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46
Citations
6027
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6204
National Ranking
480

Overview

James B. McQuaid is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on subfields including Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Pollution.

Their work extensively addresses topics such as Air Quality and Health Impacts, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Cryospheric studies and observations, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Fire effects on ecosystems, and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate.

McQuaid has contributed to multiple publication venues, with frequent appearances in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Science Advances, GeoHealth, Communications Earth & Environment, and The Cryosphere.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Glacier algae accelerate melt rates on the south-western Greenland Ice Sheet, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Algal photophysiology drives darkening and melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Mineral phosphorus drives glacier algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Iceland is an episodic source of atmospheric ice-nucleating particles relevant for mixed-phase clouds, 2020, Science Advances
  • Newly identified climatically and environmentally significant high-latitude dust sources, 2022, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

James B. McQuaid has collaborated frequently with various researchers, including Benjamin J. Murray, Ailish M. Graham, Alberto Sánchez-Marroquín, K. J. Pringle, and Richard J. Pope.

Best Publications

  • Extensive halogen-mediated ozone destruction over the tropical Atlantic Ocean

    Katie A. Read;Anoop S. Mahajan;Lucy J. Carpenter;Mathew J. Evans

  • Optical properties of Saharan dust aerosol and contribution from the coarse mode as measured during the Fennec 2011 aircraft campaign

    Claire L. Ryder;Ellie J. Highwood;Philip D. Rosenberg;Jamie Trembath

  • Nitrogen management is essential to prevent tropical oil palm plantations from causing ground-level ozone pollution

    C. N. Hewitt;A. R. MacKenzie;P. Di Carlo;C. F. Di Marco

  • Coarse-mode mineral dust size distributions, composition and optical properties from AER-D aircraft measurements over the tropical eastern Atlantic

    Claire L. Ryder;Franco Marenco;Jennifer K. Brooke;Victor Estelles

  • Meteorology and dust in the central Sahara: Observations from Fennec supersite‐1 during the June 2011 Intensive Observation Period

    J. H. Marsham;M. Hobby;C. J. T. Allen;J. R. Banks

  • Modeling OH, HO2, and RO2 radicals in the marine boundary layer: 1. Model construction and comparison with field measurements

    N. Carslaw;D. J. Creasey;D. E. Heard;A. C. Lewis

  • Airborne observations of regional variation in fluorescent aerosol across the United States

    A. E. Perring;A. E. Perring;J. P. Schwarz;J. P. Schwarz;D. Baumgardner;M. T. Hernandez

  • South East Pacific atmospheric composition and variability sampled along 20° S during VOCALS-REx

    G. Allen;H. Coe;A. Clarke;C. Bretherton

  • Glacier algae accelerate melt rates on the south-western Greenland Ice Sheet

    Joseph M. Cook;Joseph M. Cook;Andrew J. Tedstone;Christopher Williamson;Jenine McCutcheon

  • The ice-nucleating ability of quartz immersed in water and its atmospheric importance compared to K-feldspar

    Alexander D. Harrison;Katherine Lever;Alberto Sanchez-Marroquin;Mark A. Holden

  • Atmospheric Ice-Nucleating Particles in the Dusty Tropical Atlantic

    H. C. Price;H. C. Price;K. J. Baustian;J. B. McQuaid;A. Blyth

  • Algal photophysiology drives darkening and melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Christopher J. Williamson;Joseph Cook;Andrew Tedstone;Marian Yallop

  • Influence of chemical weathering and aging of iron oxides on the potential iron solubility of Saharan dust during simulated atmospheric processing

    Zongbo Shi;Michael D. Krom;Steeve Bonneville;Alex R. Baker

  • Meteorology, air quality, and health in London: the ClearfLo project

    S.I. Bohnenstengel;S.E. Belcher;A. Aiken;J. D. Allan

  • Mineral phosphorus drives glacier algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet

    Jenine McCutcheon;Jenine McCutcheon;Stefanie Lutz;Christopher Williamson;Joseph M. Cook

  • Contributions of biogenic material to the atmospheric ice-nucleating particle population in North Western Europe

    D. O’Sullivan;M. P. Adams;M. D. Tarn;A. D. Harrison

  • Trace gas chemistry in a young biomass burning plume over Namibia: Observations and model simulations

    Christof Jost;Jörg Trentmann;Detlev Sprung;Meinrat O. Andreae

  • Secondary organic aerosol from biogenic VOCs over West Africa during AMMA

    G. Capes;J. G. Murphy;J. G. Murphy;C. E. Reeves;J. B. McQuaid

  • Biogenic nitrogen oxide emissions from soils: Impact on NOx and ozone over West Africa during AMMA, observational study

    DJ Stewart;CM Taylor;CE Reeves;JB McQuaid

  • Iceland is an episodic source of atmospheric ice-nucleating particles relevant for mixed-phase clouds.

    A. Sanchez-Marroquin;O. Arnalds;K. J. Baustian-Dorsi;J. Browse;J. Browse

  • Establishing Lagrangian connections between observations within air masses crossing the Atlantic during the International Consortium for Atmospheric Research on Transport and Transformation experiment

    J. Methven;S. R. Arnold;Andreas Stohl;M. J. Evans

Frequent Co-Authors

Alastair C. Lewis
Alastair C. Lewis University of York
James R. Hopkins
James R. Hopkins University of York
John H. Marsham
John H. Marsham University of Leeds
Richard Washington
Richard Washington University of Oxford
Michael J. Pilling
Michael J. Pilling University of Leeds
James D. Lee
James D. Lee University of York
Hugh Coe
Hugh Coe University of Manchester
Martin C. Todd
Martin C. Todd University of Sussex
Paul S. Monks
Paul S. Monks University of Leicester
Jonathan Crosier
Jonathan Crosier University of Manchester

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