Eimear M. Dunne Ph.D. M.Sc. B.A. (Mod)

Post-doctoral Research Associate

Atmospheric and climate modeller focusing on aerosols and clouds.

Biography

During my PhD at the University of Leeds, I worked as part of the CERN CLOUD project. I used the GLOMAP global aerosol model to investigate the effects of cosmic-ray-induced ionisation on the formation of secondary aerosols. Our findings on the contributions of ionisation and ammonia to global aerosol concentrations were published in Science in December of 2016.

In 2012 I moved to the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) in Kuopio, Finland. Initially I worked with Hannele Korhonen on her Academy of Finland Research Fellow project on Marine CCN. We studied the processes which regulate aerosol concentrations in marine regions.

In 2014, I was awarded funding as an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher. My work on Emulating CLoud-Aerosol Indirect Radiative Effects (ECLAIRE) was designed to construct a statistical emulator of a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) to implement in a global climate model. The project continues at the Climate Modelling group in FMI Helsinki.

I relocated to Cambridge in 2017 to work on the LES4CCFM portion of the ParaCon project. My work will focus on parameterisations of atmospheric convection for use in global models.

Career

• 2017 – : Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Funded by NERC
• 2012 – 2017: Senior Research Scientist, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Kuopio, Finland. Funded by Academy of Finland project numbers 275815 (MARINE-CCN) and 256208 (ECLAIRE).
• 2009 – 2012: Marie Curie EST Research Fellow, University of Leeds, UK. Funded by the EC FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network “CLOUD-ITN” no. 215072.

Qualifications

• PhD: University of Leeds. The Effects of Cosmic Ray Intensity on the Nucleation of Atmospheric Aerosol, 2012. Supervisor: Professor K.S. Carslaw.
• MSc: University of Dublin, Trinity College. High-Performance Computing, 2007.
• BA(Mod): University of Dublin, Trinity College. Theoretical Physics, 2006.

Research

Current research

As part of my work at the Department of Geography, I will participate in LES4CCFM as part of the Parameterization of Convection (ParaCon) project. My role is to improve the Convective Cloud Field Model (CCFM) entraining parcel model, by revising the representation of physical processes in its convective parameterization based on Large Eddy Simulations (LES).

Publications

2017

• Gordon, H., Kirkby, J., Baltensperger, U., Bianchi, F., Breitenlechner, M., Curtius, J., Dias, A., Dommen, J., Donahue, N.M., Dunne, E.M., Duplissy, J., Ehrhart, S., Flagan, R.C., Frege, C., Fuchs, C., Hansel, A., Hoyle, C.R., Kulmala, M., Kürten, A., Lehtipalo, K., Makhmutov, V., Molteni, U., Rissanen, M.P., Stozkhov, Y., Tröstl, J., Tsagkogeorgas, G., Wagner, R., Williamson, C., Wimmer, D., Winkler, P.M., Yan, C., and Carslaw, K.S.: Causes and importance of new particle formation in the present-day and preindustrial atmospheres, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122, 8739-8760, doi:10.1002/2017JD026844, 2017.

