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Impacts of convection, chemistry, and forest clearing on biogenic volatile organic compounds over the Amazon

Convection shapes BVOC dynamics over the Amazon rainforest, driving dawn photochemistry in the upper troposphere. Changes in BVOC emissions can strongly impact regional and global atmospheric chemistry.

Nidhi Tripathi
Bianca E. Krumm
Jonathan Williams
ResearchOpen Access20 May 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-10
High temperature sensitivity of monoterpene emissions from global vegetation

Monoterpene emissions from vegetation are more sensitive to temperature than previously thought and are primarily governed by plant functional type with warmer ecosystems appearing to be more sensitive, according to a meta-analysis of monoterpene emission data published between 1980 and 2020.

Efstratios Bourtsoukidis
Andrea Pozzer
Jean Sciare
ResearchOpen Access08 Jan 2024
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 5, P: 1-10
Atmospheric health burden across the century and the accelerating impact of temperature compared to pollution

For different future scenarios, end-of-century mortality could quadruple from present day values. Importantly, the non-optimal temperature attributable mortality will increase at faster rate than the air pollution one, making it a more important health risk factor than air pollution for at least 20% of the world’s population.

Andrea Pozzer
Brendan Steffens
Sara Bacer
ResearchOpen Access30 Oct 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-8
Author Correction: Isoprene nitrates drive new particle formation in Amazon’s upper troposphere

Joachim Curtius
Martin Heinritzi
Jos Lelieveld
Amendments and CorrectionsOpen Access01 Apr 2025
Nature

Volume: 640, P: E30
Isoprene nitrates drive new particle formation in Amazon’s upper troposphere

Aircraft measurements over the Amazon show that new particle formation in the upper troposphere emerges when isoprene, emitted by forests, undergoes oxidation in the presence of nitrogen oxides produced by lightning.

Joachim Curtius
Martin Heinritzi
Jos Lelieveld
ResearchOpen Access04 Dec 2024
Nature

Volume: 636, P: 124-130
Global organic and inorganic aerosol hygroscopicity and its effect on radiative forcing

The effective hygroscopicity of organic matter and inorganic ions in atmospheric aerosols can be efficiently and accurately parameterized by global average values to constrain a critically important aspect in climate and Earth system models

Mira L. Pöhlker
Christopher Pöhlker
Ulrich Pöschl
ResearchOpen Access02 Oct 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-12
African biomass burning affects aerosol cycling over the Amazon

Biomass combustion smoke transported from Africa accounts for about 60% of black carbon concentrations in the central Amazon during the rainy season, according to long-term measurements of refractory black carbon in 2019 and 2020

Bruna A. Holanda
Marco A. Franco
Christopher Pöhlker
ResearchOpen Access05 May 2023
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 4, P: 1-15
Synergistic HNO₃–H₂SO₄–NH₃ upper tropospheric particle formation

By performing experiments under upper tropospheric conditions, nitric acid, sulfuric acid and ammonia can form particles synergistically, at rates orders of magnitude faster than any two of the three components.

Mingyi Wang
Mao Xiao
Neil M. Donahue
ResearchOpen Access18 May 2022
Nature

Volume: 605, P: 483-489
Ambient air pollution undermines chemosensory sensitivity – a global perspective

Anna Oleszkiewicz
Andrea Pozzer
Thomas Hummel
ResearchOpen Access16 Dec 2024
Scientific Reports

Volume: 14, P: 1-11
Reversal of global atmospheric ethane and propane trends largely due to US oil and natural gas production

Atmospheric non-methane hydrocarbon concentrations began declining in the 1970s. Surface and column measurements show that Northern Hemisphere ethane concentrations are now rising, probably due to North American oil and natural gas emissions.

Detlev Helmig
Samuel Rossabi
Andrea Pozzer
Research13 Jun 2016
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 9, P: 490-495
Rising atmospheric levels of fine particulate matter reduce the degree of linear polarisation of light

The degree of linear polarisation of light in the atmosphere, one factor used by honeybees for navigation, decreases with rising atmospheric particulate matter concentrations, which are projected to rise to 2050, according to ground-based in-situ light polarisation measurements in Korea and global particulate matter modelling.

Yoori Cho
Sujong Jeong
Chan-Ryul Park
ResearchOpen Access18 Sept 2024
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 5, P: 1-10
The impact of ammonia on particle formation in the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer

Christos Xenofontos
Matthias Kohl
Theodoros Christoudias
ResearchOpen Access12 Sept 2024
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Volume: 7, P: 1-12
Earth’s atmosphere protects the biosphere from nearby supernovae

Impacts of enhanced cosmic radiation from a nearby supernova on Earth’s biosphere would be limited by compensating effects in ozone catalytic chemical cycles and the resulting increase in cloud and aerosol abundance, according to Earth system modelling.

Theodoros Christoudias
Jasper Kirkby
Jos Lelieveld
ResearchOpen Access14 Jun 2024
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 5, P: 1-8
Health effects of carbonaceous PM2.5 compounds from residential fuel combustion and road transport in Europe

Niki Paisi
Jonilda Kushta
Jos Lelieveld
ResearchOpen Access17 Jan 2024
Scientific Reports

Volume: 14, P: 1-11
Severe atmospheric pollution in the Middle East is attributable to anthropogenic sources

Fine particulate aerosols sampled around the Arabian Peninsula predominantly originate from anthropogenic pollution and constitute one of the leading health risk factors in the region, according to shipborne sampling and numerical atmospheric chemistry modelling.

Sergey Osipov
Sourangsu Chowdhury
Jos Lelieveld
ResearchOpen Access22 Sept 2022
Communications Earth & Environment

Volume: 3, P: 1-10
On the widespread enhancement in fine particulate matter across the Indo-Gangetic Plain towards winter

Narendra Ojha
Amit Sharma
Sachin S. Gunthe
ResearchOpen Access03 Apr 2020
Scientific Reports

Volume: 10, P: 1-9

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