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Overview

Melita Keywood is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research work primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science.

Their scientific contributions span multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Oncology. Keywood's main topics of study involve Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Infection Control and Ventilation, and COVID-19 and healthcare impacts.

Keywood has published extensively in frequent venues such as Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene, Value in Health, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Keywood are:

  • Observations of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Surface Radiation over the Southern Ocean: An Overview of CAPRICORN, MARCUS, MICRE, and SOCRATES, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • A global analysis of climate-relevant aerosol properties retrieved from the network of Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) near-surface observatories, 2020, Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Multidecadal trend analysis of in situ aerosol radiative properties around the world, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Southern Ocean Cloud Properties Derived From CAPRICORN and MARCUS Data, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Cloud-Nucleating Particles Over the Southern Ocean in a Changing Climate, 2021, Earth's Future

Keywood frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable coauthors include Ruhi S. Humphries, Robyn Schofield, Alastair G. Williams, Ian M. McRobert, and Greg M. McFarquhar.

Best Publications

  • ACE-Asia intercomparison of a thermal-optical method for the determination of particle-phase organic and elemental carbon.

    J. J. Schauer;B. T. Mader;J. T. DeMinter;G. Heidemann

  • Gas‐phase products and secondary aerosol yields from the ozonolysis of ten different terpenes

    Anita Lee;Allen H. Goldstein;Melita D. Keywood;Song Gao

  • Particle phase acidity and oligomer formation in secondary organic aerosol.

    Song Gao;Nga L. Ng;Melita D. Keywood;Varuntida Varutbangkul

  • Contribution of First- versus Second-Generation Products to Secondary Organic Aerosols Formed in the Oxidation of Biogenic Hydrocarbons

    Nga L. Ng;Jesse H. Kroll;Melita D. Keywood;Roya Bahreini

  • Low-Molecular-Weight and Oligomeric Components in Secondary Organic Aerosol from the Ozonolysis of Cycloalkenes and α-Pinene

    Song Gao;Melita D. Keywood;Nga L. Ng;Jason D. Surratt

  • Measurements of Secondary Organic Aerosol from Oxidation of Cycloalkenes, Terpenes, and m-Xylene Using an Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometer

    Roya Bahreini;Melita D. Keywood;Nga L. Ng;Varuntida Varutbangkul

  • Hygroscopicity of secondary organic aerosols formed by oxidation of cycloalkenes, monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes, and related compounds

    V. Varutbangkul;F. J. Brechtel;R. Bahreini;R. Bahreini;N. L. Ng

  • Observations of clouds, aerosols, precipitation, and surface radiation over the southern ocean

    Greg Michael McFarquhar;Christopher S. Bretherton;Roger Marchand;Alain Protat

  • Fire in the Air: Biomass Burning Impacts in a Changing Climate

    Melita Keywood;Maria Kanakidou;Andreas Stohl;Frank Dentener

  • Observations of ice nucleating particles over Southern Ocean waters

    C. S. McCluskey;C. S. McCluskey;T. C. J. Hill;R. S. Humphries;A. M. Rauker

  • TEOM vs. manual gravimetric methods for determination of PM2.5 aerosol mass concentrations

    G.P Ayers;M.D Keywood;J.L Gras

  • Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from the Ozonolysis of Cycloalkenes and Related Compounds

    M. D. Keywood;V. Varutbangkul;R. Bahreini;R. C. Flagan

  • Relationships between size segregated mass concentration data and ultrafine particle number concentrations in urban areas

    M.D. Keywood;G.P. Ayers;J.L. Gras;R.W. Gillett

  • New particle formation in China: Current knowledge and further directions.

    Zhibin Wang;Zhijun Wu;Dingli Yue;Dongjie Shang

  • Australian dust storms in 2002–2003 and their impact on Southern Ocean biogeochemistry

    Albert Jerome Gabric;Roger Allan Cropp;Grant Harvey McTainsh;Barbara Mary Johnston

  • Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation from Cyclohexene Ozonolysis: Effect of OH Scavenger and the Role of Radical Chemistry

    M. D. Keywood;J. H. Kroll;V. Varutbangkul;R. Bahreini

  • Forest Fire Smoke Exposures and Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests in Melbourne, Australia: A Case-Crossover Study.

    Martine Neeltje Dennekamp;Lahn David John Straney;Bircan Erbas;Michael John Abramson

  • Validation of passive diffusion samplers for SO2 and NO2

    G.P Ayers;M.D Keywood;R Gillett;P.C Manins

  • Comparison of mercury concentrations measured at several sites in the Southern Hemisphere

    Franz Slemr;Hélène Angot;Aurélien Dommergue;Aurélien Dommergue;Olivier Magand

  • Impact of biomass burning sources on seasonal aerosol air quality

    Fabienne Reisen;C.P. (Mick) Meyer;Melita D. Keywood

  • A global analysis of climate-relevant aerosol properties retrieved from the network of Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) near-surface observatories

    Paolo Laj;Paolo Laj;Alessandro Bigi;Clémence Rose;Elisabeth Andrews;Elisabeth Andrews

  • Multidecadal trend analysis of in situ aerosol radiative properties around the world

    Martine Collaud Coen;Elisabeth Andrews;Elisabeth Andrews;Andrés Alastuey;Todor Petkov Arsov

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian E. Galbally
Ian E. Galbally Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Zoran Ristovski
Zoran Ristovski Queensland University of Technology
Scott D. Chambers
Scott D. Chambers Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Paolo Laj
Paolo Laj Grenoble Alpes University
Roya Bahreini
Roya Bahreini University of California, Riverside
Elisabeth Andrews
Elisabeth Andrews Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Richard C. Flagan
Richard C. Flagan California Institute of Technology
John H. Seinfeld
John H. Seinfeld California Institute of Technology
Paul J. DeMott
Paul J. DeMott Colorado State University
Sonia M. Kreidenweis
Sonia M. Kreidenweis Colorado State University

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