2016

• Dunne, E. M., Gordon, H., Kürten, A., Almeida, J., Duplissy, J., Williamson, C., Ortega, I. K., Pringle, K. J., Adamov, A., Baltensperger, U., Barmet, P., Benduhn, F., Bianchi, F., Breitenlechner, M., Clarke, A., Curtius, J., Dommen, J., Donahue, N. M., Ehrhart, S., Flagan, R. C., Franchin, A., Guida, R., Hakala, J., Hansel, A., Heinritzi, M., Jokinen, T., Kangasluoma, J., Kirkby, J., Kulmala, M., Kupc, A., Lawler, M. J., Lehtipalo, K., Makhmutov, V., Mann, G., Mathot, S., Merikanto, J., Miettinen, P., Nenes, A., Onnela, A., Rap, A., Reddington, C. L. S., Riccobono, F., Richards, N. A. D., Rissanen, M. P., Rondo, L., Sarnela, N., Schobesberger, S., Sengupta, K., Simon, M., Sipilä, M., Smith, J. N., Stozkhov, Y., Tomé, A., Tröstl, J., Wagner, P. E., Wimmer, D., Winkler, P. M., Worsnop, D. R. and Carslaw, K. S.: Global atmospheric particle formation from CERN CLOUD measurements, Science, aaf2649, doi:10.1126/science.aaf2649, 2016.
• Duplissy, J., Merikanto, J., Franchin, A., Tsagkogeorgas, G., Kangasluoma, J., Wimmer, D., Vuollekoski, H., Schobesberger, S., Lehtipalo, K., Flagan, R. c., Brus, D., Donahue, N. m., Vehkämäki, H., Almeida, J., Amorim, A., Barmet, P., Bianchi, F., Breitenlechner, M., Dunne, E.M., Guida, R., Henschel, H., Junninen, H., Kirkby, J., Kürten, A., Kupc, A., Määttänen, A., Makhmutov, V., Mathot, S., Nieminen, T., Onnela, A., Praplan, A. p., Riccobono, F., Rondo, L., Steiner, G., Tome, A., Walther, H., Baltensperger, U., Carslaw, K. s., Dommen, J., Hansel, A., Petäjä, T., Sipilä, M., Stratmann, F., Vrtala, A., Wagner, P. e., Worsnop, D. r., Curtius, J. and Kulmala, M.: Effect of ions on sulfuric acid-water binary particle formation II: Experimental data and comparison with QC-normalized classical nucleation theory, J. Geophys. Res. Atmospheres, 2015JD023539, doi:10.1002/2015JD023539, 2016.
• Ehrhart, S., Ickes, L., Almeida, J., Amorim, A., Barmet, P., Bianchi, F., Dommen, J., Dunne, E. M., Duplissy, J., Franchin, A., Kangasluoma, J., Kirkby, J., Kürten, A., Kupc, A., Lehtipalo, K., Nieminen, T., Riccobono, F., Rondo, L., Schobesberger, S., Steiner, G., Tomé, A., Wimmer, D., Baltensperger, U., Wagner, P. E. and Curtius, J.: Comparison of the SAWNUC model with CLOUD measurements of sulphuric acid-water nucleation, J. Geophys. Res. Atmospheres, 121(20), 2015JD023723, doi:10.1002/2015JD023723, 2016.
• Gordon, H., Sengupta, K., Rap, A., Duplissy, J., Frege, C., Williamson, C., Heinritzi, M., Simon, M., Yan, C., Almeida, J., Tröstl, J., Nieminen, T., Ortega, I. K., Wagner, R., Dunne, E. M., Adamov, A., Amorim, A., Bernhammer, A.-K., Bianchi, F., Breitenlechner, M., Brilke, S., Chen, X., Craven, J. S., Dias, A., Ehrhart, S., Fischer, L., Flagan, R. C., Franchin, A., Fuchs, C., Guida, R., Hakala, J., Hoyle, C. R., Jokinen, T., Junninen, H., Kangasluoma, J., Kim, J., Kirkby, J., Krapf, M., Kürten, A., Laaksonen, A., Lehtipalo, K., Makhmutov, V., Mathot, S., Molteni, U., Monks, S. A., Onnela, A., Peräkylä, O., Piel, F., Petäjä, T., Praplan, A. P., Pringle, K. J., Richards, N. A. D., Rissanen, M. P., Rondo, L., Sarnela, N., Schobesberger, S., Scott, C. E., Seinfeld, J. H., Sharma, S., Sipilä, M., Steiner, G., Stozhkov, Y., Stratmann, F., Tomé, A., Virtanen, A., Vogel, A. L., Wagner, A. C., Wagner, P. E., Weingartner, E., Wimmer, D., Winkler, P. M., Ye, P., Zhang, X., Hansel, A., Dommen, J., Donahue, N. M., Worsnop, D. R., Baltensperger, U., Kulmala, M., Curtius, J. and Carslaw, K. S.: Reduced anthropogenic aerosol radiative forcing caused by biogenic new particle formation, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 113(43), 12053-12058, doi:10.1073/pnas.1602360113, 2016.
• Kürten, A., Bianchi, F., Almeida, J., Kupiainen-Määttä, O., Dunne, E. M., Duplissy, J., Williamson, C., Barmet, P., Breitenlechner, M., Dommen, J., Donahue, N. M., Flagan, R. C., Franchin, A., Gordon, H., Hakala, J., Hansel, A., Heinritzi, M., Ickes, L., Jokinen, T., Kangasluoma, J., Kim, J., Kirkby, J., Kupc, A., Lehtipalo, K., Leiminger, M., Makhmutov, V., Onnela, A., Ortega, I. K., Petäjä, T., Praplan, A. P., Riccobono, F., Rissanen, M. P., Rondo, L., Schnitzhofer, R., Schobesberger, S., Smith, J. N., Steiner, G., Stozhkov, Y., Tomé, A., Tröstl, J., Tsagkogeorgas, G., Wagner, P. E., Wimmer, D., Ye, P., Baltensperger, U., Carslaw, K., Kulmala, M. and Curtius, J.: Experimental particle formation rates spanning tropospheric sulfuric acid and ammonia abundances, ion production rates, and temperatures, J. Geophys. Res. Atmospheres, 121(20), 2015JD023908, doi:10.1002/2015JD023908, 2016.
• Lehtipalo, K., Rondo, L., Kontkanen, J., Schobesberger, S., Jokinen, T., Sarnela, N., Kürten, A., Ehrhart, S., Franchin, A., Nieminen, T., Riccobono, F., Sipilä, M., Yli-Juuti, T., Duplissy, J., Adamov, A., Ahlm, L., Almeida, J., Amorim, A., Bianchi, F., Breitenlechner, M., Dommen, J., Downard, A. J., Dunne, E. M., Flagan, R. C., Guida, R., Hakala, J., Hansel, A., Jud, W., Kangasluoma, J., Kerminen, V.-M., Keskinen, H., Kim, J., Kirkby, J., Kupc, A., Kupiainen-Määttä, O., Laaksonen, A., Lawler, M. J., Leiminger, M., Mathot, S., Olenius, T., Ortega, I. K., Onnela, A., Petäjä, T., Praplan, A., Rissanen, M. P., Ruuskanen, T., Santos, F. D., Schallhart, S., Schnitzhofer, R., Simon, M., Smith, J. N., Tröstl, J., Tsagkogeorgas, G., Tomé, A., Vaattovaara, P., Vehkamäki, H., Vrtala, A. E., Wagner, P. E., Williamson, C., Wimmer, D., Winkler, P. M., Virtanen, A., Donahue, N. M., Carslaw, K. S., Baltensperger, U., Riipinen, I., Curtius, J., Worsnop, D. R. and Kulmala, M.: The effect of acid-base clustering and ions on the growth of atmospheric nano-particles, Nat. Commun., 7, 11594, doi:10.1038/ncomms11594, 2016.
• Rondo, L., Ehrhart, S., Kürten, A., Adamov, A., Bianchi, F., Breitenlechner, M., Duplissy, J., Franchin, A., Dommen, J., Donahue, N. M., Dunne, E. M., Flagan, R. C., Hakala, J., Hansel, A., Keskinen, H., Kim, J., Jokinen, T., Lehtipalo, K., Leiminger, M., Praplan, A., Riccobono, F., Rissanen, M. P., Sarnela, N., Schobesberger, S., Simon, M., Sipilä, M., Smith, J. N., Tomé, A., Tröstl, J., Tsagkogeorgas, G., Vaattovaara, P., Winkler, P. M., Williamson, C., Wimmer, D., Baltensperger, U., Kirkby, J., Kulmala, M., Petäjä, T., Worsnop, D. R. and Curtius, J.: Effect of dimethylamine on the gas phase sulfuric acid concentration measured by Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry, J. Geophys. Res. Atmospheres, 121(6), 2015JD023868, doi:10.1002/2015JD023868, 2016.

