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Chin-An defended his dissertationposted March 2024PhD prospectus titled “The impact of wildfire activities on air quality and solar energy in New York and California" was presented and accepted by his committee.
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Shih-Wei published in Geosci. Model Dev.posted Jan, 2024Shih-Wei has published a paper at Geosci. Model Dev. titled: “The prototype NOAA Aerosol Reanalysis version 1.0: description of the modeling system and its evaluation” |
Ellie's presentation was well receivedposted Jan, 2024Ellie received the Outstanding Student Oral Presentation Award from the 26th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry. |
Ellie, Chin-An and Christian presented at the AMS annual meeting 2024posted Jan, 2024The group presented their research results at 104th AMS annual meeting, including Combining Low-Cost Air Quality Sensors with the New York State Mesonet for Fine-Scale Monitoring in New York City by Ellie; Investigating the Direct Radiative Impact of Saharan Dust Aerosols on African Easterly Waves by Christian; and Investigation of Interaction of Sea Breeze Circulation and O3 Distribution over New York Metropolitan Area Using WRF-Chem during 2018 Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS) by Chin-An. |
Ellie presented at Third Annual NYS Mesonet Symposiumposted Sept, 2023Ellie presented her research titled “Combining Low-cost Air Quality Sensors with a Micronet for Fine-scale Monitoring In NYC" |
Shih-Wei and Sarah presented at 2023 MAC-MAQ Conferenceposted Sept, 2023Sarah presented "Investigating the weather effects of smoke aerosols in the Unified Forecast System: A study of 2020 summer North America wildfires" and Shih-Wei presented "Connecting Aerosol Modeling and Numerical Weather Prediction from Data Assimilation" at 2023 Meteorology and Climate - Modeling for Air Quality Conference |
Sarah gave a lecture at Dai Yun Guai Earth Science Campposted August, 2023Sarah gave a lecture titled "Air Pollution: The unhealthy air we breathe" at DYG science camp |
Sarah presented at AOGS 2023posted July, 2023Sarah presented "Investigating the weather effects of smoke aerosols in the Unified Forecast System: A study of 2020 summer North America wildfires" and "Investigating Impacts of Local Circulation on Coastal Ozone Problem in the New York Metropolitan Area: A modeling and observational study" at AOGS 2023 |
Shih-Wei, Christian, and Sarah attended and presented at UIFCW 2023posted July 2023Shih-Wei, Christian, and Sarah served the panel and presented their research work at at UIFCW 2023 |
Sarah visited RCECposted June, 2023Sarah visited Research Center for Environmental Changes, ACADEMIA SINICA and presented "Investigating impacts of long-range transport and local circulation on surface air quality in the NYC metro area" |
Hsiao-Chun defended her dissertationposted April 2023PhD prospectus titled “Assimilating New York State Mesonet Observations for a Summertime Convective Event" was presented and accepted by her committee.
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Shih-Wei defended his dissertationposted April 2023PhD prospectus titled “Enhancing the Impact of Infrared Satellite Observations on Data Assimilation through Aerosol-aware Framework" was presented and accepted by his committee.
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Chin-An's presentation was well receivedposted Feb, 2023Chin-An's presentation was selected as 3rd place oral in the 14 Energy student competition. |
Shih-Wei, Chin-An, Dustin, and Sarah presented at the AMS annual meeting 2023posted Feb, 2023The group presented their research results at 103rd AMS annual meeting, including Aerosol-aware Thermal Infrared Radiance Data Assimilation by Shih-Wei; Impact of wildfires on solar resource availability in California in a changing climate by Chin-An; Variability of African Easterly Waves Coupled to Saharan Dust over West Africa by Dustin; and Investigating the Weather Effects of Smoke Aerosols – a Modeling Study Using the Unified Forecast System by Sarah. |
Chin-An published in Solar Energyposted Jan 2023Chin-An has published a paper at Solar Energy titled: “Improvement of aerosol optical depth data for localized solar resource assessment” |
Sheng-Po published in Science of the Total Environmentposted Jan 2023Sheng-Po has published a paper at Science of the Total Environment titled: “Infusing satellite data into aerosol forecast for near real-time episode detection and diagnosis in East Asia” |
Huiying, Chin-An and Liam presented at AGU fall meeting 2022posted Dec, 2022The group presented their research results at AGU fall, including Investigating impacts of local circulation on coastal ozone problem in the New York metropolitan area by Huiying; Investigation on the impacts of transported smoke on air quality over NYS using WRF-Chem by Chin-An; and Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Black Carbon and Carbon Monoxide Emissions in the New York City Metropolitan Area by Liam. |
