GEOS-Chem People and Projects

Addis Abada University

I am working on trace gases. I wanted to make an inter comparison between the model and my observation.

Group Website: www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/716.php

Group Contact: Gezahegn Sufa (PhD Student); email: gezahegnsufaa [at] gmail.com

University of Alaska

Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Lab

We plan to use GEOS-Chem to study the impact of biogenic and biomass burning emissions on atmospheric composition, particularly over polar regions

Group Website: atmoschem.community.uaf.edu/

Group Leader: Jingqiu Mao

Group Members: Please see this listing

University of Alberta

I want to have the amount of BC deposition on the Canadian glaciers in time series.

Group Website: www.ualberta.ca/earth-sciences

Group Leader: Martin Sharp (Professor)

Group Members: Ali Naeimi Nezamaba(Graduate Student)

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)

Atmospheric Physics Research Section

We apply a Lagrangian chemistry and transport model to simulate the transport of sulfur from the troposphere to the stratosphere. GEOS-Chem is used to provide three-dimensional fields of the concentrations of ozone, OH, and H2O2, which are needed for the simulation of the chemical conversion of DMS (dimethylsulfide) and SO2 in the troposphere.

Group Website: https://www.awi.de/en/science/climate-sciences/atmospheric-physics.html

Leader: Markus Rex (Professor)

Group Members:

• Ralph Lehmann (Senior Scientist)
• Ingo Wohltmann (Senior Scientist)

Anhui Normal University

Hydroxyl radical is my research content. GEOS-Chem is a useful tool for my work.

Group Contact: Ann (Postgraduate student); email: 1721011157 [at] ahnu.edu.cn

Argonne National Laboratory

We will use GEOS-Chem to validate and constraint emission inventories, and apply GEOS-Chem to understand the emission and transport of air pollutants over China. We are working in collaboration with Yuxuan Wang at Tsinghua University.

Group Website: www.anl.gov

Leader: David G. Streets(Senior Scientist, ANL)

Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER)

We plan to integrate the AER radiative transfer model (RRTMG) online into GEOS-Chem. We are working in collaboration with Prof. Colette Heald at MIT.

Group Website: www.aer.com

Group Leaders:

• Matthew Alvarado (Staff Scientist); email: malvarad [at] aer.com
• Karen Cady-Pereira (Staff Scientist), email: cadyp [at] aer.com
• Christopher Brodowski (Staff Scientist); email:cbrodows [at] aer.com
• Chantelle Lonsdale(Staff Scientist); email: clonsdal [at] aer.com

Bandung Institute of Technology

I will use GEOS-Chem for assessment in Indonesia area.

Group Website: english.fitb.itb.ac.id/meteorologi

Group Contact: Mamad Tamamadin; email: mamadtama [at] yahoo.com

Beijing Normal University

We will use the GEOS-Chem model to characterise the relationship between wetland emissions and CH4 columns.

Group Leader: Xianglan Li

Group Members: Minmin Sun; email: sunminmin199023 [at] 126.com

Bodeker Scientific

The small research group at Bodeker Scientific is intending to use GEOS-Chem to investigate the sensitivity of sulfur transport from the troposphere to the stratosphere to OH concentrations. GEOS-Chem will be used to simulate ozone, OH, H2O2 and related fields that determine the sulfur abundances in the troposphere.

Group Website: www.bodekerscientific.com

Group Leader: Stefanie Kremser (Research Scientist)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Boston University

Geddes Atmospheric Chemistry Group

We use the GEOS-Chem model to help understand the links between atmospheric chemistry and the Earth's changing biosphere, and to help interpret and advance ground- and satellite-based remote sensing observations of air pollution.

Group Website: http://sites.bu.edu/jged

Group Leader: Jeffrey Geddes (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: Please see our group website

University of Bremen

We are working on investigating the atmospheric relationship between OCS and CO2 using FTIR measurements and GEOS-Chem. I simulated CO2 and OCS with different fluxes, now mainly using SiB biospheic fluxes for both CO2 and OCS, and compared to our FTIR measurements. Model inversion is planned for the next step.

Group Website: http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/eng/

Group Leader: Justus Notholt (Professor)

Group Members: Yuting Wang (Graduate Student); email: w_yuting [at] iup.physik.uni-bremen.de

University of British Columbia

Zimmerman/Giang group

We are interested in looking into energy transition in India and its effect on air pollution. Using the GEOS-Chem nested model and a scenario-based study over the Indian subcontinent, we aim to evaluate the levels of air pollutants and climate co-benefits. Our research will be complemented by field studies and observational data-sets.

Group Website: https://ireach.mech.ubc.ca

Group Leaders: Naomi Zimmerman (Professor) and Amanda Giang (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: Mrinmoy Chakraborty (PhD Student)

California Air Resources Board

We are considering to expand our modeling capacity at California Air Resources Board to utilize global chemical transport model like GEOS-Chem.

Group Website: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/air-quality-planning-and-science-division

Group Leaders: Chenxia Cia (Manager, Regional Air Quality Modeling Section)

California Institute of Technology

Seinfeld Research Group

The Seinfeld group focuses on improving the treatment of aerosols in GEOS-Chem. Studies include examining the effect of changes in climate and emissions on present-day and future aerosol levels.

Group Website: www.che.caltech.edu/groups/jhs/research.shtml

Group Leader: John Seinfeld (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Wennberg Group

We have been working on isoprene photooxidation in an atmospheric chamber using a chemical ionization mass spectrometer. We would like to implement a more detailed version of isoprene photooxidation in GEOS-Chem to examine the effect on NOx transport and carboxylic acid formation.

Group Website: http://wennberg-wiki.caltech.edu/

Group Leader: Paul Wennberg (Professor)

Group Members: Rebecca Schwantes (Graduate Student)

University of California at Berkeley

Cohen Research Group

We are using observations of NO2 column densities from OMI interpreted with GEOS-Chem to constrain soil NOx emissions over the United States and globally. We are also implementing new methyl-peroxynitrate chemistry to examine impacts on Arctic chemistry.

Group Website: cohen.cchem.berkeley.edu

Group Leader: Ron Cohen (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

University of California at Irvine

Randerson Lab

We are using GEOS-Chem to study the global carbon cycle, aerosols, and the impact of fires on tropospheric composition. We are continuing to develop the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED) and to plan to integrate higher spatial and temporal resolution time series of fire emissions into the model over the next few years.

Group Website: http://www.ess.uci.edu/~jranders/

Group Leader: James Randerson (Professor)

Group Members:

• Yang Chen (Project Scientist)
• Mingquan Mu (Project Scientist)

University of California at Los Angeles

Tropospheric Chemistry Modeling & Analysis Group

We are applying the GEOS-Chem model to interpret satellite retrievals and in-situ (aircraft) observations to understand precursor emissions, chemical processes, and transport that determine the global distributions of tropospheric ozone and aerosols.

Group Website: www.atmos.ucla.edu/~qli/trop/Home.html

Group Leader: Qinbin Li (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Marlier Group

We are interested in using GEOS-Chem to study the impact of wildfires on air pollution in fire-prone regions around the world.

Group Website: https://ph.ucla.edu/faculty/marlier

Group Leader: Miriam Marlier (Assistant Professor)

University of California at Merced

We are using the GEOS-Chem adjoint for data assimilation and inverse modeling of tropical fluxes of carbonyl sulfide.

Group Website: faculty.ucmerced.edu/ecampbell3/

Group Leader: Elliot Campbell (Research Scientist)

Group Members: James Stinecipher (Chancellor's Graduate Fellow)

University of California at Riverside

Porter Group

The Porter group examines the causes and impacts of air pollution both locally and around the world by applying numerical and statistical models to observations and inventories.

