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45
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6717
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6490
National Ranking
2324

Overview

Ian Faloona is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Atmospheric Science and related subfields.

Their work covers multiple aspects of atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, and air quality, exploring interactions between atmospheric components and their effects on the environment and climate. Specific areas of investigation include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Fire effects on ecosystems, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Faloona has contributed to research published in a variety of academic venues, most frequently appearing in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. Other publication venues include the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Faloona include:

  • D. D. Parrish
  • Dani Caputi
  • Richard G. Derwent
  • Holly J. Oldroyd
  • Stephen Conley

Several of the recent significant papers associated with Faloona's research are:

  • Rapid cloud removal of dimethyl sulfide oxidation products limits SO 2 and cloud condensation nuclei production in the marine atmosphere, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Observational-based assessment of contributions to maximum ozone concentrations in the western United States, 2022, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association
  • Coupled Air Quality and Boundary-Layer Meteorology in Western U.S. Basins during Winter: Design and Rationale for a Comprehensive Study, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Temporal Variability of Emissions Revealed by Continuous, Long-Term Monitoring of an Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Long-term baseline ozone changes in the Western US: A synthesis of analyses, 2021, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association

Best Publications

  • Dynamics and chemistry of marine stratocumulus - DYCOMS II

    Bjorn Stevens;Donald H. Lenschow;Gabor Vali;Hermann Gerber

  • Methane emissions from the 2015 Aliso Canyon blowout in Los Angeles, CA

    S. Conley;G. Franco;I. Faloona;D. R. Blake

  • A laser induced fluorescence instrument for detecting tropospheric OH and HO2: Characteristics and calibration

    Ian C. Faloona;David Tan;Robert L. Lesher;Nathan L. Hazen

  • HO x budgets in a deciduous forest: Results from the PROPHET summer 1998 campaign

    D. Tan;D. Tan;I. Faloona;I. Faloona;J. B. Simpas;W. Brune

  • Sulfur processing in the marine atmospheric boundary layer: A review and critical assessment of modeling uncertainties

    Ian Faloona

  • Agriculture is a major source of NO x pollution in California.

    Maya Almaraz;Edith Bai;Edith Bai;Chao Wang;Justin Trousdell

  • Photochemistry of HOx in the upper troposphere at northern midlatitudes

    L. Jaeglé;Daniel James Jacob;W. H. Brune;I. Faloona

  • The BLLAST field experiment: Boundary-Layer Late Afternoon and Sunset Turbulence

    M. Lothon;F. Lohou;D. Pino;F. Couvreux

  • On entrainment rates in nocturnal marine stratocumulus

    Bjorn Stevens;Bjorn Stevens;Donald H. Lenschow;Ian Faloona;C.-H. Moeng

  • Assessment of fossil fuel carbon dioxide and other anthropogenic trace gas emissions from airborne measurements over Sacramento, California in spring 2009

    J. C. Turnbull;J. C. Turnbull;A. Karion;A. Karion;M. L. Fischer;I. Faloona

  • Deep convection as a source of new particles in the midlatitude upper troposphere

    Cynthia H. Twohy;Charles F. Clement;Bruce W. Gandrud;Andrew J. Weinheimer

  • Observations of Entrainment in Eastern Pacific Marine Stratocumulus Using Three Conserved Scalars

    Ian Faloona;Donald H. Lenschow;Teresa Campos;B. Stevens

  • Application of Gauss's Theorem to quantify localized surface emissions from airborne measurements of wind and trace gases

    Stephen Conley;Ian Faloona;Shobhit Mehrotra;Maxime Suard

  • Nighttime observations of anomalously high levels of hydroxyl radicals above a deciduous forest canopy

    Ian Faloona;Ian Faloona;Dave Tan;Dave Tan;William Brune;Julia Hurst

  • Measurement and interpretation of isoprene fluxes and isoprene, methacrolein, and methyl vinyl ketone mixing ratios at the PROPHET site during the 1998 Intensive

    E. C. Apel;D. D. Riemer;D. D. Riemer;A. Hills;W. Baugh

  • Airborne in‐situ OH and HO2 observations in the cloud‐free troposphere and lower stratosphere during SUCCESS

    W. H. Brune;I. C. Faloona;D. Tan;A. J. Weinheimer

  • Accumulation mode aerosol, pockets of open cells, and particle nucleation in the remote subtropical Pacific marine boundary layer

    Markus D. Petters;Markus D. Petters;Jefferson R. Snider;Bjorn Stevens;Gabor Vali

  • Sources of HOx and production of ozone in the upper troposphere over the United States

    L. Jaeglé;Daniel James Jacob;W. H. Brune;D. Tan

  • Supplement to Dynamics and Chemistry of Marine Stratocumulus—DYCOMS-II

    Bjorn Stevens;Donald H. Lenschow;Gabor Vali;Hermann Gerber

  • Observations of HO x and its relationship with NO x in the upper troposphere during SONEX

    Ian Faloona;David Tan;William H. Brune;Lyatt Jaeglé

Frequent Co-Authors

William H. Brune
William H. Brune Pennsylvania State University
Stephen Conley
Stephen Conley National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Donald H. Lenschow
Donald H. Lenschow National Center for Atmospheric Research
Stephanie A. Vay
Stephanie A. Vay Langley Research Center
Teresa L. Campos
Teresa L. Campos National Center for Atmospheric Research
G. W. Sachse
G. W. Sachse Langley Research Center
Bjorn Stevens
Bjorn Stevens Max Planck Society
Brian G. Heikes
Brian G. Heikes University of Rhode Island
Alan R. Bandy
Alan R. Bandy Drexel University
Byron Blomquist
Byron Blomquist University of Colorado Boulder

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