Atmospheric Research
Our Research Interests are: Air Quality, Climatology, Aerosol Research, Atmospheric Optics, Radiative Transfer, Remote Sensing, Plasmonics.
Research Group:
Dr Rosa M. Fitzgerald, Professor.
Postdoctoral Associate: Dr. Javier Polanco
PhD students: Gustavo Arias, Suhail Mahmud
M.S students:Pema Wangchuk, Robert McFee, Miguel Cortez, Arjun Aryal
Undergraduate student:Noe Labrado
Current Projects
- The development of a first-principle model to include the humidity effects on the aerosols’ light extinction in order to understand the visibility degradation in the El Paso-Juarez Airshed.
- Modeling the Photolysis Rate Coefficients to Improve Air Quality Models.
- Air Pollution Modeling and Forecast.
- Meteorological Modeling and forecast.
- Development of Satellite Retrieval Codes.
- Plasmonics, as applied to Sensor Development.
Publications
- Alexei Maradudin, Ingven Simonsen, Javier Polanco, Rosa Fitzgerald, “Rayleigh and Wood anomalies in the diffraction of light from a perfectly conducting grating”, Journal of Optics 18, n.2, 2016.
- Eric M. Fujita, David E. Campbell, William Stockwell, Emily Saunders, Rosa Fitzgerald, Roberto Perea. “Projected Ozone Trends and Changes in the Ozone-Precursor Relationship in the South Coast Air Basin in Response to Varying Reductions of Precursor Emissions”, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, vol. 66, n.2, 201-214, 2016.
- Javier Polanco, Rosa M. Fitzgerald, Alexei Maradudin, “Scattering of an Obliquely Incident Surface Plasmon Polariton from Sub-Micron Metal Grooves and Ridges”, Plasmonics 10, n.5, 1173-1183, DOI 10.1007/s11468-015-9913- 6, Feb. 2015.
- Javier Polanco, Rosa M. Fitzgerald, Alexei Maradudin, “Propagation of Ppolarized Surface Plasmon Polaritons Circumferentially Around a Locally Cylindrical Surface”, 10.1016/j.optcom.2013.12.003, Optics Communication 316, 120-126, Dec.1, 2013.