Atmospheric Science (including Modelling and Chemistry)


D.K. BOHME, Professor, Ph.D. 1965, McGill, F.R.S.C.

Experimental studies of the chemistry of ions in the gas phase, studies of fundamental kinetic mechanistic and thermodynamic aspects of ion/molecule reactions and their relation to ionic and molecular growth in partially ionized environments such as interstellar clouds, circumstellar envelopes, hydrocarbon flames and in cation-induced polymerization.


W.F.J. EVANS
, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D. 1967, Saskatchewan
Environmental science, tropospheric, stratospheric and mesospheric chemistry and physics. Ozone layer depletion, greenhouse effect, aeronomy, radiation aspects of climate. Remote sensing of the atmosphere.


V.I. FOMICHEV
, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D. 1986, St. Petersburg

Numerical modelling of the radiative transfer and energy budget in the middle and upper atmosphere. Use of 3D global model to study the radiative-dynamical interaction and climate change in the middle and upper atmosphere.


D.R. HASTIE
, Associate Professor, Ph.D. 1977, Canterbury

Study of atmospheric oxidation chemistry through field measurements. Development of instrumentation to measure atmospheric trace gases. Field measurements and data analysis using models of species oxidation in the atmosphere.


G. ISAAC
, Adjunct Professor, PhD 1972, McGill

Cloud physics and climate research. Aircraf-based icing research and other field studies.


M.A. JENKINS
, Associate Professor, Ph.D. 1986, Toronto

Dynamics of convectively driven synoptic- and meso-scale atmospheric circulation systems. Climatology in the northern atmosphere. Models linking sub-grid-scale cumulus convection and grid-scale atmospheric circulations.


J.W. KAMINSKI,
Adjunct Professor, Ph.D. 1994, York University

Chemical-dynamical modelling of planetary atmospheres (Earth and Mars). Assimilation of satellite and ground based observations. Development of model validation methods and tools.


G.P. KLAASSEN
, Associate Professor, Ph.D. 1983, Toronto

Numerical modelling of atmospheric and oceanic dynamics, shear flows, waves and turbulence, convection, cloud dynamics, boundary layer flows. Non linear processes in the planetary boundary layer. Transitions in free shear layers.


J. LIU
, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D. 2001, Toronto

Major research interests include planetary boundary meteorology/physics, numerical modelling at various scales (from microburst to global climatology), small scale (AERMOD, CALPUFF, etc.) and regional scale air quality modelling (MM5/CMAQ, WRF/CMAQ), two-way interaction between climate change and air quality.


W.R. LEAITCH, Adjunct Professor, Ph.D. 1981, York University

Physics and chemistry of aerosol particles and clouds in the troposphere with particular interest in how particles affect clouds and climate as
well as how clouds convert trace gases into particulate matter. Ground-based and airborne observations form much of the basis for the research.


P.A. MAKAR, Adjunct Professor, PhD. 1994, York

Numerical models of atmospheric gas and particle chemistry and thermodynamics.
Three-dimensional models of atmospheric pollution. Algorithm efficiency and optimization for air-quality forecasts.


M. MOZURKEWICH
, Associate Professor, Ph.D. 1982, Chicago.

Heterogenous processes in the atmosphere, including the nucleation and growth of particles; the kinetics of chemical reactions that may occur on and in atmospheric particles; and the influence these processes may have on the chemistry of the atmosphere.


J.C. McCONNELL
, Professor, Ph.D. 1969, Belfast

Three dimensional modelling of the interaction between chemistry and dynamics in the troposphere and stratosphere. Development of global data bases for biogeochemical sources of atmospheric gases. Planetary atmospheres.


D.V. MICHELANGELI
, Associate Professor, Ph.D. 1988, CALTECH

Understanding the importance of particles on ozone chemistry in the troposphere and stratosphere, using photochemical and microphysical models, and integrating laboratory and field data.


J. RUDOLPH
, Professor, Ph.D. 1978 Darmstadt

Volatile organic compounds (VOC) play a key role in the chemistry of the atmosphere. The complex interaction between emissions, atmospheric transport and chemical conversions, field measurements of the temporal and spatial distribution of VOC, studies of the sources of atmospheric VOC, and laboratory investigations of the chemical reactions of VOC are performed. Results are used to derive and modify conceptual or numerical models.


K.W. SIU
, Professor and NSERC/MDS SCIEX Chair, Ph.D. 1981 Dalhousie, F.C.I.C.

Analytical and biological mass spectrometry, ion mobility spectrometry, metal-ion affinities and structure of metal-ion complexes, fragmentation pathways, an dnovel mass spectrometric instrumentation.


P.A. TAYLOR
, Professor, Ph.D. 1967, Bristol

Winds and turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer (up to approx. 1 km height) on Earth and Mars. Analysis of data from field and wind tunnel experiments. Numerical modelling of flow over hills and other complex terrain and of aeolian processes in the boundary layer. Field studies of blowing snow and storms and involvement in the Phoenix mission to Mars.

 

 


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