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World Ranking
6320
National Ranking
278

Overview

Michael D. Moran is affiliated with Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with particular emphasis on atmospheric science, environmental engineering, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, global and planetary change, and materials chemistry.

Their work covers a range of topics including atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, air quality and health impacts, vehicle emissions and performance, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, air quality monitoring and forecasting, machine learning in materials science, and urban heat island mitigation.

Recent publications by Michael D. Moran include:

  • The HTAP_v3 emission mosaic: merging regional and global monthly emissions (2000-2018) to support air quality modelling and policies, 2023, Earth system science data
  • Eight-Year Estimates of Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations in Western Canada Are Nearly Twice Those Reported in Inventories, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Ammonia measurements from space with the Cross-track Infrared Sounder: characteristics and applications, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Methane emissions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico: evaluation of national methane emission inventories and 2010-2017 sectoral trends by inverse analysis of in situ (GLOBALVIEWplus CH 4 ObsPack) and satellite (GOSAT) atmospheric observations, 2022, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • A gridded inventory of Canada's anthropogenic methane emissions, 2021, Environmental Research Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Moran include:

  • Paul A. Makar
  • Junhua Zhang
  • C. A. McLinden
  • Mourad Sassi
  • Jacinthe Racine

Moran has published frequently in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Earth system science data, Atmosphere, and Aquaculture.

Best Publications

  • A comprehensive meteorological modeling system?RAMS

    R. A. Pielke;W. R. Cotton;R. L. Walko;C. J. Tremback

  • A global catalogue of large SO 2 sources and emissions derived from theOzone Monitoring Instrument

    Vitali E. Fioletov;Chris A. McLinden;Nickolay Krotkov;Can Li;Can Li

  • Modelling gaseous dry deposition in AURAMS: a unified regional air-quality modelling system

    Leiming Zhang;Michael D. Moran;Paul A. Makar;Jeffrey R. Brook

  • Space-based detection of missing sulfur dioxide sources of global air pollution

    Chris A. McLinden;Vitali Fioletov;Mark W. Shephard;Nick Krotkov

  • Estimation of SO2 emissions using OMI retrievals

    V. E. Fioletov;C. A. McLinden;N. Krotkov;M. D. Moran

  • Operational model evaluation for particulate matter in Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII

    Efisio Solazzo;Roberto Bianconi;Guido Pirovano;Volker Matthias

  • Air pollution and public health: a guidance document for risk managers.

    Lorraine Craig;Jeffrey R Brook;Quentin Chiotti;Bart Croes

  • Model evaluation and ensemble modelling of surface-level ozone in Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII

    Efisio Solazzo;Roberto Bianconi;Robert Vautard;K. Wyat Appel

  • Uncertainty assessment of current size-resolved parameterizations for below-cloud particle scavenging by rain

    X. Wang;L. Zhang;M. D. Moran

  • Comparing emission inventories and model-ready emission datasets between Europe and North America for the AQMEII project

    George Pouliot;Thomas Pierce;Hugo Denier van der Gon;Martijn Schaap

  • The HTAP_v3 emission mosaic: merging regional and global monthly emissions (2000–2018) to support air quality modelling and policies

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  • Feedbacks between air pollution and weather, Part 1: Effects on weather

    P.A. Makar;W. Gong;J. Milbrandt;C. Hogrefe

  • Characterization of a large biogenic secondary organic aerosol event from eastern Canadian forests

    J. G. Slowik;C. Stroud;J. W. Bottenheim;P. C. Brickell

  • Characterization of the size-segregated water-soluble inorganic ions at eight Canadian rural sites

    L. Zhang;R. Vet;A. Wiebe;C. Mihele

  • Feedbacks between air pollution and weather, part 2: Effects on chemistry

    P.A. Makar;W. Gong;C. Hogrefe;Y. Zhang

  • Cloud processing of gases and aerosols in a regional air quality model (AURAMS)

    Wanmin Gong;Ashu P. Dastoor;Véronique S. Bouchet;Sunling Gong

  • Estimates of exceedances of critical loads for acidifying deposition in Alberta and Saskatchewan

    Paul A. Makar;Ayodeji Akingunola;Julian Aherne;Amanda S. Cole

  • Evaluation of the meteorological forcing used for the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII) air quality simulations

    Robert Vautard;Michael D. Moran;Efisio Solazzo;Robert C. Gilliam

  • Differences between measured and reported volatile organic compound emissions from oil sands facilities in Alberta, Canada

    Shao-Meng Li;Amy Leithead;Samar G. Moussa;John Liggio

  • Eight-Year Estimates of Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations in Western Canada Are Nearly Twice Those Reported in Inventories.

    Elton Chan;Douglas E J Worthy;Douglas Chan;Misa Ishizawa

  • The FireWork air quality forecast system with near-real-time biomass burning emissions: Recent developments and evaluation of performance for the 2015 North American wildfire season

    Radenko Pavlovic;Jack Chen;Kerry Anderson;Michael D. Moran

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. Makar
Paul A. Makar Environment and Climate Change Canada
Chris A. McLinden
Chris A. McLinden Environment and Climate Change Canada
Shao-Meng Li
Shao-Meng Li Peking University
Vitali E. Fioletov
Vitali E. Fioletov Environment and Climate Change Canada
Sunling Gong
Sunling Gong China Meteorological Administration
Efisio Solazzo
Efisio Solazzo European Food Safety Authority
Christopher E. Sioris
Christopher E. Sioris Environment and Climate Change Canada
Robert Vautard
Robert Vautard École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
John Liggio
John Liggio Environment and Climate Change Canada
Leiming Zhang
Leiming Zhang Environment and Climate Change Canada

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