Annemarie Fraser

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

School of GeoSciences
The University of Edinburgh
King's Buildings
West Mains Road
Edinburgh, EH9 3JW, UK
T: +44 (0)131 6505098
E: ac.fraser@ed.ac.uk

Research Interests

I am working in the Tropospheric Chemistry and Earth Observation Modelling Group in the School of GeoSciences.

I am currently studying methane in the atmosphere using GEOS-Chem, a 3-D global chemical transport model driven by assimilated meteorological fields. I am using the model together with measurements of methane from ground-based flask networks and satellites (GOSAT, IASI) and an ensemble Kalman filter to better constrain methane emissions.

My work is supported by the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO).

Brief CV

• Ph.D., Department of Physics, University of Toronto (2008) (My thesis is available here.)
• M.Sc., Department of Physics, University of Toronto (2003)
• Hon. B.Sc., University College, University of Toronto (2002)

Publications

• C. Adams, K. Strong, R.L. Batchelor, P.F. Bernath, S. Brohede, C. Boone, D. Degenstein, W.H. Daffer, J.R. Drummond, P.F. Fogal, E. Farahani, C. Fayt, A. Fraser, F. Goutail, F. Hendrick, F. Kolonjari, R. Lindenmaier, G. Manney, C.T. McElroy, C.A. McLinden, J. Mendonca, J.-H. Park, B. Pavlovic, A. Pazmino, C. Roth, V. Savastiouk, K.A. Walker, D. Weaver, and X. Zhao (2012); Validation of ACE and OSIRIS ozone and NO2 measurements using ground-based instruments at 80°N; Atmospheric Measurement Techniques; 5. Access the PDF.
• C. Adams, K. Strong, X. Zhao, M.R. Bassford, M.P. Chipperfield, W. Daffer, J.R. Drummond, E.E. Farahani, W. Feng, A. Fraser, F. Goutail, G. Manney, C.A. McLinden, A. Pazmino, M. Rex, and K.A. Walker (2012); Severe 2011 ozone depletion assessed with 11 years of ozone, NO2, and OClO measurements at 80°N; Geophysical Research Letters; 39; doi:10.1029/2011GL050478. Access the PDF.
• P.K. Patra, S. Houweling, M. Krol, P. Bousquet, D. Belikov, D. Bergmann, H. Bian, P. Cameron-Smith, M.P. Chipperfield, K. Corbin, A. Fortems-Cheiney, A. Fraser, E. Gloor, P. Hess, A. Ito, S. R. Kawa, R.M. Law, Z. Loh, S. Maksyutov, L. Meng, P.I. Palmer, R.G. Prinn, M. Rigby, R. Saito, and C. Wilson (2011); TransCom model simulations of CH4 and related species: linking transport, surface flux and chemical loss with CH4 variability in the troposphere and lower stratosphere; Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics; 11. Access the PDF.
• A. Fraser, C. Chan Miller, P.I. Palmer, N.M. Deutscher, N.J. Jones, and D.W.T. Griffith (2011); The Australian methane budget: Interpreting surface and train-borne measurements using a chemistry transport model; J. of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres; 116; doi:10.1029/2011JD015964. Access the PDF.
• R.H. Parker, H. Boesch, A. Cogan, A. Fraser, L. Feng, P. Palmer, J. Messerschmidt, N. Deutscher, D. Griffith, J. Notholt, P. Wennberg, and D. Wunch (2011); Methane Observations from the Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite: Comparison to Ground-based TCCON data and Model Calculations; Geophysical Research Letters; 38; doi:10.1029/2011GL047871. Access the PDF.
• A.A. Bloom, P.I. Palmer, A. Fraser, D.S. Reay, and C. Frankenberg (2010); Large-Scale Controls of Methanogenesis Inferred from Methane and Gravity Spaceborne Data; Science; 327. Access the article.
• A. Fraser, C. Adams, J.R. Drummond, F. Goutail, G.L. Manney, and K. Strong (2009); The Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory UV-visible Ground-Based Spectrometer: First measurements of O3, NO2, BrO, and OClO columns; Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer; 110. Access the PDF.
• A. Fraser, F. Goutail, K. Strong, P.F. Bernath, C. Boone, W.H. Daffer, J.R. Drummond, D.G. Dufour, T.E. Kerzenmacher, G.L. Manney, C.T. McElroy, C. Midwinter, C.A. McLinden, F. Nichitiu, C.R. Nowlan, J. Walker, K.A. Walker, H. Wu, and J. Zou (2008); Intercomparison of UV-visible measurements of ozone and NO2 during the Canadian Arctic ACE validation campaigns: 2004-2006; Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics; 8. Access the PDF
• A. Fraser, P.F. Bernath, R.D. Blatherwick, J.R. Drummond, P.F. Fogal, D. Fu, F. Goutail, T.E. Kerzenmacher, C.T. McElroy, C. Midwinter, J.R. Olson, K. Strong, K.A. Walker, D. Wunch, and I.J. Young (2007); Intercomparison of ground-based ozone and NO2 measurements during the MANTRA 2004 campaign; Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics; 7. Access the PDF.
• A. Fraser, F. Goutail, S.M.L. Melo, C.A. McLinden, and K. Strong (2007); Lightning-produced NO2 Observed From Ground-Based UV-Visible Spectrometers at Vanscoy, Saskatchewan in August 2004; Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics; 7. Access the PDF and corrigendum.
• T.E. Kerzenmacher, K.A. Walker, K. Strong, R. Berman, P.F. Bernath, C.D. Boone, J.R. Drummond, H. Fast, A. Fraser, K. MacQuarrie, C. Midwinter, K. Sung, C.T. McElroy, R.L. Mittermeier, J. Walker, and H. Wu (2005); Measurements of O3, NO2 and Temperature During the 2004 Canadian Arctic ACE Validation Campaign; Geophysical Research Letters; 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL023032. Access the PDF.

Previous Research

My increasingly outdated University of Toronto web page.