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Environmental Sciences
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2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
85
Citations
27548
World Ranking
745
National Ranking
63

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Philip Stier is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their work spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions in the study of atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry, and meteorological phenomena.

Their research primarily focuses on the interactions and dynamics of aerosols and clouds in the atmosphere, covering topics such as atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate variability and models, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and air quality and health impacts.

Philip Stier has contributed extensively to the scientific literature, with recent papers including:

  • An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project: aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions in the southeast Atlantic basin (2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics)
  • Aerosols enhance cloud lifetime and brightness along the stratus-to-cumulus transition (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Description and evaluation of aerosol in UKESM1 and HadGEM3-GC3.1 CMIP6 historical simulations (2020, Geoscientific model development)
  • Biomass burning aerosols in most climate models are too absorbing (2021, Nature Communications)
  • The CLoud-Aerosol-Radiation Interaction and Forcing: Year 2017 (CLARIFY-2017) measurement campaign (2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics)

Their work is published in a range of scientific venues, frequently appearing in:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Philip Stier collaborates regularly with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Duncan Watson-Parris
  • Guy Dagan
  • Matthew W. Christensen
  • Gunnar Myhre
  • Ross Herbert

Best Publications

  • Analysis and quantification of the diversities of aerosol life cycles within AeroCom

    C. Textor;M. Schulz;S. Guibert;S. Kinne

  • The aerosol-climate model ECHAM5-HAM

    P. Stier;J. Feichter;S. Kinne;S. Kloster

  • Global dust model intercomparison in AeroCom phase I

    N. Huneeus;M. Schulz;Y. Balkanski;J. Griesfeller

  • Global air pollution crossroads over the Mediterranean

    J. Lelieveld;H. Berresheim;S. Borrmann;P. J. Crutzen

  • Radiative forcing of the direct aerosol effect from AeroCom Phase II simulations

    Gunnar Myhre;Bjørn Hallvard Samset;M. Schulz;Y. Balkanski

  • Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

    Nicolas Bellouin;Johannes Quaas;Edward Gryspeerdt;Stefan Kinne

  • An AeroCom Initial Assessment - Optical Properties in Aerosol Component Modules of Global Models

    S. Kinne;M. Schulz;C. Textor;S. Guibert

  • Radiative forcing by aerosols as derived from the AeroCom present-day and pre-industrial simulations

    M. Schulz;C. Textor;S. Kinne;Yves Balkanski

  • Evaluation of black carbon estimations in global aerosol models

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

  • M7: An efficient size‐resolved aerosol microphysics module for large‐scale aerosol transport models

    Elisabetta Vignati;Julian Wilson;Philip Stier

  • Comparing clouds and their seasonal variations in 10 atmospheric general circulation models with satellite measurements

    M. H. Zhang;W. Y. Lin;S. A. Klein;S. A. Klein;J. T. Bacmeister

  • Aerosol indirect effects – general circulation model intercomparison and evaluation with satellite data

    Johannes Quaas;Yi Ming;Surabi Menon;Surabi Menon;T. Takemura

  • Cloud microphysics and aerosol indirect effects in the global climate model ECHAM5-HAM

    U. Lohmann;P. Stier;C. Hoose;S. Ferrachat

  • Remote Sensing of Droplet Number Concentration in Warm Clouds: A Review of the Current State of Knowledge and Perspectives

    Daniel P. Grosvenor;Odran Sourdeval;Paquita Zuidema;Andrew Ackerman

  • The global aerosol-climate model ECHAM-HAM, version 2: sensitivity to improvements in process representations

    K. Zhang;D. O'Donnell;D. O'Donnell;J. Kazil;J. Kazil;P. Stier

  • Coatings and their enhancement of black carbon light absorption in the tropical atmosphere

    J. P. Schwarz;J. P. Schwarz;J. R. Spackman;J. R. Spackman;D. W. Fahey;D. W. Fahey;R. S. Gao

  • Aerosol absorption and radiative forcing

    Philip Stier;Philip Stier;J. H. Seinfeld;Stefan Kinne;Olivier Boucher

  • Strong constraints on aerosol–cloud interactions from volcanic eruptions

    Florent F. Malavelle;Jim M. Haywood;Jim M. Haywood;Andy Jones;Andrew Gettelman

  • The magnitude and causes of uncertainty in global model simulations of cloud condensation nuclei

    L. A. Lee;K. J. Pringle;C. L. Reddington;G. W. Mann

  • MAC‐v1: A new global aerosol climatology for climate studies

    Stefan Kinne;Declan O’Donnel;Philip Stier;Silvia Kloster

  • An overview of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project: aerosol–cloud–radiation interactions in the southeast Atlantic basin

    Jens Redemann;Robert Wood;Paquita Zuidema;Sarah J. Doherty

  • Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change

    Nicolas Bellouin

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrike Lohmann
Ulrike Lohmann ETH Zurich
Michael Schulz
Michael Schulz Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Susanne E. Bauer
Susanne E. Bauer Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Toshihiko Takemura
Toshihiko Takemura Kyushu University
Gunnar Myhre
Gunnar Myhre University of Oslo
Xiaohong Liu
Xiaohong Liu Texas A&M University
Johann Feichter
Johann Feichter Max Planck Society
Nicolas Bellouin
Nicolas Bellouin University of Reading
Olivier Boucher
Olivier Boucher Sorbonne University
Trond Iversen
Trond Iversen Norwegian Meteorological Institute

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