Group Website: porteratmosgroup.weebly.com

Group Leader: William Porter (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: See this listing

Canadian Meteorological Center

Air Quality Research Division

The Air Quality Research Division of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has launched a project to update the aerosol model in GEM-MACH, the ECCC air quality model. This includes revising parameterizations for nucleation and post-nucleation growth including the role of organics, thermodynamics, and improving the mixing state representation based on the latest research. Substantial advances have been made over the last 10 years in understanding nucleation and the role of organics but existing aerosol models represent the state of the art that dates back to the 1990s. One of the major limitations of existing aerosol models is the treatment of sub 100 nm particles which become increasingly surface active and impacted by the Kelvin curvature effect. Existing thermodynamics models and aerosol dynamics models fail to properly account for size effects. Yet sub 100 nm particles are important for health impacts and aerosol indirect effects via CCN formation.

Group Leader: Kirill Semeniuk (Research Scientist); email: kirill.semeniuk [at] canada.ca

Carnegie-Mellon University

Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies

We are interested in the aerosol indirect effect, modeling aerosol microphysics and cloud condensation nuclei, and understanding organic aerosols in the atmosphere. Our group has led the development of the TOMAS aerosol microphysics code, which is available as an option in GEOS-Chem.

Group Website: https://www.cmu.edu/particulate-matter/

Group Leader: Peter Adams (Professor)

Group Members: Marguerite Marks (Graduate Student); email: margueritemarks [at] gmail.com

• My research will utilize GEOS-Chem with the TOMAS microphysics package, in conjunction with satellite and ground-level measurements, to understand sources of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), and improve the representation of CCN in global models.

Chinese Academy of Sciences

We are using GEOS-Chem to analyze the sources and distributions of CO2 in Central Asia and research the factors which affect CO2 concentration distribution.

Group Website: english.egi.cas.cn

Group Leader: Xi Chen

Group Members:

• Chi Zhang
• Liangzhong Cao

Institute of Atmospheric Physics

Group Website: english.iap.cas.cn

Group Members:

• Ruijun Dang; email: rjdang121 [at] 163.com
• Cheng Gong; email: gongchengatm [at] 163.com
• Rui Han; email: hanrui [at] mail.iap.ac.cn
• Jiandong Li; email: jiansheys [at] 163.com
• Yimian Ma; email: mayimian [at] mail.iap.ac.cn
• Xu Yue; email: yuexu [at] mail.iap.ac.cn
• Yu Zhang; email: zhangyu [at] mail.iap.ac.cn

Institute of Earth Environment

Group Website: english.ieecas.cn

Group Members

• Tian Feng; email: fengtian [at] ieecas.cn
• Xin Long; email: longxin [at] ieecas.cn
• Shuyu Zhao; email: zhaosy [at] ieecas.cn
• Zhuzi Zhao; email zhaozz [at] ieecas.cn
• Jiamao Zhou; email: zjm [at] ieecas.cn

Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth

Group Website: english.radi.cas.cn

Group Members

• Haofei Wang
• Ying Zhang; email: zhangying02 [at] radi.ac.cn

Institute of Geochemistry

Group Website: english.gyig.cas.cn

Group Members

• Runsheng Yin; email: yinrunsheng2002 [at] 163.com

Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research

Group Website: english.igsnrr.cas.cn

Group Members

• Yawen Kong; email: kyawen1990 [at] gmail.com

Laboratory of Middle Atmosphere and Global Environment Observation (LAGEO)

Group Website: http://english.iap.cas.cn/rh/rd/200906/t20090626_9066.html

Group Leader: Professor Yi Liu; email: liuyi [at] mail.iap.ac.cn

Group Members

• Jing Wang; email: jingwang [at] mail.iap.ac.cn
• Sihong Zhu; email: zhusihong [at] mail.iap.ac.cn
• Dongxu Yang; email: yangdx [at] mail.iap.ac.cn
• Zhaonan Cai; email: caizhaonan [at] mail.iap.ac.cn

Shanghai Advanced Research Institude

Our interest is in building assimilation system of global emissions with our own satellite and station data.

Group Website: english.igsnrr.cas.cn

Group Members

• Yongjian Huang; email: huang.yongjian0709 [at] gmail.comm

Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics

I want to use GEOS-chem for aerosol emission, transportation and radiative effects.

Group Website: english.aiofm.cas.cn

Group Members

• Shuo Wang; email: wsyangwangxingkong [at] gmail.com

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Tai Group for Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions

We use GEOS-Chem to investigate the impacts of historical and future climate and land cover changes on global and East Asian air quality, including climate feedbacks. Particular focus includes factors controlling ozone and PM2.5 air quality, variability of East Asian dust, CO2-isoprene interaction, and impacts of air pollution on agriculture.

Group Website: www.cuhk.edu.hk/sci/essc/tgabi/

Group Leader: Amos P. K. Tai (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Chulalongkorn University

Department of Environmental Engineering

Our current research involves updating mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants in Thailand and study the impacts of mercury on the environment and ecosystems (in collaboration with Naraesuan University). We plan to work on PM2.5 and aerosol microphysics simulation including forecasting simulation to aid the effort in PM2.5 management in Thailand.

Group Website: www.env.eng.chula.ac.th

Group Leader: Win Trivitayanurak (Associate Professor)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Henze Group

We use GEOS-Chem to learn more about the sources and processes that govern distributions of criteria pollutants and greenhouse gases. We help lead development of the GEOS-Chem adjoint model and are involved in many aspects of chemical data assimilation and model sensitivity analysis.

Group Website: spot.colorado.edu/~henzed

Group Leader: Daven Henze (Associate Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

GEOS-Chem Support Team Members: Yanko Davila (Scientific Programmer, GEOS-Chem adjoint support)

Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research

We are interested in doing simulations with relatively non-reactive species, including CO2, N2O and oceanic fluxes of O2 and N2. We are also interested in performing N2O simulations with the UCX stratospheric-tropospheric chemistry mechanism.

Group Website: instaar.colorado.edu

Group Leader: Cynthia Nevison (Research Scientist)

Colorado State University

Fischer Group

We are using GEOS-Chem to understand the global distribution of PAN and the impact of reactive nitrogen transport on global oxidation.

Group Website: fischer.atmos.colostate.edu

Group Leader: Emily Fischer (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Aerosol and Cloud Research Group

We are using GEOS-Chem as a tool to help understand and improve our ability to predict aerosol number, size and composition in models.

Group Website: pierce.atmos.colostate.edu

Group Leader: Jeffrey Pierce (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Columbia University

McNeill Group

We are working, in collaboration with Prof. Tzung-May Fu and others, to implement aqueous pathways of SOA formation into GEOS-Chem and test their impact on organic aerosol loadings.

Group Website: mcneill-lab.org

Group Leader: V. Faye McNeill (Associate Professor)

Collaborators: Arlene Fiore (LDEO / Columbia University)

University of Connecticut

Computational Atmospheric Chemistry and Exposure Lab

We are interested in using GEOS-Chem to establish a global model of particulate matter that can be used to better understand how different global sources influence regional particulate matter observations and the potential ramifications for both human health and aerosol-cloud interactions.

Group Website: cace.lab.uconn.edu

Group Leader: Kristina Wagstrom (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: Carmen Lamancusa (Graduate Student); email: carmen.lamancusa [at] uconn.edu

Copenhagen University

Department of Chemistry

We use the GEOS-Chem model in halogen simulations.

Group Leader: Johan Schmidt (Independent Researcher)

Copenhagen Center for Atmospheric Research (CCAR)

We are working with reactions on the surface of particles, and we would specifically like to use GEOS-Chem to simulate the global impact of aerosol photochemistry, both for chromophores and mineral dust, and to simulate the global impact of singlet molecular oxygen chemistry in the atmosphere.

Group Contacts:

• Merve Polat; email: skr792 [at] alumni.ku.dk
• Emma Petersen-Sonn; email: bfs442 [at] alumni.ku.dk

Dalhousie University

Atmospheric Processes and Composition Group:

We use GEOS-Chem with TOMAS microphysics to interpret measurements of aerosol number and size. We focus on marine environments, aerosol-cloud interactions, and aerosol direct and indirect radiative effects. We use both GC-Classic and GCHP, and have recently developed an implementation of TOMAS in GCHP.

