SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. Ravishankara, A.R., L.M. David, J.P. Pierce, and C. Venkataraman, Outdoor air pollution in India is not only an urban problem, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, DOI:10.1073/pnas.2007236117, 2020
  2. Solomon, S., J. Alcamo, and A.R. Ravishankara, Unfinished business after five decades of ozone-layer science and policy, Nature Communications, 11, Article #4272, 26 August 2020.
  3. Liji M. David, A R Ravishankara, John K Kodros, Jeffrey R Pierce, Chandra Venkataraman, and Pankaj Sadavarte, Premature Mortality due to PM2.5 over India: Effect of Atmospheric Transport and Anthropogenic Emissions, GeoHealth, 3 (1), 2-10, doi: 10.1029/2018GH000169, 2019.
  4. Ravishankara, A.R., A-L. Pele, Li Zhou, Y G Ren, A. Zogka, V. Daele, M. Idir, SS Brown, MN Romanais, A. Mellouki, Atmospheric loss of nitrous oxide (N2O) is not influenced by its potential reactions with OH and NO3 radicals, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 21, 24592-24600, 2019
  5. D. M. Murpy and A.R. Ravishankara, Trends and patterns in the contributions to cumulative radiative forcing from different regions of the world, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 115, 13192-13197, 2018.
  6. Ravishankara, A. R.(2015) Why do we do the science we do, Current Science, 2015.
  7. Ravishankara, AR, Y. Rudich, J.A. Pyle, JA (2015), Role of Chemistry in Earth’s Climate, Chem. Rev., 115, 3679-3681, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00226
  8. Ravishankara, AR, Y. Rudich, D.J. Wuebbles (2015), Physical Chemistry of Climate Metrics, Chem. Rev., 115, 3682-3703, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00010
  9. Ravishankara AR, Daniel JS, and Portmann RW (2009) Nitrous Oxide (N2O): The Dominant Ozone-Depleting Substance Emitted in the 21st Century. Science 326(5949):123-125.
  10. Ravishankara A (2005) Chemistry-climate coupling: the importance of chemistry in climate issues. Faraday Discussions 130:9-26
  11. Smith I.W.M. and Ravishankara A (2002) Role of hydrogen-bonded intermediates in the bimolecular reactions of the hydroxyl radical. J. Phys. Chem. A 106(19):4798-4807.
  12. Brown S, Stark H, Ciciora S, and Ravishankara A (2001) In-situ measurement of atmospheric NO3 and N2O5 via cavity ring-down spectroscopy. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28(17):3227-3230.
  13. Brown S, Burkholder J, Talukdar R, and Ravishankara A (2001) Reaction of hydroxyl radical with nitric acid: Insights into its mechanism. J. Phys. Chem. A 105(9):1605-1614.
  14. Brown S, Ravishankara A, and Stark H (2000) Simultaneous kinetics and ring-down: Rate coefficients from single cavity loss temporal profiles. J. Phys. Chem. A 104(30):7044-7052
  15. Ravishankara A, Hancock G, Kawasaki M, and Matsumi Y (1998) Photochemistry of ozone: Surprises and recent lessons. Science 280(5360):60-61
  16. Talukdar R, Longfellow C, Gilles M, and Ravishankara A (1998) Quantum yields of O(1D) in the photolysis of ozone between 289 and 329 nm as a function of temperature. Geophys. Res. Lett. 25(2):143-146.
  17. Gierczak T, Burkholder J, Bauerle S, and Ravishankara A (1998) Photochemistry of acetone under tropospheric conditions. Chem. Phys. 231(2-3):229-244.
  18. McKeen, S.A., T. Gierczak, J. B. Burkholder, P. O. Wennberg, T. F. Hanisco, E. R. Keim, R.-S. Gao, S. C. Liu, A. R. Ravishankara, D. W. Fahey, (1997) The photochemistry of acetone in the upper troposphere: A source of odd-hydrogen radicals. Geophys. Res. Lett. 24(24):3177-3180.
  19. Ravishankara A (1997) Heterogeneous and multiphase chemistry in the troposphere. Science 276(5315):1058-1065.
  20. Solomon S, Garcia R, and Ravishankara A (1994) On the role of iodine in ozone depletion. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmospheres 99(D10):20491-20499.
  21. Ravishankara A, et al. (1994) Do hydrofluorocarbons destroy stratospheric ozone. Science 263(5143):71-75.
  22. Hanson D, Ravishankara A, and Solomon S (1994) Heterogeneous reactions in sulfuric-acid aerosols – a framework for model-calculations. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmospheres 99(D2):3615-3629.
  23. Hanson D and Ravishankara A (1994) Reactive uptake of ClONO2 onto sulfuric-acid due to reaction with HCl and H2O. J. Phys. Chem. 98(22):5728-5735.
  24. Ravishankara A, Solomon S, Turnipseed A, and Warren R (1993) Atmospheric lifetimes of long-lived halogenated species., Science 259(5092):194-199.
  25. Hanson D and Ravishankara A (1992) Investigation of the reactive and nonreactive processes involving ClONO2 and HCl on water and nitric-acid doped ice. J. Phys. Chem. 96(6):2682-2691.
  26. Vaghjiani G and Ravishankara A (1991) New measurement of the rate coefficient for the reaction of OH with methane. Nature, 350(6317):406-409.
  27. R. Talukdar, A. Mellouki, T. Gierczak, J. B. Burkholder, S. A. McKeen, and A. R. Ravishankara, (1991) Atmospheric lifetime of CHF2Br, a proposed substitute for halons,  Science 252(5006):693-695.
  28. Hanson D and Ravishankara A (1991) The reaction probabilities of ClONO2 and N2O5 on 40-percent to 75-percent sulfuric-acid-solutions. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmospheres 96(D9):17307-17314.
  29. Wine, P. H., A. R. Ravishankara, N. M. Kreutter, R. C. Shah, et al. (1981) Rate of reaction of OH with HNO3. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmospheres 86:1105-1112.
  30. Ravishankara A, Nicovich J, Thompson R, and Tully F (1981) Kinetic-study of the reaction of OH with H2 and D2 from 250-K TO 1050-K. J. Phys. Chem. 85(17):2498-2503.