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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
86
Citations
33468
World Ranking
708
National Ranking
55

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 1970 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Paul I. Palmer is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with considerable contributions to related subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's work tackles several key topics in atmospheric and environmental research. These include Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Climate variability and models, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Air Quality and Health Impacts, and Astro and Planetary Science.

Recent publications by Paul I. Palmer reflect active engagement with significant environmental data and climate-related analyses. Some notable papers include:

  • "Global Carbon Budget 2020" (2020), published in Earth System Science Data
  • "Global Carbon Budget 2022" (2022), published in Earth System Science Data
  • "Large Chinese land carbon sink estimated from atmospheric carbon dioxide data" (2020), published in Nature
  • "Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability" (2023), published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Global Carbon Budget 2024" (2025), published in Earth System Science Data

Frequent collaborators include Liang Feng, Frédéric Chevallier, Philippe Ciais, Wouter Peters, and Nathan J. Mayne, with collaboration counts ranging from 13 to 21 joint works.

Paul I. Palmer has contributed extensively to various scientific journals and platforms. Frequent publication venues include Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Earth System Science Data, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), arXiv (Cornell University), and Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.

The scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1970.

Best Publications

  • Estimates of global terrestrial isoprene emissions using MEGAN (Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature)

    A. Guenther;T. Karl;P. Harley;C. Wiedinmyer

  • Three decades of global methane sources and sinks

    Stefanie Kirschke;Philippe Bousquet;Philippe Ciais;Marielle Saunois

  • Global Carbon Budget 2020

    Pierre Friedlingstein;Pierre Friedlingstein;Michael O'Sullivan;Matthew W. Jones;Robbie M. Andrew

  • Atmospheric composition change – global and regional air quality

    P.S. Monks;Claire Granier;Claire Granier;Claire Granier;S. Fuzzi;A. Stohl

  • Atmospheric composition change: Ecosystems–Atmosphere interactions

    D. Fowler;Kim Pilegaard;M.A. Sutton;Per Ambus

  • Global inventory of nitrogen oxide emissions constrained by space‐based observations of NO2 columns

    Randall V. Martin;Randall V. Martin;Daniel James Jacob;Kelly V. Chance;Thomas Kurosu

  • Large Chinese land carbon sink estimated from atmospheric carbon dioxide data.

    Jing Wang;Liang Feng;Paul I Palmer;Yi Liu

  • An improved retrieval of tropospheric nitrogen dioxide from GOME

    Randall V. Martin;Kelly Chance;Daniel J. Jacob;Thomas P. Kurosu

  • Tropospheric emissions: Monitoring of pollution (TEMPO)

    P. Zoogman;X. Liu;R.M. Suleiman;W.F. Pennington

  • Air mass factor formulation for spectroscopic measurements from satellites: Application to formaldehyde retrievals from the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment

    Paul I. Palmer;Daniel James Jacob;Kelly V. Chance;Randall V. Martin

  • Mapping isoprene emissions over North America using formaldehyde column observations from space

    Paul I. Palmer;Daniel J. Jacob;Arlene M. Fiore;Randall V. Martin

  • Large-Scale Controls of Methanogenesis Inferred from Methane and Gravity Spaceborne Data

    A. Anthony Bloom;Paul I. Palmer;Annemarie Fraser;David S. Reay

  • Transatlantic transport of pollution and its effects on surface ozone in Europe and North America

    Qinbin Li;Daniel J. Jacob;Isabelle Bey;Isabelle Bey;Paul I. Palmer

  • Why are estimates of global terrestrial isoprene emissions so similar (and why is this not so for monoterpenes)

    Almut Arneth;R. K. Monson;Guy Schurgers;Ue. Niinemets

  • Space‐based formaldehyde measurements as constraints on volatile organic compound emissions in east and south Asia and implications for ozone

    Tzung-May Fu;Daniel James Jacob;Paul I. Palmer;Paul I. Palmer;Kelly V. Chance

  • Improved retrievals of carbon dioxide from Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 with the version 8 ACOS algorithm

    Christopher W. O'Dell;Annmarie Eldering;Paul O. Wennberg;David Crisp

  • Global atmospheric budget of acetaldehyde: 3-D model analysis and constraints from in-situ and satellite observations

    D. B. Millet;A. Guenther;D. A. Siegel;N. B. Nelson

  • Satellite observations of formaldehyde over North America from GOME

    Kelly V. Chance;Paul I. Palmer;Robert J. D. Spurr;Randall V. Martin

  • Quantifying the seasonal and interannual variability of North American isoprene emissions using satellite observations of the formaldehyde column

    Paul I. Palmer;Paul I. Palmer;Dorian S. Abbot;Tzung-May Fu;Daniel J. Jacob

  • TransCom model simulations of CH4 and related species: linking transport, surface flux and chemical loss with CH4 variability in the troposphere and lower stratosphere

    P. K. Patra;S. Houweling;Maarten Krol;Maarten Krol;P. Bousquet

  • Comparative inverse analysis of satellite (MOPITT) and aircraft (TRACE-P) observations to estimate Asian sources of carbon monoxide

    Colette L. Heald;Daniel James Jacob;Dylan B. A. Jones;Paul I. Palmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel J. Jacob
Daniel J. Jacob Harvard University
Robert J. Parker
Robert J. Parker University of Leicester
Kelly Chance
Kelly Chance Harvard University
James D. Lee
James D. Lee University of York
Hartmut Boesch
Hartmut Boesch University of Bremen
Randall V. Martin
Randall V. Martin Washington University in St. Louis
Thomas P. Kurosu
Thomas P. Kurosu Jet Propulsion Lab
F. Chevallier
F. Chevallier University of Paris-Saclay
Carl J. Percival
Carl J. Percival University of Manchester
Nicholas M. Deutscher
Nicholas M. Deutscher University of Wollongong

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