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Leonard A. Barrie

Leonard A. Barrie

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Environmental Sciences
Sweden
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
94
Citations
27123
World Ranking
508
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2000 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Leonard A. Barrie is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Atmospheric Science and incorporates intersecting areas such as Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Economics and Econometrics, and Oceanography.

The main topics Leonard A. Barrie has worked on include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Leonard A. Barrie include:

  • "Improving Estimates of Sulfur, Nitrogen, and Ozone Total Deposition through Multi-Model and Measurement-Model Fusion Approaches," 2022, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Global Atmospheric Composition Observations: The Heart of Vital Climate and Environmental Action," 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Photochemical Processing of Inorganic and Organic Species in the Canadian High Arctic Aerosols: Impact of Ammonium Cation, Transition Metals, and Dicarboxylic Acids before and after Polar Sunrise at Alert," 2021, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • "Hygroscopicity and CCN Activity of Water-Soluble Extracts From the Arctic Aerosols in Winter to Early Summer," 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "γ-Lactones in Canadian high arctic aerosols: Tracers for the oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids and intramolecular esterification of γ-hydroxyacids during polar sunrise," 2024, Atmospheric Environment

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Leonard A. Barrie are:

  • Kimitaka Kawamura
  • Dharmendra Kumar Singh
  • Ayako Yanase
  • Pingqing Fu
  • Joshua S. Fu

The scientist's work has appeared in multiple publication venues, including:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric Environment

Leonard A. Barrie was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2000, with the citation from the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Ozone destruction and photochemical reactions at polar sunrise in the lower Arctic atmosphere

    L. A. Barrie;J. W. Bottenheim;R. C. Schnell;P. J. Crutzen;P. J. Crutzen

  • Arctic air pollution: An overview of current knowledge

    Leonard A. Barrie

  • Arctic contaminants : sources, occurrence and pathways

    L.A. Barrie;D. Gregor;B. Hargrave;R. Lake

  • Arctic springtime depletion of mercury

    W. H. Schroeder;K. G. Anlauf;L. A. Barrie;J. Y. Lu

  • Contaminants in the Canadian Arctic: 5 years of progress in understanding sources, occurrence and pathways.

    R.W. Macdonald;L.A. Barrie;T.F. Bidleman;M.L. Diamond

  • Aerosols, their Direct and Indirect Effects

    J. E. Penner;M. O. Andreae;H. Annegarn;L. Barrie

  • Source and reaction pathways of dicarboxylic acids, ketoacids and dicarbonyls in arctic aerosols: One year of observations

    Kimitaka Kawamura;Hideki Kasukabe;Leonard A. Barrie

  • Modeling sea-salt aerosols in the atmosphere 1. Model development

    S. L. Gong;L. A. Barrie;J.-P. Blanchet

  • Toward a Global Network for Persistent Organic Pollutants in Air: Results from the GAPS Study.

    Karla Pozo;Tom Harner;Frank Wania;Derek C. G. Muir

  • Composite global emissions of reactive chlorine from anthropogenic and natural sources: Reactive Chlorine Emissions Inventory

    William. C. Keene;M. Aslam K. Khalil;David. J. Erickson;Archie McCulloch

  • 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

  • Temporal and spatial variabilities of atmospheric polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine (OC) pesticides and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the Canadian Arctic: Results from a decade of monitoring

    H. Hung;P. Blanchard;C.J. Halsall;T.F. Bidleman

  • Photochemical bromine production implicated in Arctic boundary-layer ozone depletion

    J. C. McConnell;G. S. Henderson;L. Barrie;J. Bottenheim

  • Lead 206/207 isotope ratios in the atmosphere of North America as tracers of US and Canadian emissions

    W. T. Sturges;L. A. Barrie

  • Magnification of atmospheric mercury deposition to polar regions in springtime: The link to tropospheric ozone depletion chemistry

    Julia Y. Lu;William H. Schroeder;Len A. Barrie;Alexandra Steffen

  • The Arctic: a sink for mercury

    Parisa A. Ariya;Ashu P. Dastoor;Marc Amyot;William H. Schroeder

  • Depletion of lower tropospheric ozone during arctic spring : the Polar Sunrise Experiment 1988

    Jan W. Bottenheim;Leonard A. Barrie;Elliot Atlas;Leroy E. Heidt

  • Trans-Pacific Air Pollution

    Kenneth E. Wilkening;Leonard A. Barrie;Marilyn Engle

  • A literature review of dry deposition of oxides of sulphur and nitrogen with emphasis on long-range transport modelling in North America

    E.C. Voldner;L.A. Barrie;A. Sirois

  • The influence of mid-latitudinal pollution sources on haze in the Canadian arctic

    L.A. Barrie;R.M. Hoff;S.M. Daggupaty

Frequent Co-Authors

Shao-Meng Li
Shao-Meng Li Peking University
Kimitaka Kawamura
Kimitaka Kawamura Chubu University
Derek C. G. Muir
Derek C. G. Muir Environment and Climate Change Canada
Paul B. Shepson
Paul B. Shepson Stony Brook University
Sangeeta Sharma
Sangeeta Sharma Environment and Climate Change Canada
Gary A. Stern
Gary A. Stern University of Manitoba
Crispin J. Halsall
Crispin J. Halsall Lancaster University
Johann Feichter
Johann Feichter Max Planck Society
Jan W. Bottenheim
Jan W. Bottenheim Environment and Climate Change Canada
Ulrike Lohmann
Ulrike Lohmann ETH Zurich

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