2015

• Bergman, T., Laaksonen, A., Korhonen, H., Malila, J., Dunne, E. M., Mielonen, T., Lehtinen, K. E. J., Kühn, T., Arola, A. and Kokkola, H.: Geographical and diurnal features of amine-enhanced boundary layer nucleation, J. Geophys. Res. Atmospheres, 120(18), 2015JD023181, doi:10.1002/2015JD023181, 2015.
• Kürten, A., Münch, S., Rondo, L., Bianchi, F., Duplissy, J., Jokinen, T., Junninen, H., Sarnela, N., Schobesberger, S., Simon, M., Sipilä, M., Almeida, J., Amorim, A., Dommen, J., Donahue, N. M., Dunne, E. M., Flagan, R. C., Franchin, A., Kirkby, J., Kupc, A., Makhmutov, V., Petäjä, T., Praplan, A. P., Riccobono, F., Steiner, G., Tomé, A., Tsagkogeorgas, G., Wagner, P. E., Wimmer, D., Baltensperger, U., Kulmala, M., Worsnop, D. R., and Curtius, J.: Thermodynamics of the formation of sulfuric acid dimers in the binary (H₂SO₄-H₂O) and ternary (H₂SO₄-H₂O-NH₃) system, Atmospheric Chem. Phys., 15, 10701-10721, doi:10.5194/acp-15-10701-2015, 2015.
• Schobesberger, S., Franchin, A., Bianchi, F., Rondo, L., Duplissy, J., Kürten, A., Ortega, I. K., Metzger, A., Schnitzhofer, R., Almeida, J., Amorim, A., Dommen, J., Dunne, E. M., Ehn, M., Gagné, S., Ickes, L., Junninen, H., Hansel, A., Kerminen, V.-M., Kirkby, J., Kupc, A., Laaksonen, A., Lehtipalo, K., Mathot, S., Onnela, A., Petäjä, T., Riccobono, F., Santos, F. D., Sipilä, M., Tomé, A., Tsagkogeorgas, G., Viisanen, Y., Wagner, P. E., Wimmer, D., Curtius, J., Donahue, N. M., Baltensperger, U., Kulmala, M., and Worsnop, D. R.: On the composition of ammonia-sulfuric-acid ion clusters during aerosol particle formation, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 55-78, doi:10.5194/acp-15-55-2015, 2015.

