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D-Index
75
Citations
15996
World Ranking
1301
National Ranking
103

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2017 - Tilden Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Lucy J. Carpenter is affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with substantial contributions to several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Oceanography, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad spectrum related to atmospheric and environmental processes. Key areas include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts

Frequent venues for publication demonstrate the scientist's focus on atmospheric and environmental research:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Faraday Discussions
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist include:

  • "Extensive field evidence for the release of HONO from the photolysis of nitrate aerosols" (2023), published in Science Advances
  • "Marine iodine emissions in a changing world" (2021), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "Nitrogen oxides in the free troposphere: implications for tropospheric oxidants and the interpretation of satellite NO 2 measurements" (2023), published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Influences of oceanic ozone deposition on tropospheric photochemistry" (2020), published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Marine organic matter in the remote environment of the Cape Verde islands - an introduction and overview to the MarParCloud campaign" (2020), published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Collaboration is a significant component of the scientist's work, with frequent co-authors including Rosie Chance, James Lee, Dwayne E. Heard, Katie Read, and Tomás Sherwen. These partnerships indicate a networked approach to advancing knowledge in atmospheric sciences and related disciplines.

Awards received by the scientist include:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2019)
  • Tilden Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (2017)

Best Publications

  • Halogens and their role in polar boundary-layer ozone depletion

    W. R. Simpson;R. von Glasow;K. Riedel;P. Anderson

  • Atmospheric Chemistry of Iodine

    Alfonso Saiz-Lopez;John M. C. Plane;Alex R. Baker;Lucy J. Carpenter

  • Extensive halogen-mediated ozone destruction over the tropical Atlantic Ocean

    Katie A. Read;Anoop S. Mahajan;Lucy J. Carpenter;Mathew J. Evans

  • Commemorating two centuries of iodine research: An interdisciplinary overview of current research

    Frithjof C. Küpper;Martin C. Feiters;Berit Olofsson;Tatsuo Kaiho

  • Iodide accumulation provides kelp with an inorganic antioxidant impacting atmospheric chemistry.

    Frithjof C. Küpper;Lucy J. Carpenter;Gordon B. McFiggans;Carl J. Palmer

  • Short‐lived alkyl iodides and bromides at Mace Head, Ireland: Links to biogenic sources and halogen oxide production

    L. J. Carpenter;W. T. Sturges;S. A. Penkett;P. S. Liss

  • Iodine in the marine boundary layer.

    Lucy J. Carpenter

  • Atmospheric iodine levels influenced by sea surface emissions of inorganic iodine

    Lucy J. Carpenter;Samantha M. MacDonald;Marvin D. Shaw;Ravi Kumar

  • Global impacts of tropospheric halogens (Cl, Br, I) on oxidants and composition in GEOS-Chem

    Tomás Sherwen;Johan A. Schmidt;Mat J. Evans;Lucy J. Carpenter

  • On temperate sources of bromoform and other reactive organic bromine gases

    L. J. Carpenter;P. S. Liss

  • A modeling study of iodine chemistry in the marine boundary layer

    Gordon McFiggans;John M. C. Plane;Beverley J. Allan;Lucy J. Carpenter

  • Direct evidence for coastal iodine particles from Laminaria macroalgae – linkage to emissions of molecular iodine

    Gordon McFiggans;Hugh Coe;R. Burgess;J. Allan

  • Ocean-atmosphere trace gas exchange

    Lucy J. Carpenter;Stephen D. Archer;Rachael Beale

  • Novel biogenic iodine-containing trihalomethanes and other short-lived halocarbons in the coastal east Atlantic

    L. J. Carpenter;G. Malin;P. S. Liss;F. C. Küpper

  • Reversal of global atmospheric ethane and propane trends largely due to US oil and natural gas production

    Detlev Helmig;Samuel Rossabi;Jacques Hueber;Pieter Tans

  • The chemistry of OH and HO 2 radicals in the boundary layer over the tropical Atlantic Ocean

    L. K. Whalley;K. L. Furneaux;A. Goddard;J. D. Lee

  • Measurement and modelling of tropospheric reactive halogen species over the tropical Atlantic Ocean

    A. S. Mahajan;J. M. C. Plane;H. Oetjen;L. Mendes

  • Global sea-to-air flux climatology for bromoform, dibromomethane and methyl iodide

    Franziska Ziska;Birgit Quack;K. Abrahamsson;S. D. Archer

  • Measurement and modelling of air pollution and atmospheric chemistry in the U.K. West Midlands conurbation: Overview of the PUMA Consortium project

    R.M. Harrison;J. Yin;R.M. Tilling;X. Cai

  • Iodine's impact on tropospheric oxidants: a global model study in GEOS-Chem

    T. Sherwen;M.J. Evans;L.J. Carpenter;S.J. Andrews

  • The distribution of iodide at the sea surface

    Rosie Chance;Alex R. Baker;Lucy Carpenter;Tim D. Jickells

  • Ozone photochemistry and elevated isoprene during the UK heatwave of August 2003

    James D. Lee;Alastair C. Lewis;Paul S. Monks;Mark Jacob

Frequent Co-Authors

Alastair C. Lewis
Alastair C. Lewis University of York
James D. Lee
James D. Lee University of York
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez Spanish National Research Council
Anoop S. Mahajan
Anoop S. Mahajan Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
James R. Hopkins
James R. Hopkins University of York
John M. C. Plane
John M. C. Plane University of Leeds
Dwayne E. Heard
Dwayne E. Heard University of Leeds
Stuart A. Penkett
Stuart A. Penkett University of East Anglia
Gordon McFiggans
Gordon McFiggans University of Manchester
Paul S. Monks
Paul S. Monks University of Leicester

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