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Overview

Kevin W. Bowman is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Oceanography, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's scholarly output includes investigations into several main topics, including Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and the impact of COVID-19 on air quality.

Kevin W. Bowman has authored multiple research papers appearing in a range of scientific journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • Changes in global terrestrial live biomass over the 21st century, 2021, Science Advances
  • Global tropospheric ozone responses to reduced NOx emissions linked to the COVID-19 worldwide lockdowns, 2021, Science Advances
  • Air pollution trends measured from Terra: CO and AOD over industrial, fire-prone, and background regions, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Updated tropospheric chemistry reanalysis and emission estimates, TCR-2, for 2005-2018, 2020, Earth System Science Data
  • Air Quality Response in China Linked to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Lockdown, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Their frequent co-authors include Junjie Liu, Kazuyuki Miyazaki, A. Anthony Bloom, John R. Worden, and Sassan Saatchi, indicating ongoing collaboration with researchers active in atmospheric and environmental sciences.

Kevin W. Bowman's work is published predominantly in journals such as Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, AGU Advances, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, and Science Advances, reflecting a focus on atmospheric and earth science disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Pre-industrial to end 21st century projections of tropospheric ozone from the Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP)

    P. J. Young;P. J. Young;P. J. Young;A. T. Archibald;K. W. Bowman;J.-F. Lamarque

  • Importance of rain evaporation and continental convection in the tropical water cycle

    John Worden;David Noone;Kevin Bowman

  • Tropospheric ozone changes, radiative forcing and attribution to emissions in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project (ACCMIP)

    D. S. Stevenson;Paul Young;Paul Young;Paul Young;Vaishali Naik;Jean-Francois Lamarque

  • Contrasting carbon cycle responses of the tropical continents to the 2015–2016 El Niño

    Junjie Liu;Kevin W. Bowman;David S. Schimel;Nicolas C. Parazoo

  • Tropospheric emission spectrometer: retrieval method and error analysis

    K.W. Bowman;C.D. Rodgers;S.S. Kulawik;J. Worden

  • Estimating global and North American methane emissions with high spatial resolution using GOSAT satellite data

    A J Turner;Daniel J Jacob;K J Wecht;J D Maasakkers

  • Overview of IGAC/SPARC Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI) Community Simulations in Support of Upcoming Ozone and Climate Assessments

    Veronika Eyring;Jean-François Lamarque;Peter Hess;Florian Arfeuille

  • Changes in global terrestrial live biomass over the 21st century

    Liang Xu;Sassan S. Saatchi;Sassan S. Saatchi;Yan Yang;Yifan Yu

  • Rapid increases in tropospheric ozone production and export from China

    Willem W. Verstraeten;Willem W. Verstraeten;Jessica L. Neu;Jason E. Williams;Kevin W. Bowman

  • Decadal changes in global surface NO x emissions from multi-constituent satellite data assimilation

    Kazuyuki Miyazaki;Kazuyuki Miyazaki;Henk Eskes;Kengo Sudo;K. Folkert Boersma;K. Folkert Boersma

  • Gridded National Inventory of U.S. Methane Emissions

    Joannes D. Maasakkers;Daniel J. Jacob;Melissa P. Sulprizio;Alexander J. Turner

  • Transpacific transport of ozone pollution and the effect of recent Asian emission increases on air quality in North America: an integrated analysis using satellite, aircraft, ozonesonde, and surface observations

    L. Zhang;D. J. Jacob;K. F. Boersma;K. F. Boersma;D. A. Jaffe

  • Achieving Climate Change Absolute Accuracy in Orbit

    Bruce A. Wielicki;D. F. Young;M. G. Mlynczak;K. J. Thome

  • A global wetland methane emissions and uncertainty dataset for atmospheric chemical transport models (WetCHARTs version 1.0)

    A. Anthony Bloom;Kevin W. Bowman;Meemong Lee;Alexander J. Turner

  • Decadal record of satellite carbon monoxide observations

    H. M. Worden;M. N. Deeter;C. Frankenberg;Maya George

  • Global distribution of methane emissions, emission trends, and OH concentrations and trends inferred from an inversion of GOSAT satellite data for 2010–2015

    Joannes D. Maasakkers;Joannes D. Maasakkers;Daniel J. Jacob;Melissa P. Sulprizio;Tia R. Scarpelli

  • Comparisons of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) ozone profiles to ozonesondes: Methods and initial results

    H. M. Worden;J. A. Logan;J. R. Worden;R. Beer

  • Quantifying the Impact of Atmospheric Transport Uncertainty on CO2 Surface Flux Estimates.

    Andrew E. Schuh;Andrew R. Jacobson;Sourish Basu;Brad Weir

  • Terrestrial gross primary production inferred from satellite fluorescence and vegetation models

    Nicholas C. Parazoo;Nicholas C. Parazoo;Kevin Bowman;Kevin Bowman;Joshua B. Fisher;Christian Frankenberg

  • Validation of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) nadir ozone profiles using ozonesonde measurements

    Ray Nassar;Jennifer A. Logan;Helen M. Worden;Inna A. Megretskaia

  • Predicted errors of tropospheric emission spectrometer nadir retrievals from spectral window selection

    John Worden;Susan S. Kulawik;Mark W. Shephard;Shepard A. Clough

Frequent Co-Authors

Helen M. Worden
Helen M. Worden National Center for Atmospheric Research
Susan S. Kulawik
Susan S. Kulawik Ames Research Center
Dylan B. A. Jones
Dylan B. A. Jones University of Toronto
Annmarie Eldering
Annmarie Eldering California Institute of Technology
Daven K. Henze
Daven K. Henze University of Colorado Boulder
Cathy Clerbaux
Cathy Clerbaux Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Drew T. Shindell
Drew T. Shindell Duke University
Pierre-François Coheur
Pierre-François Coheur Université Libre de Bruxelles
Christian Frankenberg
Christian Frankenberg California Institute of Technology
Daniel J. Jacob
Daniel J. Jacob Harvard University

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