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Dr. Jose M Rodriguez

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Dr. Jose M Rodriguez

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  • Mail Code: 614
  • Greenbelt , MD 20771
  • Employer: EMERITUS

    • Brief Bio



    Dr. Rodriguez has been involved in the modeling of anthropogenic perturbations to the atmosphere for the past 30 years. He has been guest investigator under the Pioneer Venus Program, and the Solar Mesospheric Explorer program. He has also been Principal Investigator in numerous projects involving modeling support of aircraft campaigns, both in the stratosphere (AAOE, STRAT, ASHOE/MAESA, POLARIS) and in the troposphere (Global Tropospheric Experiment, PEM –West A, West B, Tropics A and Tropics B; ARCTAS). Dr. Rodriguez has been a member of NASA’s Earth System Science and Applications Advisory Committee (ESSAAC). He also has been Editor for Atmospheric Sciences for Geophysical Research Letters, and served in the NRC Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry, co-authoring the report cited below. Dr. Rodriguez has been involved in several assessments efforts, including the WMO/Ozone Assessment and Supersonic Aircraft Impact Assessment.  Dr. Rodriguez has served as Project Scientist for the Global Modeling Initiative (GMI) since its inception in 1994. This effort has now integrated a three-dimensional chemical transport model (CTM) that includes both tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry and dynamics. Aerosols and tagged tracers are also a capability developed by this model. As Project Scientist for the GMI, Dr. Rodriguez has also been Head of the Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center since September 2006. In that capacity, he interacts closely with members of the AURA and other A-train instruments.


    Positions/Employment

    9/2006 - Present

    Head, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory,

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
    9/1998 - 8/2006

    Professor of Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Miami 1983-1998: Scientist, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. (AER).

    University of Miami, Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL
    6/1983 - 8/1998

    Senior Scientist

    Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc (AER), Cambridge, MA

    Teaching Experience

    Member of Thesis Committee for Luca D’Ottone and Margaret Williams, 1998-present. Luca D’Ottone is a graduate student at MAC under Dr. A. Hynes. The research topic is the quantum yield of ozone to produce O(1D) at long wavelengths. Margaret Williams is a graduate student at MAC under Dr. A. Hynes. Her research topic explores kinetic measurements of degradation of dimethyl sulfide.
    Special Topics course on Stratospheric Chemistry, Spring 1999, MAC.

    Co-teaching course entitled “Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics II”, with Profs. Mario Molina and Ronald Prinn at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology during Spring of 1998. This is a graduate-level course, required from all graduate students in Atmospheric Sciences at MIT.

    Education

    EDUCATION:
    Ph.D. (Physics) Harvard University, 1983

    Professional Societies

    American Geophysical Union , 1981 - Present
    American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999 - Present

    Professional Service

    Associate Editor, Atmospheres, Geophysical Research Letters, 1993-1996

    Member, Earth Science Enterprise Advisory Committee, 1995-1998

    Member, National Research Council Committe for Atmospheric Chemistry, 1194-1997

    Awards

    2007 Robert H. Goddard Award for Science Leadership
    2012 NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal

    Selected Publications

    Refereed

    Bian, H., P. R. Colarco, M. Chin, et al. G. Chen, J. M. Rodriguez, Q. Liang, D. Blake, D.-C. A. Chu, A. M. Da Silva, A. S. Darmenov, G. Diskin, H. E. Fuelberg, G. Huey, Y. Kondo, J. E. Nielsen, X. Pan, and A. Wisthaler. 2013. "Source attributions of pollution to the Western Arctic during the NASA ARCTAS field campaign." Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13 (9): 4707-4721 [10.5194/acp-13-4707-2013]

    Oman, L. D., A. R. Douglass, J. R. Ziemke, et al. J. M. Rodriguez, D. W. Waugh, and J. E. Nielsen. 2013. "The ozone response to ENSO in aura satellite measurements and a chemistry-climate simulation." J. Geophys. Res., 118: 965-976 [The ozone response to ENSO in aura satellite measu]

    Oman, L. D., J. R. Ziemke, A. R. Douglass, et al. D. W. Waugh, C. Lang, J. M. Rodriguez, and J. E. Nielsen. 2011. "The response of tropical tropospheric ozone to ENSO." Geophysical Research Letters, 38 (13): L13706 [10.1029/2011GL047865]

