Atmospheric Chemistry

Faculty

Research Staff

  • Murat Aydin
  • Shari Bush
  • Juno Hsu
  • Hector Martinez De La Torre
  • Pedro Vicente Nunes
  • Pedro Vicente Nunes
  • Xin Zhu

Postdoctoral Scholar

Student Assistant

  • Nicole DeLuca
  • Isis Frausto-Vicencio
  • Ayush Jangam
  • Ricardo Jimenez
  • Hollie McKiel
  • Andrew Miller
  • Melinda Nicewonger
  • Whitney Sum
  • Nick Weis

Graduate Student

  • Mackenzie Grieman
  • Jordan Schnell
  • Kristal Verhulst
  • Wenshan Wang
  • Ian Wrangham

Research Topics Include:

  • Emissions, transformation and transport of chemicals throughout the troposphere and stratosphere
  • Understanding the influence of atmospheric chemistry on climate and air quality
  • Development of new analytical techniques for trace gases
  • Field expeditions
  • Stable isotope studies
  • Numerical models of global atmospheric photochemistry and transport

 

Recent Publications

Myhre, G., K. P. Shine, G. Radel, M. Gauss, I. S. A. Isaksen, Q. Tang, Michael J. Prather, J. E. Williams, P. van Velthoven, O. Dessens et al. "Radiative forcing due to changes in ozone and methane caused by the transport sector." Atmospheric Environment 45 (2011): 387-394.
Tang, Q., Michael J. Prather, and J. Hsu. "Stratosphere-troposphere exchange ozone flux related to deep convection." Geophysical Research Letters 38 (2011).
Prather, Michael J., X. Zhu, Q. Tang, J. N. Hsu, and J. L. Neu. "An atmospheric chemist in search of the tropopause." Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 116 (2011).
Tang, Q.. Ozone and Methane: Global Atmospheric Chemistry. Vol. Ph.D. United States -- California: University of California, Irvine, 2011. Abstract
Lawler, M.. Measurements and Modeling of Reactive Halogens in Marine Air In Earth System Science. Vol. Ph.D. United States -- California: University of California, Irvine, 2011. Abstract
Huneeus, N., M. Schulz, Y. Balkanski, J. Griesfeller, J. Prospero, S. Kinne, S. Bauer, O. Boucher, M. Chin, F. Dentener et al. "Global dust model intercomparison in AeroCom phase I." Atmosphere Chemistry and Physics 11, no. 15 (2011): 7781-7816. Abstract
Allen, R. J., and C. S. Zender. "The role of eastern Siberian snow and soil moisture anomalies in quasi-biennial persistence of the Arctic and North Atlantic Oscillations." Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 116 (2011). Abstract
Lawler, M. J., R. Sander, L. J. Carpenter, J. D. Lee, R. von Glasow, R. Sommariva, and Eric S. Saltzman. "HOCl and Cl(2) observations in marine air." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 11, no. 15 (2011): 7617-7628. Abstract
Knapp, Kenneth R., Steve Ansari, Caroline L. Bain, Mark A. Bourassa, Michael J. Dickinson, Chris Funk, Chip N. Helms, Christopher C. Hennon, Christopher D. Holmes, George J. Huffman et al. "Globally Gridded Satellite Observations for Climate Studies." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 92 (2011): 893-907.
Holmes, Christopher D., Qi Tang, and Michael J. Prather. "Uncertainties in climate assessment for the case of aviation NO." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108 (2011): 10997-11002. Abstract
Research Lab Description Links to more information
Trumbore / Czimczik Research Group

The focus of my research is the cycling of carbon and nitrogen in the terrestrial biosphere. I am particularly interested in understanding how climate change and alterations in land use and management as well as in the frequencies of disturbances (i.e. drought, fire) affect the allocation and residence time of carbon and nitrogen in soils and perennial plants. And, how changes in terrestrial ecosystems feed back to the climate system, e.g. by constraining future levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Sue Trumbore's Homepage at Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Claudia Czimczik Homepage
Prather Modeling Lab

Simulation of the physical, chemical and biological processes that determine atmospheric composition. Development of

  1. detailed numerical models of photochemistry and atmospheric radiation, and
  2. global chemical transport models that describe ozone and other trace gases.

Studies include the predicted effects of volcanic sulfate aerosols on stratospheric ozone loss, the role of clouds in scattering sunlight and altering photochemistry, and the non-linearities in chemical systems that lead to sudden changes such as the depletion of ozone caused by CFC increases.
Michael Prather's Homepage
UC Irvine Environment Institute
Saltzman / Aydin Research Group

The oceans produce a diverse array of trace gases that affect the chemistry of the atmosphere and the climate system. Our goal is to understand what controls the production, emissions, and atmospheric chemistry of oceanic trace gases. We develop trace gas detectors, collect field data from islands and ships and use computer models to simulate natural processes.

 Saltzman / Aydin Research Group
Zender Modeling Lab

Our research group studies the energy and trace species that pass through Earth's atmosphere. We model the microphysics of trace gas, aerosol, cloud, and surface interactions with Earth's radiative, thermodynamic, and chemical budgets. We then (often) parameterize these effects in climate models. The model simulations, combined with lab, field, and satellite data, help us attribute alteration of Earth's climate and composition to specific processes. Our current research includes mineral dust, meteoric, and carbonaceous aerosols, snow lifecycle and albedo, aerosol impacts on ocean biogeochemistry, wind-driven surface energy/mass exchange, climate-disease links, and terascale data analysis. Our aerosol generation, radiative transfer, and data processing models are freely available and are used in geoscience research institutions world-wide.
Charles Zender's Homepage
http://dust.ess.uci.edu
Kim Lab

We are exploring interactions between biosphere-atmosphere-human, specifically, how the interactions affect on the oxidation capacity of the troposphere that controls fates of trace gases and secondary photochemical product (e.g ozone and secondary aerosols) productions. Our research tools are mainly in-situ measurement instrumentation to precisely quantify very reactive radical species in the troposphere and we deploy the instrumentation to the environmentally critical locations.