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Lieven Clarisse is affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and specializes in atmospheric and environmental sciences. Their research spans key areas in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a primary focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist has contributed extensively to multiple topics related to the atmosphere. These include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate variability and models

Clarisse's publications appear frequently in several scientific venues. Their most common publication platforms include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Atmosphere

Among their recent papers are:

  • Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008-2018) satellite record, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Ubiquitous atmospheric production of organic acids mediated by cloud droplets, 2021, Nature
  • Global nitrous acid emissions and levels of regional oxidants enhanced by wildfires, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • Record high levels of atmospheric ammonia over India: Spatial and temporal analyses, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Rapid rise in premature mortality due to anthropogenic air pollution in fast-growing tropical cities from 2005 to 2018, 2022, Science Advances

Clarisse collaborates regularly with several frequent co-authors including:

  • Pierre-François Coheur
  • Martin Van Damme
  • Cathy Clerbaux
  • Bruno Franco
  • Simon Whitburn

The body of work by Lieven Clarisse contributes to understanding complex atmospheric processes, particularly involving gas dynamics, aerosols, and climate interactions. Their research outputs are connected to environmental monitoring and public health implications related to air quality and pollution.

Best Publications

  • Monitoring of atmospheric composition using the thermal infrared IASI/METOP sounder

    Cathy Clerbaux;Cathy Clerbaux;Anne Boynard;Anne Boynard;Lieven Clarisse;Michael George

  • Stratospheric Aerosol--Observations, Processes, and Impact on Climate

    Stefanie Kremser;Larry W. Thomason;Marc von Hobe;Markus Hermann

  • Industrial and agricultural ammonia point sources exposed.

    Martin Van Damme;Lieven Clarisse;Simon Whitburn;Juliette Hadji-Lazaro

  • Global ammonia distribution derived from infrared satellite observations

    Lieven Clarisse;Cathy Clerbaux;Franciscus Johannes Dentener;Daniel Hurtmans

  • Towards a climate-dependent paradigm of ammonia emission and deposition

    Mark A. Sutton;Stefan Reis;Stuart N. Riddick;Ulrike Dragosits

  • Hyperspectral Earth Observation from IASI: Five Years of Accomplishments

    Fiona Hilton;Raymond Armante;Thomas August;Chris Barnet

  • Determination of time- and height-resolved volcanic ash emissions and their use for quantitative ash dispersion modeling: the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption

    Andreas Stohl;Alfredo Prata;Sabine Eckhardt;Lieven Clarisse

  • The 2010 explosive eruption of Java's Merapi volcano—A ‘100-year’ event

    Surono;Philippe Jousset;John S Pallister;Marie Boichu

  • Multi-decadal satellite measurements of global volcanic degassing

    Simon Carn;Simon Carn;Lieven Clarisse;Alfred J Prata

  • Atmospheric ammonia and particulate inorganic nitrogen over the United States

    C. L. Heald;J. L. Collett;T. Lee;K. B. Benedict

  • Strong constraints on aerosol–cloud interactions from volcanic eruptions

    Florent F. Malavelle;Jim M. Haywood;Jim M. Haywood;Andy Jones;Andrew Gettelman

  • Ammonia Emissions May Be Substantially Underestimated in China

    Xiuming Zhang;Yiyun Wu;Xuejun Liu;Stefan Reis

  • FORLI radiative transfer and retrieval code for IASI

    Daniel Hurtmans;Pierre-François Coheur;Catherine Wespes;Lieven Clarisse

  • Global distributions, time series and error characterization of atmospheric ammonia (NH 3 ) from IASI satellite observations

    M. Van Damme;M. Van Damme;L. Clarisse;C. L. Heald;D. Hurtmans

  • Satellite evidence for a large source of formic acid from boreal and tropical forests

    T. Stavrakou;J.-F. Müller;J. Peeters;A. Razavi

  • Global, regional and national trends of atmospheric ammonia derived from a decadal (2008–2018) satellite record

    Martin Van Damme;Lieven Clarisse;Bruno Franco;Mark A Sutton

  • IASI measurements of reactive trace species in biomass burning plumes

    Pierre-François Coheur;Lieven Clarisse;Solène Turquety;Solène Turquety;Daniel Hurtmans

  • Development, Production and Evaluation of Aerosol Climate Data Records from European Satellite Observations (Aerosol_cci)

    Thomas Popp;Gerrit de Leeuw;Christine Bingen;Christoph Brühl

  • Volcanic SO 2 fluxes derived from satellite data: a survey using OMI, GOME-2, IASI and MODIS

    N. Theys;R. Campion;R. Campion;L. Clarisse;H. Brenot

  • Satellite monitoring of ammonia: A case study of the San Joaquin Valley

    Lieven Clarisse;Mark W. Shephard;Franck Dentener;Daniel Hurtmans

  • Retrieval of sulphur dioxide from the infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer (IASI)

    Lieven Clarisse;Daniel Hurtmans;Cathy Clerbaux;Cathy Clerbaux;Juliette Hadji-Lazaro

  • Observations of the eruption of the Sarychev volcano and simulations using the HadGEM2 climate model.

    James M. Haywood;James M. Haywood;Andy Jones;Lieven Clarisse;Adam Bourassa

Frequent Co-Authors

Cathy Clerbaux
Cathy Clerbaux Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Pierre-François Coheur
Pierre-François Coheur Université Libre de Bruxelles
Daniel Hurtmans
Daniel Hurtmans Université Libre de Bruxelles
Juliette Hadji-Lazaro
Juliette Hadji-Lazaro Sorbonne University
Trissevgeni Stavrakou
Trissevgeni Stavrakou Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Jean-François Müller
Jean-François Müller Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Solène Turquety
Solène Turquety École Polytechnique
Jan Willem Erisman
Jan Willem Erisman Leiden University
Jim Haywood
Jim Haywood University of Exeter
Karen Cady-Pereira
Karen Cady-Pereira Atmospheric and Environmental Research

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