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Eric Ray
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NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
University of Colorado, Boulder
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325 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80305
United StatesFirst Author Publications:
- Ray, E., and K. Rosenlof (2007), Hydration of the upper troposphere by tropical cyclones, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D12311, doi:10.1029/2006JD008009.
- Ray, E., et al. (2004), Evidence of the effect of summertime midlatitude convection on the subtropical lower stratosphere from CRYSTAL-FACE tracer measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D18304, doi:10.1029/2004JD004655.
Co-Authored Publications:
- Bourgeois, I., et al. (2022), Large contribution of biomass burning emissions to ozone throughout the global remote troposphere, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., doi:10.1073/pnas.2109628118.
- Froyd, K., et al. (2022), Dominant role of mineral dust in cirrus cloud formation revealed by global-scale measurements, Nat. Geosci., 15, 177-183, doi:10.1038/s41561-022-00901-w.
- Bates, K. H., et al. (2021), The Global Budget of Atmospheric Methanol: New Constraints on Secondary, Oceanic, and Terrestrial Sources, J. Geophys. Res., 126, doi:10.1029/2020JD033439.
- Chen, X., et al. (2021), HCOOH in the Remote Atmosphere: Constraints from Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) Airborne Observations, ACS Earth Space Chem., doi:10.1021/acsearthspacechem.1c00049.
- Gonzalez, Y., et al. (2021), Impact of stratospheric air and surface emissions on tropospheric nitrous oxide during ATom, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 11113-11132, doi:10.5194/acp-21-11113-2021.
- Jin, Y., et al. (2021), A mass-weighted isentropic coordinate for mapping chemical tracers and computing atmospheric inventories, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 217-238, doi:10.5194/acp-21-217-2021.
- Thompson, C., et al. (2021), The NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) Mission: Imaging the Chemistry of the Global Atmosphere, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0315.1.
- Williamson, C., et al. (2021), Large hemispheric difference in nucleation mode aerosol concentrations in the lowermost stratosphere at mid and high latitudes, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 9065-9088, doi:10.5194/acp-21-9065-2021.
- Bourgeois, I., et al. (2020), Global-scale distribution of ozone in the remote troposphere from ATom and HIPPO airborne field missions., Atmos. Chem. Phys., doi:10.5194/acp-2020-315.
- Brewer, J., et al. (2020), Evidence for an Oceanic Source of Methyl Ethyl Ketone to the Atmosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 60273, Article, doi:10.1029/2019GL086045.
- Hodzic, A., et al. (2020), Characterization of organic aerosol across the global remote troposphere: a comparison of ATom measurements and global chemistry models, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 4607-4635, doi:10.5194/acp-20-4607-2020.
- Kupc, A., et al. (2020), The potential role of organics in new particle formation and initial growth in the remote tropical upper troposphere, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 15037-15060, doi:10.5194/acp-20-15037-2020.
- Schill, G., et al. (2020), Widespread biomass burning smoke throughout the remote troposphere, Nat. Geosci., 13, 422-427, doi:10.1038/s41561-020-0586-1.
- Wang, S., et al. (2019), Atmospheric Acetaldehyde: Importance of Air‐Sea Exchange and a Missing Source in the Remote Troposphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, doi:10.1029/2019GL082034.
- Williamson, C., et al. (2019), ATom: In Situ Tropical Aerosol Properties and Comparable Global Model Outputs, Ornl Daac, doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1684.
- Williamson, C., et al. (2019), A large source of cloud condensation nuclei from new particle formation in the tropics, Nature, 574, 399-403, doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1638-9.
- Murphy, D., et al. (2018), An aerosol particle containing enriched uranium encountered in the remote T upper troposphere, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 184–185, 95-100, doi:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2018.01.006.
- Rollins, A., et al. (2018), SO2 Observations and Sources in the Western Pacific Tropical Tropopause Region, J. Geophys. Res., 123, 13,549-13,559, doi:10.1029/2018JD029635.
- Wofsy, S. C., et al. (2018), ATom: Merged Atmospheric Chemistry, Trace Gases, and Aerosols, Ornl Daac, doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1581.
- Herman, R. L., et al. (2017), Enhanced stratospheric water vapor over the summertime continental United States and the role of overshooting convection, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 6113-6124, doi:10.5194/acp-17-6113-2017.
- Waugh, D., et al. (2013), Tropospheric SF6: Age of air from the Northern Hemisphere midlatitude surface, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 11429-11441, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50848.
- Hurst, D., et al. (2011), Stratospheric water vapor trends over Boulder, Colorado: Analysis of the 30 year Boulder record, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D02306, doi:10.1029/2010JD015065.
- Wofsy, S. C., et al. (2011), HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO): Fine-grained, global scale measurements of climatically important atmospheric gases and aerosols, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, 369, 2073-2086, doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.0313.
- Petropavlovskikh, I., et al. (2010), Low‐ozone bubbles observed in the tropical tropopause layer during the TC4 campaign in 2007, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00J16, doi:10.1029/2009JD012804.
- Marcy, T., et al. (2007), Measurements of trace gases in the tropical tropopause layer, Atmos. Environ., 41, 7253-7261, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.05.032.
- Richard, E., et al. (2006), High-resolution airborne profiles of CH4, O3, and water vapor near tropical Central America in late January to early February 2004, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D13304, doi:10.1029/2005JD006513.
- Marcy, T., et al. (2004), Quantifying Stratospheric Ozone in the Upper Troposphere with in Situ Measurements of HCl, Science, 304, 261-265, doi:10.1126/science.1093418.
- Richard, E., et al. (2003), Large-scale equatorward transport of ozone in the subtropical lower stratosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 4714, doi:10.1029/2003JD003884.
- Greenblatt, J. B., et al. (2002), Tracer-based determination of vortex descent in the 1999-2000 Arctic winter, J. Geophys. Res., 107, 8279, doi:10.1029/2001JD000937.
- Salawitch, R., et al. (2002), Chemical loss of ozone during the Arctic winter of 1999/2000: An analysis based on balloon-borne observations, J. Geophys. Res., 107, doi:10.1029/2001JD000620.
- Andrews, A. E., et al. (2001), Mean ages of stratospheric air derived from in situ observations of CO2, CH4, and N2O, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 32.
- Neuman, J. A., et al. (2001), In situ measurements of HNO3, NOy, NO, and O3 in the lower stratosphere and upper troposphere, Atmos. Environ., 35, 5789-5797.