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Paul J. DeMott is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science. The primary subfields of their work include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Aerospace Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Oceanography.

Their research focuses extensively on topics such as atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric ozone and climate, icing and de-icing technologies, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and air quality and health impacts.

Recent publications by Paul J. DeMott include:

  • 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
  • Emissions of Trace Organic Gases From Western U.S. Wildfires Based on WE-CAN Aircraft Measurements (2021), Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Ice-Nucleating Particles That Impact Clouds and Climate: Observational and Modeling Research Needs (2022), Reviews of Geophysics
  • The contribution of black carbon to global ice nucleating particle concentrations relevant to mixed-phase clouds (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A biogenic secondary organic aerosol source of cirrus ice nucleating particles (2020), Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Paul J. DeMott include:

  • Thomas C. J. Hill
  • Sonia M. Kreidenweis
  • Kathryn A. Moore
  • Ezra J. T. Levin
  • Christina S. McCluskey

Paul J. DeMott has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Predicting global atmospheric ice nuclei distributions and their impacts on climate

    Paul J. DeMott;Anthony J. Prenni;Xiaohong Liu;Sonia M. Kreidenweis

  • New primary ice-nucleation parameterizations in an explicit cloud model

    Michael P. Meyers;Paul J. DeMott;William R. Cotton

  • African Dust Aerosols as Atmospheric Ice Nuclei

    Paul J. DeMott;Kenneth Sassen;Michael R. Poellot;Darrel Baumgardner

  • Improving our fundamental understanding of the role of aerosol−cloud interactions in the climate system

    John H. Seinfeld;Christopher Bretherton;Kenneth S. Carslaw;Hugh Coe

  • Measurements of the concentration and composition of nuclei for cirrus formation

    P. J. DeMott;D. J. Cziczo;A. J. Prenni;D. M. Murphy

  • Dust and Biological Aerosols from the Sahara and Asia Influence Precipitation in the Western U.S.

    Jessie M. Creamean;Kaitlyn J. Suski;Daniel Rosenfeld;Alberto Cazorla

  • Bringing the ocean into the laboratory to probe the chemical complexity of sea spray aerosol

    Kimberly A. Prather;Timothy H. Bertram;Vicki H. Grassian;Grant B. Deane

  • Sea spray aerosol as a unique source of ice nucleating particles

    Paul J. DeMott;Thomas C. J. Hill;Christina S. McCluskey;Kimberly A. Prather

  • In situ detection of biological particles in cloud ice-crystals

    Kerri A. Pratt;Paul J. DeMott;Jeffrey R. French;Zhien Wang

  • Technical Note: A proposal for ice nucleation terminology

    G. Vali;P. J. DeMott;O. Möhler;T. F. Whale

  • High concentrations of biological aerosol particles and ice nuclei during and after rain

    J. A. Huffman;J. A. Huffman;A. J. Prenni;P. J. DeMott;C. Pohlker

  • Impacts of Nucleating Aerosol on Florida Storms. Part I: Mesoscale Simulations

    Susan C. van den Heever;Gustavo G. Carrió;William R. Cotton;Paul J. DeMott

  • Integrating laboratory and field data to quantify the immersion freezing ice nucleation activity of mineral dust particles

    P. J. DeMott;A. J. Prenni;A. J. Prenni;G. R. McMeeking;R. C. Sullivan

  • A Particle-Surface-Area-Based Parameterization of Immersion Freezing on Desert Dust Particles

    Monika Niemand;Ottmar Möhler;Bernhard Vogel;Heike Vogel

  • Saharan dust storms and indirect aerosol effects on clouds: CRYSTAL-FACE results

    Kenneth Sassen;Paul J. DeMott;Joseph M. Prospero;Michael R. Poellot

  • Microbiology and atmospheric processes: the role of biological particles in cloud physics

    O. Möhler;P. J. DeMott;G. Vali;Z. Levin

  • An Empirical Parameterization of Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation for Multiple Chemical Species of Aerosol

    Vaughan T. J. Phillips;Paul J. Demott;Constantin Andronache

  • The Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment.

    J. Verlinde;J. Y. Harrington;G. M. McFarquhar;V. T. Yannuzzi

  • Ice nucleation by surrogates for atmospheric mineral dust and mineral dust/sulfate particles at cirrus temperatures

    C. M. Archuleta;P. J. DeMott;S. M. Kreidenweis

  • Secondary Ice Production: Current State of the Science and Recommendations for the Future

    P. R. Field;P. R. Field;R. P. Lawson;P. R. A. Brown;G. Lloyd

  • Cloud condensation nucleation activity of biomass burning aerosol

    Markus D. Petters;Markus D. Petters;Christian M. Carrico;Sonia M. Kreidenweis;Anthony J. Prenni

Frequent Co-Authors

Sonia M. Kreidenweis
Sonia M. Kreidenweis Colorado State University
Thomas C. J. Hill
Thomas C. J. Hill Colorado State University
Markus D. Petters
Markus D. Petters North Carolina State University
Anthony J. Prenni
Anthony J. Prenni National Park Service
Kimberly A. Prather
Kimberly A. Prather University of California, San Diego
Ryan C. Sullivan
Ryan C. Sullivan Carnegie Mellon University
Ottmar Möhler
Ottmar Möhler Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Cynthia H. Twohy
Cynthia H. Twohy Northwest Research Associates
Greg M. McFarquhar
Greg M. McFarquhar University of Oklahoma
Andrew J. Heymsfield
Andrew J. Heymsfield National Center for Atmospheric Research

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