Patrick C. Campbell, Ph.D.

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Patrick.C.Campbell@noaa.gov
ph: (307) 760-5178

Current Research

  • Air Quality Modeling and Forecasting
  • Surface-Atmosphere Exchange and Emissions
  • Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions including sub-canopy modeling
  • Wildfire behavior, emissions, and air quality

Professional Experience

  • 2019 – present: Research Faculty, Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies (CISESS), Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, George Mason University, NOAA/ARL Affiliate, College Park, MD
      • Atmosphere-biosphere interactions, in-canopy modeling, and implications for wildfire behavior, emissions, and air quality forecasting
      • Research, development, and application of in-canopy vegetative parameterizations and models (e.g., “Canopy-App”) and implications for next-generation air quality forecasting under the Unified Forecast System (UFS) Rapid Refresh Forecast System (RRFS) – Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model (“Online-CMAQ”) (Get code)
      • Lead on the development of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) “NACC-Cloud” product that allows users to  process and download model-ready NOAA GFSv16 geospatial and meteorological inputs for any user-defined regional CMAQ application worldwide
      • Lead developer of the Global Forecast System (GFS)-driven NOAA-EPA Atmosphere Chemistry Coupler (NACC) for the Advanced National Air Quality Forecasting Capability (NAQFC) (NACC code, NAQFC code)
      • Research and development on the NOAA Emission and eXchange Unified System (NEXUS) and connections with next-generation regional and global atmospheric aerosol and composition forecast models (Get the code)
      • Research on emissions processes and modeling, reactive nitrogen atmospheric deposition and composition, air quality, and implications of air-surface exchange processes on air quality forecasting
      • Research on coupled meteorological, photochemical, and chemical transport/air quality modeling
  • 2018 – 2019: Post-Doc Research Associate, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science/Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-Maryland, University of Maryland, NOAA/ARL Affiliate, College Park, MD
      • Research, development, and evaluation of the Advanced National Air Quality Forecasting Capability (NAQFC)
      • Research in coupled meteorological, photochemical, and chemical transport/air quality modeling
      • Air quality, deposition, and land-surface flux model development in connection with regional and next-generation global air quality forecast models
  • 2016 – 2018: NAS/NRC Post-Doc Research Associate, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Durham, NC
      • Coupled meteorological, photochemical, and chemical transport/air quality modeling
      • Air quality, deposition, and land-surface flux model development in connection with air quality models; including the WRF/Noah-CMAQ land surface model development
      • Coupled air quality model evaluation and current-to-future year climate-air quality applications for the U.S.
      • Advanced model developments and applications of both offline and coupled versions of WRF/CMAQ and a “next generation” air quality model using MPAS
  • 2014 – 2016: Post-Doctoral Research Scholar, North Carolina State University, Air Quality Forecasting Laboratory, Raleigh, NC
      • Global to regional air quality and climate modeling
      • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosol modeling
      • Regional emissions modeling using the SMOKE model
      • Global emissions processing for regional air quality modeling applications
      • Global-to-regional coupled air quality model evaluation and applications
      • Model proficiencies in CESM, WRF, WRF/CMAQ, WRF/Chem, and WRF/CAM5

Education

  • Ph.D., Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 
      • Dissertation: “The Climatology, Extent, and Impact of Stratospheric
        Condensation Nuclei, including their formation in polar regions”
  • M.S., Environmental Studies, Concentration – Atmospheric Science, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell, MA
      • Thesis: “A Short Range Ensemble Forecast Experiment on Jet Streaks to Improve Forecasters’ Model Diagnoses 2004 – 2006”
  • B.S., Meteorology, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell, MA

Honors, Awards and Professional Recognition

  • NOAA OAR Certificate of Accommodation for Implementing and upgrading NOAA’s NAQFC, 2021
  • Top Paper Download for Campbell et al. (2018), JAMES, 2018-2019
  • NRC Research Fellowship Award, NAS, 2016
  • Research Spotlight for Campbell et al. (2014), AGU, 2014
  • Antarctic Service Medal of the United States of America, NSF, 2012

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0987-8402

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