Huiying presented at Second Annual NYS Mesonet Symposiumposted Sept, 2022The research titled “Will Assimilating New York State Mesonet Observations Benefit the Numerical Model Simulation of Sea Breeze and Regional Ozone Transport over the New York Metropolitan Area? |
Dustin published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physicsposted Feb 2022Dustin has published a paper at Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics titled: “Investigating the impact of Saharan dust aerosols on analyses and forecasts of African easterly waves by constraining aerosol effects in radiance data assimilation” |
Sarah published in Geosci. Model Dev.posted Feb 2022Sarah has published a paper at Geosci. Model Dev. titled: “The Aerosol Module in the Community Radiative Transfer Model (v2.2 and v2.3): accounting for aerosol transmittance effects on the radiance observation operator ” |
Shih-Wei published in Remote Sensingposted Jan 2022Shih-Wei has published a paper at Remote Sensing titled: “The Influence of Aerosols on Satellite Infrared Radiance Simulations and Jacobians: Numerical Experiments of CRTM and GSI” |
Wei-Ting defended her dissertationposted October, 2021PhD prospectus titled “The impacts of transported wildfire smoke aerosols on surface air quality in New York State" was presented and accepted by his committee.
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Chin-An presented his prospectusposted August, 2021PhD prospectus titled “Investigation of impact of smoke aerosols on air quality and solar energy over New York State” was presented and accepted by his committee.
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Brooke and Chin-An presented at AOGS conferenceposted August, 2021PIRE research titled “Characterization of the Tracks for Near-taiwan Tropical Cyclones Under Changing Climate” and "Assessing Impact of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Biomass Burning Emissions Across Western United States Using a Machine Learning Approach" were presented at 2021 AOGS |
Wei-Ting published in Atmospheric Environmentposted August, 2021The paper titled “The impacts of transported wildfire smoke aerosols on surface air quality in New York State: A multi-year study using machine learning” was published in Atmospheric Environment. |
Dustin receives NSF fundingposted July, 2021The proposal, entitled “Variability of African Easterly Waves and Their Interactions with Saharan Mineral Dust Aerosols” was awarded by NSF
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Graduate Student starting in the Fallposted June, 2021Liam Sheji will be starting graduate school with Lu and Freedman in the Fall.
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Shih-Wei presented at TSU PRISM Seminar Series No. 2posted April, 2021The research titled “Toward aerosol-aware data assimilation system: The response of CRTM simulation and GSI analysis to the presence of aerosols” was presented at TSU PRISM Seminar Series No. 2 |
Shih-Wei published in Atmosphereposted March, 2021The paper titled “The Impact of Aerosols on Satellite Radiance Data Assimilation Using NCEP Global Data Assimilation System” was published in Atmosphere |
Ying-Chieh published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physicsposted March, 2021Our collaborators at National Central University, Taiwan have published a paper at Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics titled: “Aerosol impacts on warm-cloud microphysics and drizzle in a moderately polluted environment” |
Youhua published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physicsposted February, 2021Our collaborators at National Central University, Taiwan have published a paper at Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics titled: “Comparison of Chemical Lateral Boundary Conditions for Air Quality Predictions over the Contiguous United States during Intrusion Events” |
Huiying joined the group!posted February, 2021She received her PhD in Environmental Engineering from University of Connecticut and just joined the group. Welcome, Huiying!
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Chin-An published in Atmospheric Pollution Researchposted February, 2021This paper investigates the intra-continental smoke transport and its impact on New York State air quality using aerosol reanalysis and multi-platform observations |
Brooke presented at AMS student conferenceposted January, 2021PIRE research titled “Analyzing Precipitation for Near-Taiwan Extreme Tropical Cyclones” was presented at 20th AMS student conference |
Shih-Wei presented his prospectusposted December, 2020PhD prospectus titled “Enhancing the impact of infrared satellite observations through aerosol-aware data assimilation” was presented and accepted by his committee.
