Visitor Directory

Name	Affiliation	Host	Research	Dates
Natalie Kille	University of Colorado	Jim Hannigan	Correlative measurements with ACOM FTIR. They wish to verify retrievals of tropospheric species they perform using a low spectral resolution instrument. They will require a few nice sunny days for a good comparison with their mobile/airborne instrument.Read more	Nov 2018 to Dec 2018
Rahul Zaveri	DOE/PNNL	Sasha Madronich	Rahul will work with us on the GECKO-A model. The plan is to couple the thermodynamic model MOSAIC with the chemical model GECKO-A. This will allow prediction of aerosol water and ionic content.Read more	Nov 2018
Young-Hee Ryu	Postdoc	Alma Hodzic	Young-Hee will continue working on improving air quality predictions in presence of clouds using WRF-Chem, TUV, field campaign NOMADSS and SEAC4RS, and satellite data. In particular, she is writing up her study on the influence of cloud data assimilation on...Read more	Nov 2018 to Nov 2019
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez	Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano, CSIC	Doug Kinnison	Alfonso will collaborate with Douglas Kinnison and other scientists in NCAR to further develop a global chemistry-climate model, CAM-Chem, to incorporate additional VSL chemistry into the new version of CESM2 (CAM-Chem). He will validate the revised CAM-Chem model by comparing...Read more	Oct 2018 to Nov 2018
Bernard Aumont	LISA/U. Paris	Sasha Madronich	Bernard is an Affiliate Scientist with ACOM, and is a co-developer of the GECKO-A model. During his visit we will discuss and establish strategies for future GECKO-A model development and applications. We will also discuss the planning of the NCAR/NSF...Read more	Oct 2018 to Nov 2018
Chi-Tsan Wang	UNC-Chapel Hill	Gabriele Pfister	Chi-Tsan will collaborate with us on extending the WRF-Chem IRR analysis tool to the T1 chemistry we recently added to WRF-Chem and develop a python-based analysis package we can share with the community. We will also work on a paper...Read more	Oct 2018 to Nov 2018
Adam Bourassa	University of Saskatchewan	Bill Randel	Adam Bourassa is the faculty advisor for Kimberlee Dube, who is a PhD student visitor in ACOM. We are working on analysis of long-term satellite measurements of stratospheric NO2, and making comparisons with WACCM simulations. Read more	Oct 2018
Doug Degenstein	University of Saskatchewan	Bill Randel	Doug Degenstein is a faculty advisor for Kimberlee Dube, who is a PhD student visitor in ACOM. We are collaborating on analysis of long-term satellite measurements of stratospheric NO2, and making comparisons with WACCM simulations. Read more	Oct 2018
Chris McLinden	Environment and Climate Change Canada	Bill Randel	Chris McLinden is a collaborator on a project involving Kimberlee Dube, who is a PhD student visitor in ACOM. We are working on analysis of long-term satellite measurements of stratospheric NO2, and making comparisons with WACCM simulations. Read more	Oct 2018
Jean-Pierre Chaboureau	CNRS/LA Toulouse	Alma Hodzic	Jean-Pierre has been collaborating with Alma to compare the results of the WRF-Chem and Meso-NH-Chem regional models. We are currently preparing for the AQMEII phase 4 modeling inter-comparison exercise. This model inter-comparison is particularly focused on deposition processes.Read more	Oct 2018 to Nov 2018
Yifan Zhang	The University of Vermont	Xuan Zhang	Yifan Zhang will help to develop a user-friendly interface that will be used for synchronized recording and processing of the data generated from a variety of instruments including chromatography and spectrometry. Her background in computer science will be an ideal...Read more	Oct 2018 to Jan 2019
Kimberlee Dube	University of Saskatchewan	Bill Randel	Kimberlee Dube is a graduate student at the University of Saskatchewan working with the OSIRIS satellite group. We will be collaborating on a project to evaluate long-term variability of stratospheric reactive nitrogen and ozone from merged satellite data records. We...Read more	Oct 2018 to Nov 2018
