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Robert Spurr is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and contributes to research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work focuses extensively on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional involvement in Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering as well as Ecology.

Their research covers several interconnected topics, notably:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Calibration and Measurement Techniques
  • Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Robert Spurr's publication record includes articles in key scientific venues where they have contributed repeatedly. These venues include:

  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Optics Express

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Robert Spurr are:

  • A new TROPOMI product for tropospheric NO 2 columns over East Asia with explicit aerosol corrections (2020) published in Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Version 2 Ozone Monitoring Instrument SO 2 product (OMSO2 V2): new anthropogenic SO 2 vertical column density dataset (2020) in Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Revised and extended benchmark results for Rayleigh scattering of sunlight in spherical atmospheres (2020) in Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
  • Development of a nighttime shortwave radiative transfer model for remote sensing of nocturnal aerosols and fires from VIIRS (2020) in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • VLIDORT-QS: A quasi-spherical vector radiative transfer model (2022) in Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Frequent collaborators with Robert Spurr include:

  • Vijay Natraj
  • N. A. Krotkov
  • A. P. Vasilkov
  • Eun-Su Yang
  • Jeffrey S. Reid

Best Publications

  • VLIDORT: A linearized pseudo-spherical vector discrete ordinate radiative transfer code for forward model and retrieval studies in multilayer multiple scattering media

    Robert J.D. Spurr

  • Ring effect studies: Rayleigh scattering, including molecular parameters for rotational Raman scattering, and the Fraunhofer spectrum.

    Kelly V. Chance;Robert J. D. Spurr

  • An improved retrieval of tropospheric nitrogen dioxide from GOME

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

  • Tropospheric emissions: Monitoring of pollution (TEMPO)

    P. Zoogman;X. Liu;R.M. Suleiman;W.F. Pennington

  • 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

  • A linearized discrete ordinate radiative transfer model for atmospheric remote-sensing retrieval

    R.J.D. Spurr;T.P. Kurosu;K.V. Chance

  • Satellite observations of formaldehyde over North America from GOME

    Kelly V. Chance;Paul I. Palmer;Robert J. D. Spurr;Randall V. Martin

  • Ozone profile retrievals from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument

    X. Liu;X. Liu;X. Liu;P. K. Bhartia;K. Chance;R. J. D. Spurr

  • High-Resolution Satellite-Derived PM2.5 from Optimal Estimation and Geographically Weighted Regression over North America

    Aaron van Donkelaar;Randall V. Martin;Randall V. Martin;Robert J. D. Spurr;Richard T. Burnett

  • LIDORT and VLIDORT: Linearized pseudo-spherical scalar and vector discrete ordinate radiative transfer models for use in remote sensing retrieval problems

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  • Using the OMI aerosol index and absorption aerosol optical depth to evaluate the NASA MERRA Aerosol Reanalysis

    V. Buchard;V. Buchard;A. M. da Silva;P. R. Colarco;A. Darmenov

  • Ozone profile and tropospheric ozone retrievals from the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment: Algorithm description and validation

    X. Liu;K. Chance;C. E. Sioris;R. J. D. Spurr

  • GOMETRAN: A radiative transfer model for the satellite project GOME, the plane-parallel version

    V. V. Rozanov;D. Diebel;R. J. D. Spurr;J. P. Burrows

  • Effects of the physical state of tropospheric ammonium-sulfate-nitrate particles on global aerosol direct radiative forcing

    S. T. Martin;H.-M. Hung;R. J. Park;D. J. Jacob

  • Synthesis of satellite (MODIS), aircraft (ICARTT), and surface (IMPROVE, EPA-AQS, AERONET) aerosol observations over eastern North America to improve MODIS aerosol retrievals and constrain surface aerosol concentrations and sources

    Easan Drury;Easan Drury;Daniel James Jacob;Robert J. D. Spurr;Jun Wang

  • Multiple wavelength retrieval of tropospheric aerosol optical properties from MAXDOAS measurements in Beijing

    K. Clémer;M. Van Roozendael;C. Fayt;F. Hendrick

  • Retrieving tropospheric nitrogen dioxide from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument: effects of aerosols, surface reflectance anisotropy, and vertical profile of nitrogen dioxide

    J.-T. Lin;R. V. Martin;R. V. Martin;K. F. Boersma;K. F. Boersma;M. Sneep

  • Simultaneous derivation of intensities and weighting functions in a general pseudo-spherical discrete ordinate radiative transfer treatment

    R.J.D. Spurr

  • The operational cloud retrieval algorithms from TROPOMI on board Sentinel-5 Precursor

    Diego G. Loyola;Sebastián Gimeno García;Ronny Lutz;Athina Argyrouli;Athina Argyrouli

  • Satellite observation of lowermost tropospheric ozone by multispectral synergism of IASI thermal infrared and GOME-2 ultraviolet measurements over Europe

    J. Cuesta;M. Eremenko;X. Liu;G. Dufour

  • 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

  • Optimal estimation for global ground-level fine particulate matter concentrations

    Aaron van Donkelaar;Randall V. Martin;Randall V. Martin;Robert J. D. Spurr;Easan Drury

Frequent Co-Authors

Kelly Chance
Kelly Chance Harvard University
Diego Loyola
Diego Loyola German Aerospace Center
Randall V. Martin
Randall V. Martin Washington University in St. Louis
Xiong Liu
Xiong Liu Harvard University
Joanna Joiner
Joanna Joiner Goddard Space Flight Center
M. Van Roozendael
M. Van Roozendael Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Thomas P. Kurosu
Thomas P. Kurosu Jet Propulsion Lab
Nickolay A. Krotkov
Nickolay A. Krotkov Goddard Space Flight Center
Jean-Christopher Lambert
Jean-Christopher Lambert Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Daniel J. Jacob
Daniel J. Jacob Harvard University

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