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Ronald van der A is affiliated with the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute in the Netherlands. Their research largely focuses on atmospheric sciences and environmental science, with a significant body of work spanning the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their expertise extends into subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Environmental Engineering, and Education.

Their main research topics include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting, COVID-19 impact on air quality, and Atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

Van der A has published extensively in several notable scientific venues. These include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Atmospheric measurement techniques
  • Science Advances
  • Remote Sensing

Recent papers by van der A include:

  • Impact of Coronavirus Outbreak on NO2 Pollution Assessed Using TROPOMI and OMI Observations, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Abrupt decline in tropospheric nitrogen dioxide over China after the outbreak of COVID-19, 2020, Science Advances
  • Satellite-based estimates of decline and rebound in China's CO2 emissions during COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, Science Advances
  • NOx Emissions Reduction and Rebound in China Due to the COVID-19 Crisis, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Spatial and temporal changes of the ozone sensitivity in China based on satellite and ground-based observations, 2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Frequent collaborators in their research include Jieying Ding, Henk Eskes, Jos de Laat, Pepijn Veefkind, and Gerrit de Leeuw. These collaborations have resulted in multiple co-authored publications, particularly in studies related to atmospheric chemistry and air quality.

Best Publications

  • The Ozone Monitoring Instrument: overview of 14 years in space

    Pieternel F. Levelt;Joanna Joiner;Johanna Tamminen;J. Pepijn Veefkind

  • Cleaning up the air: effectiveness of air quality policy for SO 2 and NO x emissions in China

    Ronald J. van der A;Ronald J. van der A;Bas Mijling;Jieying Ding;Jieying Ding;Maria Elissavet Koukouli

  • Intercomparison of SCIAMACHY and OMI Tropospheric NO2 Columns: Observing the Diurnal Evolution of Chemistry and Emissions from Space

    K. Folkert Boersma;K. Folkert Boersma;Daniel J. Jacob;Henk J. Eskes;Robert W. Pinder

  • Improving algorithms and uncertainty estimates for satellite NO 2 retrievals: results from the quality assurance for the essential climate variables (QA4ECV) project

    K. Folkert Boersma;K. Folkert Boersma;Henk J. Eskes;Andreas Richter;Isabelle De Smedt

  • Recent reduction in NO x emissions over China: synthesis of satellite observations and emission inventories

    Fei Liu;Fei Liu;Qiang Zhang;Ronald J van der A;Bo Zheng

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • NO x emission trends over Chinese cities estimated from OMI observations during 2005 to 2015

    Fei Liu;Steffen Beirle;Qiang Zhang;Ronald J. van der A

  • Assessing the distribution and growth rates of NOx emission sources by inverting a 10-year record of NO2 satellite columns

    T. Stavrakou;J.-F. Müller;K. F. Boersma;I. De Smedt

  • Trends and trend reversal detection in 2 decades of tropospheric NO 2 satellite observations

    Aristeidis K. Georgoulias;Aristeidis K. Georgoulias;Ronald J. van der A;Piet Stammes;K. Folkert Boersma;K. Folkert Boersma

  • Spatial and temporal changes of the ozone sensitivity in China based on satellite and ground-based observations

    Wannan Wang;Wannan Wang;Ronald van der A;Jieying Ding;Michiel van Weele

  • Nine-year spatial and temporal evolution of desert dust aerosols over South and East Asia as revealed by CALIOP

    Emmanouil Proestakis;Vassilis Amiridis;Eleni Marinou;Aristeidis K. Georgoulias

  • Trend detection in satellite observations of formaldehyde tropospheric columns

    I. De Smedt;T. Stavrakou;J.-F. Müller

  • Two decades of satellite observations of AOD over mainland China using ATSR-2, AATSR and MODIS/Terra: data set evaluation and large-scale patterns

    Gerrit de Leeuw;Larisa Sogacheva;Edith Rodriguez;Konstantinos Kourtidis

  • Trends and trend reversal detection in two decades of tropospheric NO2 satellite observations

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  • Spatial and seasonal variations of aerosols over China from two decades of multi-satellite observations – Part 2: AOD time series for 1995–2017 combined from ATSR ADV and MODIS C6.1 and AOD tendency estimations

    Larisa Sogacheva;Edith Rodriguez;Pekka Kolmonen;Timo H. Virtanen

  • Satellite constraints of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from India based on OMI observations and WRF-Chem simulations

    Sachin D. Ghude;Sachin D. Ghude;Gabriele G. Pfister;Chinmay Jena

  • Satellite derived trends in NO2 over the major global hotspot regions during the past decade and their inter-comparison.

    Sachin D. Ghude;G. Beig;S. Fadnavis

  • Application of satellite observations for identifying regions of dominant sources of nitrogen oxides over the Indian Subcontinent

    Sachin D. Ghude;Santosh H. Kulkarni;Chinmay Jena;Gabriele G. Pfister

  • Detection of NO 2 pollution plumes from individual ships with the TROPOMI/S5P satellite sensor

    Aristeidis K Georgoulias;Aristeidis K Georgoulias;K Folkert Boersma;K Folkert Boersma;Jasper van Vliet;Xiumei Zhang

  • Very high ozone columns at northern mid‐latitudes in 2010

    W. Steinbrecht;U. Köhler;H. Claude;M. Weber

  • Spatial and seasonal variations of aerosols over China from two decades of multi-satellite observations – Part 1: ATSR (1995–2011) and MODIS C6.1 (2000–2017)

    Larisa Sogacheva;Gerrit de Leeuw;Edith Rodriguez;Pekka Kolmonen

  • Satellite-based estimates of decline and rebound in China's CO$_2$ emissions during COVID-19 pandemic

    Bo Zheng;Guannan Geng;Philippe Ciais;Steven J. Davis

  • NOx emission estimates during the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing

    Jieying Ding;Ronald van der A;Bas Mijling;Pieternel Levelt

Frequent Co-Authors

Cathy Clerbaux
Cathy Clerbaux Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Pierre-François Coheur
Pierre-François Coheur Université Libre de Bruxelles
Henk Eskes
Henk Eskes Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Lieven Clarisse
Lieven Clarisse Université Libre de Bruxelles
Daniel Hurtmans
Daniel Hurtmans Université Libre de Bruxelles
Gerrit de Leeuw
Gerrit de Leeuw Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
K. Folkert Boersma
K. Folkert Boersma Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Dimitris Balis
Dimitris Balis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Maria Elissavet Koukouli
Maria Elissavet Koukouli Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Jean-Christopher Lambert
Jean-Christopher Lambert Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

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