Rate My Professor Nicolas Bellouin

Bellouin's research specializations encompass aerosol radiative forcing of the climate system from satellite observations and global modelling, the role of aerosols in the Earth System coupling with atmospheric chemistry, cryosphere, ocean, and land surfaces, atmospheric radiative transfer and remote sensing, and climate impacts of aviation focusing on non-CO₂ effects. He has led projects including Climaviation, AEROPLANE, and CleanCloud, was PI for the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service on Climate Forcing (2016-2020), and contributed to UK Earth System Model development (2013-2021). He has supervised PhD students such as James Mollard and postdoctoral researchers including Velle Toll, Ross Herbert, and Lydia Hill. Notable awards include the 2024 Institute of Physics Edward Appleton Medal and Prize for pioneering satellite observations and simulations quantifying aerosol climate impacts, and Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher status (2017-2020). He served as Lead Author for Chapter 3 Human Influence on the Climate System in IPCC AR6 Working Group I. Key publications feature Bounding global aerosol radiative forcing of climate change (Reviews of Geophysics, 2020), Weak average liquid-cloud-water response to anthropogenic aerosols (Nature, 2019), and contributions to Global Carbon Budget 2024 (Earth System Science Data). With over 67,000 citations and an h-index of 73 on Google Scholar, his work has advanced comprehension of aerosol-climate interactions.