Prof. Nadine Unger
Atmospheric Chemist | Climate Scientist | Air Quality | Earth System Science | IPCC AR6 Lead Author | Global Citizen | Views can obstruct enlightenment
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India’s Food Bowl Heads Toward Desertification - Eos
Water-guzzling rice consumes more water than Punjab can recharge. If current irrigation rates continue, the state will empty its groundwater reserves within 20 years.
Prof. Nadine Unger
India’s Food Bowl Heads Toward Desertification
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Modelling public health improvements as a result of air pollution control policies in the UK over four decades—1970 to 2010 - IOPscience
Prof. Nadine Unger
Massive improvements BUT ozone air pollution has actually increased since the 1970s
Modelling public health improvements as a result of air pollution control policies in the UK over four decades—1970 to 2010
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Current and future global climate impacts resulting from COVID-19
Reduced GHG and air pollutant emissions during the COVID-19 lockdowns resulted in declines in NOx emissions of up to 30%, causing short-term cooling, while ~20% SO2 emissions decline countered this for overall minimal temperature effect.
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Nice analysis of #SLCF responses to lockdown
Current and future global climate impacts resulting from COVID-19
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Why Do We Need a Climate School?
Climate change is already part of the curricula across Columbia, but we can make a bigger difference by working together.
Vapor pressure deficit helps explain biogenic volatile organic compound fluxes from the forest floor and canopy of a temperate deciduous forest
A preprint of an article on biogenic volatile organic compound flux in a mixed deciduous forest.
GMDD - Quantitative assessment of fire and vegetation properties in historical simulations with fire-enabled vegetation models from the Fire Model Intercomparison Project
Prof. Nadine Unger
Quantitative assessment of fire and vegetation properties in historical simulations with fire-enabled vegetation models from the Fire Model Intercomparison Project
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The Fire Model Intercomparison Project (FireMIP): Which model is best? The results are in.
By Natalie Sanders As with Dynamic Global Vegetation Models, knowing which Fire Model to use to predict future scenarios is a complicated business. Often researchers will favour one model over anot…
ACP - An increase in methane emissions from tropical Africa between 2010 and 2016 inferred from satellite data
Prof. Nadine Unger
Important background in Lunt et al., 2019 An increase in methane emissions from tropical Africa between 2010 and 2016 inferred from satellite data
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ACPD - Accelerating methane growth rate from 2010 to 2017: leading contributions from the tropics and East Asia
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"UNPRECEDENTED global total CH4 emissions"
Accelerating methane growth rate from 2010 to 2017: leading contributions from the tropics and East Asia
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Delayed emergence of a global temperature response after emission mitigation
Strong mitigation of anthropogenic emissions is necessary, but it is not clear how fast these efforts would lead to temperature changes. Here, the authors find that there is a substantial delay between reductions of emissions and a detectable change...
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Excellent study from @CICERO_klima
Delayed emergence of a global temperature response after emission mitigation
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Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds in Arctic Soil: A Field Study of Concentrations and Variability With Vegetation Cover
Biogenic volatile organic compound concentrations varied in soil under different vegetation types in an arctic heath ecosystem
Soil BVOC concentrations sampled along a transect with mixed vegetatio...
Attributing ozone and its precursors to land transport emissions in Europe and Germany
<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Land transport is an important emission source of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and volatile organic compounds. The emissions of nitrogen oxides affect air quality directly. Further, all of these emissions serve as...
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Prof. Nadine Unger
Attributing ozone and its precursors to land transport emissions in Europe and Germany
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Coronavirus can float in air, and experts say WHO and CDC should tell people that
The coronavirus pandemic has brought countries to a standstill. In many places, as countries reopen, Covid-19 cases are on the rise. Follow here for the latest.
ESRL Global Monitoring Division - Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network
The NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory was formed to observe and understand the Earth system and to develop products, through a commitment to research that will advance the National Oceanic and Atmopsheric Administration's environmental...
Constraining remote oxidation capacity with ATom observations
<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The global oxidation capacity, defined as the tropospheric mean concentration
of the hydroxyl radical (OH), controls the lifetime of reactive trace gases
in the atmosphere such as methane and carbon monoxide (CO)....
Seasonal variations of <i>Quercus pubescens</i> isoprene emissions from an <i>in natura</i> forest under drought stress and sensitivity to future climate change in the Mediterranean area
<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> At a local level, biogenic isoprene emissions can greatly affect the air
quality of urban areas surrounded by large vegetation sources, such as in the
Mediterranean region. The impacts of future warmer and drier...
Prof. Nadine Unger
Seasonal variations of Quercus pubescens isoprene emissions from an in natura forest under drought stress and sensitivity to future climate change in the Mediterranean area
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Scientists say WHO ignores the risk that coronavirus floats in air as aerosol
More than 200 researchers worldwide sign an open letter saying current guidance ignores evidence that the coronavirus readily spreads on microscopic particles known as aerosols that can hang in the air for long periods and float dozens of feet.
My identity is a superpower -- not an obstacle
Hollywood needs to stop resisting what the world actually looks like, says actor, director and activist America Ferrera. Tracing the contours of her career, she calls for more authentic representation of different cultures in media -- and a shift in...