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Norman T. O'Neill

Professeur associé, Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines
FLSH Géomatique appliquée

Présentation

Sujet de recherche

Atmosphère (incluant aspects chimiques), Télémétrie (télédétection, radar), Changements climatiques, impacts

Disciplines de recherche

Sciences de la terre (géologie, géographie physique, etc.)

Mots-clés

aérosols, climatologie, géophysique environnement, optique, spectrométrie, Télédétection

Intérêts de recherche

Assimilation des données optiques des aérosols pour le domaine pancanadien.

Langues parlées et écrites

Anglais, Français

Diplômes

(1982). (Doctorat, Doctorat). York University.

(1977). Radiative transfer modelling applied to ground-based and satellite data (Maîtrise avec mémoire, Maîtrise - Maîtrise). York University.

(1975). (Baccalauréat, Baccalauréat). Bishop's University.

Prix et distinctions

  • (2011) Invited sabbatical. Dalhousie University. (Distinction).
  • (2006) Prix de la recherche et de la création / Prize for research and creation. Université de Sherbrooke. (Prix / Récompense).

Financement

  • Subvention. (Obtenu). Co-chercheur. Mineral Dust Dynamics and Climate Change at High Latitude Mountainous Regions. National Centers of Excellence (The) (NCOE). Canadian Mountain Network. 400 000 $. (2019-2022)
  • Subvention. (Obtenu). Chercheur principal. Remote sensing and analysis of 2nd order, Arctic-aerosol parameters. Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et Génie du Canada (CRSNG). Discovery Grants. 110 000 $. (2017-2022)
  • Subvention. (Obtenu). Chercheur principal. Analysis of remotely sensed, aerosol-cloud interaction over the Arctic. Agence Spatiale Canadienne (ASC). Earth System Science Data Analyses. 230 550 $. (2017-2020)
  • Subvention. (Obtenu). Co-demandeur. AVATARS - Arctic Validation And Training for Atmospheric Research in Space. Agence Spatiale Canadienne (ASC). Flights and Fieldwork for the Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST 2015). 500 000 $. (2016-2019)
  • Subvention. (Obtenu). Co-chercheur. Operation and Maintenance Support for Research Equipment. Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Naturelles et Génie du Canada (CRSNG). Research Tools and Instruments. 300 000 $. (2017-2019)

