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Robert M. Yantosca

Robert M. Yantosca

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
74
Citations
24437
World Ranking
1325
National Ranking
565

Overview

Robert M. Yantosca is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on atmospheric phenomena, with significant contributions to Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics covered in Yantosca's work include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric ozone and climate
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Air quality and health impacts
  • Radioactivity and radon measurements
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Fire dynamics and safety research

Yantosca has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent papers highlight their involvement in both observational and modeling studies of the atmosphere. Selected recent publications include:

  • "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
  • "WRF-GC (v1.0): online coupling of WRF (v3.9.1.1) and GEOS-Chem (v12.2.1) for regional atmospheric chemistry modeling - Part 1: Description of the one-way model," 2020, Geoscientific Model Development
  • "Why is ozone in South Korea and the Seoul metropolitan area so high and increasing?" 2023, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Simulation of radon-222 with the GEOS-Chem global model: emissions, seasonality, and convective transport," 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • "Enabling High-Performance Cloud Computing for Earth Science Modeling on Over a Thousand Cores: Application to the GEOS-Chem Atmospheric Chemistry Model," 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Their collaborations include frequent co-authors such as:

  • Daniel J. Jacob
  • Melissa P. Sulprizio
  • Haipeng Lin
  • Elizabeth W. Lundgren
  • Sebastian D. Eastham

Best Publications

  • Global modeling of tropospheric chemistry with assimilated meteorology : Model description and evaluation

    Isabelle Bey;Daniel James Jacob;Robert M. Yantosca;Jennifer A. Logan

  • Natural and transboundary pollution influences on sulfate‐nitrate‐ammonium aerosols in the United States: Implications for policy

    Rokjin J. Park;Daniel James Jacob;Brendan Field;Robert M. Yantosca

  • Constraints from 210Pb and 7Be on wet deposition and transport in a global three-dimensional chemical tracer model driven by assimilated meteorological fields

    Hongyu Liu;Daniel James Jacob;Isabelle Bey;Robert M. Yantosca

  • Global and Regional Decreases in Tropospheric Oxidants from Photochemical Effects of Aerosols

    Randall V. Martin;Daniel James Jacob;Robert M. Yantosca;Mian Chin;Mian Chin

  • Chemical cycling and deposition of atmospheric mercury : Global constraints from observations

    Noelle E. Selin;Daniel J. Jacob;Rokjin J. Park;Robert M. Yantosca

  • An improved retrieval of tropospheric nitrogen dioxide from GOME

    Randall V. Martin;Kelly Chance;Daniel J. Jacob;Thomas P. Kurosu

  • Why do models overestimate surface ozone in the Southeast United States

    Katherine R. Travis;Daniel J. Jacob;Jenny A. Fisher;Patrick S. Kim

  • Air mass factor formulation for spectroscopic measurements from satellites: Application to formaldehyde retrievals from the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment

    Paul I. Palmer;Daniel James Jacob;Kelly V. Chance;Randall V. Martin

  • Gas-particle partitioning of atmospheric Hg(II) and its effect on global mercury deposition

    Helen Marie Amos;Daniel J. Jacob;C. D. Holmes;Jenny Allison Fisher

  • Background ozone over the United States in summer: Origin, trend, and contribution to pollution episodes

    Arlene M. Fiore;Daniel J. Jacob;Isabelle Bey;Isabelle Bey;Robert M. Yantosca

  • Sulfate Formation in Sea-Salt Aerosols: Constraints from Oxygen Isotopes

    B. Alexander;Rokjin J. Park;Daniel J. Jacob;Q. B. Li

  • Why are there large differences between models in global budgets of tropospheric ozone

    Shiliang Wu;Loretta J. Mickley;Daniel J. Jacob;Jennifer A. Logan

  • Atmospheric budget of acetone

    Daniel J. Jacob;Brendan D. Field;Emily M. Jin;Isabelle Bey

  • Transport pathways for Asian pollution outflow over the Pacific: Interannual and seasonal variations

    Hongyu Liu;Hongyu Liu;Daniel J. Jacob;Isabelle Bey;Isabelle Bey;Robert M. Yantosca

  • Global budget of CO, 1988–1997: Source estimates and validation with a global model

    B N Duncan;B N Duncan;B N Duncan;J A Logan;I Bey;I Bey;I A Megretskaia

  • Transatlantic transport of pollution and its effects on surface ozone in Europe and North America

    Qinbin Li;Daniel J. Jacob;Isabelle Bey;Isabelle Bey;Paul I. Palmer

  • Atmospheric peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN): a global budget and source attribution

    E. V. Fischer;Daniel James Jacob;Robert M. Yantosca;Melissa Payer Sulprizio

  • Global 3-D land-ocean-atmosphere model for mercury: Present-day versus preindustrial cycles and anthropogenic enrichment factors for deposition

    Noelle E. Selin;Noelle E. Selin;Daniel J. Jacob;Robert M. Yantosca;Sarah Strode

  • Distribution and fate of selected oxygenated organic species in the troposphere and lower stratosphere over the Atlantic

    H. Singh;Y. Chen;A. Tabazadeh;Y. Fukui

  • Asian chemical outflow to the Pacific in spring: Origins, pathways, and budgets

    Isabelle Bey;Daniel James Jacob;Jennifer A. Logan;Robert M. Yantosca

  • Global 3-D land-ocean-atmosphere model for mercury: Present-day versus preindustrial cycles and anthropogenic enrichment factors for deposition: GLOBAL 3-D LAND-OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE MODEL FOR MERCURY

    Noelle E. Selin;Daniel J. Jacob;Robert M. Yantosca;Sarah Strode

  • Regional CO pollution and export in China simulated by the high-resolution nested-grid GEOS-Chem model

    D. Chen;Yichao Wang;Yichao Wang;Michael Brendon McElroy;K. He

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel J. Jacob
Daniel J. Jacob Harvard University
Isabelle Bey
Isabelle Bey Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology
Jennifer A. Logan
Jennifer A. Logan Harvard University
Qinbin Li
Qinbin Li University of California, Los Angeles
Melissa P. Sulprizio
Melissa P. Sulprizio Harvard University
Bryan N. Duncan
Bryan N. Duncan Goddard Space Flight Center
Randall V. Martin
Randall V. Martin Washington University in St. Louis
Paul I. Palmer
Paul I. Palmer University of Edinburgh
Rokjin J. Park
Rokjin J. Park Seoul National University

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