Group Website: fizz.phys.dal.ca/~rachel.chang

Group Leader: Rachel Chang

Group Members:

• Betty Croft (research associate)
• Phillipe Gauvin-Bourdon (PhD student)

Dalian University of Technology

Chen Group:

We are interested in using GEOS-Chem to investigate the contribution of HOMs to new particle formation and haze on a regional and global scale.

Group Website: est.dlut.edu.cn/english/About_sets.htm

Group Leader: Professor Jingwen Chen; email: jwchen [at] dlut.edu.cn

Group Members:

• Deming Xia; email: xiadm [at] mail.dlut.edu.cn
• Fangfang Ma; email: mafangfang0411 [at] mail.dlut.edu.cn

University of Dresden

I want to simulate the PHE, BaP and PYR on the AWS cloud.

Group Members: Ruifei Li (PhD Student); email: ruifei.li [at] tu-dresden.de

Drexel University

Atmospheric Modeling Group

Out group pursues efficient means of improving air quality and addressing climate challenges, develops and applies GEOS-Chem + CMAQ asjoings, and delights in informative data visualization.

Group Website: modelingair.com

Group Leader: Shannon Capps (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Duke University

Our goal is to combine measurements with GEOS-Chem model results to derive a better understanding of the distributions of key tropospheric species and to elucidate the factors that control these distributions. We work in collaboration with James Randerson's group at UC Irvine.

Group Website: nicholas.duke.edu/people/faculty/kasibhatla

Group Leader: Prasad Kasibhatla (Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Environmental Sciences and Policy)

Group Members: Kemen Austin

University of East Anglia

We will use GEOS-Chem to investigate global atmospheric budgets and fluxes of carbon species.

Group Website: www.uea.ac.uk/environmental-sciences/people/profile/p-suntharalingam

Group Leader: Parvada Suntharalingam (Reader)

University of Edinburgh

Atmospheric Composition Modelling Group

We are primarily interested in how we can use aircraft, ground-based and satellite observations of chemical composition and inverse methods to further our understanding of tropospheric chemistry.

Group Website: www.palmergroup.org/

Group Leader: Paul Palmer (Professor, School of Geosciences)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Ehime University

We are working on POPs modelling in marginal seas and subtropical area in Northwestern Pacific (e.g., Kuroshio and Kuroshio Extension). We are interested in the results of POPs in the atmosphere and oceans calculated by GEOS-Chem.

Group Website: emes.ehime-u.ac.jp/en/

Group Leader: Xinyu Guo (Professor); email: guoehime [at] gmail.com

Group Members: Min Yang; email: minyang068 [at] gmail.com

Emory University

Environmental Remote Sensing Group

We use GEOS-Chem simulated aerosol profiles and composition to support regional to national scale satellite-based air pollution exposure modeling and health impact assessments in the US.

Group Website: web1.sph.emory.edu/remote-sensing/home.html

Group Leader: Yang Liu (Associate Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Environment Canada

We are using GEOS-Chem for CO2 modeling and source sink estimation with satellite and surface data. This includes comparison of GEOS-Chem simulations with other model and assimilation systems.

Group Leader: Ray Nassar (Research Scientist)

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Group Website: www.epri.com

Group Leader: Leonard Levin (Technical Executive)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

We use computer models such as GEOS-Chem to explore scientific and societal issues such as air quality and climate.

Group Website: www.barronh.com

Group Leader: Barron Henderson (Physical Scientist)

Group Members: Please see this listing

University of Exeter

Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Research Group

We study interactions between atmospheric chemistry and the climate system. Our goal is to understand the impacts of the short-lived climate forcers on air quality and climate in past, present and future worlds. The main tools are Earth system modeling and multiple observational datasets, especially from satellites and flux towers. Current research areas include: plant volatile organic carbon emissions, wildfire emissions, and human land use change and land-based climate mitigation impacts on air quality and climate. Our policy-relevant research projects provide results that support effective environmental management and decision-making.

Group Website: sites.exeter.ac.uk/atmos-chem/

Group Leader: Nadine Unger (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Corporate Strategic Research

We are interested in GEOS-Chem forward and inverse capabilities to investigate potential of methane satellite observations to quantify global OH trends

Group Website: corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/energy/research-and-development

Group Members:

• Cynthia Randles (Research Associate)
• Laurent White (Research Associate)

Federal University of Technology

We are trying to assess movement of some gases over crude oil producing region in Nigeria. For this work, we would like to use the GEOS-chem model.

Group Leader: Gbode Imole Ezekiel (Assistant Lecturer)

Finnish Meteorological Institute

I am interested in forward and inverse modelling of human and natural impact on the atmosphere.

Group Website: https://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/

Group Leader: Monika Szelag (Researcher)

Florida State University

Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Change Research Group

We are quantifying chemistry-climate feedbacks in GEOS-Chem and other CTMs to assess modeling uncertainties and to make multi-decadal projections of methane and ozone. In addition, we are interested global mercury cycling processes.

Group Website: acgc.eoas.fsu.edu

Group Leader:Chris Holmes (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Fudan University

Group Website: environment.fudan.edu.cn/en/

Group Members:

• Lulu Cui
• Rui Li
• Junlin Li
• Ya Meng
• Yunchen Zhang

Georgia Institute of Technology

Wang Group

Our group is applying the GEOS-Chem model to analyze the sources and distributions of nonmethane hydrocarbons, oxygenated hydrocarbons, and halocarbons. These trace gases are proxies for the anthropogenic and natural processes that control the chemical state of the atmosphere. Through this work we will understand better how these processes contributed to the changing trace gas composition of the troposphere in the past decade.

Group Website: apollo.eas.gatech.edu

Group Leader: Yuhang Wang (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

Group Leader: Chul-Han Song (Professor); email: cgsong [at] gist.ac.kr

Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention

We use GEOS-Chem to obtain data including aerosol optical depth, and investigate the temporal-spatial trends of main air pollutants in China.

Group Website: www.hbcdc.com

Group Contact: Yuewei Liu; email: yliu@hbcdc.com

Harvard University

Harvard Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group

We apply GEOS-Chem and its adjoint to simulations of tropospheric chemistry, air quality, methane, mercury, and chemistry-climate interactions. We collaborate with NASA GMAO in the use of GEOS-Chem as a chemical module for data assimilation within the GEOS Earth System Model (ESM), including development of new numerical algorithms, and work on the development of the High-Performance GEOS-Chem (GCHP). We also drive GEOS-Chem with GISS-GCM meteorology for simulation of future and paleo climates. See our current research activities for details. We also support GEOS-Chem for the general benefit of its user community.

Group Website: acmg.seas.harvard.edu

Group Leaders:

• Daniel Jacob (Professor)
• Loretta Mickley (Senior Research Fellow)

Group Members: Please see this listing

GEOS-Chem Support Team Members:

• Bob Yantosca (Senior Software Engineer)
• Melissa Sulprizio (Senior Scientific Software Engineer)
• Lizzie Lundgren (Senior Scientific Software Engineer)

Harvard China Project

Group Website: chinaproject.harvard.edu

Group Leader: Michael McElroy (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Biogeochemistry of Global Contaminents Research Group

Group Website: bgc.seas.harvard.edu

Group Leader: Elsie Sunderland (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Group Website: www.cfa.harvard.edu

Group Leader: Kelly Chance

Group Members:

• Jhoon Kim
• Guanyu Huang
• Kang Sun

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Racha Institute of Physics

Recent results suggest (Svensmark et al. 2017) that the mass flux from small ions could give an important contribution to aerosol growth. We implemented this effect into the GEOS-Chem TOMAS module to find out about its importance on the resulting aerosol size distribution over different regions and altitudes.

Group Members: Irina Thaler

University of Helsinki

Institute for Atmosphere and Earth System Research (INAR)

Applying Machine Learning algorithms and Bayesian data analysis to climate and aerosol modelling.

