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Gérard Ancellet

Gérard Ancellet

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
7825
World Ranking
5584
National Ranking
244

Overview

Gérard Ancellet is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Their research explores multiple subfields including Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • COVID-19 impact on air quality
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Gérard Ancellet has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications. Some recent papers include:

  • COVID-19 Crisis Reduces Free Tropospheric Ozone Across the Northern Hemisphere, 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Impact of the COVID-19 Economic Downturn on Tropospheric Ozone Trends: An Uncertainty Weighted Data Synthesis for Quantifying Regional Anomalies Above Western North America and Europe, 2022, AGU Advances
  • Overview: Integrative and Comprehensive Understanding on Polar Environments (iCUPE) - concept and initial results, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Updated trends of the stratospheric ozone vertical distribution in the 60° S-60° N latitude range based on the LOTUS regression model, 2022, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Combined UV and IR ozone profile retrieval from TROPOMI and CrIS measurements, 2022, Atmospheric measurement techniques

The scientist collaborates frequently with peers in the field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Roeland Van Malderen
  • Sophie Godin-Beekmann
  • Irina Petropavlovskikh
  • Wolfgang Steinbrecht
  • Thierry Leblanc

Key publication venues where Gérard Ancellet's work appears are:

  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • EPJ Web of Conferences
  • Atmospheric and Oceanic Optics

Ancellet's scientific contributions cover a wide range of data synthesis, observational analysis, and atmospheric modeling techniques. Their research reflects an integration of chemical, physical, and environmental approaches, with some focus on the impacts of recent global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic on atmospheric composition and climate-related phenomena.

Best Publications

  • Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: Present-day distribution and trends of tropospheric ozone relevant to climate and global atmospheric chemistry model evaluation

    A. Gaudel;O. R. Cooper;G. Ancellet;B. Barret

  • Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: Database and Metrics Data of Global Surface Ozone Observations

    Martin G. Schultz;Sabine Schröder;Olga Lyapina;Owen Cooper

  • Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: Tropospheric ozone from 1877 to 2016, observed levels, trends and uncertainties

    David Tarasick;Ian E. Galbally;Ian E. Galbally;Owen R. Cooper;Owen R. Cooper;Martin G. Schultz

  • International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation (ICARTT): North America to Europe—Overview of the 2004 summer field study

    Fred C. Fehsenfeld;Gérard Ancellet;Timothy S. Bates;A. H. Goldstein

  • Characterization of the vertical structure of Saharan dust export to the Mediterranean basin

    E. Hamonou;P. Chazette;D. Balis;F. Dulac

  • Multiwavelength lidar for ozone measurements in the troposphere and the lower stratosphere

    A. Papayannis;G. Ancellet;J. Pelon;G. Mégie

  • Trends in stratospheric and free tropospheric ozone

    N. R. P. Harris;G. Ancellet;L. Bishop;D. J. Hofmann

  • Climatology of tropospheric ozone in southern Europe and its relation to potential vorticity

    M. Beekmann;G. Ancellet;G. Mégie

  • Impact of a cutoff low development on downward transport of ozone in the troposphere

    Gerard Ancellet;Matthias Beekmann;Alexandros Papayannis

  • Regional and Global Tropopause Fold Occurrence and Related Ozone Flux Across the Tropopause

    M. Beekmann;G. Ancellet;S. Blonsky;D. De Muer

  • Radical budget analysis in a suburban European site during the MEGAPOLI summer field campaign

    Vincent Michoud;Alexandre Kukui;Alexandre Kukui;M. Camredon;Aurélie Colomb

  • 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

  • COVID-19 Crisis Reduces Free Tropospheric Ozone across the Northern Hemisphere

    Wolfgang Steinbrecht;Dagmar Kubistin;Christian Plass-Dülmer;Jonathan Davies

  • Field observations of the vertical distribution of tropospheric ozone at the island of Reunion (southern tropics)

    S. Baldy;G. Ancellet;M. Bessafi;A. Badr

  • Arctic Air Pollution: New Insights from POLARCAT-IPY

    Katharine S. Law;Andreas Stohl;Patricia K. Quinn;Charles A. Brock

  • Observed and modelled “chemical weather” during ESCOMPTE

    Anne Dufour;Marielle Amodei;Gérard Ancellet;Vincent-Henri Peuch

  • Lidar measurements of ozone vertical profiles

    Gerard J. Megie;Gerard Ancellet;Jacques Pelon

  • A Trajectory-based Estimate of the Tropospheric Ozone Column Using the Residual Method

    M. R. Schoeberl;J. R. Ziemke;B. Bojkov;B. Bojkov;N. Livesey

  • Multi-model study of chemical and physical controls on transport of anthropogenic and biomass burning pollution to the Arctic

    S. A. Monks;S. A. Monks;S. A. Monks;S. R. Arnold;L. K. Emmons;Kathy S. Law

  • Generation of layering in the lower stratosphere by a breaking Rossby wave

    Neil G. Bradshaw;G. Vaughan;G. Ancellet

  • Intercomparison campaign of vertical ozone profiles including electrochemical sondes of ECC and Brewer-Mast type and a ground based UV-differential absorption lidar

    M. Beekmann;G. Ancellet;G. Mégie;H. G. J. Smit

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques Pelon
Jacques Pelon Université Paris Cité
Kathy S. Law
Kathy S. Law Université Paris Cité
Jean-Christophe Raut
Jean-Christophe Raut Sorbonne University
Hans Schlager
Hans Schlager German Aerospace Center
Jennie L. Thomas
Jennie L. Thomas Grenoble Alpes University
Alfons Schwarzenboeck
Alfons Schwarzenboeck University of Clermont Auvergne
Matthias Beekmann
Matthias Beekmann Paris-Est Créteil University
Alexandros Papayannis
Alexandros Papayannis National Technical University of Athens
Wolfgang Steinbrecht
Wolfgang Steinbrecht German Meteorological Service
Gérard Mégie
Gérard Mégie Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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