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Robert J. Parker is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and environmental chemistry. Their work also touches on mechanics of materials and accounting.

The main topics covered in their research include atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, climate variability and models, methane hydrates and related phenomena, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, and meteorological phenomena and simulations.

Robert J. Parker has published extensively in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Robert J. Parker include:

  • "The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017" (2020), NOAA Institutional Repository
  • "Global distribution of methane emissions: a comparative inverse analysis of observations from the TROPOMI and GOSAT satellite instruments" (2021), Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Global methane budget and trend, 2010-2017: complementarity of inverse analyses using in situ (GLOBALVIEWplus CH 4 ObsPack) and satellite (GOSAT) observations" (2021), Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "Attribution of the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane during 2010-2018 by inverse analysis of GOSAT observations" (2021), Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • "A decade of GOSAT Proxy satellite CH 4 observations" (2020), Earth system science data

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Hartmut Boesch
  • Joannes D. Maasakkers
  • Yuzhong Zhang
  • A. Anthony Bloom
  • Daniel J. Jacob

Best Publications

  • The global methane budget 2000–2017

    Marielle Saunois;Ann R. Stavert;Ben Poulter;Philippe Bousquet

  • UKESM1: Description and Evaluation of the U.K. Earth System Model

    Alistair A. Sellar;Colin G. Jones;Jane P. Mulcahy;Yongming Tang

  • Estimating global and North American methane emissions with high spatial resolution using GOSAT satellite data

    A J Turner;Daniel J Jacob;K J Wecht;J D Maasakkers

  • Methane observations from the Greenhouse Gases Observing SATellite: Comparison to ground‐based TCCON data and model calculations

    Robert Parker;Hartmut Boesch;Austin Cogan;Annemarie Fraser

  • Global distribution of methane emissions, emission trends, and OH concentrations and trends inferred from an inversion of GOSAT satellite data for 2010–2015

    Joannes D. Maasakkers;Joannes D. Maasakkers;Daniel J. Jacob;Melissa P. Sulprizio;Tia R. Scarpelli

  • Atmospheric carbon dioxide retrieved from the Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT): Comparison with ground‐based TCCON observations and GEOS‐Chem model calculations

    A Cogan;H Boesch;R Parker;L Feng

  • Global atmospheric carbon monoxide budget 2000–2017 inferred from multi-species atmospheric inversions

    Bo Zheng;Frederic Chevallier;Yi Yin;Philippe Ciais

  • The Greenhouse Gas Climate Change Initiative (GHG-CCI): Comparison and quality assessment of near-surface-sensitive satellite-derived CO2 and CH4 global data sets

    M Buchwitz;Markus Reuter;O Schneising;Hartmut Boesch

  • Global distribution of methane emissions: a comparative inverse analysis of observations from the TROPOMI and GOSAT satellite instruments

    Zhen Qu;Daniel J. Jacob;Lu Shen;Xiao Lu

  • Inverse modelling of CH 4 emissions for 2010–2011 using different satellite retrieval products from GOSAT and SCIAMACHY

    M. Alexe;P. Bergamaschi;A. Segers;R. Detmers

  • Attribution of the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane during 2010–2018 by inverse analysis of GOSAT observations

    Yuzhong Zhang;Yuzhong Zhang;Daniel J. Jacob;Xiao Lu;Joannes D. Maasakkers

  • Global methane budget and trend, 2010–2017: complementarity of inverse analyses using in situ (GLOBALVIEWplus CH 4 ObsPack) and satellite (GOSAT) observations

    Xiao Lu;Daniel J. Jacob;Yuzhong Zhang;Yuzhong Zhang;Joannes D. Maasakkers

  • Spatially resolving methane emissions in California: constraints from the CalNex aircraft campaign and from present (GOSAT, TES) and future (TROPOMI, geostationary) satellite observations

    Kevin James Wecht;Daniel James Jacob;Melissa Payer Sulprizio;G Santoni

  • A decade of GOSAT Proxy satellite CH 4 observations

    Robert J. Parker;Alex Webb;Hartmut Boesch;Peter Somkuti

  • Estimates of European uptake of CO2 inferred from GOSAT XCO2 retrievals: sensitivity to measurement bias inside and outside Europe

    L Feng;Paul I Palmer;Robert J Parker;Nicholas M Deutscher;Nicholas M Deutscher

  • The greenhouse gas climate change initiative (GHG-CCI): Comparative validation of GHG-CCI SCIAMACHY/ENVISAT and TANSO-FTS/GOSAT CO2 and CH4 retrieval algorithm products with measurements from the TCCON

    B Dils;M Buchwitz;Markus Reuter;O Schneising

  • On the consistency between global and regional methane emissions inferred from SCIAMACHY, TANSO-FTS, IASI and surface measurements

    C. Cressot;F. Chevallier;P. Bousquet;C. Crevoisier

  • An increase in methane emissions from tropical Africa between 2010 and 2016 inferred from satellite data

    Mark F. Lunt;Paul I. Palmer;Liang Feng;Christopher M. Taylor

  • Estimating regional methane surface fluxes: the relative importance of surface and GOSAT mole fraction measurements

    Annemarie Fraser;Paul Palmer;Liang Feng;H. Boesch

  • Satellite-derived methane hotspot emission estimates using a fast data-driven method

    Michael Buchwitz;Oliver Schneising;Maximilian Reuter;Jens Heymann

  • Satellite-inferred European carbon sink larger than expected

    M. Reuter;M. Buchwitz;M. Hilker;J. Heymann

  • 2010–2015 North American methane emissions, sectoral contributions, and trends: a high-resolution inversion of GOSAT observations of atmospheric methane

    Joannes D. Maasakkers;Joannes D. Maasakkers;Daniel J. Jacob;Melissa P. Sulprizio;Tia R. Scarpelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Hartmut Boesch
Hartmut Boesch University of Bremen
Nicholas M. Deutscher
Nicholas M. Deutscher University of Wollongong
Paul I. Palmer
Paul I. Palmer University of Edinburgh
Justus Notholt
Justus Notholt University of Bremen
F. Chevallier
F. Chevallier University of Paris-Saclay
Ralf Sussmann
Ralf Sussmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Thorsten Warneke
Thorsten Warneke University of Bremen
Otto Hasekamp
Otto Hasekamp Netherlands Institute for Space Research
Christian Frankenberg
Christian Frankenberg California Institute of Technology
Debra Wunch
Debra Wunch University of Toronto

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