Group Website: www.helsinki.fi/en/inar-institute-for-atmospheric-and-earth-system-research

Group Contact: Anna Shcherbacheva (Post Doctoral Researcher); email: anna.vlad.shcher [at] gmail.com

University of Houston

Yuxuan Wang Research Group

Our research seeks to improve understandings of atmospheric composition in a changing world, its coupled relationship with the climate system and societal choices such as energy, and the use of such understanding to improve model predictive capability and to aid in societal decision-making. To accomplish this research, we use a combination of modeling, observations, and data analysis/mining methods.

Group Website: www.yxwanggroup.net

Group Leader: Yuxuan Wang (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Air Quality Forecasting and Modeling Lab

We use GEOS-Chem for providing chemical boundary conditions for our regional models since the last year (e.g., http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016JD025663/full).

We are running now GEOS-Chem for more than 28 years simulation to quantify the impact of stratosphere-troposphere ozone exchange, emissions changes, meteorology and background contributions to surface ozone levels in the US.

Moreover, we often make use of GEOS-Chem to conduct several sensitivities run globally to understand the relationship between some gas/particles to their emissions.

Group Website: http://spock.geosc.uh.edu/

Group Leader: Yunsoo Choi (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

University of Hyogo

I would like to use GEOS-Chem for PM2.5 estimation with satellite data for Kenya.

Group Contact: Mwana Said (PhD student); email: saidmwana [at] gmail.com

Imperial College London

Our research into methane emissions is improving the state of knowledge of the emissions from natural gas supply chains and developing approaches to monitor, estimate and enable cost-minimising and fair emission reductions.

Group Contact: Jasmin Cooper (Research Associate)

Group Website: https://www.sustainablegasinstitute.org

Indian Institute of Science

I work on the carbon cycle of tropical lakes, and plan to use the GEOS-Chem model to estimate surface Pb-210 fluxes over the Indian subcontinent.

Group Contact: Gurjot Singh (Research Scientist); email: gurjotbmc [at] gmail.com

Indian Institute of Technology

We plan to use GEOS-Chem for our Indian scenarios.

Group Contact: Sreekanth Bojjagani (PhD Research Scholar); email: govardhanamm19 [at] gmail.com

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

We are trying to determine nitrogen deposition in India under current and future RCP scenarios using GEOS-Chem. We are running nested simulations using MERRA2.

Group Leader: Asif Qureshi (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: Pritanjali Shende (PhD student)

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Under the association of Max Planck Partner group on bioaerosol in India in collaboration with Max Planck Institute for Chemistry we are working on use of GEOS-Chem model for deriving the radiative forcing over India.

We primarily intend to use the GEOS-Chem to assess the impact of black carbon aerosols, focusing on the emission from rural India with burning in domestic sector, on the radiative forcing. We also intend to use the future scenarios of the black carbon emission impact from rural areas on radiative forcing over Indian and its implications. A dedicated campaign is being initiated to develop the emission inventory for the domestic biomass burning over south Indian region, which will be our domain for the study. This is to be further extended over entire Indian region as a part of National Carbonaceous Program where sensitivities studies for future scenarios will be carried out.

Group Leader: Sachin S. Gunthe (Associate Professor)

Group Members:

• Malavika P. Kumar
• Shruthi Akkal

Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology

I primarily am wanting to carry out research relating to aerosol concentration estimation with respect to Indian sub-continent.

Group Website: www.iist.ac.in/departments/ess-profile

Group Contact: Kesav Unnithan (Teaching Assistant); email: slkesavunnithan [at] gmail.com

Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM)

We are interested in using the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model to study the effect of aerosol chemistry, emissions, pollution on the dynamics of large scale processes e.g. Asian monsoon.

Group Leader: Dr. Sachin D. Ghude (Scientist E)

Group Contact: Sreyashi Debnath (Junior Research Fellow); email: sreyashi.jrf [at] tropmet.res.in

Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC)
National Research Council (CNR)

Research Group on Cloud and Precipitation Physics (CAPE)

We are planning to use GEOS-Chem coupled with the WRF-Chem model to study the impact of natural aerosols in the Mediterranean basin.

Group Website: www.isac.cnr.it/en/research_groups/clouds-and-precipitation-physics

Group Contact: Umberto Rizza

University of Iowa

Aerosol, Radiation, Remote-sensing, and Observation-based Modeling of Atmosphere Group

We are using GEOS-Chem in the following ways: (1) To study the effect of aerosol phase transition on heterogenous chemistry and the formation of ice clouds; (2) To interpret satellite observations of radiance of aerosols, with a focus on air quality applications, and (3) In conjunction with satellite observations, to study aerosol composition and distribution.

Group Website: arroma.uiowa.edu/

Group Leaders:Jun Wang (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

We will use the GEOS-Chem model with satellite observations to constrain emission sources of several precursors as well as chemical concentrations of various species based on data assimilation techniques.

Group Website: www.jamstec.go.jp/e/

Group Leader: Kazuyuki Miyazaki (Senior Scientist)

Japan Environmental Sanitation Center

We plan to use GEOS-Chem to simulate the behavior and transport of atmospheric mercury in East Asia.

Group Website: www.jesc.or.jp/en/index.html

Group Members: Tetsuro Kikuchi (Scientist); email: kikuchi-tr [at] jesc [dot] or [dot] jp

Jinan University

Institute for Environmental and Climate Research

Group Website: ecins.jnu.edu.cn/index.php

Group Leader: Qiaoqiao Wang (Assistant Professor)

Johns Hopkins University

I've been working with Anna Michalak and Lori Bruhwiler. We are interested in using satellite and in situ observations to better understand methane emissions from Asia. We have been running CH4 forward simulations in GEOS-Chem. More specifically, we have been using GEOS-CHEM to model atmospheric CH4 using different emissions scenarios and compare modeled mixing ratios to satellite and in situ observations.

Group Website: eps.jhu.edu

Group Leader: Scot Miller (Assistant Professor)

King's College London

Environmental Research Group

We plan on using GEOS-Chem boundary conditions to drive the CMAQ regional chemical transport model, for policy and health impact assessment over the UK.

Group Website: www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/research/divisions/aes/research/ERG/index.aspx

Group Contact: Nutthida Kitwiroon (Senior Air Pollution Scientist)

KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute)

We plan to use GEOS-Chem for the interpretation of satellite data; to estimate NOx/VOC emissions with satellite measurements, and to investigate tropospheric ozone changes. We are also very interested in comparing GEOS-Chem simulations to TM4/TM5 runs, also in the context of the above.

Group Website: http://www.knmi.nl/research/

Group Contact: Folkert Boersma (Research Scientist)

Konkuk University

Group website: espo.nasa.gov/korus-aq

Group Contact: Jung-Hun Woo (Associate Professor); email: woojh21 [at] gmail.com

Kyushi University Research Institute for Applied Mechanics

We are using GEOS-CHEM to study the Asian scale atmospheric environment study including source-receptor analysis, data assimilation, satellite data analysis and emission inventory. We also have an interest in inter-annual variation of air quality.

Group Website: www.riam.kyushu-u.ac.jp/taikai

Group Leader: Itsushi UNO (Professor)

Space Physics Lab, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University

Our group is investigating aerosol properties, dynamics and distribution in the atmosphere over Ukraine. We are going to use GEOS-Chem modeling for study of aerosol sources, transport in different conditions and events. We are participating in operation of two AERONET sites: Kyiv, Martova.

Group Website: http://antarctica.org.ua/

Group Contact: Myroslav Hordiichuk (Magister Student)

University of L'Aquila

Atmospheric Composition Modelling Group at CETEMPS

We develop a post-processing tool for a more flexible calculation of aerosol optical properties from chemistry-transport model output (FlexAOD). We are applying it with GEOS-Chem in the frame of AeroCom intercomparison exercises. Moreover, we are using the GEOS-Chem model to study the direct and first indirect aerosol effects at the global scale.

Group Website: http://cetemps.aquila.infn.it/

Group Leader: Gabriele Curci (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: Paolo Tuccella (Research Fellow)

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Fiore Atmospheric Chemistry Group

We are applying GEOS-Chem to advance our understanding of factors controlling atmospheric oxidation, including through multi-decadal simulations.