    Liang, Q., J. M. Rodriguez, A. R. Douglass, et al. J. Crawford, E. Apel, H. Bian, D. Blake, W. Brune, M. Chin, P. R. Colarco, A. Silva, G. Diskin, B. N. Duncan, L. Huey, D. Knapp, D. Montzka, J. Nielsen, J. Olson, S. Pawson, D. Riemer, A. Weinheimer, and A. Wisthaler. 2011. "Reactive nitrogen, ozone and ozone production in the Arctic troposphere and the impact of stratosphere-troposphere exchange." Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11 (24): 13181-13199 [10.5194/acp-11-13181-2011]

    Salawitch, R. J., T. Canty, T. Kurosu, et al. K. Chance, Q. Liang, A. M. Da Silva, S. Pawson, J. E. Nielsen, J. M. Rodriguez, and P. K. Bhartia. 2010. "A new interpretation of total column BrO during Arctic spring." Geophysical Research Letters, 37 (21): L21805 [10.1029/2010GL043798]

    Barahona, D., J. M. Rodriguez, and A. Nenes. 2010. "Sensitivity of the global distribution of cirrus ice crystal concentration to heterogeneous freezing." J. Geophys. Res., 115 (D23): 23213 [10.1029/2010JD014273]

    Olsen, M. A., A. R. Douglass, M. R. Schoeberl, J. M. Rodriguez, and Y. Yoshida. 2010. "Interannual variability of ozone in the winter lower stratosphere and the relationship to lamina and irreversible transport." J. Geophys. Res., 115 (D15): D15305 [10.1029/2009JD013004]

    Liang, Q., R. S. Stolarski, S. Kawa, et al. J. Nielsen, A. R. Douglass, J. M. Rodriguez, D. Blake, E. Atlas, and L. Ott. 2010. "Finding the missing stratospheric Bry: a global modeling study of CHBr₃ and CH₂Br₂." Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10 (5): 2269-2286 [10.5194/acp-10-2269-2010]

    Prather, M., X. Zhu, S. Strahan, S. Steenrod, and J. M. Rodriguez. 2008. "Quantifying errors in trace species transport modeling." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (50): 19,617-19,621 [10.1073/pnas.0806541106]

    Allen, D. J., K. E. Pickering, B. N. Duncan, et al. S. E. Strahan, J. M. Rodriguez, and M. R. Damon. 2007. "An Evaluation of the Impact of Lightning NO Emissions in the GMI Model on Upper Tropospheric Chemistry in the Tropics using SHADOZ data." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, (A21D-0737): San Francisco, CA: D737.

    Rodriguez, J. M. 2006. "Stratospheric Ozone." Oxford, UK: ISBN: 978-0-444-52748-6.

    Stevenson, D. S., F. J. Dentener, M. G. Schultz, et al. K. Ellingsen, T. P. van Noije, O. Wild, G. Zeng, M. Amann, C. S. Atherton, N. Bell, D. J. Bergmann, I. Bey, T. Butler, J. Cofala, W. J. Collins, R. G. Derwent, R. M. Doherty, J. Drevet, H. J. Eskes, A. M. Fiore, M. Gauss, D. A. Hauglustaine, L. W. Horowitz, I. S. Isaksen, M. C. Krol, J. Lamarque, M. G. Lawrence, V. Montanaro, J. Mueller, G. Pitari, M. J. Prather, J. A. Pyle, S. Rast, J. M. Rodriguez, M. G. Sanderson, N. H. Savage, D. T. Shindell, S. E. Strahan, K. Sudo, and S. Szopa. 2006. "Multimodel ensemble simulations of present-day and near-future tropospheric ozone." J. Geophys. Res., 111 (D8): D08301 [10.1029/2005JD006338]

    Shindell, D. T., G. Faluvegi, D. S. Stevenson, et al. M. C. Krol, L. K. Emmons, J. Lamarque, G. Petron, F. J. Dentener, K. Ellingsen, M. G. Schultz, O. Wild, M. Amann, C. S. Atherton, D. J. Bergmann, I. Bey, T. Butler, J. Cofala, W. J. Collins, R. G. Derwent, R. M. Doherty, J. Drevet, H. J. Eskes, A. M. Fiore, M. Gauss, D. A. Hauglustaine, L. W. Horowitz, I. S. Isaksen, M. G. Lawrence, V. Montanaro, J. Müller, G. Pitari, M. J. Prather, J. A. Pyle, S. Rast, J. Rodriguez, M. G. Sanderson, N. H. Savage, S. E. Strahan, K. Sudo, S. Szopa, N. Unger, T. P. van Noije, and G. Zeng. 2006. "Multimodel simulations of carbon monoxide: Comparison with observations and projected near-future changes." J. Geophys. Res., 111 (D19): D19306 [10.1029/2006JD007100]

