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Paul R. Field

Paul R. Field

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
67
Citations
16476
World Ranking
1977
National Ranking
163

Overview

Paul R. Field is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, focusing on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Earth-Surface Processes, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Aerospace Engineering.

Their main topics of study cover Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Meteorological phenomena and simulations, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric ozone and climate, Precipitation measurement and analysis, and Aeolian processes and effects.

Frequent coauthors of Paul R. Field include K. S. Carslaw, Jonathan M. Wilkinson, Adrian Hill, Hamish Gordon, and Benjamin J. Murray.

Some notable recent papers by Paul R. Field include:

  • "Opinion: Cloud-phase climate feedback and the importance of ice-nucleating particles" (2021) published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "The hemispheric contrast in cloud microphysical properties constrains aerosol forcing" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Contributions of the Liquid and Ice Phases to Global Surface Precipitation: Observations and Global Climate Modeling" (2020) published in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • "The COMBLE Campaign: A Study of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds in Arctic Cold-Air Outbreaks" (2022) published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Machine learning reveals climate forcing from aerosols is dominated by increased cloud cover" (2022) published in Nature Geoscience

Paul R. Field has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Geophysical Research Letters, and Nature Geoscience.

Their research contributions encompass detailed studies on the interactions between aerosols and cloud processes, as well as investigations into climate forcing and precipitation patterns. By working in collaboration with a range of experts, the research spans both observational and modeling approaches relevant to meteorological and atmospheric sciences.

Best Publications

  • Explicit Forecasts of Winter Precipitation Using an Improved Bulk Microphysics Scheme. Part II: Implementation of a New Snow Parameterization

    Gregory Thompson;Paul R. Field;Roy M. Rasmussen;William D. Hall

  • Shattering and Particle Interarrival Times Measured by Optical Array Probes in Ice Clouds

    P. R. Field;A. J. Heymsfield;A. Bansemer

  • Observations and Parameterizations of Particle Size Distributions in Deep Tropical Cirrus and Stratiform Precipitating Clouds: Results from In Situ Observations in TRMM Field Campaigns

    Andrew J. Heymsfield;Aaron Bansemer;Paul R. Field;Stephen L. Durden

  • Mixed-Phase Clouds: Progress and Challenges

    A. Korolev;G. McFarquhar;P. R. Field;P. R. Field;C. Franklin

  • Efficiency of the deposition mode ice nucleation on mineral dust particles

    O. Möhler;P. R. Field;P. R. Field;P. Connolly;S. Benz

  • Strong control of Southern Ocean cloud reflectivity by ice-nucleating particles.

    Jesús Vergara-Temprado;Annette K. Miltenberger;Kalli Furtado;Daniel P. Grosvenor;Daniel P. Grosvenor

  • Studies of heterogeneous freezing by three different desert dust samples

    P. J. Connolly;O. Möhler;P. R. Field;H. Saathoff

  • 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

  • Parametrization of ice‐particle size distributions for mid‐latitude stratiform cloud

    P. R. Field;R. J. Hogan;P. R. A. Brown;A. J. Illingworth

  • Precipitation and Cloud Structure in Midlatitude Cyclones

    Paul R. Field;Robert Wood

  • Snow Size Distribution Parameterization for Midlatitude and Tropical Ice Clouds

    Paul R. Field;Andrew J. Heymsfield;Aaron Bansemer

  • Cloud Ice Properties: In Situ Measurement Challenges

    D. Baumgardner;S. J. Abel;D. Axisa;R. Cotton

  • Large contribution of supercooled liquid clouds to the solar radiation budget of the Southern Ocean

    A. Bodas-Salcedo;P. G. Hill;K. Furtado;K. D. Williams

  • The Surface Downwelling Solar Radiation Surplus over the Southern Ocean in the Met Office Model: The Role of Midlatitude Cyclone Clouds

    A. Bodas-Salcedo;K. D. Williams;P. R. Field;A. P. Lock

  • Ice Particle Interarrival Times Measured with a Fast FSSP

    P.R. Field;R. Wood;P.R.A. Brown;Paul H. Kaye

  • Importance of snow to global precipitation

    P. R. Field;P. R. Field;A. J. Heymsfield

  • Opinion: Cloud-phase climate feedback and the importance of ice-nucleating particles

    Benjamin J. Murray;Kenneth S. Carslaw;Paul R. Field;Paul R. Field

  • Some ice nucleation characteristics of Asian and Saharan desert dust

    P. R. Field;P. R. Field;O. Möhler;P. Connolly;M. Krämer

  • Critical Southern Ocean climate model biases traced to atmospheric model cloud errors.

    Patrick Hyder;John M. Edwards;Richard P. Allan;Helene T. Hewitt

  • Properties of embedded convection in warm‐frontal mixed‐phase cloud from aircraft and polarimetric radar

    R. J. Hogan;P. R. Field;A. J. Illingworth;R. J. Cotton

  • The Distribution of Cloud Horizontal Sizes

    Robert Wood;Paul R. Field

  • Observation of playa salts as nuclei in orographic wave clouds

    Kerri A. Pratt;Kerri A. Pratt;Cynthia H. Twohy;Shane M. Murphy;Shane M. Murphy;Ryan C. Moffet

  • Strong control of Southern Ocean cloud reflectivity by ice-nucleating particles

    Jesús Vergara Temprado;Annette Miltenberger;Kalli Furtado;Daniel Grosvenor

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Heymsfield
Andrew J. Heymsfield National Center for Atmospheric Research
Kenneth S. Carslaw
Kenneth S. Carslaw University of Leeds
Thomas Choularton
Thomas Choularton University of Manchester
Daniel P. Grosvenor
Daniel P. Grosvenor University of Leeds
Paul Connolly
Paul Connolly University of Manchester
Robert Wood
Robert Wood University of Washington
Alan M. Blyth
Alan M. Blyth University of Leeds
John H. Marsham
John H. Marsham University of Leeds
Aaron Bansemer
Aaron Bansemer National Center for Atmospheric Research
Keith Bower
Keith Bower University of Manchester

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