Group Website: http://blog.ldeo.columbia.edu/atmoschem/

Group Leader: Arlene Fiore (Professor, Columbia University)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Collaborators: V. Faye McNeill (Associate Professor, Columbia University)

University College London

Atmospheric Composition and Satellite Observations Group

We use the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model, process-based information from chamber studies, and observations from surface, aircraft, and space-based sensors to address uncertainties in atmospheric chemistry and determine the influence of humans on the Earth system. A particular focus in my group is to build capacity to model air quality in Africa.

Group Website: maraisresearchgroup.co.uk

Group Leader: Eloise Marais (Associate Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

University of Liège

Infrared Group of Atmospheric and Solar Physics (GIRPAS)

Our main research focus will be to perform comparisons between GEOS-Chem simulations, time series of Jungfraujoch FTIR ground-based partial/total columns and space-based observations (e.g. from ACE-FTS); to help in data interpretation of long-term changes, of interannual and seasonal variability, to identify source regions. Likely targets are methanol, methyl chloride, methane, ethane, acetylene, hydrogen cyanide, carbonyl sulfide, isotopologues of carbon monoxide, methane. This is of course subject to evolve with time.

Group Website: http://labos.ulg.ac.be/girpas/en/

Group Leader: Emmanuel Mahieu (Senior Scientist, Institute of Astrophysics and Geophysics)

Group Members: Please see this listing

University of Lille

Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique (LOA), CNRS

We are using the GEOS-Chem and its adjoint model for retrieving global aerosol emissions from satellite remote sensing data (e.g. POLDER/PARASOL aerosol dataset generated by the GRASP algorithm).

Group Website: http://www-loa.univ-lille1.fr

Group Leader: Oleg Dubovik (Directeur de recherche CNRS)

Group Members:

• Tatyana Lapyonak (Engineer)
• Cheng Chen (Researcher)

Louisiana State University

Air-Weather-Climate Lab

Our research focuses on urban air pollutants characterization, simulation and source apportionment of air pollutants and interactions between aerosols and climate. We have developed different source-oriented models to study regional problems. But with the shift of major emissions from American to Asia, we want to look at the air pollution levels in Asian and the effects to global and US air quality and climate through global model. We plan to add source-oriented representation of aerosols to Geos-Chem and hope to take advantage of this powerful global model.

Group Website: sites01.lsu.edu/faculty/hlzhang/

Group Leader: Hongliang Zhang

Group Members: Please see this listing

McGill University

Aerosols, Clouds, and Climate Research Group

Currently working on the parameterization of water uptake by SOA in GEOS-Chem and it's effect on gas-particle partitioning and liquid-liquid phase equilibrium.

Group Website: www.meteo.mcgill.ca/~andreas/index.html

Group Leader: Andreas Zuend (Associate Professor)

Group Members: Camilo Serrano (PhD Student)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT Laboratory for Avation and the Environment

We are using GEOS-Chem to assess the air quality impacts of aviation, especially the impact of aircraft cruise emissions on surface air quality.

Group Website: lae.mit.edu

Group Leader: Stephen Barrett (Associate Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Atmospheric Chemistry and Composition Modeling Group

We use the GEOS-Chem model to interpret satellite, aircraft and in situ observations of tropospheric composition with a particular focus on (1) understanding the lifecycle of tropospheric aerosol and (2) investigating biosphere-atmosphere interactions.

Group Website: www.healdgroupmit.com

Group Leader: Colette Heald (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Selin Group

We use GEOS-Chem to investigate air pollution issues relevant to decision-making. Current areas of focus include present and future ozone and particulate matter, health impacts of air pollution, and mercury and persistent organic pollutant fate and transport.

Group Website: www.selingroup.org

Group Leader: Noelle Selin (Associate Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Senseable City Lab

We have installed low cost (Alphasense OPC-N2) particle counters in schools in Nairobi. When comparing the data from the low cost monitors with satellite derived aerosol optical depth (AOD) from Aqua and Terra MODIS, we obtained a pretty good fit for one site. We now intend to use GEOS-Chem to model aerosol vertical distributions for Nairobi during the time period that we are considering in order to compare results.

Group Website: senseable.mit.edu

Group Contact: Priyanka deSouza (Research Fellow), email: desouzap [at] mit [dot] edu

Michigan Technical University

Wu Group

We use GEOS-Chem to work on various research topics related to atmospheric chemistry and air quality, such as:

1. Interactions among climate, atmospheric chemistry and land use/land cover;
2. The intercontinental transport of air pollutants and other tracer gases;
3. Impacts of climate-induced extreme meteorological events on air quality;
4. Impacts of global change on deposition of Hg and other atmospheric species to the Great Lakes.

Group Website: www.geo.mtu.edu/geoschem/

Group Leader: Shiliang Wu (Associate Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

University of Minnesota

Atmospheric Composition and Chemistry Group

We apply GEOS-Chem to interpret satellite and in situ measurements of the troposphere, with a focus on biosphere-atmosphere exchange and organic chemistry in the atmosphere.

Group Website: www.atmoschem.umn.edu

Group Leader: Dylan Millet (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Meteorological Research Institute / Japan Meteorological Agency

We investigate source–receptor relationships for air pollutants in East Asia.

Group Website: www.mri-jma.go.jp

Group Contact: Keiya Yumimoto (Senior Researcher)

University of Montana

Atmospheric Chemistry Group

Group Website: hs.umt.edu/luhu

Group Leader: Lu Hu (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

University of Montreal

Hayes Group

I am interested in using GEOS-Chem to interpret field measurements of aerosols, especially of their optical and micro-physical properties, in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.

Group Website: https://sites.google.com/site/hayesgroupatmontreal/home/patrick-hayes

Group Leader: Patrick Hayes (Adjoint Professor)

Nanjing University

An online coupled model for air-sea exchange of mercury

Group Website: as.nju.edu.cn

Group Leader: Yanxu Zhang (Professor)

University of New South Wales

Impact of new sources and sinks of atmospheric H2

Group Leader: Scott Kable (Professor)

Group Member: Maria Pérez-Peña (PhD Student)

University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Group Member: Lord Famiyeh (PhD Student); email: famiyeh [at] goldmail.etsu.edu

Nanjing University for Information Science & Technology (NUIST)

We are applying the GEOS-Chem model to understand the formation and transport of air pollutants over China.

Group Website: sese.nuist.edu.cn/

Group Leader: Hong Liao (Professor); email: hongliao [at] nuist.edu.cn

NASA AMES Research Center

Our group uses GEOS-Chem to better understand processes impacting trace gas (e.g., O3, NOx, CO) and aerosol emission, transport, chemical transformation, and deposition fluxes on a regional and global scale. We also use the model to evaluate bioavailable nutrient (e.g., Fe, P, N) deposition to the global oceans and the impact on marine biogeochemistry and climate. Currently, we are applying GEOS-Chem to inter-compare and evaluate multiple biosphere carbon model predictions of CO2 fluxes and the impact they have on "top-down" estimates of CO2 fluxes using OCO-2 satellite observations.

Group Website: earthscience.arc.nasa.gov

Group Leader: Matthew Johnson (Research Scientist)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Global Modeling and Assimilation Office

GMAO produces the GEOS meteorological fields that are used to drive GEOS-Chem. GEOS-Chem is also being adapted for use as a chemical module in the GMAO GEOS-DAS (Data Assimilation System).

Group Website: gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov

Group Leader: Steven Pawson (Chief of GMAO)

Group Members:

• Andrea Molod (Research Scientist)
• Christoph Keller (Research Scientist)
• Clara Orbe (Research Scientist)

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Our research focuses on the assimilation satellite observations into the GEOS-Chem model in order to understand the drivers of atmospheric composition with applications to both climate and air quality. Our research includes atmospheric chemistry and the carbon cycle with active efforts investigating ozone, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, and fluorescence. We use these studies to assess the value of current satellite observations and provide guidance toward the development of future observing systems.

