Donald R. Blake

About

Donald R. Blake is a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine, within the Department of Chemistry. His research interests focus on analytical atmospheric and environmental chemistry. He is associated with the UC Irvine School of Physical Sciences and is involved in advancing understanding in these scientific areas through his academic and research activities.

Research topics

• Environmental science
• Meteorology
• Atmospheric sciences
• Chemistry
• Geology
• Geography
• Environmental chemistry
• Climatology
• Organic chemistry
• Oceanography

Selected publications

• The Global Methane Budget 2000-2017

  Earth system science data · 2019 · 2594 citations

  Understanding and quantifying the global methane (CH4) budget is important for assessing realistic pathways to mitigate climate change. Atmospheric emissions and concentrations of CH4 continue to increase, making CH4 the second most important human-influenced greenhouse gas in terms of climate forcing, after carbon dioxide (CO2). The relative importance of CH4 compared to CO2 depends on its shorter atmospheric\nlifetime, stronger warming potential, and variations in atmospheric growth rate over…

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• The Chemistry Mechanism in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)

  Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2020 · 642 citations

  Abstract The Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2) includes a detailed representation of chemistry throughout the atmosphere in the Community Atmosphere Model with chemistry and Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model configurations. These model configurations use the Model for Ozone and Related chemical Tracers (MOZART) family of chemical mechanisms, covering the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and lower thermosphere. The new MOZART tropospheric chemistry scheme (T1) has a numb…

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• Global methane budget 2000--2020

  ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam) · 2025-05-09 · 218 citations

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  Understanding and quantifying the global methane (CH4) budget is important for assessing realistic pathways to mitigate climate change. CH4 is the second most important human-influenced greenhouse gas in terms of climate forcing after carbon dioxide (CO2), and both emissions and atmospheric concentrations of CH4 have continued to increase since 2007 after a temporary pause. The relative importance of CH4 emissions compared to those of CO2 for temperature change is related to its shorter atmosphe…

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• The NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) Mission: Imaging the Chemistry of the Global Atmosphere

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2021 · 139 citations

  Abstract This article provides an overview of the NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) mission and a summary of selected scientific findings to date. ATom was an airborne measurements and modeling campaign aimed at characterizing the composition and chemistry of the troposphere over the most remote regions of the Pacific, Southern, Atlantic, and Arctic Oceans, and examining the impact of anthropogenic and natural emissions on a global scale. These remote regions dominate global chemical reactivity…

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• Correcting model biases of CO in East Asia: impact on oxidant distributions during KORUS-AQ

  Atmospheric chemistry and physics · 2020 · 118 citations

  controls, can improve ozone pollution over East Asia.

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Recent grants

• RAPID: Examining the relation between trace gas emissions and seismic activity of the 2019 Searles Valley Earthquake

  NSF · $200k · 2019–2023

• Collaborative Research: Organic Trace Gas Studies from Whole-Air Sampling of the Impact of Megacities and Intercontinental Transport on Regional and Global Environments

  NSF · $676k · 2005–2008

• RAPID: Chemical Analysis of Atmosphere Associated with Gulf Oil Spill

  NSF · $93k · 2010–2011

Frequent coauthors

• G. W. Sachse

  Langley Research Center

  591 shared

• H. B. Singh

  National Institute of Technology Delhi

  567 shared

• R. W. Talbot

  University of Colorado Denver

  487 shared

• Brian G. Heikes

  University of Rhode Island

  486 shared

• J. D. Bradshaw

  Wake Forest University

  477 shared

• S. T. Sandholm

  University of North Dakota

  452 shared

• G. L. Gregory

  377 shared

• N. J. Blake

  University of California, Irvine

  371 shared

Education

• Professor, Chemistry

  University of California Irvine

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