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Environmental Sciences
France
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
104
Citations
49962
World Ranking
279
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in France Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Oleg Dubovik is affiliated with the University of Lille in France and has a research focus primarily in environmental and earth sciences, with an emphasis on atmospheric science. Their work commonly explores the dynamics of atmospheric aerosols and gases, as well as global and planetary changes related to environmental processes.

Their research spans several main fields including Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Subfields of study where they contribute extensively involve Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Ecology.

Major topics covered in their body of work are Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting, Air Quality and Health Impacts, and Remote Sensing in Agriculture.

Oleg Dubovik has produced numerous publications, frequently appearing in several scientific journals. The most common venues for their publications include Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Remote Sensing, and Remote Sensing of Environment.

Frequent collaborators in their scientific endeavors are Anton Lopatin, Cheng Chen, David Fuertes, Pavel Litvinov, and Tatyana Lapyonok.

Recent papers illustrating the scope and impact of their research include:

  • "Scattering and absorbing aerosols in the climate system," 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Validation of GRASP algorithm product from POLDER/PARASOL data and assessment of multi-angular polarimetry potential for aerosol monitoring," 2020, Earth System Science Data
  • "Merging regional and global aerosol optical depth records from major available satellite products," 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Toward an Operational Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions Monitoring and Verification Support Capacity," 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Intercomparison of Magnitudes and Trends in Anthropogenic Surface Emissions From Bottom-Up Inventories, Top-Down Estimates, and Emission Scenarios," 2020, Earth's Future

Oleg Dubovik was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Variability of Absorption and Optical Properties of Key Aerosol Types Observed in Worldwide Locations

    Oleg Dubovik;Brent Holben;Thomas F. Eck;Thomas F. Eck;Alexander Smirnov

  • A flexible inversion algorithm for retrieval of aerosol optical properties from Sun and sky radiance measurements

    Oleg Dubovik;Michael D. King

  • Wavelength dependence of the optical depth of biomass burning, urban, and desert dust aerosols

    T. F. Eck;B. N. Holben;J. S. Reid;O. Dubovik

  • Sources and distributions of dust aerosols simulated with the GOCART model

    Paul Ginoux;Mian Chin;Ina Tegen;Joseph M. Prospero

  • Accuracy assessments of aerosol optical properties retrieved from Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) Sun and sky radiance measurements

    O. Dubovik;A. Smirnov;B. N. Holben;M. D. King

  • Application of spheroid models to account for aerosol particle nonsphericity in remote sensing of desert dust

    Oleg Dubovik;Oleg Dubovik;Alexander Sinyuk;Tatyana Lapyonok;Brent N. Holben

  • Cloud-Screening and Quality Control Algorithms for the AERONET Database

    A. Smirnov;B.N. Holben;T.F. Eck;T.F. Eck;O. Dubovik

  • A review of biomass burning emissions part III: intensive optical properties of biomass burning particles

    J. S. Reid;T. F. Eck;S. A. Christopher;R. Koppmann

  • Angstrom exponent and bimodal aerosol size distributions

    Gregory L. Schuster;Oleg Dubovik;Brent N. Holben

  • Global aerosol optical properties and application to Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aerosol retrieval over land

    Robert C. Levy;Robert C. Levy;Lorraine A. Remer;Oleg Dubovik

  • Statistically optimized inversion algorithm for enhanced retrieval of aerosol properties from spectral multi-angle polarimetric satellite observations

    O. Dubovik;M. Herman;A. Holdak;T. Lapyonok

  • Absorption Angstrom Exponent in AERONET and related data as an indicator of aerosol composition

    P. B. Russell;R. W. Bergstrom;Y. Shinozuka;A. D. Clarke

  • Evaluation of black carbon estimations in global aerosol models

    D. Koch;D. Koch;M. Schulz;S. Kinne;C. McNaughton

  • Single-Scattering Albedo and Radiative Forcing of Various Aerosol Species with a Global Three-Dimensional Model

    Toshihiko Takemura;Teruyuki Nakajima;Oleg Dubovik;Brent N. Holben

  • Scattering and absorbing aerosols in the climate system

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  • Non‐spherical aerosol retrieval method employing light scattering by spheroids

    O. Dubovik;O. Dubovik;B. N. Holben;T. Lapyonok;A. Sinyuk;A. Sinyuk

  • Columnar aerosol optical properties at AERONET sites in central eastern Asia and aerosol transport to the tropical mid‐Pacific

    T. F. Eck;T. F. Eck;B. N. Holben;O. Dubovik;O. Dubovik;A. Smirnov;A. Smirnov

  • Optical Properties of Atmospheric Aerosol in Maritime Environments

    Alexander Smirnov;Brent N. Holben;Yoram J. Kaufman;Oleg Dubovik

  • Validation of MODIS aerosol retrieval over ocean

    L. A. Remer;D. Tanré;Y. J. Kaufman;C. Ichoku

  • Development of global aerosol models using cluster analysis of Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) measurements

    Ali H. Omar;Jae-Gwang Won;David M. Winker;Soon-Chang Yoon

  • Polarimetric remote sensing of atmospheric aerosols: Instruments, methodologies, results, and perspectives

    Oleg Dubovik;Zhengqiang Li;Michael I. Mishchenko;Didier Tanré

  • Climatological aspects of the optical properties of fine/coarse mode aerosol mixtures

    Thomas F. Eck;Thomas F. Eck;B. N. Holben;Aliaksandyr Sinyuk;R. T. Pinker

Frequent Co-Authors

Brent N. Holben
Brent N. Holben Goddard Space Flight Center
Alexander Smirnov
Alexander Smirnov Goddard Space Flight Center
Philippe Goloub
Philippe Goloub University of Lille
Thomas F. Eck
Thomas F. Eck Goddard Space Flight Center
Didier Tanré
Didier Tanré University of Lille
Ilya Slutsker
Ilya Slutsker Goddard Space Flight Center
Yoram J. Kaufman
Yoram J. Kaufman Goddard Space Flight Center
Lorraine A. Remer
Lorraine A. Remer University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Mian Chin
Mian Chin Goddard Space Flight Center
Jeffrey S. Reid
Jeffrey S. Reid United States Naval Research Laboratory

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