Publications

Articles de revue

  • AboEl Fetouh, Y., N. T. O'Neill, Hayes, K. Ranjbar, I. Abboud, V. Fioletov,. (2019). Climatological-scale analysis of intensive andsemi-intensive aerosol parameters derived from AERONET Arctic retrievals. JGR (Article soumis).
  • Mateos, David, Victoria Cachorro, Cristian Velasco, Norm T O'Neill, Maria A Burgos, Ramiro Gonzalez, Carlos Toledano, Marcos Herreras, Abel Calle, Ángel M de Frutos. (2019). Comparison of three different methodologies for the identification of high atmospheric turbidity episodes. Atmospheric Research (Révisions requises).
  • Ranjbar, K., N. T. O’Neill, Y. AboEl-Fetouh, E. Lutsch, G. Lesins, E. M. McCullough, K. Strong, V. E. Fioletov, I. Abboud. (2019). Extreme smoke event over the high Arctic. Atmospheric Environment (Article accepté).
  • McKendry, I. G., A. Christen, S.-C. Lee, M. Ferrara, K. B. Strawbridge, N. O'Neill, and A. Black. (2019). Impacts of an Intense Wildfire Smoke Episode on Surface Radiation, Energy and Carbon Fluxes in Southwestern British Columbia, Canada. ACP 19 (2), 835-846. (Article publié).
  • Abbatt, J. P. D., Leaitch, W. R., Aliabadi, A. A., Bertram, A. K., Blanchet, J.-P., Boivin-Rioux, A., Bozem, H., Burkart, J., Chang, R. Y. W., Charette, J., Chaubey, J. P., Christensen, R. J., Cirisan, A., Collins, D. B., Croft, B., Dionne, J., Evans, G. J., Fletcher, C. G., Ghahremaninezhad, R., Girard, E., Gong, W., Gosselin, M., Gourdal, M., Hanna, S. J., Hayashida, H., Herber, A. B., Hesaraki, S., Hoor, P., Huang, L., Hussherr, R., Irish, V. E., Keita, S. A., Kodros, J. K., Köllner, F., Kolonjari, F., Kunkel, D., Ladino, L. A., Law, K., Levasseur, M., Libois, Q., Liggio, J., Lizotte, M., Macdonald, K. M., Mahmood, R., Martin, R. V., Mason, R. H., Miller, L. A., Moravek, A., Mortenson, E., Mungall, E. L., Murphy, J. G., Namazi, M., Norman, A.-L., O'Neill, N. T. et al. (2019). New insights into aerosol and climate in the Arctic. ACP (Article accepté).
  • Pu, B., P. Ginoux, H. Guo, C. Hsu, J. Kimball, B. Marticorena, S. Malyshev, V. Naik, N. T. O'Neill, C. P. García-Pando, J. M. Prospero, E. Shevliakova, and M. Zhao. (2019). Retrieving the global distribution of thresholdof wind erosion from satellite data and implementing it into the GFDLAM4.0/LM4.0 model. ACP (Révisions requises).
  • Eck, T. F., Holben, B. N., Reid, J. S., Xian, P.,Giles, D. M., Sinyuk, A., A. Smirnov , J. S. Schafer, I. Slutsker, J. Kim , J.-H. Koo, M. Choi, K. C. Kim, I. Sano, A. Arola, A. M. Sayer, R. C. Levy, L. A. Munchak, N. T. O’Neill, et al. (2018). Observations of the interaction and transport of fine mode aerosols with cloud and/or fog in Northeast Asia from Aerosol Robotic Network and satellite remote sensing. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 123 (10), 5560-5587. (Article publié).
  • Atkinson, D. B., M. Pekour, D. Chand, J. G. Radney, K. R. Kolesar, Q. Zhang, A. Setyan, N. T. O'Neill, and C. D. Cappa. (2018). Using spectral methods to obtain particle size information from optical data: applications to measurements from CARES 2010. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 18 (8), 5499-5514. (Article publié).
  • Mateos, D., V. E. Cachorro, N. T. O’Neill, C. Toledano, M.A. Burgos, R. Gonzalez, C. Velasco-Merino, M. Herreras, A. Calle, A.M. de Frutos. (2017). Different methodologies for the identificationof high turbidity atmospheric episodes. J. Environ. Poll. (Révisions requises).
  • Pérez-Ramírez, D., M. Andrade,T. Eck,A. Stein,N. T. O'Neill, H. Lyamani, S. Gassó, D. N. Whiteman, I. Veselovskii, F. Velarde, and Alados-Arboledas, L. (2017). Multi year aerosol characterization in the tropical Andes and in adjacent Amazonia using AERONET measurements. Atmospheric Environment (Article accepté).
