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Robert B. Chatfield

Robert B. Chatfield

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
7828
World Ranking
6720
National Ranking
2397

Overview

Robert B. Chatfield is affiliated with the Ames Research Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

The scientist's work focuses on subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis; Global and Planetary Change; Atmospheric Science; Environmental Engineering; and Automotive Engineering. The main topics addressed include Air Quality and Health Impacts, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting.

Recent scholarly contributions by Robert B. Chatfield include the following papers:

  • Aerosol characteristics from earth observation systems: A comprehensive investigation over South Asia (2000-2019), 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Estimation of High-Resolution PM2.5 over the Indo-Gangetic Plain by Fusion of Satellite Data, Meteorology, and Land Use Variables, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Review: Strategies for using satellite-based products in modeling PM2.5 and short-term pollution episodes, 2020, Environment International
  • Gradient boosting machine learning to improve satellite-derived column water vapor measurement error, 2020, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Neighborhood-scale ambient NO2 concentrations using TROPOMI NO2 data: Applications for spatially comprehensive exposure assessment, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent collaborators in Robert B. Chatfield's research include:

  • Meytar Sorek-Hamer
  • Alexei Lyapustin
  • Yang Liu
  • Alaa Mhawish
  • Tirthankar Banerjee

Their publications often appear in journals such as:

  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Environment International
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Best Publications

  • Estimates on the production of CO and H2 from the oxidation of hydrocarbon emissions from vegetation

    Patrick R. Zimmerman;Robert B. Chatfield;Jack Fishman;Paul J. Crutzen

  • Including the sub-grid scale plume rise of vegetation fires in low resolution atmospheric transport models

    S. R. Freitas;K. M. Longo;R. Chatfield;D. Latham

  • Monitoring the transport of biomass burning emissions in South America

    Saulo R. Freitas;Karla M. Longo;Maria A. F. Silva Dias;Pedro L. Silva Dias

  • Sulfur dioxide in remote oceanic air: Cloud transport of reactive precursors

    Robert B. Chatfield;Paul J. Crutzen

  • Dimethyl sulfide in the marine atmosphere

    M. O. Andreae;R. J. Ferek;F. Bermond;K. P. Byrd

  • The Coupled Aerosol and Tracer Transport model to the Brazilian developments on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (CATT-BRAMS) – Part 1: Model description and evaluation

    S. R. Freitas;K. M. Longo;M. A. F. Silva Dias;M. A. F. Silva Dias;R. Chatfield

  • Organic material in the global troposphere

    R. A. Duce;V. A. Mohnen;P. R. Zimmerman;D. Grosjean

  • Analysis of the atmospheric distribution, sources, and sinks of oxygenated volatile organic chemicals based on measurements over the Pacific during TRACE‐P

    H. B. Singh;L. J. Salas;R. B. Chatfield;E. Czech

  • Measurements and model simulations of the photostationary state during the Mauna Loa Observatory Photochemistry Experiment: Implications for radical concentrations and ozone production and loss rates

    B. A. Ridley;S. Madronich;R. B. Chatfield;J. G. Walega

  • A comparison of scavenging and deposition processes in global models: results from the WCRP Cambridge Workshop of 1995

    P. J. Rasch;J. Feichter;K. Law;N. Mahowald

  • Comparison and evaluation of MODIS Multi-angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) aerosol product over South Asia

    Alaa Mhawish;Tirthankar Banerjee;Meytar Sorek-Hamer;Alexei Lyapustin

  • Convection links biomass burning to increased tropical ozone : however, models will tend to overpredict O3

    Robert B. Chatfield;Anthony C. Delany

  • Are there interactions of iodine and sulfur species in marine air photochemistry

    Robert B. Chatfield;Paul J. Crutzen

  • Intercontinental chemical transport experiment ozonesonde network study (IONS) 2004 : 1. Summertime upper troposphere/lower stratosphere ozone over northeastern North America.

    Anne M. Thompson;Jesse B. Stone;Jacquelyn C. Witte;Sonya K. Miller

  • First Directly Retrieved Global Distribution of Tropospheric Column Ozone from GOME: Comparison with the GEOS-CHEM Model

    Xiong Liu;Kelly V. Chance;Christopher E. Sioris;Thomas Paul Kurosu

  • Anomalous HNO3/NOx ratio of remote tropospheric air: Conversion of nitric acid to formic acid and NOx?

    Robert B. Chatfield

  • Enhancing the Applicability of Satellite Remote Sensing for PM2.5 Estimation Using MODIS Deep Blue AOD and Land Use Regression in California, United States.

    Hyung Joo Lee;Robert B. Chatfield;Anthony W. Strawa

  • Sources and sinks of acetone in the troposphere: Behavior of reactive hydrocarbons and a stable product

    Robert B. Chatfield;Edward P. Gardner;Jack G. Calvert

  • Vertical distribution of dimethylsulphide in the marine atmosphere

    R. J. Ferek;R. J. Ferek;R. B. Chatfield;M. O. Andreae

  • Nitric acid scavenging by mineral and biomass burning aerosols

    A. Tabazadeh;M. Z. Jacobson;H. B. Singh;O. B. Toon

Frequent Co-Authors

Saulo R. Freitas
Saulo R. Freitas National Institute for Space Research
Daniel J. Jacob
Daniel J. Jacob Harvard University
Karla Maria Longo de Freitas
Karla Maria Longo de Freitas Universities Space Research Association
Alexei Lyapustin
Alexei Lyapustin Goddard Space Flight Center
Meinrat O. Andreae
Meinrat O. Andreae Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
David M. Broday
David M. Broday Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Randall V. Martin
Randall V. Martin Washington University in St. Louis
Jacquelyn C. Witte
Jacquelyn C. Witte National Center for Atmospheric Research
G. W. Sachse
G. W. Sachse Langley Research Center
M. J. Newchurch
M. J. Newchurch University of Alabama in Huntsville

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