Visitor Directory

Name	Affiliation	Host	Research	Dates
Yosuke Kimura	University of Texas Austin	Louisa Emmons	Yo is working with Christine Wiedinmyer on the development of Version 2 of FINN (Fire INventory from NCAR). This work will improve our real-time chemical forecasts, which use fire emissions from FINN. As well, FINN2 will be used in the...Read more	Feb 2019
Kelvin Bates	Harvard	Eric Apel	Kelvin will collaborate with ACOM to simulate and incorporate oceanic emissions into the CAM-CAM and GEOS-chem models.Read more	Jan 2019 to Feb 2019
Kathryn Steinmann	San Jose State University	Laura Pan	Kathryn is a student at the SJSU working on her Masters Degree under the supervision of Dr. Minghui Diao. Her research project is to use the CONTRAST observations to evaluate MERRA-2 and ERAi reanalyses data. Her visit is to pursue...Read more	Jan 2019 to Apr 2019
Jerome Barre	ECMWF	David Edwards	Collaborate on the assimilation of MOPITT and MODIS satellite producers to investigate the emissions and transport of fire pollution from intense western USA wildfires. Explore the joint assimilation of carbon monoxide and aerosol optical depth to better understand the vertical...Read more	Jan 2019
Lizzy Asher	NOAA	Eric Apel	Lizzy will collect and analyze samples for the UWASS project. Read more	Jan 2019 to Dec 2019
Christine Smith-Johnsen	University of Bergen	Dan Marsh	Christine will use the NCAR Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM) to study the effect of precipitating particles on the composition and dynamics of the middle and upper atmosphere. She will conduct numerical experiments to compare the effects on the...Read more	Jan 2019
Shira Joudan	University of Toronto	John Orlando	Shira is a graduate student in the lab of Scott Mabury of the University of Toronto. We will collaboratively study aspects of the atmospheric lifetime and impact of an multiply-fluorinated chemical species used in industrial applications. Information to be obtained...Read more	Dec 2018
Damian Murphy	Australian Antarctic Division	Anne Smith	Damian is collaborating with Anne Smith to understand gravity wave parameterizations in global models and to work towards developing a better parameterization. This is an ongoing collaboration with funding from the Australian Antarctic Division. The goal of the proposed 2018...Read more	Nov 2018 to Dec 2018
Summer Hardy	Fairview Highschool	Siyuan Wang	She is considering a major in chemistry, but would like to experience real life applications. The goal of her intern project is: (1). to have some programming experience; (2). to learn some fundamentals about atmospheric chemistry and ozone pollution. She...Read more	Nov 2018 to Jan 2019
Qinyi Li	Spanish National Research Council	Doug Kinnison	Qinyi Li will collaborate with Douglas Kinnison and other scientists in NCAR to further develop a global chemistry-climate model, CAM-Chem, to incorporate additional chlorine sources and chemistry. He will validate the revised CAM-Chem model by comparing the simulation with the...Read more	Nov 2018
Nicola Blake	UC-Irvine	Eric Apel	Nicola is collaborating with our group on a number of projects. One is on the FRAPPE oil and gas paper we are working on. Another is the NASA ATom project. The NASA ATom meeting is also that week and she...Read more	Nov 2018
Chris Lee	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
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