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Overview

Ian Baker is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. Additional areas of study include Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Artificial Intelligence, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's work centers on main topics that include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric Aerosols and Clouds, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Air Quality and Health Impacts, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Ian Baker has published extensively in several venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The scientist has collaborated often with peers such as Yuk L. Yung, Vijay Natraj, Liping Lei, Stanley P. Sander, and Zhonghua He.

Recent representative publications in their career are:

  • "Societal shifts due to COVID-19 reveal large-scale complexities and feedbacks between atmospheric chemistry and climate change" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Spatio-Temporal Mapping of Multi-Satellite Observed Column Atmospheric CO2 Using Precision-Weighted Kriging Method" (2020, Remote Sensing)
  • "Impact of Aerosol Vertical Distribution on Aerosol Optical Depth Retrieval from Passive Satellite Sensors" (2020, Remote Sensing)
  • "Global land 1° mapping dataset of XCO2 from satellite observations of GOSAT and OCO-2 from 2009 to 2020" (2022, Big Earth Data)
  • "Air quality impact of the Northern California Camp Fire of November 2018" (2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics)

Best Publications

  • The Common Land Model

    Yongjiu Dai;Xubin Zeng;Robert E. Dickinson;Ian Baker

  • Sprites, ELF Transients, and Positive Ground Strokes.

    Dennis J. Boccippio;Earle R. Williams;Stan J. Heckman;Walter A. Lyons

  • Evaluation of forest snow processes models (SnowMIP2)

    Nick Rutter;Richard Essery;John Pomeroy;Nuria Altimir

  • A model-data comparison of gross primary productivity: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Kevin Schaefer;Christopher R. Schwalm;Chris Williams;M. Altaf Arain

  • Seasonal drought stress in the Amazon: Reconciling models and observations

    I. T. Baker;L. Prihodko;A. S. Denning;M. Goulden

  • A model‐data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis

    Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher A. Williams;Kevin Schaefer;Ryan S. Anderson

  • TransCom model simulations of hourly atmospheric CO2 : Analysis of synoptic-scale variations for the period 2002-2003

    P. K. Patra;R. M. Law;Wouter Peters;Wouter Peters;C. RöDenbeck

  • Photosynthetic Control of Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide During the Growing Season

    J. E. Campbell;G. R. Carmichael;T. Chai;M. Mena-Carrasco;M. Mena-Carrasco

  • Terrestrial biosphere model performance for inter‐annual variability of land‐atmosphere CO2 exchange

    T.F. Keenan;Ian Baker;Alan Barr;Philippe Ciais

  • North American Carbon Program (NACP) regional interim synthesis: Terrestrial biospheric model intercomparison

    D. N. Huntzinger;W. M. Post;Y. Wei;A. M. Michalak

  • Combined Simple Biosphere/Carnegie‐Ames‐Stanford Approach terrestrial carbon cycle model

    Kevin Schaefer;G. James Collatz;Pieter Tans;A. Scott Denning

  • A coupled model of the global cycles of carbonyl sulfide and CO2: A possible new window on the carbon cycle

    Joe Berry;Adam Wolf;J. Elliott Campbell;Ian Baker

  • Incorporation of crop phenology in Simple Biosphere Model (SiBcrop) to improve land-atmosphere carbon exchanges from croplands

    Erandathie Lokupitiya;Scott Denning;Keith Paustian;Ian Baker

  • Four years of global carbon cycle observed from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) version 9 and in situ data and comparison to OCO-2 version 7

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  • Simulation of carbon isotope discrimination of the terrestrial biosphere

    N. S. Suits;A. S. Denning;J. A. Berry;C. J. Still

  • TransCom model simulations of hourly atmospheric CO2: Experimental overview and diurnal cycle results for 2002

    R. M. Law;W. Peters;W. Peters;C. Rödenbeck;C. Aulagnier

  • Simulated and observed fluxes of sensible and latent heat and CO2 at the WLEF-TV tower using SiB2.5

    Ian Baker;A. Scott Denning;Niall Hanan;Lara Prihodko

  • Simulations of chlorophyll fluorescence incorporated into the Community Land Model version 4

    Jung-Eun Lee;Joseph A. Berry;Joseph A. Berry;Christiaan van der Tol;Xi Yang

  • Mechanisms of water supply and vegetation demand govern the seasonality and magnitude of evapotranspiration in Amazonia and Cerrado

    Bradley O. Christoffersen;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;M. Altaf Arain;Ian T. Baker

  • A regional high-resolution carbon flux inversion of North America for 2004

    A. E. Schuh;A. S. Denning;K. D. Corbin;K. D. Corbin;I. T. Baker

  • Seasonal fluxes of carbonyl sulfide in a midlatitude forest

    Roisin Commane;Laura K. Meredith;Ian T. Baker;Joseph A. Berry

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Schaefer
Kevin Schaefer Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Joseph A. Berry
Joseph A. Berry Carnegie Institution for Science
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
A. Scott Denning
A. Scott Denning Colorado State University
Hans Verbeeck
Hans Verbeeck Ghent University
Hanqin Tian
Hanqin Tian Auburn University
Kenneth J. Davis
Kenneth J. Davis Pennsylvania State University
Atul K. Jain
Atul K. Jain University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Price
David Price University of Aberdeen
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe University of Technology Sydney

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