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2023

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2018 - Davy Medal, Royal Society of London (UK) pioneering leadership in understanding the depletion of the global ozone layer by halocarbons, particularly coupling between chemistry, radiation, and dynamics, and the special vulnerability of Arctic ozone
  • 2011 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2004 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1993 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 1990 - Interdisciplinary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

John A. Pyle is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their primary research lies within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. They have also contributed to areas such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Ocean Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate variability and models, Coal Properties and Utilization, Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies, and Wind and Air Flow Studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Scientific Data
  • Reviews of Geophysics

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by John A. Pyle include:

  • Methane Mitigation: Methods to Reduce Emissions, on the Path to the Paris Agreement (2020), Reviews of Geophysics
  • On the Changing Role of the Stratosphere on the Tropospheric Ozone Budget: 1979-2010 (2020), Geophysical Research Letters
  • Facility level measurement of offshore oil and gas installations from a medium-sized airborne platform: method development for quantification and source identification of methane emissions (2021), Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Atmospheric composition and climate impacts of a future hydrogen economy (2023), Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Responses of Arctic sea ice to stratospheric ozone depletion (2022), Science Bulletin

John A. Pyle has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • James Keeble
  • Paul T. Griffiths
  • Nathan Luke Abraham
  • Alexander T. Archibald
  • N. J. Warwick

Throughout their career, John A. Pyle has received several awards recognizing their contributions to science. These awards include the Davy Medal from the Royal Society of London in 2018, awarded for leadership in understanding the depletion of the global ozone layer by halocarbons with a focus on the coupling between chemistry, radiation, dynamics, and Arctic ozone vulnerability.

Additional distinctions include Fellowship of the American Geophysical Union in 2011, Fellowship of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2004, membership in Academia Europaea since 1993, and the Interdisciplinary Prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Multimodel ensemble simulations of present-day and near-future tropospheric ozone

    D. S. Stevenson;F. J. Dentener;M. G. Schultz;K. Ellingsen

  • Very Strong Atmospheric Methane Growth in the 4 Years 2014–2017:Implications for the Paris Agreement

    E. G. Nisbet;M. R. Manning;E. J. Dlugokencky;R. E. Fisher

  • Measurement of ozone and water vapor by Airbus in-service aircraft: The MOZAIC airborne program, an overview

    Alain Marenco;Valérie Thouret;Philippe Nédélec;Herman Smit

  • Radiative forcing in the 21st century due to ozone changes in the troposphere and the lower stratosphere

    M. Gauss;G. Myhre;G. Pitari;M. J. Prather

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

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

  • Rising atmospheric methane: 2007-2014 growth and isotopic shift

    E. G. Nisbet;E. J. Dlugokencky;M. R. Manning;D. Lowry

  • The global atmospheric environment for the next generation

    F. Dentener;David Stevenson;K. Ellingsen;T. van Noije

  • Ground-level ozone in the 21st century: future trends, impacts and policy implications

    David Fowler;Markus Amann;Ross Anderson;Mike Ashmore

  • Impact of stratospheric ozone on Southern Hemisphere circulation change: A multimodel assessment

    S.-W. Son.;E. P. Gerber;J. Perlwitz;J. Perlwitz;L. M. Polvani

  • Methane Mitigation: Methods to Reduce Emissions, on the Path to the Paris Agreement

    E. G. Nisbet;R. E. Fisher;D. Lowry

  • Sea salt aerosol production and bromine release: Role of snow on sea ice

    Xin Yang;John A. Pyle;Richard A. Cox

  • Tropospheric bromine chemistry and its impacts on ozone: A model study

    Xin Yang;Richard A. Cox;Nicola J. Warwick;John A. Pyle

  • Fresh Air in the 21st Century

    Michael Prather;Michael Gauss;Terje Berntsen;Ivar Isaksen

  • 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

  • Geoscientific Model Development Evaluation of the new UKCA climate-composition model – Part 1 : The stratosphere

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  • Tropospheric bromine chemistry: implications for present and pre-industrial ozone and mercury

    J. P. Parrella;Daniel J. Jacob;Q. Liang;Q. Liang;Y. Zhang

  • The increasing threat to stratospheric ozone from dichloromethane

    Ryan Hossaini;Martyn P. Chipperfield;Stephen A. Montzka;Amber A. Leeson

  • Multimodel simulations of carbon monoxide: Comparison with observations and projected near‐future changes

    D. T. Shindell;Gregory S. Faluvegi;D. S. Stevenson;M. C. Krol

  • Multi-model assessment of stratospheric ozone return dates and ozone recovery in CCMVal-2 models

    V. Eyring;I. Cionni;G. E. Bodeker;Andrew J. Charlton-Perez

  • Multimodel assessment of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere: Tropics and global trends

    A. Gettelman;M. I. Hegglin;S.-W. Son;Jung-Hyun Kim

  • Radiative forcing since preindustrial times due to ozone change in the troposphere and the lower stratosphere

    M. Gauss;G. Myhre;I. S. A. Isaksen;V. Grewe

Frequent Co-Authors

Martyn P. Chipperfield
Martyn P. Chipperfield University of Leeds
Neil R. P. Harris
Neil R. P. Harris Cranfield University
Olaf Morgenstern
Olaf Morgenstern National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Alexander T. Archibald
Alexander T. Archibald University of Cambridge
Slimane Bekki
Slimane Bekki Sorbonne University
Oliver Wild
Oliver Wild Lancaster University
Guang Zeng
Guang Zeng National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Sandip Dhomse
Sandip Dhomse University of Leeds
Martin Gallagher
Martin Gallagher University of Manchester
Giovanni Pitari
Giovanni Pitari University of L'Aquila

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