  • Hesaraki*, S., N. T. O'Neill, Lesins, G., Saha*, A., R. V. Martin, V. E. Fioletov, K. Baibakov*, I. (2017). Polar summer comparisons of a chemical transportmodel with a 4-year analysis of fine and coarse mode aerosol optical depthretrievals over the Canadian Arctic. Atmosphere-Ocean DOI: 10.1080/0705590 (Article publié).
  • Blanchard*, Y., A. Royer, N. T. O'Neill, D. D. Turner and E. W. Eloranta. (2017). Thin ice clouds in the Arctic: Cloud optical depth and particle size retrieved from ground-based thermal infrared radiometry. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 10 (6), 2129-2147. (Article accepté).
  • Utttal, T., S. Starkweather, J. R. Drummond, T. Vihma, A. P. Makshtas,L. S. Darby, J. F. Burkhart, C. J. Cox, L. N. Schmeisssser, T. Haiden, M. Matuturilli, M. D. Shupupe, G. de Boer, A. Saha, A. A. Grachev, S. M. Crepinsek, L. Bruhwiler, B. Goodison, B. McArthur, Von P. Walden, E. J. Dlugugokencky, P. Ola G. Persssson, G. Lesins, T. Laurila, J. A. Ogren, R. Stone, C. N. Long, S. Sharma, A. Massssling, D. D. Turner, D. M. Stanitstski, E. Asmi, M. Aurela, H. Skov, K. Eleftftheriadis, A. Virkkula, A. Plattt, E. J. Førland, Y. Iijima, I. E. Nielsen, M. H. Bergin, L. Candlish, N. S. Zimov, S. A. Zimov, N. T. O’Neill, P. F. Fogal,R. Kivi, E. A. Konopleva-Akish, J. Verlinde, V. Y. Kustustustov, B. Vasel, V. M. Ivakhov, Y. Viisanen, and J. M. Intrieri,. (2016). International Arctic systems for observing theatmosphere : an international polar year legacy consortium. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 1033-1056. (Article publié).
  • O'Neill, N. T., K. Baibakov*, S. Hesaraki*, L. Ivanescu*, R. V. Martin, C. Perro, J. P. Chaubey*, A. Herber, T. J. Duck. (2016). Temporal and spectral screening of polar-winter starphotometry data: impact of homogeneous clouds & low-altitude crystal layers on climatological-scaleestimates of aerosol optical depth. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 16 (19), 12753-12765. (Article accepté).
  • Tomasi, C., A. A. Kokhanovsky, A. Lupi, C. Ritter, A. Smirnov, N. T. O’Neill, R. S. Stone, B. N. Holben, S. Nyeki, C. Wehrli, A. Stohl, M. Mazzola, C. Lanconelli, V. Vitale, K. Stebel, V. Aaltonen, G. de Leeuw , E. Rodriguez, A. B. Herber, V. F. Radionov, T. Zielinski, T. Petelski, S. M. Sakerin, D. M. Kabanov , Y. Xue, L. Mei, L. Istomina, R. Wagener, B. McArthur, P. S. Sobolewski, R. Kivi, Y. Courcoux, P. Larouche, S. Broccardo and S. J. Piketh. (2015). Aerosol remote sensing in polar regions. Earth Science Reviews 140 108-157. (Article publié).
  • Proulx-Bourque, J.-S., Magagi, R., O'Neill, N. T. (2015). Filtering ICESat data for vertical accuracy determination. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 81 (9), 701-709. (Article publié).
  • Baibakov, K., O’Neill, N.T., Ivanescu, L., Duck, T.J., Perro, C., Herber, A., Schulz, K.-H, Schrems, O. (2015). Synchronous starphotometry and lidar measurements at Eureka in High Canadian Arctic. AMT 8 3789-3809. (Article publié).
  • Kaku, K. C., J. S. Reid, N. T. O’Neill, P. K. Quinn, D. J. Coffman, and T. F. Eck. (2014). Verification and Application of the Extended Spectral Deconvolution Algorithm (SDA+) Methodology to Estimate Aerosol Fineand Coarse Mode Extinction Coefficients in the Marine Boundary Layer. AMT 7 3399-3412. (Article publié).
  • Cottle, P., K. Strawbridge, I. McKendry, N. T. O’Neill, A., Saha*. (2013). A pervasive and persistent Asian dust event over North America during spring 2010 : lidar and sunphotometer observations. ACP 13 4515-4527. (Article publié).
  • Viatte, C., Strong, K., Paton-Walsh, C., Mendonca, J., O'Neill, N. T., and Drummond, J. R. (2013). Measurements of CO, HCN and C2H6 total columns in smoke plumes transported from the 2010 Russian boreal forest fires tothe Canadian high Arctic. Atmosphere-Ocean doi:10.1080/07055900 (Article publié).

