Gedney;C. D. Jones

  • Geoscientific Model Development Evaluation of the new UKCA climate-composition model – Part 1 : The stratosphere

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  • Strong constraints on aerosol–cloud interactions from volcanic eruptions

    Florent F. Malavelle;Jim M. Haywood;Jim M. Haywood;Andy Jones;Andrew Gettelman

  • Prolonged stratospheric ozone loss in the 1995–96 Arctic winter

    Markus Rex;Neil R. P. Harris;Peter von der Gathen;Ralph Lehmann

  • Description and evaluation of the UKCA stratosphere–troposphere chemistry scheme (StratTrop vn 1.0) implemented in UKESM1

    Alexander T. Archibald;Fiona M. O'Connor;Nathan Luke Abraham;Scott Archer-Nicholls

  • Historical and future changes in air pollutants from CMIP6 models

    Steven T. Turnock;Robert J. Allen;Martin Andrews;Susanne E. Bauer;Susanne E. Bauer

  • Implementation of U.K. Earth system models for CMIP6

    Alistair A. Sellar;Jeremy Walton;Colin G. Jones;Richard Wood

  • Tropospheric ozone in CMIP6 simulations

    Paul T. Griffiths;Lee T. Murray;Guang Zeng;Youngsub Matthew Shin

  • Estimates of Ozone Return Dates from Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative Simulations

    Sandip S. Dhomse;Douglas Kinnison;Martyn P. Chipperfield;Ross J. Salawitch

  • Description and evaluation of aerosol in UKESM1 and HadGEM3-GC3.1 CMIP6 historical simulations

    Jane P. Mulcahy;Colin Johnson;Colin Johnson;Colin G. Jones;Adam C. Povey

  • Climate change impacts on human health over Europe through its effect on air quality.

    Ruth M. Doherty;Mathew R. Heal;Fiona M. O’Connor

  • Global modeling of biogenic bromocarbons

    N. J. Warwick;J. A. Pyle;G. D. Carver;X. Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Olaf Morgenstern
Olaf Morgenstern National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Guang Zeng
Guang Zeng National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Alexander T. Archibald
Alexander T. Archibald University of Cambridge
Martine Michou
Martine Michou Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
William J. Collins
William J. Collins University of Reading
Susanne E. Bauer
Susanne E. Bauer Goddard Institute for Space Studies
John A. Pyle
John A. Pyle University of Cambridge
Kostas Tsigaridis
Kostas Tsigaridis Columbia University
Simone Tilmes
Simone Tilmes National Center for Atmospheric Research

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