    Dentener, F., J. Drevet, J. F. Lamarque, et al. I. Bey, B. Eickhout, A. M. Fiore, D. Hauglustaine, L. W. Horowitz, M. Krol, U. C. Kulshrestha, M. Lawrence, C. Galy-Lacaux, S. Rast, D. Shindell, D. Stevenson, T. Van Noije, C. Atherton, N. Bell, D. Bergman, T. Butler, J. Cofala, B. Collins, R. Doherty, K. Ellingsen, J. Galloway, M. Gauss, V. Montanaro, J. F. Müller, G. Pitari, J. Rodriguez, M. Sanderson, F. Solmon, S. Strahan, M. Schultz, K. Sudo, S. Szopa, and O. Wild. 2006. "Nitrogen and sulfur deposition on regional and global scales: A multimodel evaluation." Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 20 (4): GB4003 [10.1029/2005GB002672]

    Dentener, F., D. Stevenson, K. Ellingsen, et al. T. van Noije, M. Schultz, M. Amann, C. Atherton, N. Bell, D. Bergmann, I. Bey, L. Bouwman, T. Butler, J. Cofala, B. Collins, J. Drevet, R. Doherty, B. Eickhout, H. Eskes, A. Fiore, M. Gauss, D. Hauglustaine, L. Horowitz, I. S. Isaksen, B. Josse, M. Lawrence, M. Krol, J. F. Lamarque, V. Montanaro, J. F. Mueller, V. H. Peuch, G. Pitari, J. Pyle, S. Rast, J. Rodriguez, M. Sanderson, N. H. Savage, D. Shindell, S. Strahan, S. Szopa, K. Sudo, R. Van Dingenen, O. Wild, and G. Zeng. 2006. "The global atmospheric environment for the next generation." Environmental Science & Technology, 40 (11): 3586-3594 [10.1021/es0523845]

    Kawa, S. R., J. G. Anderson, S. L. Baughcum, et al. C. Brock, W. H. Brune, R. C. Cohen, D. E. Kinnison, P. Newman, J. M. Rodriguez, R. S. Stolarski, D. W. Waugh, and S. C. Wofsy. 1999. "Assessment of the Effects of High-Speed Aircraft in the Stratosphere: 1998." NASA/TP-1999-209237,

    Douglass, A. R., M. J. Prather, T. M. Hall, et al. S. E. Strahan, P. J. Rasch, L. C. Sparling, L. Coy, and J. M. Rodriguez. 1999. "Choosing meteorological input for the global modeling initiative assessment of high-speed aircraft." J. Geophys. Res., 104 (D22): 27545-27564 [10.1029/1999JD900827]

    Brief Bio



    Dr. Rodriguez has been involved in the modeling of anthropogenic perturbations to the atmosphere for the past 30 years. He has been guest investigator under the Pioneer Venus Program, and the Solar Mesospheric Explorer program. He has also been Principal Investigator in numerous projects involving modeling support of aircraft campaigns, both in the stratosphere (AAOE, STRAT, ASHOE/MAESA, POLARIS) and in the troposphere (Global Tropospheric Experiment, PEM –West A, West B, Tropics A and Tropics B; ARCTAS). Dr. Rodriguez has been a member of NASA’s Earth System Science and Applications Advisory Committee (ESSAAC). He also has been Editor for Atmospheric Sciences for Geophysical Research Letters, and served in the NRC Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry, co-authoring the report cited below. Dr. Rodriguez has been involved in several assessments efforts, including the WMO/Ozone Assessment and Supersonic Aircraft Impact Assessment.  Dr. Rodriguez has served as Project Scientist for the Global Modeling Initiative (GMI) since its inception in 1994. This effort has now integrated a three-dimensional chemical transport model (CTM) that includes both tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry and dynamics. Aerosols and tagged tracers are also a capability developed by this model. As Project Scientist for the GMI, Dr. Rodriguez has also been Head of the Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center since September 2006. In that capacity, he interacts closely with members of the AURA and other A-train instruments.