Articles de conférence

  • Pérez-Ramírez, D., H. Lyamani, A. Smirnov, N. T. O'Neill, I. Veselovskii, D. N. Whiteman, F. J. Olmo, and L. Alados-Arboledas. (2016). Statistical study of day and night hourlypatterns of columnar aerosol properties using sun and star photometrymeasurements. International Society for Optics and Photonics., 100010K-1-100010K-18. (Article publié).
  • Ivanescu, L., K. Baibakova, N. T. O'Neill, J.-P. Blanchet, Y. Blanchard, A. Saha, M. Rietzec and .-H. Schulz,. (2014). Challenges in operating an Arctic telescope. Proc. SPIE 9145, (Article accepté).

Autres contributions

Gestion d'évènements

  • Organizing committee. (2019) Polar AOD workshop. (Atelier).

Activités de collaboration internationale

  • co-PI. Portugal.
  • Member. Italie. Member of Polar AOD science network.
  • Chair. Canada. Arctic aerosol workshop.

Présentations

  • Ivanescu, L., N. T. O'Neill, J.-P. Blanchet. (2019). Calibration in starphotometry. Polar Aerosol Optical Depth Retreat. North Canaan, États-Unis
  • Aboel Fetouh,Y., N. T. O'Neill, J. K. Kodros, and J. Pierce. (2019). Preliminary comparisons of Arctic, ground-based, columnar aerosol retrievals with GEOS-Chem TOMAS simulations. IUGG general assembly. Montreal, Canada
  • Ranjbar, K., N. T. O’Neill, J. S. King, P. L. Hayes, R. Chang. (2019). Remote sensing of local dust over the Canadian Arctic. IASC Workshop on Effects and Extremes of High Latitude Dust. Reykjavik, Islande
  • Ivanescu, L., N. T. O'Neill, J.-P. Blanchet. (2019). Satellite remote sensing of stratospheric aerosols and attendant aerosol cloud interactions in the upper troposphere. IUGG general assembly. Montreal, Canada
  • Aslemand, A., N. T. O'Neill, E. McCullough, K. Ranjbar, T. Duck, P. Hayes, S. Tremblay, A. Vicente-Luis, R. Chang, Y. AboEl Fetouh, P. Fogal, I. Abboud. (2019). Using Raman lidar profiles to link surface microphysical and ground-based remote sensing aerosol properties at the PEARL high Arctic site. IUGG general assembly. Montreal, Canada
  • Blanchet, J.-P., L. Coursol, P. Gauthier, L. Ivanescu, Q. Libois, N. O’Neill and L. Pelletier. (2018). Advancing cloud microphysics observations in cold polar air formation. CMOS, 52nd Congress. Halifax, Canada
  • Hayes, P., S. Tremblay, N. O'Neill, J. Prakash Chaubey, Y. AboEl Fetouh, R Chang, F. Kolonjari, S. Sharma, W.R. Leaitch, P. Fogal, E. Lutsch, K. Strong. (2018). Characterization of aerosol size distributions and optical properties in the Canadian High Arctic. CMOS, 52nd Congress. Halifax, Canada
  • AobEl-Fetouh, Y., N. T. O’Neill, K. Ranjbar, S. Hesaraki. (2018). Climatological scale pan-Arctic trend analysis of AERONET-derived particle size distributions and their associated fine and coarse mode intensive parameters. AGU Fall meeting. Washington, États-Unis
  • AboEl Fetouh, Y., A. Aslemand, N. T. O'Neill, Hayes, Patrick, S. Tremblay, R Chang, E. McCullough, P. Fogal, I. Abboud. (2018). Investigations into the link between surface and columnar aerosol properties at the PEARL high-Arctic site. CMOS, 52nd Congress. halifax, Canada
  • Ivanescu, L., N. T. O’Neill, J.-P. Blanchet. (2018). SACIA investigations into UTLS aerosol-cloud interactions during the polar winter. CMOS, 52nd Congress. Halifax, Canada
  • Ivanescu, L., O'Neill, N. T., Blanchet, J.-P. (2018). Satellite remote sensing for monitoring cloud formation processes along aerosol transport lines. AGU Fall Meeting. Washington, États-Unis
  • Aboel Fetouh, Y., O'Neill, N.T., Hayes, P.L., Crevier, C., Chang, R.Y.-W., and Tremblay, S. (2017). Analysis of multi-year fine and coarse mode aerosol optical depth, particle size and refractive index retrievals from ground-based sunphotometry / sky radiometry data acquired in the western Arctic. 2nd PACES (Air Pollution in the Arctic: Climate, Environment and Societies) workshop. victoria, Canada
  • O’Neill, N. T., L. Ivanescu, J. P. Blanchet, P. Hayes, R. Chang, Y. Aboel Fetouh, K., Ranjbar, A. Aslemand. (2017). Analysis of remotely sensed, aerosol-cloud interaction over the Arctic. Arctic Change 2017. Québec, Canada
  • Aboel Fetouh, Y., O'Neill, N.T. (2017). Climatological scale analysis of intensive (per particle) AERONET retrieval parameters over the Arctic. NETCARE workshop. Toronto, Canada
