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Over 260 peer-reviewed publications with over 22000 citations and Hirsch index of 76 (Web of Science, Publons ID: G-4499-2013, June 2024)

Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer: 2022 Update, Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2022, Salawitch, R. J., et al., 75 pp., World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2023,

The NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) Mission: Imaging the Chemistry of the Global Atmosphere, Thompson, C. R., et al., Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, E761–E790, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0315.1 (2022)

The contribution of global aviation to anthropogenic climate forcing for 2000 to 2018, D. S. Lee, D. W. Fahey, et al., Atmospheric Environment, 244 (2021) 117834 doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117834 (2021).

How will climate change affect the United States in decades to come?, D.J. Wuebbles, D. W. Fahey, and K. A. Hibbard, Eos, 98, doi: 10.1029/2017EO086015, 03 November 2017.

Designing the climate observing system of the future, E. C. Weatherhead, et al., Earth's Future, 6: 80-102. doi:10.1002/2017EF000627 (2018)

The role of sulfur dioxide in stratospheric aerosol formation evaluated using in-situ measurements in the tropical lower stratosphere, A. W. Rollins, et al., Geophysical Research Letters, 44, doi:10.1002/2017GL072754, 2017.

The spectroscopic foundation of radiative forcing of climate by carbon dioxide, Martin G. Mlynczak, et al., Geophysical Research Letters, 43, doi:10.1002/2016GL068837, 2016.

Aviation and climate change: A scientific perspective, David W. Fahey and David S. Lee, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 2, 97-104, 2016.

Future atmospheric abundances and climate forcings from scenarios of global and regional hydrofluorocarbon (HFCs) emissions, Guus J.M. Velders, David W. Fahey, John S. Daniel, Stephen O. Andersen, Mack McFarland, Atmospheric Environment, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2015.10.071, 2015.

Airborne observations of regional variation in fluorescent aerosol across the United States, A. E. Perring, J. P. Schwarz, D. Baumgardner, M. T. Hernandez, D. V. Spracklen, C. L. Heald, R. S. Gao, G. Kok, G. R. McMeeking, J. B. McQuaid, and D. W. Fahey, Journal of Geophysical Research, 120, 1153–1170, doi:10.1002/2014JD022495, 2015.

Challenges of a lowered U.S. ozone standard, O. R. Cooper, A. O. Langford, D.D. Parrish, D. W. Fahey, Science, 348, 1096-1097, 2015.

The AquaVIT-1 intercomparison of atmospheric water vapor measurement techniques, D. W. Fahey, et al., Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 7, 3177–3213, doi:10.5194/amt-7-3177-2014, 2014.

Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment, Bond, T. C., et al., Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50171, 2013.

The Montreal Protocol Protection of Ozone and Climate, David W. Fahey, Theoretical Inquires in Law, 14, 21 - 42, doi:10.1515/til-2013-004, 2013.

Assessing Single Particle Soot Photometer and Integrating Sphere/Integrating Sandwich Spectrophotometer measurement techniques for quantifying black carbon concentration in snow, J. P. Schwarz, S. J. Doherty, F. Li, S. T. Ruggiero, C. E. Tanner, A. E. Perring, R. S. Gao, and D. W. Fahey, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques , 5, 2581–2592, doi:10.5194/amt-5-2581-20122012, 2012.

Coatings and their enhancement of black-carbon light absorption in the tropical atmosphere, J. P. Schwarz, J. R. Spackman, D. W. Fahey, R. S. Gao, U. Lohmann, P. Stier, L. A. Watts, D. S. Thomson, D. A. Lack, L. Pfister, M. J. Mahoney, D. Baumgardner, J. C. Wilson, J. M. Reeves, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, D03203, doi:10.1029/2007JD009042, 2008.

The importance of the Montreal Protocol in protecting climate, G. J. M. Velders, S. O. Andersen, J. S. Daniel, D. W. Fahey, M. McFarland, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104, 4814-4819, 2007.

Altair unmanned aircraft system achieves demonstration goal, D. W. Fahey, J. H. Churnside, J. W. Elkins, A. J. Gasiewski, K. H. Rosenlof, S. Summers, M. Aslaksen, T. A. Jacobs, J. D. Sellars, C. D. Jennison, L. C. Freudinger, M. Cooper, Eos Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 87, No. 20, pp. 197 and 201, 2006.

The detection of large HNO3-containing particles in the winter Arctic stratosphere, D. W. Fahey, R. S. Gao, K. S. Carslaw, J. Kettleborough, P. J. Popp, M. J. Northway, J. C. Holecek, S. C. Ciciora, R. J. McLaughlin, T. L. Thompson, R. H. Winkler, D. G. Baumgardner, B. Gandrud, P. O. Wennberg, S. Dhaniyala, K. McKinney, Th. Peter, R. J. Salawitch, T. P. Bui, J. W. Elkins, C. R. Webster, E. L. Atlas, H. Jost, J. C. Wilson, R. L. Herman, A. Kleinböhl, M. von König, Science, 291, 1026-1031, 2001.