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Dr. Rohit Mathur

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2004-Present – Physical Scientist, Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division, NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

2004-Present – Adjunct Associate Professor, Carolina Environmental Program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

January-December 2003 – Research Associate Professor, Carolina Environmental Program, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

1992-2002 – Research Scientist, Environmental Programs, MCNC-North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

1998-Present – Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

1991-1992 – Senior Science Specialist, Computer Science Corporation, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

1988-1991 – Research Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering and Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky

1987-1988 – Research Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky.

July-December 1986 – Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky.

January-June 1986 – Engineering Trainee, Gwalior Rayons Limited, India.

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Journals/Book Chapters

R. Mathur, U. Shankar, A. Hanna, M.T. Odman, J. McHenry, C. Coats, K. Alapaty, A. Xiu, S. Arunachalam, D. Olerud, D. Byun, K. Schere, F. Binkowski, J. Ching, R. Dennis, J. Novak, T. Pierce, J. Pleim, S. Rosselle, and J. Young, The Multiscale Air Qulaity Simulation Platform (MAQSIP): Initial Applications and Performance for Tropospheric Ozone and Particulate Matter, Journal of Geophysical Research, In Press, 2005.

Otte, T. L. , G. Pouliot, J. E. Pleim, J. O. Young, K. L. Schere, D. C. Wong, P. C. S. Lee, M. Tsidulko, J. T. McQueen, P. Davidson, R. Mathur, H.-Y. Chuang, G. DiMego, and N. L. Seaman, Linking the Eta Model with the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System to build a national air quality forecasting system, Weather and Forecasting, In Press, 2005.

D. Kang, V. Aneja, R. Mathur, J.D. Ray, Observed and modeled VOC chemistry under high VOC/NOx conditions in Southeast U.S. national parks, Atmospheric Environment, 38, 4969-4974, 2004.

R. Mathur and R.L. Dennis, Seasonal and Annual Modeling of Reduced Nitrogen Compounds Over the Eastern United States: Emissions, Ambient Levels, and Deposition Amounts, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D15), 4481, doi: 10.1029/2002JD002794, 2003.

A.M. Fiore, D.J. Jacob, R. Mathur, and R. Martin Application of Empirical Orthogonal Functions to Evaluate Ozone Simulations with Regional and Global Models, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D14), 4431, doi:10.1029/2002JD003151, 2003.

D. Kang, R. Mathur, V.P. Aneja, and J. Ray, Nonmethane Hydrocarbons and Ozone in Three Rural Southeast United States National Parks: A Model Sensitivity Analysis and Comparison with Measurements, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D19), 4604, doi:10.1029/2002JD003054, 2003.

P.A. Roelle, V.P. Aneja, R.Mathur, J. Vukovich and J. Pierce, Modeling Nitric Oxide Emissions from Biosolid Amended Soils, Atmospheric Environment, 36, 5687-5696, 2002, 2002.

R.L. Dennis and R. Mathur, Airshed Domains for Modeling Atmospheric Deposition of Oxidized and Reduced Nitrogen to the Neuse/Pamlico System, Hydrological Science and Technology, Volume 17, Number 1-4, 107-117, 2001.

Hogrefe, C., S.T. Rao, P. Kasibhatla, W. Hao, G. Sistla, R. Mathur, and J. McHenry, Evaluating the Performance of Regional Scale Photochemical Modeling Systems: Part II – Ozone Predictions, Atmospheric Environment, 35, 4175-4188, 2001.

V.P Aneja, R. Mathur, S.P. Arya, Y. Li, G.C. Murray, and T.L. Manuszk, Coupling the Vertical Distribution of Ozone in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 34, 2324-2329, 2000.

R.L. Dennis, G.S. Tonnessen, and R. Mathur, Nonlinearities in the Sulfate Secondary Fine Particulate Response to NO x Emission Reductions as Modeled by the Regional Acid Deposition Model, Air Pollution Modeling and Its Applications XIV, Eds. S. Gryning and F. Schiermeier, pp193-202, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2001.

G. Faluvegi, K. Alapaty, H.G. Riechle, R. Mathur, S. Raman, and V.S. Connors, Simulation of Carbon Monoxide Transport During April 1994, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 104(D17), 21471-21485, 1999.

