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Knut von Salzen is affiliated with Environment and Climate Change Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with an emphasis on atmospheric science and global and planetary change. Their work contributes to understanding atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and the interactions between atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

The scientist has published extensively in several notable venues. Frequent publication venues include Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Geoscientific Model Development, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Communications Earth & Environment, and the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

Among recent published papers, notable works include:

  • "Pan-Arctic seasonal cycles and long-term trends of aerosol properties from 10 observatories" (2022, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics)
  • "Evaluation of climate model aerosol trends with ground-based observations over the last 2 decades - an AeroCom and CMIP6 analysis" (2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics)
  • "Model evaluation of short-lived climate forcers for the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme: a multi-species, multi-model study" (2022, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics)
  • "Cloud Feedbacks from CanESM2 to CanESM5.0 and their influence on climate sensitivity" (2021, Geoscientific Model Development)
  • "Clean air policies are key for successfully mitigating Arctic warming" (2022, Communications Earth & Environment)

Their collaborations include frequent coauthorship with Jason N. S. Cole, Cynthia Whaley, Yiran Peng, David A. Plummer, and Ruth A. R. Digby. These collaborations have furthered research in atmospheric sciences and climate modeling.

Research themes central to von Salzen's work are atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and atmospheric aerosols and clouds. Additional research interests comprise atmospheric ozone and climate, climate variability and models, air quality and health impacts, and meteorological phenomena and simulations.

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Climate variability and models
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

The main fields of study associated with their research output are:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Von Salzen's publications contribute data and model evaluation relevant to climate science, with a focus on the Arctic region's atmospheric processes and the role of aerosols and short-lived climate forcers. Their work supports understanding of climate sensitivity, atmospheric feedback mechanisms, and the effects of policy on Arctic warming mitigation.

Best Publications

  • The Canadian Earth System Model version 5 (CanESM5.0.3)

    Neil C. Swart;Jason N. S. Cole;Viatcheslav V. Kharin;Mike Lazare

  • The AeroCom evaluation and intercomparison of organic aerosol in global models

    K. Tsigaridis;K. Tsigaridis;N. Daskalakis;N. Daskalakis;M. Kanakidou;P. J. Adams

  • The Canadian Fourth Generation Atmospheric Global Climate Model (CanAM4). Part I: Representation of Physical Processes

    Knut von Salzen;John F. Scinocca;Norman A. McFarlane;Jiangnan Li

  • Canadian Aerosol Module: A size-segregated simulation of atmospheric aerosol processes for climate and air quality models 1. Module development

    S. L. Gong;L. A. Barrie;J.-P. Blanchet;K. von Salzen

  • Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed-phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment. I: single-layer cloud

    Stephen A. Klein;Renata B. McCoy;Hugh Morrison;Andrew S. Ackerman

  • Overview paper: New insights into aerosol and climate in the Arctic

    Jonathan P. D. Abbatt;W. Richard Leaitch;Amir A. Aliabadi;Allan K. Bertram

  • Dimethyl sulfide control of the clean summertime Arctic aerosol and cloud

    W. Richard Leaitch;Sangeeta Sharma;Lin Huang;Desiree Toom-Sauntry

  • Current model capabilities for simulating black carbon and sulfate concentrations in the Arctic atmosphere: a multi-model evaluation using a comprehensive measurement data set

    S. Eckhardt;Boris Quennehen;Boris Quennehen;D. J. L. Olivié;T. K. Berntsen

  • Intercomparison and evaluation of global aerosol microphysical properties among AeroCom models of a range of complexity

    G.W. Mann;K.S. Carslaw;C.L. Reddington;K.J. Pringle;K.J. Pringle

  • Intercomparison and evaluation of cumulus parametrizations under summertime midlatitude continental conditions

    Shaocheng Xie;Kuan Man Xu;Richard T. Cederwall;Peter Bechtold

  • CGILS: Results from the first phase of an international project to understand the physical mechanisms of low cloud feedbacks in single column models

    Minghua Zhang;Christopher S. Bretherton;Peter N. Blossey;Phillip H. Austin

  • Intercomparison of model simulations of mixed-phase clouds observed during the ARM Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment. I: single-layer cloud: MIXED-PHASE MODEL COMPARISONS. I: SINGLE-LAYER CLOUD

    Stephen A. Klein;Renata B. McCoy;Hugh Morrison;Andrew S. Ackerman

  • Black carbon ageing in the Canadian Centre for Climate modelling and analysis atmospheric general circulation model

    B. Croft;U. Lohmann;K. von Salzen

  • Arctic air pollution: Challenges and opportunities for the next decade

    S.R. Arnold;K.S. Law;C.A. Brock;J.L. Thomas

  • One hundred years of Arctic surface temperature variation due to anthropogenic influence.

    John C. Fyfe;Knut von Salzen;Nathan P. Gillett;Vivek K. Arora

  • Improved constraints on 21st‐century warming derived using 160 years of temperature observations

    N. P. Gillett;V. K. Arora;G. M. Flato;J. F. Scinocca

  • Modelling sea salt aerosol and its direct and indirect effects on climate

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  • What controls the vertical distribution of aerosol? Relationships between process sensitivity in HadGEM3–UKCA and inter-model variation from AeroCom Phase II

    Zak Kipling;Philip Stier;Colin E. Johnson;Graham W. Mann

  • The Monte Carlo Independent Column Approximation: An assessment using several global atmospheric models

    H. W. Barker;J. N. S. Cole;J.-J. Morcrette;R. Pincus

  • Diagnosis of regime‐dependent cloud simulation errors in CMIP5 models using “A‐Train” satellite observations and reanalysis data

    Hui Su;Jonathan H. Jiang;Chengxing Zhai;Vince S. Perun

  • Evaluation of climate model aerosol trends with ground-based observations over the last 2 decades – an AeroCom and CMIP6 analysis

    Augustin Mortier;Jonas Gliß;Michael Schulz;Wenche Aas

  • New insights into aerosol and climate in the Arctic

    Jonathan P. D. Abbatt;W. Richard Leaitch;Amir A. Aliabadi;Alan K. Bertram

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason N. S. Cole
Jason N. S. Cole Environment and Climate Change Canada
James R. Christian
James R. Christian Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Nathan P. Gillett
Nathan P. Gillett University of Victoria
Vivek K. Arora
Vivek K. Arora University of Victoria
Michael Sigmond
Michael Sigmond Environment and Climate Change Canada
Sangeeta Sharma
Sangeeta Sharma Environment and Climate Change Canada
N. A. McFarlane
N. A. McFarlane University of Victoria
Viatcheslav V. Kharin
Viatcheslav V. Kharin Environment and Climate Change Canada
Kostas Tsigaridis
Kostas Tsigaridis Columbia University
Anthony D. Del Genio
Anthony D. Del Genio Goddard Institute for Space Studies

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