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Gerd A. Folberth

Gerd A. Folberth

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
45
Citations
11929
World Ranking
6260
National Ranking
487

Overview

Gerd A. Folberth is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom, contributing extensively to environmental and earth sciences, particularly in atmospheric science and global and planetary change. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics related to atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, and climate modeling.

The scientist has focused on key topics including atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric ozone and climate, as well as climate variability and models. Additional research interests cover plant responses to elevated CO2, air quality and health impacts, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Gerd A. Folberth has published in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • UNC Libraries
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Research Letters

Their recent papers include:

  • Description and evaluation of the UKCA stratosphere-troposphere chemistry scheme (StratTrop vn 1.0) implemented in UKESM1, 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Description and evaluation of aerosol in UKESM1 and HadGEM3-GC3.1 CMIP6 historical simulations, 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • Climate-driven chemistry and aerosol feedbacks in CMIP6 Earth system models, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Assessment of pre-industrial to present-day anthropogenic climate forcing in UKESM1, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • The role of future anthropogenic methane emissions in air quality and climate, 2022, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Gerd A. Folberth are:

  • Fiona M. O'Connor
  • Alexander T. Archibald (7 coauthored papers)
  • Steven T. Turnock (7 coauthored papers)
  • Paul T. Griffiths (6 coauthored papers)
  • Guang Zeng (6 coauthored papers)

Their main fields of study are Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with subfields primarily in Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Their research contributes to understanding chemical and physical processes in the atmosphere and their interaction with climate and environmental systems.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Europe's terrestrial biosphere absorbs 7 to 12% of European anthropogenic CO2 emissions

    I.A. Janssens;A. Freibauer;P. Ciais;Phillip Smith

  • Global air quality and climate

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

  • Global premature mortality due to anthropogenic outdoor air pollution and the contribution of past climate change

    Raquel A. Silva;J. Jason West;Yuqiang Zhang;Susan C. Anenberg

  • Multimodel estimates of intercontinental source-receptor relationships for ozone pollution

    Arlene M. Fiore;F. J. Dentener;O. Wild;C. Cuvelier

  • Tropospheric ozone changes, radiative forcing and attribution to emissions in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP)

    D. S. Stevenson;Paul Young;Paul Young;Paul Young;Vaishali Naik;Jean-Francois Lamarque

  • The Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP): overview and description of models, simulations and climate diagnostics

    J. F. Lamarque;Drew T. Shindell;B Josse;Paul Young;Paul Young;Paul Young

  • A multi-model assessment of pollution transport to the Arctic

    D. T. Shindell;M. Chin;F. Dentener;R. M. Doherty

  • Preindustrial to present-day changes in tropospheric hydroxyl radical and methane lifetime from the Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP)

    Vaishali Naik;A. Voulgarakis;Arlene M. Fiore;L. W. Horowitz

  • Analysis of Present Day and Future OH and Methane Lifetime in the ACCMIP Simulations

    A. Voulgarakis;A. Voulgarakis;V. Naik;J.F. Lamarque;D.T. Shindell

  • Impact of climate variability and land use changes on global biogenic volatile organic compound emissions

    J. Lathière;D. A. Hauglustaine;A. D. Friend;N. De Noblet-Ducoudré

  • 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

  • Future global mortality from changes in air pollution attributable to climate change

    Raquel A. Silva;J. Jason West;Jean François Lamarque;Drew T. Shindell

  • 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

  • Interactive chemistry in the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique general circulation model: model description and impact analysis of biogenic hydrocarbons on tropospheric chemistry

    G. A. Folberth;D. A. Hauglustaine;J. Lathière;F. Brocheton

  • The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), phase 1: Experimental and analytical protocols with detailed model descriptions

    Sam S. Rabin;Sam S. Rabin;Joe R. Melton;Gitta Lasslop;Dominique Bachelet

  • Role of methane and biogenic volatile organic compound sources in late glacial and Holocene fluctuations of atmospheric methane concentrations

    Jed O. Kaplan;Gerd Folberth;Didier A. Hauglustaine

  • 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

  • Past and future changes in biogenic volatile organic compound emissions simulated with a global dynamic vegetation model

    J. Lathière;D. A. Hauglustaine;N. De Noblet-Ducoudré;G. Krinner

  • The impact of lateral carbon fluxes on the European carbon balance

    P. Ciais;Alberto Borges;Gwenaël Abril;M. Meybeck

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Collins
William J. Collins University of Reading
Guang Zeng
Guang Zeng National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Larry W. Horowitz
Larry W. Horowitz Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Drew T. Shindell
Drew T. Shindell Duke University
Paul Young
Paul Young Lancaster University
Vaishali Naik
Vaishali Naik Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Kengo Sudo
Kengo Sudo Nagoya University
Sophie Szopa
Sophie Szopa Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
David Stevenson
David Stevenson University of Edinburgh

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