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• Coarse-mode mineral dust size distributions, composition and optical properties from AER-D aircraft measurements over the tropical eastern Atlantic

  Authors:Claire L. Ryder, Franco Marenco, Jennifer K. Brooke, Victor Estelles, Richard Cotton, Paola Formenti, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 18, Issue 23) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 6, 2018482 words Author abstract, Bri...

  Mineral dust is an important component of the climate system, affecting the radiation balance, cloud properties, biogeochemical cycles, regional circulation and precipitation, as well as having negative effects on...

• Evaluating biases in filter-based aerosol absorption measurements using photoacoustic spectroscopy

  Authors:Nicholas W. Davies, Cathryn Fox, Kate Szpek, Michael I. Cotterell, Jonathan W. Taylor, James D. Allan, et al.From:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 12, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  June 27, 2019295 words Author abstract, Bri...

  Biases in absorption coefficients measured using a filter-based absorption photometer (Tricolor Absorption Photometer, or TAP) at wavelengths of 467, 528 and 652 nm are evaluated by comparing to measurements...

• Remote biomass burning dominates southern West African air pollution during the monsoon.

  Authors:Sophie L. Haslett, Jonathan W. Taylor, Mathew Evans, Eleanor Morris, Bernhard Vogel, Alima Dajuma, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 19, Issue 24) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 16, 2019539 words Article Vast stretches of agricultural land in southern and central Africa are burnt between June and September each year, which releases large quantities of aerosol into the atmosphere. The resulting smoke plumes are carried...

• Evaluating the influence of laser wavelength and detection stage geometry on optical detection efficiency in a single-particle mass spectrometer

  Authors:Nicholas Marsden, Michael J. Flynn, Jonathan W. Taylor, James D. Allan, and Hugh CoeFrom:Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 9, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  Dec. 15, 2016360 words Author abstract, Bri... Single-particle mass spectrometry (SPMS) is a useful tool for the online study of aerosols with the ability to measure size-resolved chemical composition with a temporal resolution relevant to atmospheric processes. In...

• Vertical variability of the properties of highly aged biomass burning aerosol transported over the southeast Atlantic during CLARIFY-2017.

  Authors:Huihui Wu, Jonathan W. Taylor, Kate Szpek, Justin M. Langridge, Paul I. Williams, Michael Flynn, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 20, Issue 21) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 3, 2020489 words Article Seasonal biomass burning (BB) from June to October in central and southern Africa leads to absorbing aerosols being transported over the South Atlantic Ocean every year and contributes significantly to the regional...

• Aerosol influences on low-level clouds in the West African monsoon

  Authors:Jonathan W. Taylor, Sophie L. Haslett, Keith Bower, Michael Flynn, Ian Crawford, James Dorsey, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 19, Issue 13) Peer-Reviewed

  July 4, 2019444 words Brief article, Repor...

  Low-level clouds (LLCs) cover a wide area of southern West Africa (SWA) during the summer monsoon months and have an important cooling effect on the regional climate. Previous studies of these clouds have focused on...

• The radiative impact of out-of-cloud aerosol hygroscopic growth during the summer monsoon in southern West Africa

  Authors:Sophie L. Haslett, Jonathan W. Taylor, Konrad Deetz, Bernhard Vogel, Karmen Babic, Norbert Kalthoff, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Feb. 5, 2019510 words Author abstract, Bri...

  Water in the atmosphere can exist in the solid, liquid or gas phase. At high humidities, if the aerosol population remains constant, more water vapour will condense onto the particles and cause them to swell,...

• Aerosol measurements during COPE: composition, size, and sources of CCN and INPs at the interface between marine and terrestrial influences

  Authors:Jonathan W. Taylor, Thomas W. Choularton, Alan M. Blyth, Michael J. Flynn, Paul I. Williams, Gillian Young, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 16, Issue 18) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 21, 2016425 words Brief article Heavy rainfall from convective clouds can lead to devastating flash flooding, and observations of aerosols and clouds are required to improve cloud parameterisations used in precipitation forecasts. We present...

• Aircraft and ground measurements of dust aerosols over the west African coast in summer 2015 during ICE-D and AER-D

  Authors:Dantong Liu, Jonathan W. Taylor, Jonathan Crosier, Nicholas Marsden, Keith N. Bower, Gary Lloyd, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 18, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 16, 201871 words Brief article, Repor... Byline: Dantong Liu, Jonathan W. Taylor, Jonathan Crosier, Nicholas Marsden, Keith N. Bower, Gary Lloyd, Claire L. Ryder, Jennifer K. Brooke, Richard Cotton, Franco Marenco, Alan Blyth, Zhiqiang Cui, Victor Estelles,...

• Rapid transformation of ambient absorbing aerosols from West African biomass burning.

  Authors:Huihui Wu, Jonathan W. Taylor, Justin M. Langridge, Chenjie Yu, James D. Allan, Kate Szpek, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 12) Peer-Reviewed

  June 21, 2021518 words Article Seasonal biomass burning (BB) over West Africa is a globally significant source of carbonaceous particles in the atmosphere, which have important climate impacts but are poorly constrained. Here, the evolution of smoke...

• Small ice particles at slightly supercooled temperatures in tropical maritime convection.

  Authors:Gary Lloyd, Thomas Choularton, Keith Bower, Jonathan Crosier, Martin Gallagher, Michael Flynn, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 20, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 31, 2020253 words Brief article In this paper we show that the origin of the ice phase in tropical cumulus clouds over the sea may occur by primary ice nucleation of small crystals at temperatures just between 0 and -5 .sup." C. This was made...

• Open cells exhibit weaker entrainment of free-tropospheric biomass burning aerosol into the south-east Atlantic boundary layer.

  Authors:Steven J. Abel, Paul A. Barrett, Paquita Zuidema, Jianhao Zhang, Matt Christensen, Fanny Peers, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 20, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 6, 2020572 words Article This work presents synergistic satellite, airborne and surface-based observations of a pocket of open cells (POC) in the remote south-east Atlantic. The observations were obtained over and upwind of Ascension Island...

• Absorption closure in highly aged biomass burning smoke

  Authors:Jonathan W. Taylor, Huihui Wu, Kate Szpek, Keith Bower, Ian Crawford, Michael J. Flynn, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 20, Issue 19) Peer-Reviewed

  Sept. 30, 2020589 words Brief article, Repor... The optical properties of black carbon (BC) are a major source of uncertainty in regional and global climate studies. In the past, detailed investigation of BC absorption has been hampered by systematic biases in the...

• Observed microphysical changes in Arctic mixed-phase clouds when transitioning from sea ice to open ocean

  Authors:Gillian Young, Hazel M. Jones, Thomas W. Choularton, Jonathan Crosier, Keith N. Bower, Martin W. Gallagher, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 16, Issue 21) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 11, 2016385 words Brief article In situ airborne observations of cloud microphysics, aerosol properties, and thermodynamic structure over the transition from sea ice to ocean are presented from the Aerosol-Cloud Coupling And Climate Interactions in...

• The CLoud-Aerosol-Radiation Interaction and Forcing: Year 2017 (CLARIFY-2017) measurement campaign.

  Authors:Jim M. Haywood, Steven J. Abel, Paul A. Barrett, Nicolas Bellouin, Alan Blyth, Keith N. Bower, et al.From:Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 27, 2021408 words Article The representations of clouds, aerosols, and cloud-aerosol-radiation impacts remain some of the largest uncertainties in climate change, limiting our ability to accurately reconstruct past climate and predict future...