Group Website: jpl.nasa.gov

Group Leader: Kevin Bowman (Deputy PI, TES; JPL PI, Carbon Monitoring System Flux Pilot Project)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Group Projects: Carbon Monitoring System Flux (CMS Flux)

NASA Langley Research Center

I am using GEOS-Chem to study mineral dust mobilization, intercontinental transport, deposition, and chemical transformation, and and use the model to interpret observations from satellite (e.g. CALIPSO), airborne and ground-based instruments.

Group Website: www.larc.nasa.gov

Group Contact: T. Duncan Fairlie (Research Scientist); email t.d.fairlie [at] nasa.gov

Center of Atmospheric Sciences,
Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México (UNAM)

Nunez Group

We plan to develop a black carbon radiative forcing methodology for Mexico, using the GEOS-Chem model.

Group Website: http://www.atmosfera.unam.mx/

Group Leader: Xochitl Cruz Nunez

National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

Institute of Physics

We use the GEOS-Chem model to study the distribution and transport of air pollutants

Group Website: ifanbel.bas-net.by/english/index1.html

Group Contact: Natallia Miatselskaya; email: natallia_met [at] yahoo.com

National Institute of Aerospace

We are using GEOS-Chem to investigate the radiative effects of aerosols and clouds on tropospheric chemistry, constraints from radionuclide tracers on transport and wet removal of trace gases and aerosols, continental versus marine influences on tropospheric aerosols over the North Atlantic, and sources and variability of tropospheric ozone in East Asia.

Group Website: research.nianet.org/~hyl/

Group Leader: Hongyu Liu (Research Fellow)

Group Members:

• Bo Zhang (Research Scientist)
• Erika Brattich (collaborator, University of Bologna, Italy)

National Institute for Environmental Studies

Global Atmospheric Chemistry Section

The Global Atmospheric Chemistry Section at NIES is broadly interested in the composition of the Earth's atmosphere. Our main work includes distributions, long-range transport, and long-term trends of tropospheric ozone and its precursors. We use GEOS-Chem to analyze field measurements at surface stations and onboard ships in Asia and Oceania regions.

Group Website: www.nies.go.jp

Group Leader: Hiroshi Tanimoto (Head); email: tanimoto [at] nies.go.jp

Group Members:

• Kohei Ikeda (Postdoctoral Fellow); email: ikeda.kohei [at] nies.go.jp
• Sachiko Okamoto (Postdoctoral Fellow); email: okamoto.sachiko [at] nies.go.jp
• Kimiko Suto (Programmer); email: suto.kimiko [at] nies.go.jp

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
National Observatory of Athens

Our research mainly focuses on the study of air pollution (gases and aerosol) in global and regional scale as well; in the last case, GEOS-Chem with nested-grid capabilities is applied over Europe to study CO, O3, aerosol and other species concentrations levels. One of our recent works involves model's results for AEGEAN-GAME airborne campaign, which took place over the Aegean Sea in Greece (Eastern Mediterranean) during an Etesian wind regime period (September 2011). More model results is planned to be provided in high resolution for other field campaigns, too.

The coupling procedure of GEOS-Chem with other models (UAM-V, PMCamx) has been developed for Greece by providing initial and boundary conditions to the meso-scale models and by matching the two models' chemistry mechanisms. Moreover, the global model was applied to assess the impact of aircraft emissions on O3 and NOx, examine the N. American and Asian emissions' contribution on European budget and the European outflow towards the Eastern Mediterranean.

Climate change impacts, under the A1B emissions scenario, in European air-quality for the 2050 future period are also assessed using the GEOS-Chem global transport model driven by meteorological fields from the GISS/GCM. We focus in the possible responses of European air quality both due to climate change alone and due to the combined effects of climate change and changing future air pollution emissions.

Group Websites:

• NKUOA: en.phys.uoa.gr
• NOA:: www.meteo.noa.gr

Group Members:

• Maria Tombrou (Associate Professor); email: mtombrou [at] phys.uoa.gr
• Christos Giannakopoulos (Senior Researcher); email: cgiannak [at] meteo.noa.gr
• Anna Protonotariou (PhD); email: aprot [at] phys.uoa.gr
• Kostas Varotsos (PhD); email: kvarotso [at] phys.uoa.gr

National Taiwan University

Our research aims at developing and improving the aerosol and cloud parameterizations and emission inventory in global and regional model, particularly for investigating the issues of air quality and climate effects over Asia. We focus on employing GEOS-Chem to run sensitivity simulations to improve upon current simulations employing NCAR CESM model and WRF-Chem—with the newly developed statistical aerosol parameterization scheme (SNAP)—and validate against the data from satellite retrievals and various ground observation networks.

Group Website: www.as.ntu.edu.tw

Group Leaders:

• Jen-Ping Chen (Professor); email: jpchen [at] ntu.edu.tw
• Wei-Ting Chen (Assistant Professor); email: weitingc [at] ntu.edu.tw

Group Members:

• I-Chun Tsai (Assistant Research Scientist)
• Timmy Francis (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Naresuan University

Our work should involve the aerosol group and Hg and POPs group.

Group Website: http://web.eng.nu.ac.th/eng2012/en/department-civil-engineering.php

Group Leader: Tanapon Phenrat (Assistant Professor)

Nazarbayev University

We are working on a project related to NO2 column over Kazakhstan, in conjunction with Dr. Shannon Capps at Drexel Univerisity.

Group Website: https://seng.nu.edu.kz/home/about-us-3/departments/chemical-engineering-department/

Group Leader: Mehdi Amouei Torkmahalleh (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: Zhuldyz Darynova

University of New Hampshire

Research topics include historic solar variability, energetic particle precipitation, and ozone photochemistry and transport.

Group Website: mypages.unh.edu/kduderstadt

Group Leader: Katharine Duderstadt (Research Scientist)

University of Nigeria

We are presently working on a research to map the PM 2.5 over Nigeria from 2000-2015.

Group Website: http://www.unn.edu.ng/academics/centres/centre-for-basic-space-research/

Group Contact: Onyeuwaoma Nnaemeka Dom (Scientific Officer)

NOAA Air Resources Laboratory

Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division

Interested in global and regional air composition modeling and forecasting. We at NOAA/ARL have plans to integrate HEMCO as an updated emissions model for our FV3/GFS-driven GEFS-Aerosol model

Group Website: www.arl.noaa.gov/about-us/arl-headquarters-college-park-maryland4

Group Contacts:

• Patrick Cambpell; email: Patrick.C.Campbell [at] noaa.gov
• Barry Baker; email: Barry.Baker [at] noaa.gov

NOAA Climate Program Office

Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon Cycle and Climate (AC4) Research Program

Group Website: cpo.noaa.gov/Meet-the-Divisions/Earth-System-Science-and-Modeling/AC4

Group Leader: Monika Kopacz (Program manager); email: monika.kopacz [at] noaa.gov

NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory

We are using GEOS-Chem to simulate atmospheric CO2, CH4, and CO distributions. We hope to extend our CarbonTracker CO2 analysis system to use both GEOS-Chem/MERRA2 and TM5/ERA-interim transport models.

Group Website: esrl.noaa.gov/gmd

Group Contact: Andy Jacobson; email: andy.jacobson [at] noaa.gov

North Carolina State University

We are working on GEOS-Chem estimates of aerosol type inferred from NASA Langley High Spectral Resolution LiDAR (HSRL) using data collected during the SABOR campaign. We also have current work aimed at understanding the global distribution of aerosol soluble iron (sol-Fe).

Group Website: meas.sciences.ncsu.edu

Group Leader: Nicholas Meskhidze (Professor)

University of Northern British Columbia

Jackson group

We are using GEOS-Chem in combination with satellite measurements to better understand methane emissions from oil and gas industries in western Canada.

Group Leader: Peter Jackson (Professor)

Group Members: S M Nazrul Islam (PhD Candidate), email: sislam0 [at] unbc.ca

Ocean University of China

Group Website: eweb.ouc.edu.cn

Group Contact: Mingchen Ma; email: mamingchen [at] stu.ouc.edu.cn

University Paul Sabatier

We are using GEOS-Chem to investigate physical and chemical processes related to tropospheric ozone and its precursors, and to interpret in situ and satellite observations (IAGOS, IASI).

