Kathryn McKain

Organization

University of Colorado, Boulder

NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory

First Author Publications

McKain, K., et al. (2015), Methane emissions from natural gas infrastructure and use in the urban region of Boston, Massachusetts, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 112, 1941-1946, doi:10.1073/pnas.1416261112.

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Co-Authored Publications

Gaubert, B., et al. (2024), Neutral Tropical African CO2 Exchange Estimated From Aircraft and Satellite Observations, Global Biogeochem. Cycles.
Gaubert, B., et al. (2024), Neutral Tropical African CO2 Exchange Estimated From Aircraft and Satellite Observations, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 37, e2023GB007804, doi:10.1029/2023GB007804.
Guo, H., et al. (2023), Heterogeneity and chemical reactivity of the remote troposphere defined by aircraft measurements – corrected, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 99-117, doi:10.5194/acp-23-99-2023.
Katich, J.M., et al. (2023), Pyrocumulonimbus affect average stratospheric aerosol composition, Science, 379, 815-820, doi:10.1126/science.add3101.
Kort, E.A., and K. McKain (2023), Aircraft vertical profile measurements for evaluation of satellite retrievals of long-lived trace gases, Field Measurements for Passive Environmental Remote Sensing, 235-244, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-823953-7.00020-4.
Krysztofiak, G., et al. (2023), N2O Temporal Variability from the Middle Troposphere to the Middle Stratosphere Based on Airborne and Balloon-Borne Observations during the Period 1987–2018, Atmosphere, 14, 585, doi:10.3390/atmos14030585.
Laughner, J., et al. (2023), A new algorithm to generate a priori trace gas profiles for the GGG2020 retrieval algorithm, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16, 1121-1146, doi:10.5194/amt-16-1121-2023.
Loechli, M., et al. (2023), Evaluating Northern Hemisphere Growing Season Net Carbon Flux in Climate Models Using Aircraft Observations, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 37, e2022GB007520, doi:10.1029/2022GB007520.
Parker, H.A., et al. (2023), Inferring the vertical distribution of CO and CO2 from TCCON total column values using the TARDISS algorithm, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 16, 2601-2625, doi:10.5194/amt-16-2601-2023.
Sweeney, C., et al. (2023), Using atmospheric trace gas vertical profiles to evaluate model fluxes: a case study of Arctic-CAP observations and GEOS simulations for the ABoVE domain, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 6347-6364, doi:10.5194/acp-22-6347-2022.
Tang, W., et al. (2023), Application of the Multi-Scale Infrastructure for Chemistry and Aerosols version 0 (MUSICAv0) for air quality research in Africa, Geosci. Model. Dev., doi:10.5194/gmd-16-6001-2023.
Allen , H.M., et al. (2022), H2O2 and CH3OOH (MHP) in the Remote Atmosphere: 1. Global Distribution and Regional Influences, J. Geophys. Res., 127, doi:10.1029/2021JD035701.
Bourgeois, I.E.V., 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.
Deeter, M., et al. (2022), The MOPITT Version 9 CO product: sampling enhancements and validation, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 2325-2344, doi:10.5194/amt-15-2325-2022.
Deeter, M., et al. (2022), The MOPITT Version 9 CO product: sampling enhancements and validation, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 2325-2344, doi:10.5194/amt-15-2325-2022.
Gonzalez, A., et al. (2022), Fossil Versus Nonfossil CO Sources in the US: New Airborne Constraints From ACT-America and GEM, Geophys. Res. Lett..
Hegarty, J., et al. (2022), Validation and error estimation of AIRS MUSES CO profiles with HIPPO, ATom, and NOAA GML aircraft observations, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 205-223, doi:10.5194/amt-15-205-2022.
Hu, L., et al. (2022), Continental-scale contributions to the global CFC-11 emission increase between 2012 and 2017, Atmos. Chem. Phys., doi:10.5194/acp-22-2891-2022.
Worden, H.M., et al. (2022), TROPESS/CrIS carbon monoxide profile validation with NOAA GML and ATom in situ aircraft observations, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 5383-5398, doi:10.5194/amt-15-5383-2022.
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.
Guo, H., et al. (2021), Heterogeneity and chemical reactivity of the remote troposphere defined by aircraft measurements, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 13729-13746, doi:10.5194/acp-21-13729-2021.
Kulawik, S.S., et al. (2021), Evaluation of single-footprint AIRS CH4 profile retrieval uncertainties using aircraft profile measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 335-354, doi:10.5194/amt-14-335-2021.
Liu, J., et al. (2021), Carbon Monitoring System Flux Net Biosphere Exchange 2020 (CMS-Flux NBE 2020), Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 299-330, doi:10.5194/essd-13-299-2021.
Long, M.C., et al. (2021), Strong Southern Ocean carbon uptake evident in airborne observations, Science, 374, 1275-1280.
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.
Yu, X., et al. (2021), Aircraft-based inversions quantify the importance of wetlands and livestock for Upper Midwest methane emissions, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 951-971, doi:10.5194/acp-21-951-2021.
Bourgeois, I.E.V., 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.
Brune, W.H., et al. (2020), Exploring Oxidation in the Remote Free Troposphere: Insights From Atmospheric Tomography (ATom), J. Geophys. Res., 125, doi:10.1029/2019JD031685.
Straus, 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.
Martínez-Alonso, S., et al. (2020), 1.5 years of TROPOMI CO measurements: comparisons to MOPITT and ATom, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 4841-4864, doi:10.5194/amt-13-4841-2020.
Nalli, N., et al. (2020), Validation of Carbon Trace Gas Profile Retrievals from the NOAA-Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System for the Cross-Track Infrared Sounder, Remote Sens., 12, doi:10.3390/rs12193245.
Thames, A.B., et al. (2020), Missing OH reactivity in the global marine boundary layer, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 4013-4029, doi:10.5194/acp-20-4013-2020.
Travis, K., et al. (2020), Constraining remote oxidation capacity with ATom observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 7753-7781, doi:10.5194/acp-20-7753-2020.
Wang, S., et al. (2020), Global Atmospheric Budget of Acetone: Air‐Sea Exchange and the Contribution to Hydroxyl Radicals, J. Geophys. Res., 125, e2020JD032553, doi:10.1029/2020JD032553.
Asher, E., et al. (2019), Novel approaches to improve estimates of short-lived halocarbon emissions during summer from the Southern Ocean using airborne observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 14071-14090, doi:10.5194/acp-19-14071-2019.
Crowell, S., et al. (2019), The 2015–2016 carbon cycle as seen from OCO-2 and the global in situ network, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 9797-9831, doi:10.5194/acp-19-9797-2019.
Wolfe, G.M., et al. (2019), ATom: Column-Integrated Densities of Hydroxyl and Formaldehyde in Remote Troposphere, Ornl Daac, doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1669.
Wolfe, G.M., et al. (2019), Mapping hydroxyl variability throughout the global remote troposphere via synthesis of airborne and satellite formaldehyde observations, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., doi:10.1073/pnas.1821661116.
Wofsy, S., et al. (2018), ATom: Merged Atmospheric Chemistry, Trace Gases, and Aerosols, Ornl Daac, doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1581.

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