Kristie Boering	University of California Berkeley	Sue Schauffler	Kristie will be working with ACOM scientists on various field campaign measurements she has made from Whole Air Samples. Kristie will discuss with ACOM scientists the Whole Air Sampler current and future uses and operations as well as the potential...Read more	Oct 2018
Gregor Surawicz	Bruker Optik GmbH	Jim Hannigan	Gregor will install the Bruker Instrument in the OT lab. Read more	Sep 2018 to Oct 2018
Dan Phoenix	University of Oklahoma	Mary Barth	Dan Phoenix (U. Oklahoma) will continue analysis and documentation of a WRF-Chem simulation to understand the processes causing ozone wrapping around thunderstorm anvils. He is investigating stratosphere-troposphere exchange of trace gases (water associated with overshooting tops, and ozone...Read more	Sep 2018 to Dec 2018
Sabine Robrecht	Research Center Juelich	Simone Tilmes	Sabine will work with Simone Tilmes on CLaMS box modeling.Read more	Sep 2018 to Dec 2018
Keyhong Park	KOPRI	Louisa Emmons	Keyhong will be using CAM-chem simulations to study the Arctic and Antarctic atmosphere and ocean biogeochemistry. He has observations from a research vessel for many years during each hemisphere's summer that will be used to evaluate and improve CAM-chem.Read more	Aug 2018
Vanessa Brocchi	Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Dspace, Centre natioal de la recherche scientifique (LPC2E/CNRS)	Doug Kinnison	Dr. Brocchi will model the chemistry and dynamics of nitrous oxide (N2O) using a global model. For this task she will learn to run CESM2 (WACCM). The N2O measurements available for this work will be based on aircraft, balloon, and...Read more	Aug 2018 to Sep 2018
Gretchen Mullendore	University of North Dakota	Mary Barth	We will work on a paper describing the utility of trace gases for meteorological experiments. The atmospheric chemistry community has often used ratios of hydrocarbons to identify airmass origins, to ensure they are sampling the same airmass in...Read more	Aug 2018
Annmarie Carlton	UC-Irvine	Louisa Emmons	We are collaborating on the representation of chemistry from fire emissions in models such as CAM-chem. Analyses of lab and field measurements are being used to study oxidation of fire emissions and resulting ozone production. Annmarie, Kelley Barsanti, and Christine...Read more	Aug 2018
Cameron Homeyer	University of Oklahoma	Laura Pan	Cameron's visit is part of the ASP program where his PhD Student Dan Pheonix has been supported to work at ACOM on WRF-chem modeling of convective transport. Cameron will also interact with the UTLS group and will be giving a...Read more	Aug 2018
Kelley Barsanti	UC-Riverside	Louisa Emmons	We are collaborating on the representation of chemistry from fire emissions in models such as CAM-chem. Analyses of lab and field measurements are being used to study oxidation of fire emissions and resulting ozone production. Kelley, Annmarie Carlton and Christine...Read more	Aug 2018
Jerome Fast	PNNL	Mary Barth	His visit will be to give feedback on current WRF-Chem and MUSICA development plans. He will also interact with Madronich and Mouchel-Vallon on their modeling of GoAmazon and HI-SCALE chemistry.Read more	Aug 2018
Jennie Thomas	CNRS	Louisa Emmons	Analysis of OASIS data; modeling of fire impacts (including trash burning) on the Arctic; planning of field campaigns; WRF-Chem.Read more	Aug 2018
John Plane	University of Leeds	Dan Marsh	John Plane will be giving a seminar on the Impacts of cosmic dust throughout the Earth’s Atmosphere (and Mars). He will also be collaborating with NCAR scientists to document the chemical reaction rates in the atmospheres of neighboring planets.Read more	Aug 2018