In particular we focus on:

• lightning NOx influence on the nitrogen species and on the ozone budget (development of the sub-grid chemistry of lightning plumes, inter-comparison with lightning NOx observations from aircraft campaigns and IAGOS observations) over specific regions (North America, Atlantic, Europe, Tropics)

• contribution of biomass burning and anthropogenic pollution on the troposphere, with a focus over the Tropics (South America, Africa, South-East Asia) and the Southern Hemisphere

Group Website: www.aero.obs-mip.fr/en/

Group Leader: Bastien Sauvage (Assistant Professor)

Group Members:

• Brice Barret (Researcher)

Peking University

Atmospheric Chemistry & Climate Group

We use GEOS-Chem to study aerosols and organic gases in the troposphere, including their emissions from land and sea, transport, and chemical evolutions and impacts. Our particular focus is the effects on air quality and climate in Asia.

Group Website: http://www.phy.pku.edu.cn/atmoschem/index.php/Main_Page

Group Leader: Tzung-May Fu (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Li Group

We will use GEOS-Chem to model the sulfate transformation,transport,and sulfur deposition in East Asia.

Group Website: www.ues.pku.edu.cn

Group Leader: Bengang Li (Professor)

Group Members: Xiaoli Wang; email: 1401214711 [at] pku [dot] edu [dot] cn

Atmospheric Chemistry & Modeling Group

Our group studies atmospheric pollution and interactions with climate, with a particular interest in Chinese air pollution, its global impacts and its susceptibility to upstream pollution.

Our current work includes top-down analysis of nitrogen pollution and source attribution, aerosol impacts on climate and multi-decadal variability, low-complexity two-way coupling of GEOS-Chem and its multiple nested models, etc.

Group Website: www.pku-atmos-acm.org

Group Leader: Jintai Lin (Associate Professor with Tenure)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Song Group

I plan to study emissions (using inverse modeling techniques) and transport from agriculture in China.

Group Website: web5.pku.edu.cn/huanjing/

Group Leader: Yu Song (Professor)

Tao Group

We plan to use GEOS-Chem to study mercury in the troposphere, including its emissions, transport and deposition in China, especially in North China.

Group Website: www.ues.pku.edu.cn

Group Leader: Shu Tao (Professor)

Group Members:

• Han Chen (Graduate Student); email: chenhanurban [at] pku.edu.cn
• Long Chen (Graduate Student); email: chl [at] pku.edu.cn

Air Quality Modeling Group

We develop numerical modeling tools and combine with satellite observations and field measurements of atmospheric composition to advance our knowledge of:

• Sources, transformation, and consequences of air pollution
• Long-distance transport of air pollution
• Effects on air quality and climate

Group Website: www.phy.pku.edu.cn/~acaq/

Group Leader: Lin Zhang (Research Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Pennsylvania State University

Brune Group

We intend to use GEOS-Chem to globally model HOx concentrations and compare these to existing datasets. We are also interested in performing an analysis to determine the sensitivities and uncertainties of GEOS-Chem HOx modeling.

Group Website: ploneprod.met.psu.edu/people/whb2/

Group Leader: Bill Brune (Professor)

Group Members: Kenneth Christian (Graduate Student)

Pohang University of Science and Technology

Atmospheric emissions to socioeconomic impacts: Assessing changes in rice mercury under policy

Group Website: see.postech.ac.kr/welcomeeng.do

Group Leader: Sae Yun Kwon (Assistant Professor)

Portland State University

We primarily use GC for inverse modeling of methane but also for SOA simulations.

Group Website: www.pdx.edu/physics/home

Group Leader: Christopher Butenhoff (Assistant Professor)

Purdue University

Ecosystems & Biogeochemical Dynamics Laboratory

At Purdue, we are coupling a biogeochemistry model of TEM with GEOS-Chem for investigating global methane cycle. The study is supported by NASA.

We also plan on using satellite remote sensing of CO2 data. The higher spatial and temporal density remote sensing data has the potential to reduce the uncertainty of the atmospheric transport inversion modeling. We propose to use satellite level CO2 data to reduce the atmospheric transport chemistry model (GEOS-Chem) uncertainty from initial states and boundary condition of surface fluxes, which will finally constrain and improve our ecosystem model and further our knowledge about global carbon sources/sinks.

Group Website: www.eaps.purdue.edu/ebdl/

Group Leader: Qianlai Zhuang (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute

Our research focuses on understanding the links between the environment and the quality of the water resources available to the State of Qatar. Namely, looking at the impacts of air quality and climate change on water quality and characterizing the natural and anthropogenic contaminants within the water.

Group Website: www.qeeri.org.qa/en/divisions/water/environmental-and-chemical-sciences-group

Group Contact: Mohammed Ayoub (Research Scientist); email: mayoub [at] qf.org.qa

Ramboll

We are the developers and distributors of the publicly-available CAMx regional photochemical transport model (www.camx.com) and have been using GEOS-Chem products for a couple of years as a source of boundary conditions for annual simulations that we've performed for the regulator and regulated communities. We plan on using GEOS-Chem in-house to support CAMx modeling, as well as to perform research in the areas of intercontinental ozone and PM transport and chemistry.

One of our principals in the Novato office, Dr. Greg Yarwood, is co-developer of the Carbon Bond 2005 photochemical mechanism and has been involved in biogenic emission model development with Dr. Alex Guenther.

Group Website: www.ramboll.com

Group Leader: Christopher Emery (Senior Manager)

Group Members:

• Jaegun Jung (Senior Associate)
• Maria Zatko (Air Quality Scientist)
• Uarporn (Ou) Nopmongcol (Senior Manager)

University of Rochester

Atmospheric Modeling Group

We use GEOS-Chem to examine chemistry-climate interactions across a variety of time scales (paleo, present day, and near future), including the development and use of a coupled interface with the NASA GISS ModelE GCM.

Group Website: www.sas.rochester.edu/ees/atmos/

Group Leader: Lee T. Murray (Assistant Professor)

RWDI Air, Inc.

We will use GEOS-Chem for a joint project between University of Calgary and RWDI AIR Inc. We plan to use GEOS-Chem for global simulations of Ozone to define the boundary conditions for photochemical simulations in North America.

Company Website: rwdi.com

Group Leader: Zahra Hosseni (Project Engineer), email: Zahra.Hosseini [at] rwdi.com

Universidad San Francisco de Quito

We are interested in running GEOS-chem to use it along with our sounding data.

University Website: www.usfq.edu.ec

Group Leader: Maria Cazorla (Professor); email: mcazorla [at] usfq.edu.ec

University of Santiago de Compostela

Links between cosmic rays and cloud formation with a new ion-aerosol mechanism

Group Leader: Irma Ri´digos (Faculty of Physics)

University of Science and Technology of China

Unexpected slowdown of US pollutant emission reduction in the past decade

Group Contact: Zhe Jiang; email: zhejiang [at] ustc.edu.cn

Seoul National Univerity

Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group

Our interests lie in regional air pollutions and interactions between climate and air chemistry over East Asia. We are using GEOS-Chem to examine regional aerosol distributions and their radiative forcing in East Asia. We also develop a linking tool to drive GEOS-Chem using CCSM3 outputs to study the impacts of future climate change on air chemistry and vice versa.

Group Website: airchem.snu.ac.kr

Group Leader: Rokjin Park (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences

Effects of changing meteorlogical on ozone in the YRD region during the Clean Air Action Plan

Group Website: www.saes.sh.cn/en/

Group Contact: Rusha Yan; email: yanrs [at] saes.sh.cn

South China Institute of Environmental Sciences MEP

Group Website: www.scies.org/EN/

Group Contact: Yiqiang Zhang; email: zhangyiqiang [at] scies.org

State University of New York at Albany

Atmospheric Sciences Research Center

We are using GEOS-Chem to study the importance of new particle formation and growth in global aerosol abundance. Contribution of different nucleation mechanisms and emission of precursors from different sources will be investigated.

