Physical Scientist Trainee In Atmospheric Chemistry And Dynamics Branch (Code 614)
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Installed and linked necessary netCDF, udunits, and gfortran compiler libraries on the Discover Supercomputer in the NASA Center for Climate Simulations successfullyProvided refined estimates of ozone and a refined view ozone precursor transport to the atmospheric chemistry community through v3.2 of the Chemistry version of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model simulations: 1)Control – contained Reanalysis of the Troposphere 0.5° by 0.5° anthropogenic emissions and Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature biogenic emissions gridded into model through prep_chem_sources pre-processing software, 2) Biomass burning - Included base emissions from Control Simulation with the addition of fires emissions from the WRF-Global Fire Emissions Database, 3) LNOx Included anthropogenic and biogenic emissions, and 4) LNOx + BB Simulation - Combined all of the above emissionsDeveloped MATLAB code that is amongst the first of its kind. It uses actual observations to diagnose LNOx emissions at the time and place that they happen as opposed to parameterizations which predict LNOx based on a threshold (i.e. cloud top height, lapse rate, etc…) and will not be collocated with the actual observed lightning flashes for LNOx only simulations.The technique is as follows: 250 moles of nitrogen oxide to Worldwide Lightning Location Network flash locations. The nitrogen oxides were distributed throughout the troposphere with the greatest percentage of the nitrogen oxide in the upper troposphere. These emissions were gridded into WRF-Chem and were used in the LNOx only and combined WRF-Chem simulations.Responsible for reporting research findings at the 90th-92nd Annual American Meteorological Society Meetings, in Atlanta, GA, Seattle, WA, and New Orleans, LA respectively
