We typically employ state-of-the-science 3-dimensional chemistry-climate models (e.g., CESM CAM-Chem) and chemical transport models (e.g., GEOS-Chem and WRF-Chem) to quantify the impacts of anthropogenic emissions on air quality, climate and human health.
“Essentially, all models are wrong, ...but some are useful”
What We've Achieved
Quantify the climate impacts of global solid fuel cookstove aerosol emissions
Optimize urban scale methane emission fluxes over Baltimore/DC region
Investigate the impacts of enhanced fertilizer applications on surface air quality and crop damage over sub-Saharan Africa
Implement the spatiotemporal aging of black carbon and organic carbon aerosols in GEOS-Chem
Improve our understanding of Arctic surface ozone and ozone precursors through model-data comparisons