2014

• Dunne, E. M., Mikkonen, S., Kokkola, H. and Korhonen, H.: A global process-based study of marine CCN trends and variability, Atmospheric Chem. Phys., 14(24), 13631-13642, 2014.
• Partanen, A.-I., Dunne, E.M., Bergman, T., Laakso, A., Kokkola, H., Ovadnevaite, J., Sogacheva, L., Baisnée, D., Sciare, J., Manders, A. and others: Global modelling of direct and indirect effects of sea spray aerosol using a source function encapsulating wave state, Atmospheric Chem. Phys., 14(21), 11731-11752, 2014.
• Riccobono, F., Schobesberger, S., Scott, C. E., Dommen, J., Ortega, I. K., Rondo, L., Almeida, J., Amorim, A., Bianchi, F., Breitenlechner, M., David, A., Downard, A., Dunne, E. M., Duplissy, J., Ehrhart, S., Flagan, R. C., Franchin, A., Hansel, A., Junninen, H., Kajos, M., Keskinen, H., Kupc, A., Kürten, A., Kvashin, A. N., Laaksonen, A., Lehtipalo, K., Makhmutov, V., Mathot, S., Nieminen, T., Onnela, A., Petäjä, T., Praplan, A. P., Santos, F. D., Schallhart, S., Seinfeld, J. H., Sipilä, M., Spracklen, D. V., Stozhkov, Y., Stratmann, F., Tomé, A., Tsagkogeorgas, G., Vaattovaara, P., Viisanen, Y., Vrtala, A., Wagner, P. E., Weingartner, E., Wex, H., Wimmer, D., Carslaw, K. S., Curtius, J., Donahue, N. M., Kirkby, J., Kulmala, M., Worsnop, D. R. and Baltensperger, U.: Oxidation Products of Biogenic Emissions Contribute to Nucleation of Atmospheric Particles, Science, 344(6185), 717-721, doi:10.1126/science.1243527, 2014.