    Selected Publications

    Refereed

    Bian, H., P. R. Colarco, M. Chin, et al. G. Chen, J. M. Rodriguez, Q. Liang, D. Blake, D.-C. A. Chu, A. M. Da Silva, A. S. Darmenov, G. Diskin, H. E. Fuelberg, G. Huey, Y. Kondo, J. E. Nielsen, X. Pan, and A. Wisthaler. 2013. "Source attributions of pollution to the Western Arctic during the NASA ARCTAS field campaign." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 13 (9): 4707-4721 [10.5194/acp-13-4707-2013]

    Oman, L. D., A. R. Douglass, J. R. Ziemke, et al. J. M. Rodriguez, D. W. Waugh, and J. E. Nielsen. 2013. "The ozone response to ENSO in aura satellite measurements and a chemistry-climate simulation." J. Geophys. Res. 118 965-976 [The ozone response to ENSO in aura satellite measu]

    Oman, L. D., J. R. Ziemke, A. R. Douglass, et al. D. W. Waugh, C. Lang, J. M. Rodriguez, and J. E. Nielsen. 2011. "The response of tropical tropospheric ozone to ENSO." Geophysical Research Letters 38 (13): L13706 [10.1029/2011GL047865]

    Liang, Q., J. M. Rodriguez, A. R. Douglass, et al. J. Crawford, E. Apel, H. Bian, D. Blake, W. Brune, M. Chin, P. R. Colarco, A. Silva, G. Diskin, B. N. Duncan, L. Huey, D. Knapp, D. Montzka, J. Nielsen, J. Olson, S. Pawson, D. Riemer, A. Weinheimer, and A. Wisthaler. 2011. "Reactive nitrogen, ozone and ozone production in the Arctic troposphere and the impact of stratosphere-troposphere exchange." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 11 (24): 13181-13199 [10.5194/acp-11-13181-2011]

    Salawitch, R. J., T. Canty, T. Kurosu, et al. K. Chance, Q. Liang, A. M. Da Silva, S. Pawson, J. E. Nielsen, J. M. Rodriguez, and P. K. Bhartia. 2010. "A new interpretation of total column BrO during Arctic spring." Geophysical Research Letters 37 (21): L21805 [10.1029/2010GL043798]

    Barahona, D., J. M. Rodriguez, and A. Nenes. 2010. "Sensitivity of the global distribution of cirrus ice crystal concentration to heterogeneous freezing." J. Geophys. Res. 115 (D23): 23213 [10.1029/2010JD014273]

    Olsen, M. A., A. R. Douglass, M. R. Schoeberl, J. M. Rodriguez, and Y. Yoshida. 2010. "Interannual variability of ozone in the winter lower stratosphere and the relationship to lamina and irreversible transport." J. Geophys. Res. 115 (D15): D15305 [10.1029/2009JD013004]

    Liang, Q., R. S. Stolarski, S. Kawa, et al. J. Nielsen, A. R. Douglass, J. M. Rodriguez, D. Blake, E. Atlas, and L. Ott. 2010. "Finding the missing stratospheric Bry: a global modeling study of CHBr₃ and CH₂Br₂." Atmos. Chem. Phys. 10 (5): 2269-2286 [10.5194/acp-10-2269-2010]

    Prather, M., X. Zhu, S. Strahan, S. Steenrod, and J. M. Rodriguez. 2008. "Quantifying errors in trace species transport modeling." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (50): 19,617-19,621 [10.1073/pnas.0806541106]

    Allen, D. J., K. E. Pickering, B. N. Duncan, et al. S. E. Strahan, J. M. Rodriguez, and M. R. Damon. 2007. "An Evaluation of the Impact of Lightning NO Emissions in the GMI Model on Upper Tropospheric Chemistry in the Tropics using SHADOZ data." AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts D737

    Rodriguez, J. M. 2006. "Stratospheric Ozone."