Group Website: www.albany.edu/~yfq/

Group Leader: Fangqun Yu (Research Associate and Professor)

University of Tennessee

Air Quality Engineering & Climate Studies Research Group

We use GEOS-Chem to evaluate source-receptor relationships for ozone and PM2.5 globally. We are working on improving the black carbon emission inventory in the arctic areas and updating the emissions inventory in GEOS-Chem. We use GEOS-Chem and regional chemistry model CMAQ to establish Policy Relevant Background (PRB) ozone concentrations in US. In addition to global studies, we also apply dynamical downscaling method to GEOS-Chem and hemispheric CMAQ and provide initial and boundary conditions for CMAQ.

Group Website: acs.engr.utk.edu

Group Leader: Joshua Fu (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

University of Texas

We plan to use GEOS-Chem to model PM2.5 and AOD for the period 2000–present.

Group Website: davidlary.info

Group Leader: David Lary (Associate Professor)

Group Members:

• Brian Nathan
  • I am focusing on global-scale modeling of methane transport from emissions at shale gas drilling sites where hydraulic fracturing is used.
• Ed Graef
  • I am focusing on dust modeling using new very high resolution (5 km) dust sources. We can produce these maps every 18 days over the last ten years using remote sensing and machine learning data to identify the spectral reflectance signatures of dust sources. We would like to implement this in GEOS-Chem.

Texas Tech University

Cao Group

We are researching the impact of particulate matter exposure on public health, and plan to use the GEOS-Chem model to estimate ground-level PM2.5 concentration for China

Group Website: www.depts.ttu.edu/geosciences/geog/

Group Leader: Guofeng Cao (Assistant Professor)

Group Members: Ying Liu (PhD candidate); email: ying [dot] liu [at] ttu [dot] edu

Tokyo Institute of Technology

I am working for sulfate/nitrate aerosol in the troposphere/stratosphere, and I am a colleague of Prof Becky Alexander, UW, USA.

Group Members: Shohei Hattori (Researcher); email: shohato [at] gmail.com

University of Toronto

Chen Research Group

My research lab at University of Toronto plans to use GEOS-Chem for studies of global carbon flux inversion. I am collaborating with the International Institute of Earth System Science at the University of Nanjing, China on the construction of a China carbon tracker. We have decided to use GEOS-Chem as one of the atmospheric transport models for this purpose.

Group Website: faculty.geog.utoronto.ca/Chen/Chen's homepage/home.htm

Group Leader: Jing Chen (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Atmospheric Physics and Composition Modelling Group

We are using GEOS-Chem to interpret recent satellite observations of trace gases in the troposphere, with a particular focus on understanding how pollution influences the composition of the lower atmosphere. Using inverse modeling and chemical data assimilation techniques, we seek to better quantify the surface emissions of precursors of O3 and other environmentally important trace gases and to obtained an improved understanding of how these gases are exported to the global atmosphere.

Group Website: www.atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca/~jones/

Group Leader: Dylan Jones (Associate Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Liu Group

My main interest of using GEOS-Chem is to study transport of air pollutants. I am also affiliated with Nanjing University in China.

Group Website: geography.utoronto.ca/profiles/jane-liu/

Group Leader: Jane Liu (Assistant Professor)

University of Touloise

Laboratoire d'Aéologie, CNRS

Group Website: http://www-loa.univ-lille1.fr

Group Leader: Celine Mari (Director)

Group Members:

• Maria Tsivlidou (PhD Student)

Tsinghua University

Department of Earth System Science

We use the GEOS-Chem model to investigate anthropogenic emissions over the Asian region. We are also developing emission modules for the GEOS-Chem model.

Group Website: www.cess.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/essen/index.html

Group Leader: Qiang Zhang (Professor)

Group members: Please see this listing

Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute

Group Website: uhmi.org.ua/eng/

Group Contact: Mykhailo Savenets (PhD Student); email: savenetsm [at] gmail.com

Utah State University

Bingham Research Center Team

I'm interest in using GEOS-Chem to simulate transformation and deposition of elemental and oxidized mercury.

Group Website: binghamresearch.usu.edu

Group Contact: Huy Tran (Senior Research Scientist)

Wasia Institute of Himalayan Geology

Black carbon aerosols in Indian Himalaya.

Group Website: www.wihg.res.in

Group Contact:Chhavi Pant Pandey; email: chhavi.pandey[at] gmail.com

Washington University

Atmospheric Composition Analysis Group

We apply GEOS-Chem for a range of applications in atmospheric chemistry, including supporting the retrieval and interpretation of satellite observations of atmospheric composition in the context of in situ measurements. We collaborate with the GEOS-Chem community, especially with Harvard, in the development of GEOS-Chem. We also support the application of GEOS-Chem by the user community.

Group Website: sites.wustl.edu/acag/

Group Leader: Randall Martin (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

GEOS-Chem Support Team Members:

• Saptarshi Sinha (Scientific Applications Software Engineer)

University of Washington

Alexander Group

My research involves incorporating oxygen isotope measurements into the GEOS-Chem model as a tracer of sulfur and nitrogen chemistry in the atmosphere. This can be used to better understand natural and anthropogenic influences on the oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere.

Group Website: www.atmos.washington.edu/blog/beckya/becky-alexander/

Group Leader: Becky Alexander (Associate Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group

Our focus is to quantify biomass burning emissions over Africa using GOME observations of NO2 and HCHO together with the GEOS-Chem model. We are also interested in understanding long-range transport of pollution from Asia to the Northeast Pacific with the GEOS-Chem model.

We are also examining the role of the ocean in the global mercury cycle and are modeling the wet deposition in the southeasten US with the high-resolution nested grid simulation.

Group Website: www.atmos.washington.edu/~jaegle/group/Home.html

Group Leader: Lyatt Jaeglé (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

University of Wollongong

Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry

We use GEOS-Chem to interpret trace gas observations from remote-sensing (TCCON, NDACC), in-situ (ship, train), and satellite platforms. Our focus is on understanding Southern Hemisphere atmospheric composition, including better constraining the sources, chemistry, and impacts associated with major biomass burning events, biogenic emissions, and local versus transported sources.

Group Website: www.uow.edu.au/science-medicine-health/research/centre-for-atmospheric-chemistry/

Group Leader: Jenny Fisher (Associate Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

Xiamen University

My research content is PM2.5.

Group Website: http://economic.xmu.edu.cn/english/

Group Leader: Shuijun Peng (Professor)

Group Members: Qiaojian Fu (Postgraduate Student); email: 15720171151711 [at] stu.xmu.edu.cn

Yale-NUIST Center on Atmospheric Environment

We use GEOS-Chem output as initial and lateral boundary conditions for greenhouse gases simulations (e.g., CO2 and CH4).

Group Website: yncenter.sites.yale.edu

Group Leader: Jianping Huang (Research Scientist, NOAA); email: hjpfwj [at] gmail.com

University of York

I am interested in the oxidizing capacity of the atmosphere, how well it is understood and how it is changing. By using numerical models of the atmopshere we can attempt to answer these questions.

Group Website: www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/d-g/evansm/

Group Leader: Mat Evans (Professor)

Group Members: Please see this listing

York University

McLaren Group

We are using GEOS-Chem in combination with surface, aircraft, and satellite measurements to investigate methane emissions in Canada, improving characterization of anthropogenic (oil/gas) and biogenic (wetlands) sources.

Group Website: http://www.cac.yorku.ca/robert-mclaren-group/

Group Leader: Robert McLaren (Professor)

Group Members:

• Sabour Baray (Graduate Student); email: sabour [at] yorku.ca

University of Zululand

I would like to use GEOS-Chem model for studies of atmospheric CO2 and CO over South Africa.

Group Website: www.unizulu.ac.za/course/geography-and-hydrology

Group Contact: Nkanyiso Mbatha (Lecturer); email: MbathaNB [at] unizulu.ac.za