2013

• Almeida, J., Schobesberger, S., Kürten, A., Ortega, I. K., Kupiainen-Määttä, O., Praplan, A. P., Adamov, A., Amorim, A., Bianchi, F., Breitenlechner, M., David, A., Dommen, J., Donahue, N. M., Downard, A., Dunne, E.M., Duplissy, J., Ehrhart, S., Flagan, R. C., Franchin, A., Guida, R., Hakala, J., Hansel, A., Heinritzi, M., Henschel, H., Jokinen, T., Junninen, H., Kajos, M., Kangasluoma, J., Keskinen, H., Kupc, A., Kurtén, T., Kvashin, A. N., Laaksonen, A., Lehtipalo, K., Leiminger, M., Leppä, J., Loukonen, V., Makhmutov, V., Mathot, S., McGrath, M. J., Nieminen, T., Olenius, T., Onnela, A., Petäjä, T., Riccobono, F., Riipinen, I., Rissanen, M., Rondo, L., Ruuskanen, T., Santos, F. D., Sarnela, N., Schallhart, S., Schnitzhofer, R., Seinfeld, J. H., Simon, M., Sipilä, M., Stozhkov, Y., Stratmann, F., Tomé, A., Tröstl, J., Tsagkogeorgas, G., Vaattovaara, P., Viisanen, Y., Virtanen, A., Vrtala, A., Wagner, P. E., Weingartner, E., Wex, H., Williamson, C., Wimmer, D., Ye, P., Yli-Juuti, T., Carslaw, K. S., Kulmala, M., Curtius, J., Baltensperger, U., Worsnop, D. R., Vehkamäki, H. and Kirkby, J.: Molecular understanding of sulphuric acid-amine particle nucleation in the atmosphere, Nature, 502(7471), 359-363, doi:10.1038/nature12663, 2013.
• Keskinen, H., Virtanen, A., Joutsensaari, J., Tsagkogeorgas, G., Duplissy, J., Schobesberger, S., Gysel, M., Riccobono, F., Slowik, J. G., Bianchi, F., Yli-Juuti, T., Lehtipalo, K., Rondo, L., Breitenlechner, M., Kupc, A., Almeida, J., Amorim, A., Dunne, E. M., Downard, A. J., Ehrhart, S., Franchin, A., Kajos, M. K., Kirkby, J., Kürten, A., Nieminen, T., Makhmutov, V., Mathot, S., Miettinen, P., Onnela, A., Petäjä, T., Praplan, A., Santos, F. D., Schallhart, S., Sipilä, M., Stozhkov, Y., Tomé, A., Vaattovaara, P., Wimmer, D., Prevot, A., Dommen, J., Donahue, N. M., Flagan, R. C., Weingartner, E., Viisanen, Y., Riipinen, I., Hansel, A., Curtius, J., Kulmala, M., Worsnop, D. R., Baltensperger, U., Wex, H., Stratmann, F., and Laaksonen, A.: Evolution of particle composition in CLOUD nucleation experiments, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 5587-5600, doi:10.5194/acp-13-5587-2013, 2013.
• Schobesberger, S., Junninen, H., Bianchi, F., Lonn, G., Ehn, M., Lehtipalo, K., Dommen, J., Ehrhart, S., Ortega, I. K., Franchin, A., Nieminen, T., Riccobono, F., Hutterli, M., Duplissy, J., Almeida, J., Amorim, A., Breitenlechner, M., Downard, A. J., Dunne, E. M., Flagan, R. C., Kajos, M., Keskinen, H., Kirkby, J., Kupc, A., Kurten, A., Kurten, T., Laaksonen, A., Mathot, S., Onnela, A., Praplan, A. P., Rondo, L., Santos, F. D., Schallhart, S., Schnitzhofer, R., Sipila, M., Tome, A., Tsagkogeorgas, G., Vehkamaki, H., Wimmer, D., Baltensperger, U., Carslaw, K. S., Curtius, J., Hansel, A., Petaja, T., Kulmala, M., Donahue, N. M. and Worsnop, D. R.: Molecular understanding of atmospheric particle formation from sulfuric acid and large oxidized organic molecules, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 110(43), 17223-17228, doi:10.1073/pnas.1306973110, 2013.

2012

• Dunne, E. M., Lee, L. A., Reddington, C. L. and Carslaw, K. S.: No statistically significant effect of a short-term decrease in the nucleation rate on atmospheric aerosols, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 11573-11587, 2012.
• Laken, B. A., Pallé, E., Čalogović, J. and Dunne, E. M.: A cosmic ray-climate link and cloud observations, J. Space Weather Space Clim., 2, A18, doi:10.1051/swsc/2012018, 2012.

2011

• Kirkby, J., Curtius, J., Almeida, J., Dunne, E.M., Duplissy, J., Ehrhart, S., Franchin, A., Gagne, S., Ickes, L., Kurten, A., Kupc, A., Metzger, A., Riccobono, F., Rondo, L., Schobesberger, S., Tsagkogeorgas, G., Wimmer, D., Amorim, A., Bianchi, F., Breitenlechner, M., David, A., Dommen, J., Downard, A., Ehn, M., Flagan, R. C., Haider, S., Hansel, A., Hauser, D., Jud, W., Junninen, H., Kreissl, F., Kvashin, A., Laaksonen, A., Lehtipalo, K., Lima, J., Lovejoy, E. R., Makhmutov, V., Mathot, S., Mikkila, J., Minginette, P., Mogo, S., Nieminen, T., Onnela, A., Pereira, P., Petaja, T., Schnitzhofer, R., Seinfeld, J. H., Sipila, M., Stozhkov, Y., Stratmann, F., Tome, A., Vanhanen, J., Viisanen, Y., Vrtala, A., Wagner, P. E., Walther, H., Weingartner, E., Wex, H., Winkler, P. M., Carslaw, K. S., Worsnop, D. R., Baltensperger, U. and Kulmala, M.: Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation, Nature, 476(7361), 429-433, doi:10.1038/nature10343, 2011.