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Overview

Glen Lesins is affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on climate and atmospheric sciences, with significant contributions to understanding Arctic climate dynamics and environmental changes.

Lesins's main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Their subfields of expertise cover:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering

The key research topics explored by Lesins are:

  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Climate change and permafrost

Recent publications by Glen Lesins demonstrate engagement with Arctic amplification and atmospheric measurements. These papers include:

  • Annual Mean Arctic Amplification 1970-2020: Observed and Simulated by CMIP6 Climate Models, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Modelling the relationship between liquid water content and cloud droplet number concentration observed in low clouds in the summer Arctic and its radiative effects, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • High Values of the Arctic Amplification in the Early Decades of the 21st Century: Causes of Discrepancy by CMIP6 Models Between Observation and Simulation, 2023, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Drone measurements of surface-based winter temperature inversions in the High Arctic at Eureka, 2021, Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Arctic Amplification in the Community Earth System Models (CESM1 and CESM2), 2023, Atmosphere

Lesins frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Petr Chýlek
  • Chris K. Folland
  • James D. Klett
  • Manvendra K. Dubey
  • Muyin Wang

The most common venues for Lesins's publications are:

  • Atmosphere
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques

Best Publications

  • An AeroCom Initial Assessment - Optical Properties in Aerosol Component Modules of Global Models

    S. Kinne;M. Schulz;C. Textor;S. Guibert

  • Canadian Aerosol Module: A size-segregated simulation of atmospheric aerosol processes for climate and air quality models 1. Module development

    S. L. Gong;L. A. Barrie;J.-P. Blanchet;K. von Salzen

  • A study of internal and external mixing scenarios and its effect on aerosol optical properties and direct radiative forcing

    Glen Lesins;Petr Chylek;Ulrike Lohmann

  • Observed and model simulated 20th century Arctic temperature variability: Canadian Earth System Model CanESM2

    Petr Chylek;Jiangnan Li;Manvendra K. Dubey;Muyin Wang

  • Arctic air temperature change amplification and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

    Petr Chylek;Chris K. Folland;Glen Lesins;Manvendra K. Dubey

  • Stronger constraints on the anthropogenic indirect aerosol effect.

    Ulrike Lohmann;Glen Lesins

  • Annual Mean Arctic Amplification 1970–2020: Observed and Simulated by CMIP6 Climate Models

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  • Black carbon and absorption of solar radiation by clouds

    Petr Chýlek;Glen B. Lesins;Gorden Videen;J. G. D. Wong

  • Greenland warming of 1920-1930 and 1995-2005

    Petr Chylek;Petr Chylek;M. K. Dubey;G. Lesins

  • Water vapor intrusions into the High Arctic during winter

    J. G. Doyle;G. Lesins;C. P. Thackray;C. Perro

  • The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation as a dominant factor of oceanic influence on climate

    Petr Chylek;James D. Klett;Glen Lesins;Manvendra K. Dubey

  • Ice-core data evidence for a prominent near 20 year time-scale of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

    Petr Chylek;Chris K. Folland;Henk A. Dijkstra;Glen Lesins

  • Contribution of Changes in Sea Surface Temperature and Aerosol Loading to the Decreasing Precipitation Trend in Southern China

    Yanjie Cheng;U Lrike Lohmann;Junhua Zhang;Yunfeng Luo

  • Global simulations of aerosol processing in clouds

    C. Hoose;C. Hoose;U. Lohmann;R. Bennartz;B. Croft

  • Twentieth century bipolar seesaw of the Arctic and Antarctic surface air temperatures

    Petr Chylek;Chris K. Folland;Glen Lesins;Manvendra K. Dubey

  • International Arctic Systems for Observing the Atmosphere: An International Polar Year Legacy Consortium

    Taneil Uttal;Sandra Starkweather;James R. Drummond;Timo Vihma

  • Greenland ice core evidence for spatial and temporal variability of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation

    Petr Chylek;Chris Folland;Leela Frankcombe;Henk Dijkstra

  • Seasonal cycles of O3, CO, and convective outflow at the tropical tropopause

    Ian Folkins;P. Bernath;C. Boone;G. Lesins

  • Aerosol indirect effect over the Indian Ocean

    Petr Chylek;M.K. Dubey;Ulrike Lohmann;V. Ramanathan

  • Ice Nucleation Studies of Mineral Dust Particles with a New Continuous Flow Diffusion Chamber

    Abdus Salam;Ulrike Lohmann;Brian Crenna;Glen Lesins

  • Testing convective parameterizations with tropical measurements of HNO3, CO, H2O, and O3: Implications for the water vapor budget

    Ian Folkins;P. Bernath;C. Boone;L. J. Donner

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Duck
Thomas J. Duck Dalhousie University
James R. Drummond
James R. Drummond Dalhousie University
Ulrike Lohmann
Ulrike Lohmann ETH Zurich
Edwin W. Eloranta
Edwin W. Eloranta University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kimberly Strong
Kimberly Strong University of Toronto
Manvendra K. Dubey
Manvendra K. Dubey Los Alamos National Laboratory
David D. Turner
David D. Turner National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Kaley A. Walker
Kaley A. Walker University of Toronto
Robert S. Stone
Robert S. Stone National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Peter F. Bernath
Peter F. Bernath Old Dominion University

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