Bo Zhang (Contractor)
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Title: Senior Research Scientist
Technical Focus Areas: Atmospheric Composition, Chemistry & Dynamics, Mission Support
Mission/Project: NAAMES, ACTIVATE
Study Topics: Tropospheric transport and aerosol tracer modeling, Aerosol wet deposition development, Particle dispersion and trajectory modeling, Ozone chemistry.
Email: bo.zhang@nasa.gov |
About:
Dr. Zhang has expertise in using Chemical Transport Model (GEOS-Chem, GEOS) and Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model (FLEXPART, HYSPLIT) to understand transport and chemistry of airborne trace gases and aerosols in the troposphere. His research interests include ozone chemistry, aerosol lifetime and wet scavenging, and their impact on climate. Particularly, he has studied ozone records at the remote central North Atlantic and used GEOS-Chem/FLEXPART to understand ozone production tendency, trace gas climatology, and aerosol sources during long-range transport. He also improved Rn-222 emission (a radionuclide tracers for land sources) to better characterize convective transport and improve parameterization of aerosol wet scavenging in GEOS-Chem and GEOS. He has provided modeling and analyses support for NASA EVS-2 NAAMES and EVS-3 ACTIVATE missions.
Notable Awards:
- NASA Group Achievement Award (ACTIVATE EVS-3 Mission), 2023.
- Bo Walkley Best Research Publication Winner, National Institute of Aerospace, 2021.
- PI, NASA ROSES-2020 Proposal (NNH20ZDA001N-ACCDAM), entitled “Investigating the impacts of wet scavenging on tropospheric aerosols using campaign observations of aerosols and radionuclide tracer Pb-210 in conjunction with FLEXPART air mass history and GEOS-Chem simulations”, 2021.
- NASA Group Achievement Award (NAAMES EVS-2 Mission), 2019.
Select Publications:
- Zhang B., H. Liu, J. Crawford, D. Fairlie, G. Chen, S. Chambers, C. Kang, A. Williams, K. Zhang, D. Considine, D.J. Jacob, M. Sulprizio, and R.M. Yantosca, Simulation of 222Rn with the GEOS-Chem global model: emissions, seasonality, and convective transport, Atmos. Chem. Phys, 21, 1861–1887, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-1861-2021
- Sanchez, K. J., Zhang, B., Liu, H., Saliba, G., Chen, C. L., Lewis, S. L., …, Moore, R. H., Linking marine phytoplankton emissions, meteorological processes, and downwind particle properties with FLEXPART. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21(2), 831-851, 2021. https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/21/831/2021/
- Lata, N. N., Zhang, B., Schum, S., Mazzoleni, L., Brimberry, R., Marcus, M. A., … & China, S., Aerosol Composition, Mixing State, and Phase State of Free Tropospheric Particles and Their Role in Ice Cloud Formation. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 5(12), 3499-3510, 2021. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.1c00315
- Schum, S.K., Zhang, B., Džepina, K., Fialho, P., Mazzoleni, C. and Mazzoleni, L.R., Molecular and physical characteristics of aerosol at a remote free troposphere site: implications for atmospheric aging. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18(19), pp.14017-14036, 2018. https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/18/14017/2018/
- Zhang, B., R.C. Owen, J.A. Perlinger, L., D. Helmig, M. Val Martin, L. Mazzoleni, C. Mazzoleni, Ten-year chemical signatures associated with long-range transport observed in the fre21. Zhang, B., Owen, R. C., Perlinger, J. A., Kumar, A., Wu, S., Val Martin, M., Kramer, L., Helmig, D., and Honrath, R. E., A semi-Lagrangian view of ozone production tendency in North American outflow in the summers of 2009 and 2010, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 2267-2287, doi:10.5194/acp-14-2267-2014, 2014.e troposphere over the central North Atlantic. Elem. Sci. Anth., 5:8. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.194, 2017
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Education/Professional Experience:
- 2021-Present, Senior Research Scientist, National Institute of Aerospace.
- 2016-2021, Research Scientist, National Institute of Aerospace.
- 2015-2016, Postdoctoral researcher, National Institute of Aerospace.
- 2015, PhD., Atmospheric Sciences, Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI, USA.