    Stevenson, D. S., F. J. Dentener, M. G. Schultz, et al. K. Ellingsen, T. P. van Noije, O. Wild, G. Zeng, M. Amann, C. S. Atherton, N. Bell, D. J. Bergmann, I. Bey, T. Butler, J. Cofala, W. J. Collins, R. G. Derwent, R. M. Doherty, J. Drevet, H. J. Eskes, A. M. Fiore, M. Gauss, D. A. Hauglustaine, L. W. Horowitz, I. S. Isaksen, M. C. Krol, J. Lamarque, M. G. Lawrence, V. Montanaro, J. Mueller, G. Pitari, M. J. Prather, J. A. Pyle, S. Rast, J. M. Rodriguez, M. G. Sanderson, N. H. Savage, D. T. Shindell, S. E. Strahan, K. Sudo, and S. Szopa. 2006. "Multimodel ensemble simulations of present-day and near-future tropospheric ozone." J. Geophys. Res. 111 (D8): D08301 [10.1029/2005JD006338]

    Shindell, D. T., G. Faluvegi, D. S. Stevenson, et al. M. C. Krol, L. K. Emmons, J. Lamarque, G. Petron, F. J. Dentener, K. Ellingsen, M. G. Schultz, O. Wild, M. Amann, C. S. Atherton, D. J. Bergmann, I. Bey, T. Butler, J. Cofala, W. J. Collins, R. G. Derwent, R. M. Doherty, J. Drevet, H. J. Eskes, A. M. Fiore, M. Gauss, D. A. Hauglustaine, L. W. Horowitz, I. S. Isaksen, M. G. Lawrence, V. Montanaro, J. Müller, G. Pitari, M. J. Prather, J. A. Pyle, S. Rast, J. Rodriguez, M. G. Sanderson, N. H. Savage, S. E. Strahan, K. Sudo, S. Szopa, N. Unger, T. P. van Noije, and G. Zeng. 2006. "Multimodel simulations of carbon monoxide: Comparison with observations and projected near-future changes." J. Geophys. Res. 111 (D19): D19306 [10.1029/2006JD007100]

    Dentener, F., J. Drevet, J. F. Lamarque, et al. I. Bey, B. Eickhout, A. M. Fiore, D. Hauglustaine, L. W. Horowitz, M. Krol, U. C. Kulshrestha, M. Lawrence, C. Galy-Lacaux, S. Rast, D. Shindell, D. Stevenson, T. Van Noije, C. Atherton, N. Bell, D. Bergman, T. Butler, J. Cofala, B. Collins, R. Doherty, K. Ellingsen, J. Galloway, M. Gauss, V. Montanaro, J. F. Müller, G. Pitari, J. Rodriguez, M. Sanderson, F. Solmon, S. Strahan, M. Schultz, K. Sudo, S. Szopa, and O. Wild. 2006. "Nitrogen and sulfur deposition on regional and global scales: A multimodel evaluation." Global Biogeochem. Cycles 20 (4): GB4003 [10.1029/2005GB002672]

    Dentener, F., D. Stevenson, K. Ellingsen, et al. T. van Noije, M. Schultz, M. Amann, C. Atherton, N. Bell, D. Bergmann, I. Bey, L. Bouwman, T. Butler, J. Cofala, B. Collins, J. Drevet, R. Doherty, B. Eickhout, H. Eskes, A. Fiore, M. Gauss, D. Hauglustaine, L. Horowitz, I. S. Isaksen, B. Josse, M. Lawrence, M. Krol, J. F. Lamarque, V. Montanaro, J. F. Mueller, V. H. Peuch, G. Pitari, J. Pyle, S. Rast, J. Rodriguez, M. Sanderson, N. H. Savage, D. Shindell, S. Strahan, S. Szopa, K. Sudo, R. Van Dingenen, O. Wild, and G. Zeng. 2006. "The global atmospheric environment for the next generation." Environmental Science & Technology 40 (11): 3586-3594 [10.1021/es0523845]

    Kawa, S. R., J. G. Anderson, S. L. Baughcum, et al. C. Brock, W. H. Brune, R. C. Cohen, D. E. Kinnison, P. Newman, J. M. Rodriguez, R. S. Stolarski, D. W. Waugh, and S. C. Wofsy. 1999. "Assessment of the Effects of High-Speed Aircraft in the Stratosphere: 1998." NASA/TP-1999-209237

    Douglass, A. R., M. J. Prather, T. M. Hall, et al. S. E. Strahan, P. J. Rasch, L. C. Sparling, L. Coy, and J. M. Rodriguez. 1999. "Choosing meteorological input for the global modeling initiative assessment of high-speed aircraft." J. Geophys. Res. 104 (D22): 27545-27564 [10.1029/1999JD900827]

                                                                                                                                                                                            
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