Rohit Mathur, Jeffrey O. Young, Kenneth L. Schere, and G. Gipson, Comparison of Numerical Techniques for Solution of Atmospheric Kinetic Equations, Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 32, 9, 1535-1553, 1998.

K. Alapaty, R. Mathur, and M.T. Odman, Intercomparison of Spatial Interpolation Schemes for Use in Nested Grid Models, Monthly Weather Review , Vol. 126, 243-249 1998.

Kiran Alapaty and Rohit Mathur, Effects of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Mixing Representations on Vertical Distribution of Passive and Reactive Tracers, Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 69,101-118, 1998.

P. Kasibhatla, W.L. Chameides, B. Duncan, M. Houyoux, C. Jang, R. Mathur, T. Odman, and A Xiu, Impact of Inert Organic Nitrate Formation on Ground-Level Ozone in a Regional Air Quality Model Using the Carbon Bond Mechanism 4, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol 24, No. 24, 3205-3208, 1997.

Kiran Alapaty, Rohit Mathur, and Daewon Byun, A Modeling Study of Vertical Diffusion of Passive and Reactive Tracers Using Local- and Nonlocal-Closure Boundary Layer Schemes, Air Pollution Modeling and Its Applications XI, Eds. S.E. Gryning and F.A. Schiermeier, pp 433-442, Plenum Press, New York, 1996.

D.W. Byun, D. Dabdub, S. Fine, A.F. Hanna, R. Mathur, M.T. Odman, A. Russell, E.J. Segall, J.H. Seinfeld, P. Steenkiste, and J.Young, Emerging Air Quality Modeling Technology for High Performance Computing and Communication Environments, Air Pollution Modeling and Its Applications XI, Eds. S.E. Gryning and F.A. Schiermeier, pp 491-502, Plenum Press, New York, 1996.

Rohit Mathur, Kenneth L. Schere, and Anuradha Nathan, Dependencies and Sensitivity of Tropospheric Oxidants to Precursor Concentrations over the Northeast United States: A Model Study, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol 99, No. D5, 10535-10552, 1994.

Rohit Mathur, Leonard K. Peters, and Rick D. Saylor, Sub-grid Representation of Emission Source Clusters in Regional Air Quality Modeling, Atmospheric Environment, Vol 26A, 3219-3238, 1992.

Rohit Mathur, Rick D. Saylor and Leonard K. Peters, The STEM-II Regional-Scale Acid Deposition and Photochemical Oxidant Model- IV. The Impact of Emission Reduction on Mesoscale Acid Deposition in the Lower Ohio River Valley, Atmospheric Environment, Vol 26A, No. 5, pp 841-861, 1992.

Rohit Mathur, Rick D. Saylor and Leonard K. Peters, The Impact of Emission Reduction on Mesoscale Acid Deposition in the Lower Ohio River Valley, Air Pollution Modeling and its Applications VIII, edited by H. van Dop D.G. Steyn, Volume 15, Plenum Press 1991.

Rick Saylor, Leonard K. Peters and Rohit Mathur, The STEM-II Regional-Scale Acid Deposition and Photochemical Oxidant Model- III. A Study of Mesoscale Acid Deposition in the Lower Ohio River Valley, Atmospheric Environment, Vol 25A, No. 12, pp 2873-2894, 1991.

Rohit Mathur and Leonard K. Peters, Discussion, Atmospheric Environment, Vol 25A, No. 10, pp 2425-2427, 1991.

Rohit Mathur and Leonard K. Peters, Adjustment of Wind Fields for Application in Air Pollution Modeling, Atmospheric Environment, Vol 24A, No. 5, pp 1095-1106, 1990.

 Sharma, S.K., K. Choudhary, R. Mathur and S. Agarawal, Chlorine Utilization, Indian Chemical Journal, 1986.

Conference Proceedings/Reports

R. Mathur, J. Pleim, T. Otte, K. Schere, G. Pouliot, J. Young, B. Eder, D. Kang, S. Yu, H.-M. Lin, J. McQueen, P. Lee, M. Tsidulko, and D. Wong, Adaptation and Applications of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System for Real-Time Air Quality Forecasting During the Summer of 2004, Proc. 3 rd Annual CMAS Models-3 Users Workshop, available at: http://www.cmascenter.org/html/2004_workshop/abstracts_presentations.html.

P. Karamchandani, K. Vijayaraghavan, R. Mathur, Z, Adelman, and A. Holland, Assessment of Models for Simulating Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition, EPRI Technical Report 1009421, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA, 2004.

R. Mathur, S. Arunachalam, Z. Adelman, K. Alapaty, A. Hanna, G. Yarwood, C. Emery, S. Lau, and G. Wilson, Review, Testing, and Evaluation of the SCICHEM (Second-Order Closure Integrated Puff Model with Chemistry) and CMAQ-APT (Community Multiscale Air Quality Model-Advanced Plume Treatment), EPRI Technical Report 1005241, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA, 2003.

R. Mathur, U. Shankar, K. Alapaty, Z. Adelman and R.L. Dennis, Modeling Studies of the Distributions, Partitioning, and Budgets of Reduced Nitrogen Compounds on Regional and Local Scales, Proc. International Conference on Air Quality III: Mercury, Trace Elements and Particulate Matter, Arlington, VA, September 9-12, 2002.

S. Arunachalam, Z. Adelman, R. Mathur, and J. Vukovich, The Impacts of Biogenic Emissions Estimates from BEIS-3 on Ozone Modeling in the Southeastern US, In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Emissions Inventory Conference: Emission Inventories - Partnering for the Future, Atlanta, GA, April 2002.

S. Arunachalam, Z. Adelman, K. Hanisak, A. Holland, and R. Mathur. Estimating Future-Year Ozone Design Values with Two Regional-Scale Modeling Systems in North Carolina, In Proceedings of the 95th Annual Meeting of the Air and Waste Management Association, Baltimore, MD, June 2002.

U. Shankar and R. Mathur, “Regional Modeling of Atmospheric Reduced and Oxidized Nitrogen Species: A Comparative Analysis of Two Thermodynamic Models”, presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association for Aerosol Research, Portland, Oregon, October 2001.

D. Kang, V.P. Aneja, R. Mathur, and J. Ray, Non-methane hydrocarbons and ozone in the rural Southeast United States national parks: A model sensitivity analysis and its comparison with measurements, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 10-14, 2001.

S. Arunachalam, Z. Adelman, R. Mathur, D. Olerud, Jr., and A. Holland. A Comparison of the Models-3/CMAQ and MAQSIP Modeling Systems for Ozone Modeling in North Carolina, In Proceedings of the 94th Annual Meeting of the Air and Waste Management Association, Orlando, FL, June 2001.

R. Mathur, A. Xiu, A. Hanna, C. Coats, U. Shankar, J. McHenry, Development, Testing, and Applications of a Regional Scale Integrated Meteorology Atmospheric Chemistry Model, 19 th Annual Conference of the American Association for Aerosol Research, St. Louis, Missouri, 2000.

R. Mathur and R.L Dennis, A Regional Modeling Analysis of Reduced Nitrogen Cycling in the Eastern United States, Proc. Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry Issues in the 21 st Century, pp 85-88, American Meteorological Society, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2000.

R. Mathur and R.L Dennis, Development and Testing of a Comprehensive Model to Study Atmospheric Nitrogen Compounds, Proc. Workshop on Atmospheric Nitrogen Compounds II, Chapel Hill, NC, June 1999.

R.L Dennis and R. Mathur, Nitrogen Deposition Airsheds for the Pamlico Sound Watersheds: Development for Oxidized Nitrogen and Preliminary Estimates for Reduced Nitrogen, Proc. Workshop on Atmospheric Nitrogen Compounds II, Chapel Hill, NC, June 1999.

Xiu, A., R. Mathur, and C. Coats, On the Development and Testing of an Air Quality Modeling System with Integrated Meteorology, Chemistry, and Emissions, Proc. Symposium on Interdisciplinary Issues in Atmospheric Chemistry,79th AMS Annual Meeting , pp 117-120, American Meteorological Society, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1999.

Hanna, A.F., R. Mathur, K. Alapaty, J. Pinto, and A. Ramadan, A Modeling Study of Pollution Episodes Over Industrial Regions in North Africa, Proc. Symposium on Interdisciplinary Issues in Atmospheric Chemistry,79th AMS Annual Meeting, pp70-71, American Meteorological Society, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1999.

R. Mathur, A. Xiu., C. Coats, K. Alapaty, U. Shankar, and A. Hanna, Development of an Air Quality Modeling System with Integrated Meteorology, Chemistry, and Emissions, Proc. Measurement of Toxic and Related Air Pollutants, AWMA, Cary, NC, September, 1998.

Odman, M. T., C. L. Ingram, R. Mathur, and U. Shankar, Documentation for the Denver Air Quality Model Version 2 Modeling System (D2MS) Volume II: MAQSIP Source Code Documentation, Technical Report ENV-98TR006-v1.0, MCNC—North Carolina Supercomputing Center, P. O. Box 12889, Research Triangle Park, NC 27701-2889, 1998.

Fine, S. S., C. J. Coats, Jr., A. Hanna, D. H. Loughlin, J. N. McHenry, R. Mathur, W. T. Smith, N. J. M. Wheeler, The Environmental Decision Support System: A capable and versatile contribution to a community modeling and analysis system for air quality, Development and Application of Computer Techniques to Environmental Studies, D. W. Pepper, C. A. Brebbia, and P. Zannetti, Eds., WIT Press, Boston, 317-326, 1998.

M. T. Odman, R. Mathur, K. Alapaty, R. Srivastava, D. S. McRae, and R.J. Yamartino, Nested and Adaptive Grids for Multiscale Environmental Modeling, in Next Generation Environmental Models Computational Methods, Eds. G. Delic and M.F. Wheeler, pp. 59-68, SIAM, Philadelphia, 1997.

U. Shankar, R. Mathur, A. Hanna, and P. Kasibhatla, Development of a Coupled Regional Climate-Chemistry Model: Description and Preliminary Results, 16th Annual Conference of the American Association for Aerosol Research, Denver, Colorado, October, 1997.

S.S. Fine, and R. Mathur, Applying multivariate analysis techniques to interpreting results produced by chemistry-transport models, Proc. Computing in Environmental Resource Management, 2-4 December, Research Triangle Park, NC, Air & Waste Management Association, 250-260, 1996.

Rohit Mathur, Adel F. Hanna, Kenneth L. Schere, and Robin L. Dennis, On the Intercomparison of Two Regional Photochemical Models, Proceedings of the Conference on Regional Photochemical Measurement and Modeling Studies, Volume 2: Results and Status of Modeling, Edited by A.J. Ranzieri and P.A. Solomon, Air and Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA, p 885-903, 1995.

Daewon W. Byun, Carlie Coats, Dongming Hwang, Steve Fine, Adel F. Hanna, M. Talat Odman, Rohit Mathur, and Kenneth J. Galluppi, Prototyping Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System for High Performance Computing and Communication Environment, Mission Earth Symposium, 1995.

Adel F. Hanna, Uma Shankar and Rohit Mathur, Sensitivity of Tropospheric Heating Rates to Aerosols: A Modeling Study, Proceedings, International Specialty Conference on Global Climate Change: Science, Policy and Mitigation Strategies, 1994.

Rohit Mathur and Kenneth L. Schere, A Regional Modeling Analysis of the Dependencies of Atmospheric Oxidants to Perturbations in NO x and Hydrocarbon Emissions, Proceedings, Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, Anahiem, CA, American Meteorological Society, pp 31-38, 1993.

Rohit Mathur, Design of the ROM 2.2 Process Analysis Model, Final Report, submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, RTP, NC, 1992.

Rohit Mathur, On the Testing and Evaluation of Chemical Mechanisms and Solvers for inclusion in MODELS3, Final Report, submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, RTP, NC, 1992.

Donald T. Olerud and Rohit Mathur, Evaluation of Atmospheric Transport Processes Based on Simulation of the CAPTEX Tracer Experiment, Final Report, submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, RTP, NC, 1992.

Rohit Mathur, Some Important Considerations Related to Emission Sources in Regional Air Quality Modeling, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 1991.

Rohit Mathur, A Study of Source Perturbation on Acid Deposition in a Mesoscale Region, report submitted to the Environmental Systems Program, University of Kentucky, 1991.

Rohit Mathur, Adjustment of Wind Fields for Application in Air Pollution Modeling, M.S. Thesis, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Kentucky, 1988.

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