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Wei-Ting presented at the AGU fall meetingposted December, 2020Research titled “Estimation of PM2.5 concentrations in New York State: Understanding the influence of vertical mixing on surface PM2.5 using machine learning” was presented at 2020 AGU Fall meeting |
Wei-Ting published in Atmosphereposted November, 2020The paper titled “Estimation of PM2.5 Concentrations in New York State: Understanding the Influence of Vertical Mixing on Surface PM2.5 Using Machine Learning” was published in Atmosphere |
Matthew published in ACS Earth and Space Chemistryposted October, 2020This paper investigates the importance of Surface-enhanced renoxification as an oxides of nitrogen source in rural and urban New York State |
Shih-Wei published in DTC Transitions Newsletterposted August, 2020The article titled “The Impacts of Including Aerosols in the Radiance Observation Operator on Analysis Using GSI” was published in DTC Transitions Newsletter |
Dustin presents at the first UFS workshopposted July, 2020The research, entitled, “Examination of Aerosol Impacts on the Landfall of Hurricane Harvey (2017) using the Unified Forecast System (UFS) Model,” was presented at the First Annual UFS Workshop |
Dustin receives NOAA-HFIB fundingposted September, 2020The proposal, entitled “Extending the Tropical Cyclone Gensis Index to Global Ensemble Forecasts,” was awarded to Co-PI Dustin by NOAA’a Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program (HFIP)
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Dustin and Shih-Wei published in JCSDA Quarterly Newsletterposted May, 2020The articles titled “Impacts of aerosols on simulated brightness temperature and analysis fields” and "Impacts of aerosols on meteorological assimilation: A case study for the African Easterly wave that developed Hurricane Harvey " were published in JCSDA Quarterly Newsletter No. 67 |
Wei-Ting published in Atmospheric Environmentposted April, 2020The paper titled “The impacts of transported wildfire smoke aerosols on surface air quality in New York State: A case study in summer 2018” was published in Atmospheric Environment |
Matt's successful PhD defenseposted April, 2020Matt defended his PhD dissertation titled "Ozone and reactive oxidized nitrogen chemistry in the northeast U.S."
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Wei-Ting presented at AGU Fall meetingposted December, 2019Research titled “Investigation of air quality impact of wildfire smoke aerosols using statistical techniques with satellite aerosol observations” was presented at 2019 AGU Fall meeting. |
Wei-Ting published in Atmospheric Environmentposted November, 2019The paper titled “Investigation of long-range transported PM2.5 events over Northern Taiwan during 2005–2015 winter seasons” was published in Atmospheric Environment |
Chin-An started a summer internship in National Renewable Energy Laboratoryposted July, 2019He worked with Drs. Yimin Zhang and Garvin Heath to study the impact of atmospheric aerosols on solar energy assessment |
Wei-Ting resented at AGU Fall meetingposted December, 2018Research titled “Investigation of long-range smoke transport over NYS: Case study using GOES-16 aerosol observations in conjunction with surface network” was presented at 2018 AGU Fall meeting. |
Sheng-Po published in Atmospheric Environmentposted August, 2018The paper titled “Application of satellite observations in conjunction with aerosol reanalysis to characterize long-range transport of African and Asian dust on air quality in the contiguous U.S.” was published in Atmospheric Environment. |
Jun and Partha published in Geoscientific Model Developmentposted June, 2018Our collaborators at NOAA have published NGACv2 papers part 1 and part 2 at Geoscientific Model Development |
Mattew published in Atmosphereposted July, 2017This paper reported observed and model-derived ozone production efficiency over urban and rural New York State. |
Pius published in Weather and Forecastingposted February 2017Our collaborators at NOAA have published "NAQFC developmental forecast guidance for fine particulate matter (PM2.5)" at Weather and Forecasting |
Shih-Wei presented at 97th AMS conferenceposted January, 2017The research titled “Improving NCEP global aerosol forecasts by data assimilation of VIIRS aerosol products” was presented at the 5th AMS symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation. |
Dr. Gu published in Climate Dynamicsposted June, 2016Our collaborators at UCLA have published "A GCM GCM investigation of impact of aerosols on the precipitation in Amazon during the dry to wet transition" at Climate Dynamics |
Prof. Xue published in Climate Dynamicsposted June, 2016Our collaborators at UCLA have published "West African monsoon decadal variability and drought and surface-related forcings: Second West African Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation Project Experiment (WAMME II) " at Climate Dynamics |
Sarah published in Geoscientific Model Developmentposted May, 2016The NGACv1 documentation paper was published at Geoscientific Model Development |
ICAP-MME paper was published in atmospheric Chemistry and Physicsposted January 2015Our collaborators at NRL have published "Development towards a global operational aerosol consensus: basic climatological characteristics of the International Cooperative for Aerosol Prediction Multi-Model Ensemble (ICAP-MME)" at Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics |