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Atmospheric Model Development Branch
ASMD Staff The Atmospheric Model Development Branch (AMDB) develops, tests, and refines analytical, statistical, and numerical models used to describe and assess relationships between air pollutant source emissions and resultant air quality, deposition, and pollutant exposures to humans and ecosystems. The models are applicable to spatial scales ranging from local/urban and mesoscale through regional, including linkage with global models. AMDB is a key advocate in the meteorological modeling community for air quality applications. AMDB adapts and extends meteorological models to couple effectively with chemical-transport models to create comprehensive air quality modeling systems, including the capability for two-way communication and feedback between the models. AMDB conducts studies to describe the atmospheric processes affecting the transport, diffusion, transformation, and removal of pollutants in and from the atmosphere using theoretical approaches as well as from analyses of monitoring and field study data. The AMDB converts these and other study results into models for simulating the relevant physical and chemical processes and for characterizing pollutant transport and fate in the atmosphere. AMDB conducts model exercises to assess the sensitivity and uncertainty associated with model input databases and applications results. AMDB’s modeling research is designed to produce tools to serve the nation's need for science-based air quality decision-support systems.
- Dr. Rohit Mathur, Chief
- Shirley Long (SEEP), Secretary
- Dr. Prakash Bhave, Physical Scientist
- O. Russell Bullock, Jr., Meteorologist
- Ann Marie Carlton
- Tianfeng Chai (STC Contractor)
- Dr. Brian K. Eder, Meteorologist
- Robert Gilliam, Meteorologist
- Dr. Jerold Herwehe, Meteorologist
- Dr. William Hutzell (EPA), Physical Scientist
- Dr. Daiwen Kang, (STC Contrator), Meteorologist
- Jim Kelly (EPA Post-Doc)
- Dr. Hsin-mu Lin (STC Contractor),
- Deborah Luecken (EPA), Physical Scientist
- Tanya L. Otte, Meteorologist
- Dr. Jonathan A. Pleim, Physical Scientist
- Adam Reff (EPA), Physical Scientist
- Shawn J. Roselle, Meteorologist
- Dr. Golam Sarwar (EPA), Meteorologist
- John Streicher, Physical Scientist
- Daniel Tong (STC Contractor)
- Dr. Shaocai Yu (STC Contractor), Physical Scientist
- Yang Zhang (ORISE)