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2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
132
Citations
47314
World Ranking
65
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award

Overview

Rodney J. Weber is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a considerable emphasis on atmospheric phenomena.

The main fields of study for Rodney J. Weber include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, their subfields of study encompass:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Pollution

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Rodney J. Weber has published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • ACS ES&T Air
  • UNC Libraries
  • Atmospheric Environment

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Weber include:

  • The acidity of atmospheric particles and clouds (2020) in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Modeling the global radiative effect of brown carbon: a potentially larger heating source in the tropical free troposphere than black carbon (2020) in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • A national cohort study (2000-2018) of long-term air pollution exposure and incident dementia in older adults in the United States (2021) in Nature Communications
  • Aerosol pH and liquid water content determine when particulate matter is sensitive to ammonia and nitrate availability (2020) in Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Global Measurements of Brown Carbon and Estimated Direct Radiative Effects (2020) in Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent collaborators of Rodney J. Weber include:

  • Athanasios Nenes
  • Armistead G. Russell
  • Jack E. Dibb
  • William R. Simpson
  • Yuhan Yang

Best Publications

  • Secondary organic aerosol formation in cloud droplets and aqueous particles (aqSOA): a review of laboratory, field and model studies

    B. Ervens;B. Ervens;B. J. Turpin;R. J. Weber

  • Effects of anthropogenic emissions on aerosol formation from isoprene and monoterpenes in the southeastern United States

    Lu Xu;Hongyu Guo;Christopher M. Boyd;Mitchel Klein

  • A Large Organic Aerosol Source in the Free Troposphere Missing from Current Models

    Colette L. Heald;Daniel J. Jacob;Rokjin J. Park;Lynn M. Russell

  • Effects of aging on organic aerosol from open biomass burning smoke in aircraft and laboratory studies

    M. J. Cubison;M. J. Cubison;A. M. Ortega;A. M. Ortega;P. L. Hayes;P. L. Hayes;D. K. Farmer;D. K. Farmer

  • The acidity of atmospheric particles and clouds

    Havala O. T. Pye;Athanasios Nenes;Becky Alexander;Andrew P. Ault

  • Review of Acellular Assays of Ambient Particulate Matter Oxidative Potential: Methods and Relationships with Composition, Sources, and Health Effects

    Josephine T. Bates;Ting Fang;Vishal Verma;Linghan Zeng

  • A study of secondary organic aerosol formation in the anthropogenic-influenced southeastern United States

    Rodney J. Weber;Amy P. Sullivan;Amy P. Sullivan;Richard E. Peltier;Armistead Russell

  • Water-Soluble Organic Aerosol material and the light-absorption characteristics of aqueous extracts measured over the Southeastern United States

    A. Hecobian;X. Zhang;M. Zheng;N. Frank

  • Single-particle mass spectrometry of tropospheric aerosol particles

    D. M. Murphy;D. J. Cziczo;K. D. Froyd;P. K. Hudson

  • Measurements of new particle formation and ultrafine particle growth rates at a clean continental site

    R. J. Weber;R. J. Weber;J. J. Marti;J. J. Marti;P. H. McMurry;F. L. Eisele;F. L. Eisele

  • Fine-particle water and pH in the southeastern United States

    H. Guo;L. Xu;A. Bougiatioti;A. Bougiatioti;K. M. Cerully

  • A Particle-into-Liquid Collector for Rapid Measurement of Aerosol Bulk Chemical Composition

    R. J. Weber;D. Orsini;Y. Daun;Y.-N. Lee

  • Highly Acidic Ambient Particles, Soluble Metals, and Oxidative Potential: A Link between Sulfate and Aerosol Toxicity

    Ting Fang;Hongyu Guo;Linghan Zeng;Vishal Verma

  • Physical characterization of aerosol particles during nucleation events

    Pasi Aalto;Kaarle Hämeri;E. D. O. Becker;Rodney Weber

  • Size distributions and mixtures of dust and black carbon aerosol in Asian outflow: Physiochemistry and optical properties

    A. D. Clarke;Y. Shinozuka;V. N. Kapustin;S. Howell

  • MEASURED ATMOSPHERIC NEW PARTICLE FORMATION RATES: IMPLICATIONS FOR NUCLEATION MECHANISMS

    R. J. Weber;J. J. Marti;P. H. McMURRY;F. L. Eisele

  • High aerosol acidity despite declining atmospheric sulfate concentrations over the past 15 years

    Rodney J. Weber;Hongyu Guo;Armistead G. Russell;Athanasios Nenes

  • Refinements to the particle-into-liquid sampler (PILS) for ground and airborne measurements of water soluble aerosol composition

    Douglas A. Orsini;Yilin Ma;Amy Sullivan;Berko Sierau

  • Variability in nocturnal nitrogen oxide processing and its role in regional air quality.

    S. S. Brown;T. B. Ryerson;A. G. Wollny;C. A. Brock

  • Biomass burning contribution to Beijing aerosol

    Y. Cheng;G. Engling;K.-B. He;F.-K. Duan

  • ACE-ASIA Regional Climatic and Atmospheric Chemical Effects of Asian Dust and Pollution

    John H. Seinfeld;Gregory R. Carmichael;Richard Arimoto;William C. Conant

  • Evolution of brown carbon in wildfire plumes

    Haviland Forrister;Jiumeng Liu;Jiumeng Liu;Eric Scheuer;Jack Dibb

Frequent Co-Authors

Jose L. Jimenez
Jose L. Jimenez University of Colorado Boulder
Amy P. Sullivan
Amy P. Sullivan Colorado State University
Athanasios Nenes
Athanasios Nenes École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Armistead G. Russell
Armistead G. Russell Georgia Institute of Technology
Hongyu Guo
Hongyu Guo University of Colorado Boulder
Pedro Campuzano-Jost
Pedro Campuzano-Jost University of Colorado Boulder
Xiaolu Zhang
Xiaolu Zhang University of California, Davis
Steven S. Brown
Steven S. Brown National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Jack E. Dibb
Jack E. Dibb University of New Hampshire
John S. Holloway
John S. Holloway National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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