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Owen B. Toon
Researcher at University of Colorado Boulder
Publications - 436
Citations - 34651
Owen B. Toon is an academic researcher from University of Colorado Boulder. The author has contributed to research in topics: Stratosphere & Aerosol. The author has an hindex of 94, co-authored 424 publications receiving 32237 citations. Previous affiliations of Owen B. Toon include National Center for Atmospheric Research & Cornell University.
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Stratospheric Aerosol Modification by Supersonic Transport Operations With Climate Implications
TL;DR: The potential effects on stratospheric aerosois of supersonic transport emissions of sulfur dioxide gas and submicron size soot granules are estimated in this paper, where an interactive particle-gas model of the stratosphere aerosol is used to compute particle changes due to exhaust emissions.
The effect of volcanic activity on climate
TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed radiative transfer calculations of the global energy balance to estimate the change in mean surface temperature that results from the addition of volcanic aerosols to the stratosphere, which is consistent with stratospheric warming observed in the last few months following the eruption of Mt. Agung and the average surface temperature decrease found for the two year period following major volcanic explosions.
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The Hazy Details of Early Earth's Atmosphere—Response
Eric T. Wolf,Owen B. Toon +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that a Titan-like view of the early Earth is inaccurate and that a CO2-dominated atmosphere is more likely than a Titanlike view, which dominated thinking in the 1980s and 1990s, but has since been in decline.