The AMT Outstanding Publication Award was created to recognize outstanding publications (at most two publications per year) in AMT that significantly advance remote sensing, in situ, or laboratory measurement techniques for the constituents and/or properties of the Earth's atmosphere.

2025

Two articles are joint recipients of the 2025 AMT Outstanding Publication Award:

28 Aug 2025

Calibration and performance evaluation of PM_2.5 and NO₂ air quality sensors for environmental epidemiology

Miriam Chacón-Mateos, Héctor García-Salamero, Bernd Laquai, and Ulrich Vogt

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, 4061–4085, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-4061-2025, 2025

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Low-cost sensors have been increasingly used to measure air pollutants in environmental epidemiology. This work investigated the calibration and performance evaluation of PM_2.5 and NO₂ sensors, and introduced novel methodologies for field sensor validation during deployment. It could serve as a best practice guide for the application of sensors in air pollution and epidemiological studies.

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22 Dec 2025

Integrating fireline observations to characterize fire plumes during pyroconvective extreme wildfire events: implications for firefighter safety and plume modeling

Marc Castellnou Ribau, Mercedes Bachfischer, Pau Guarque, Laia Estivill, Marta Miralles Bover, Borja Ruiz, Jordi Pagès, Brian Verhoeven, Zisoula Ntasiou, Ove Stokkeland, Chiel van Heerwaarden, Tristan Roelofs, Martin Janssens, Cathelijne R. Stoof, and Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 18, 7805–7831, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-18-7805-2025, 2025

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Better understanding how the fire-perturbed atmosphere may contribute to sudden transitions to extreme wildfire spread is critical for firefighters and also of interest to the general public. Bringing atmospheric measurements directly to the active fireline allows scientists and firefighters to explicitly see the fire-modified thermodynamic thresholds. This work demonstrates that a paired radiosounding methodology, simultaneously profiling the ambient environment and the active plume updraft directly from the fireline, enables firefighters to better predict pyroconvective fire evolution, thereby improving their safety.

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2025 AMT Outstanding Publication Award Committee: Meng Gao (Hong Kong Baptist University, China), Robert Maiwald (Heidelberg University, Germany), Gabrielle Pétron (University of Colorado Boulder, USA), Robyn Schofield (The University of Melbourne, Australia), Mingjin Tang (Tianjin University, China)

2024

Two articles are joint recipients of the 2024 AMT Outstanding Publication Award:

23 Aug 2024

Atmospheric H₂ observations from the NOAA Cooperative Global Air Sampling Network

Gabrielle Pétron, Andrew M. Crotwell, John Mund, Molly Crotwell, Thomas Mefford, Kirk Thoning, Bradley Hall, Duane Kitzis, Monica Madronich, Eric Moglia, Donald Neff, Sonja Wolter, Armin Jordan, Paul Krummel, Ray Langenfelds, and John Patterson

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 4803–4823, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-4803-2024, 2024

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Hydrogen (H₂), a trace gas in the atmosphere with indirect impacts on climate and air quality, is gaining great interest due to the potential increase in its emission as a low- or zero-carbon energy source. This work details how the NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory has implemented the WMO/MPI X2009 H₂ calibration scale. Such efforts are essential for ensuring reliable long-term, large-scale observations of atmospheric H₂.

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20 Nov 2024

Eddy covariance with slow-response greenhouse gas analysers on tall towers: bridging atmospheric and ecosystem greenhouse gas networks

Pedro Henrique Herig Coimbra, Benjamin Loubet, Olivier Laurent, Laura Bignotti, Mathis Lozano, and Michel Ramonet

Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 6625–6645, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-6625-2024, 2024

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This study presents a method to enable direct flux measurements of greenhouse gases in existing tall-tower networks by adding a 3D sonic anemometer to each station. With little extra instrumentation, it significantly improves the spatial information density of land-surface exchange and enhances the quantification of temporal sources and sinks of greenhouse gases. This concept is highly relevant for the scientific community of greenhouse gases, and offers a blueprint for bridging scales between atmospheric and ecosystem networks.

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2024 AMT Outstanding Publication Award Committee: Meng Gao (Hong Kong Baptist University, China), Robert Maiwald (Heidelberg University, Germany), Christina Orieschnig (French National Institute for Sustainable Development Research, France), Robyn Schofield (The University of Melbourne, Australia), Mingjin Tang (Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, China)