TACKLING ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY GRAND CHALLENGES IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

Comparison of formaldehyde tropospheric columns in Australia and New Zealand using MAX-DOAS, FTIR and TROPOMI

Robert G Ryan, Jeremy D Silver, Richard Querel, Dan Smale, Steve Rhodes, Matt Tully, Nicholas Jones, Robyn Schofield

<jats:p>Abstract. South-eastern Australia has been identified by modelling studies as a hotspot of biogenic volatile organic compo..

Coral-reef-derived dimethyl sulfide and the climatic impact of the loss of coral reefs

Sonya L Fiddes, Matthew T Woodhouse, Todd P Lane, Robyn Schofield

2021-04-20

Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) is a naturally occurring aerosol precursor gas which plays an important role in the global sulfur budget, a..

Air quality and health impact of 2019-20 Black Summer megafires and COVID-19 lockdown in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia

Robert G Ryan, Jeremy D Silver, Robyn Schofield

2021-04-01

Poor air quality is an emerging problem in Australia primarily due to ozone pollution events and lengthening and more severe wildf..

Atmospheric mercury in the Latrobe Valley, Australia: Case study June 2013

Robyn Schofield, Steven Utembe, Caitlin Gionfriddo, Michael Tate, David Krabbenhoft, Samuel Adeloju, Melita Keywood, Roger Dargaville, Mike Sandiford

2021-01-01

Gaseous elemental mercury observations were conducted at Churchill, Victoria, in Australia from April to July, 2013, using a Tekra..

Hourly emission inventories for air toxic emissions for eastern Australian electricity generators derived from energy distribution data

M Garg, JD Silver, R Schofield, RG Ryan

2021-01-01

Emission inventories are a fundamental input for atmospheric chemical transport models in order to accurately simulate air polluti..

Surface ozone exceedances in Melbourne, Australia are shown to be under NOx control, as demonstrated using formaldehyde:NO2 and glyoxal:formaldehyde ratios

Robert G Ryan, Steve Rhodes, Matt Tully, Robyn Schofield

2020-12-20

Two and a half years of multi-axis differential optical absorption spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS) measurements of nitrogen dioxide (NO2),..

Comparison of formaldehyde tropospheric columns in Australia and New Zealand using MAX-DOAS, FTIR and TROPOMI

Robert G Ryan, Jeremy D Silver, Richard Querel, Dan Smale, Steve Rhodes, Matt Tully, Nicholas Jones, Robyn Schofield

2020-12-04

South-eastern Australia has been identified by modelling studies as a hotspot of biogenic volatile organic compound (VOC) emission..

Observations of clouds, aerosols, precipitation, and surface radiation over the Southern Ocean: An overview of CAPRICORN, MARCUS, MICRE and SOCRATES

Greg McFarquhar, Chris Bretherton, Roger Marchand, Alain Protat, Paul DeMott, Simon Alexander, Greg Roberts, Cynthia Twohy, Darin Toohey, Steven Siems, Yi Huang, Robert Wood, Robert Rauber, Sonia Lasher-Trapp, Jensen Jensen, Jeff Stith, Jay Mace, Emma Järvinen, Martin Schnaiter, Andrew Gettelman

2020-11-24

Weather and climate models are challenged by uncertainties and biases in simulating Southern Ocean (SO) radiative fluxes that trac..

Response to Issues Paper: Health arrangements in natural disasters of the Natural Disaster Royal Commission

Robyn Schofield, Jeremy Silver, Robert Ryan, Clare Walter, Peter Rayner, Clare Murphy, Nicholas Deutscher, Jenny Fisher, Hugh Forehead, Jane Heyworth, Zoran Ristovski, Lidia Morwaska, Branka Miljevic

2020-06-30

Submission to Royal Commission Inquiry on Australia’s preparedness for, and response to, natural disasters

Robyn Schofield, Jeremy Silver, Robert Ryan

2020-06-01

A global analysis of urban design types and road transport injury: an image processing study.

Jason Thompson, Mark Stevenson, Jasper S Wijnands, Kerry A Nice, Gideon Dpa Aschwanden, Jeremy Silver, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Peter Rayner, Robyn Schofield, Rohit Hariharan, Christopher N Morrison

2020-01-01

BACKGROUND: Death and injury due to motor vehicle crashes is the world's fifth leading cause of mortality and morbidity. City and ..

A Clean Air Plan for Sydney: An Overview of the Special Issue on Air Quality in New South Wales

Clare Paton-Walsh, Peter Rayner, Jack Simmons, Sonya L Fiddes, Robyn Schofield, Howard Bridgman, Stephanie Beaupark, Richard Broome, Scott D Chambers, Lisa Tzu-Chi Chang, Martin Cope, Christine T Cowie, Maximilien Desservettaz, Doreena Dominick, Kathryn Emmerson, Hugh Forehead, Ian E Galbally, Alan Griffiths, Elise-Andree Guerette, Alison Haynes

2019-12-01

This paper presents a summary of the key findings of the special issue of Atmosphere on Air Quality in New South Wales and discuss..

Characterization of aerosols over the Great Barrier Reef: The influence of transported continental sources

Zhenyi Chen, Robyn Schofield, Peter Rayner, Tianshu Zhang, Cheng Liu, Claire Vincent, Sonya Fiddes, Robert George Ryan, Joel Alroe, Zoran D Ristovski, Ruhi S Humphries, Melita D Keywood, Jason Ward, Clare Paton-Walsh, Travis Naylor, Xiaowen Shu

2019-11-10

The rapid environmental changes in Australia prompt a more thorough investigation of the influence of transportation, local emissi..

Daytime HONO, NO2 and aerosol distributions from MAX-DOAS observations in Melbourne

Robert G Ryan, Steve Rhodes, Matthew Tully, Stephen Wilson, Nicholas Jones, Udo Friess, Robyn Schofield

2018-10-02

Toxic nitrogen oxides produced by high temperature combustion are prevalent in urban environments, contributing to a significant h..

Stratospheric ozone intrusion events and their impacts on tropospheric ozone in the Southern Hemisphere

Jesse W Greenslade, Simon P Alexander, Robyn Schofield, Jenny A Fisher, Andrew K Klekociuk

2017-09-01

Stratosphere-to-troposphere transport (STT) provides an important natural source of ozone to the upper troposphere, but the charac..