  • Ranjbar, K., O’Neill, N. T., Ahmed, Y. , Ritter, C., Eloranta E. (2017). Remote sensing of dust over the Arctic,. International Conference on High Latitude Dust. reykjavik, Islande
  • Ivanescu, L., N. T. O’Neill, J.-P. Blanchet. (2017). Spectrophotometric Catalog for atmospheric remote sensing through star photometry. AGU fall meeting. New Orleans, États-Unis
  • O'Neill, N. T. (2016). An overview of the status of aerosol optical measurements in the high Arctic. 37th Review of Atmospheric Transmission Models Meeting. Boston, MA, États-Unis
  • O’Neill, N. T., Tomasi, C., A. Herber, R. Stone, K. Baibakov*, L. Ivanescu*, S. Hesaraki*, A. Saha*, R. Martin, J. Chaubey*, T. Duck, Y. Aboel Fetouh*, K. Ranjbar*. (2016). Overview of aerosol remote sensing in the Arctic. AGU fall meeting. San Francisco, États-Unis
  • K. Baibakov, N. T. O.Neill. (2015). Activities at Eureka, Lunar photometry workshop. Lunar photometry workshop. Valladolid, Espagne
  • Baibakov*, K., L. Ivanescu*, S. Hesaraki*, N. T. O’Neill, T. Duck, R. Martin, C. Perro, A. Herber, C. Ritter, O. Schrems,. (2015). Polar winter aerosol optical depth (AOD) comparisons with CALIOP and GEOS-Chem estimates. 49th CMOS Congress & 13th AMS Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography. Whistler, Canada
  • Baibakov, K., Y. Blanchard, N. T. O’Neill, and A. Royer. (2015). Quantifying night-time aerosol optical depth using star- and moon-photometry. Light pollution : theory modelling and measurements (LPTMM). Jouvennce, Canada
  • Chaubey*, J. P., N. T. O’Neill, D. R. Hudak, P. Rodriguez, L. Ivanescu*, E. Eloranta, and T. Duck. (2014). Aerosols and Precipitation Retrievals over Eureka by Remote Sensing: Validation of Space Based Profiling Retrievals. AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, États-Unis
  • Royer A., P. Cliche, N. Marchand, A. Roy, Y. Blanchard*, N. O’Neill and D. Crozel. (2014). An Automatic Sky Spectral Thermal Infrared Radiometer (ASSTIR) system. 4th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing: RAQRS’IV. Valencia, Espagne
  • Saha, A., N.T. O'Neill, K. Strong, T. Nakajima, O. Uchino, and M. Shiobara. (2014). Empirical analysis of aerosol and thin cloud optical depth effects on CO2 retrievals from GOSAT. AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, États-Unis
  • Hesaraki*, S., N. T. O'Neill, A. Saha*, J. P. Chaubey*, R. V. Martin, G.Lesins, and I. Abboud. (2014). GEOS-Chem AOD (aerosol optical depth) predictions compared with starphotometry and CALIOP estimates during the Polar winter. AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, États-Unis
  • Chaubey*, J. P., Gaige* Kerr, N. T. O'Neill, P. Hayes, D. E. Atkinson. (2014). Identification of absorbing organic (brown carbon) aerosols through Sun Photometry: results from AEROCAN / AERONET stations in high Arctic and urban Locations. AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, États-Unis
  • Ivanescu*, L., N. T. O'Neill, J.-P. Blanchet, K. Baibakov*, J. P. Chaubey*, C. W. Perro and T. J. Duck. (2014). Multi-Sensor Investigation of a Regional High-Arctic Cloudy Event. AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, États-Unis
  • O'Neill, N. T., A. Saha*, J. Zou, T. McElroy, K. Baibakov*, L. Ivanescu*. (2014). Re-analysis of MAESTRO extinction coefficient spectra in the case of PSCs. ACE Science Team Meeting. Toronto, Canada
  • O'Neill, N. T. (2013). AEROCAN support for Activity 4 (Implications of Measurements on Simulations of Atmospheric Processes and Climate). NETCARE workshop. Toronto, Canada
  • O'Neill, N. T. (2013). AOD validation. Workshop on the Canadian contribution to the NASA TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution) mission. Montreal, Canada
  • A. Saha*, I. Abboud, K. Strawbridge, K. Baibakov*, L. Ivanescu*, T. Duck. (2013). Analysis of anthropogenic & natural aerosol events across Canada using co-located photometry & Lidar data. Environment Canada Seminar. Downsview, Canada
  • O’Neill, N. T., Saha*, A., G. Lesins, C. Perro, T. J. Duck, K. Baibadov*, C. Ritter, L. Ivanescu*, A. Herber. (2013). CALIOP-based analysis of PSC optical dynamics. CMOS conference. Saskatoon, Canada
  • Saha*, A., O’Neill, N. T., R. S. Stone, K. Strong, C. Viatte, E. Eloranta, I. Abboud, V. Fioletov, A. Herber. (2013). Seasonal and inter-annual variations in Aerosol optical properties over the High Arctic. CMOS conference. Saskatoon, Canada