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Philippe Nédélec is affiliated with the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric sciences with an emphasis on tropospheric ozone and related environmental changes. The scientist has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science.

Their body of work encompasses several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry. These subfields highlight a broad interdisciplinary approach centered on atmospheric phenomena and their impacts.

Nédélec's main research topics cover:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • COVID-19 impact on air quality

Their recent publications include:

  • Aircraft observations since the 1990s reveal increases of tropospheric ozone at multiple locations across the Northern Hemisphere, 2020, Science Advances
  • Multi-decadal surface ozone trends at globally distributed remote locations, 2020, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Global tropospheric ozone trends, attributions, and radiative impacts in 1995-2017: an integrated analysis using aircraft (IAGOS) observations, ozonesonde, and multi-decadal chemical model simulations, 2022, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Ice-supersaturated air masses in the northern mid-latitudes from regular in situ observations by passenger aircraft: vertical distribution, seasonality and tropospheric fingerprint, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Contributions of World Regions to the Global Tropospheric Ozone Burden Change From 1980 to 2010, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

Nédélec has published frequently in the following venues:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • PLoS ONE
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Science Advances

Frequent co-authors of Nédélec include:

  • V. Thouret (12 collaborations)
  • Hannah Clark (11 collaborations)
  • Romain Blot (8 collaborations)
  • Bastien Sauvage (8 collaborations)
  • Audrey Gaudel (6 collaborations)

Best Publications

  • Measurement of ozone and water vapor by Airbus in-service aircraft: The MOZAIC airborne program, an overview

    Alain Marenco;Valérie Thouret;Philippe Nédélec;Herman Smit

  • Increasing springtime ozone mixing ratios in the free troposphere over western North America

    O. R. Cooper;O. R. Cooper;D. D. Parrish;A. Stohl;M. Trainer

  • Evidence of a long-term increase in tropospheric ozone from Pic du Midi data series: Consequences: Positive radiative forcing

    Alain Marenco;Hervé Gouget;Philippe Nédélec;Jean-Pierre Pagés

  • Global Estimates of CO Sources with High Resolution by Adjoint Inversion of Multiple Satellite Datasets (MOPITT, AIRS, SCIAMACHY, TES)

    M. Kopacz;M. Kopacz;Daniel J. Jacob;John Fisher;Jennifer A. Logan

  • Tropospheric ozone climatology over Beijing: analysis of aircraft data from the MOZAIC program

    A. J. Ding;T. Wang;V. Thouret;Jean-Pierre Cammas

  • The global chemistry transport model TM5: description and evaluation of the tropospheric chemistry version 3.0

    V. Huijnen;J.E. Williams;M. van Weele;T.P.C. van Noije

  • Validation of Aura Microwave Limb Sounder O3 and CO observations in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere

    N. J. Livesey;Mark Filipiak;L. Froidevaux;W. G. Read

  • Comparisons of ozone measurements from the MOZAIC airborne program and the ozone sounding network at eight locations

    Valérie Thouret;Alain Marenco;Jennifer A. Logan;Philippe Nédélec

  • Tropospheric ozone change from 1980 to 2010 dominated by equatorward redistribution of emissions

    Yuqiang Zhang;Yuqiang Zhang;Owen R. Cooper;Owen R. Cooper;Audrey Gaudel;Audrey Gaudel;Anne M. Thompson

  • An improved infrared carbon monoxide analyser for routine measurements aboard commercial Airbus aircraft: technical validation and first scientific results of the MOZAIC III programme

    P. Nedelec;Jean-Pierre Cammas;V. Thouret;G. Athier

  • Observations of near-surface carbon monoxide from space using MOPITT multispectral retrievals

    H. M. Worden;M. N. Deeter;D. P. Edwards;J. C. Gille

  • Large-scale overview of the summer monsoon over West Africa during the AMMA field experiment in 2006

    S. Janicot;C. D. Thorncroft;A. Ali;N. Asencio

  • Aircraft observations since the 1990s reveal increases of tropospheric ozone at multiple locations across the Northern Hemisphere.

    Audrey Gaudel;Owen R. Cooper;Kai-Lan Chang;Ilann Bourgeois

  • Tropopause referenced ozone climatology and inter-annual variability (1994–2003) from the MOZAIC programme

    V. Thouret;Jean-Pierre Cammas;B. Sauvage;G. Athier

  • Multi-decadal surface ozone trends at globally distributed remote locations

    Owen R. Cooper;Martin G. Schultz;Sabine Schroeder;Kai-Lan Chang

  • Calibration and performance of automatic compact instrumentation for the measurement of relative humidity from passenger aircraft

    M. Helten;H. G. J. Smit;W. Sträter;D. Kley

  • Large upper tropospheric ozone enhancements above midlatitude North America during summer: In situ evidence from the IONS and MOZAIC ozone measurement network

    Owen R. Cooper;Owen R. Cooper;A. Stohl;M. Trainer;A. M. Thompson

  • Instrumentation on commercial aircraft for monitoring the atmospheric composition on a global scale: the IAGOS system, technical overview of ozone and carbon monoxide measurements

    Philippe Nédélec;Romain Blot;Damien Boulanger;Gilles Athier

  • A new tropospheric and stratospheric Chemistry and Transport Model MOCAGE-Climat for multi-year studies: evaluation of the present-day climatology and sensitivity to surface processes

    H. Teyssèdre;M. Michou;H. L. Clark;B. Josse

  • Wildfire smoke in the Siberian Arctic in summer: source characterization and plume evolution from airborne measurements

    J.-D. Paris;A. Stohl;P. Nédélec;M.Yu. Arshinov

  • Air pollution during the 2003 European heat wave as seen by MOZAIC airliners.

    Marc Tressol;Carlos Ordóñez;Régina Zbinden;Jérôme Brioude

  • Ozone production from the 2004 North American boreal fires

    G. G. Pfister;L. K. Emmons;P. G. Hess;R. Honrath

Frequent Co-Authors

Valérie Thouret
Valérie Thouret University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
Jean-Pierre Cammas
Jean-Pierre Cammas Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Herman G. J. Smit
Herman G. J. Smit Forschungszentrum Jülich
Owen R. Cooper
Owen R. Cooper Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Andreas Stohl
Andreas Stohl University of Vienna
Andreas Volz-Thomas
Andreas Volz-Thomas Forschungszentrum Jülich
Andreas Petzold
Andreas Petzold Forschungszentrum Jülich
Gérard Ancellet
Gérard Ancellet Sorbonne University
Kathy S. Law
Kathy S. Law Université Paris Cité
Jerome Brioude
Jerome Brioude University of La Réunion

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