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Jerome D. Fast is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to atmospheric science and global and planetary change. Their scholarly work also spans subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, environmental engineering, and water science and technology.

Their research interests encompass a broad range of topics related to atmospheric phenomena and environmental impact. Key topics in their publications include atmospheric aerosols and clouds, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, meteorological phenomena and simulations, atmospheric ozone and climate, air quality and health impacts, climate variability and models, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Jerome D. Fast has contributed to numerous scientific papers, with recent examples highlighting various aspects of atmospheric chemistry and particle formation. These include:

  • High concentration of ultrafine particles in the Amazon free troposphere produced by organic new particle formation (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Aircraft measurements of aerosol and trace gas chemistry in the eastern North Atlantic (2021, Atmospheric chemistry and physics)
  • Better calibration of cloud parameterizations and subgrid effects increases the fidelity of the E3SM Atmosphere Model version 1 (2022, Geoscientific model development)
  • Global variability in atmospheric new particle formation mechanisms (2024, Nature)
  • Wintertime Particulate Matter Decrease Buffered by Unfavorable Chemical Processes Despite Emissions Reductions in China (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Atmospheric chemistry and physics, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Collaborations are an important part of Jerome D. Fast's work. Frequent coauthors include John E. Shilling, Po-Lun Ma, Larry K. Berg, Fan Mei, and Adam Varble. These partnerships reflect interdisciplinary efforts across atmospheric chemistry, climate modeling, and environmental science.

Best Publications

  • Model for Simulating Aerosol Interactions and Chemistry (MOSAIC)

    Rahul A. Zaveri;Richard C. Easter;Jerome D. Fast;Leonard K. Peters

  • Evolution of ozone, particulates, and aerosol direct radiative forcing in the vicinity of Houston using a fully coupled meteorology-chemistry-aerosol model

    Jerome D. Fast;William I. Gustafson;Richard C. Easter;Rahul A. Zaveri

  • Unexpectedly high concentrations of molecular chlorine in coastal air

    Chester W. Spicer;Elaine G. Chapman;Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts;Robert A. Plastridge

  • An overview of the MILAGRO 2006 Campaign: Mexico City emissions and their transport and transformation

    L. T. Molina;S. Madronich;J. S. Gaffney;E. Apel

  • Coupling aerosol-cloud-radiative processes in the WRF-Chem model: Investigating the radiative impact of elevated point sources

    Elaine G. Chapman;William I. Gustafson;Richard C. Easter;James C. Barnard

  • Tropospheric chemistry of internally mixed sea salt and organic particles: Surprising reactivity of NaCl with weak organic acids

    Alexander Laskin;Ryan C. Moffet;Ryan C. Moffet;Mary K. Gilles;Jerome D. Fast

  • The Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART-WRF version 3.1

    J Brioude;J Brioude;D Arnold;D Arnold;Andreas Stohl;Massimo Cassiani

  • The spatial distribution of mineral dust and its shortwave radiative forcing over North Africa: modeling sensitivities to dust emissions and aerosol size treatments

    Chun Zhao;Xiaohong Liu;Lai-Yung R. Leung;Ben Johnson

  • Modeling organic aerosols in a megacity: Potential contribution of semi-volatile and intermediate volatility primary organic compounds to secondary organic aerosol formation

    Alma Hodzic;Jose L. Jimenez;Sasha Madronich;M. R. Canagaratna

  • Inclusion of biomass burning in WRF-Chem: impact of wildfires on weather forecasts

    G. Grell;S. R. Freitas;M. Stuefer;J. Fast

  • Modeling organic aerosols in a megacity: comparison of simple and complex representations of the volatility basis set approach

    ManishKumar B. Shrivastava;Jerome D. Fast;Richard C. Easter;William I. Gustafson

  • Global long-range transport and lung cancer risk from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons shielded by coatings of organic aerosol.

    Manish Shrivastava;Sijia Lou;Alla Zelenyuk;Richard C. Easter

  • Technical Note: Evaluation of the WRF-Chem "aerosol chemical to aerosol optical properties" module using data from the MILAGRO campaign

    James C. Barnard;Jerome D. Fast;Guadalupe L. Paredes-Miranda;W. P. Arnott

  • Urban pollution greatly enhances formation of natural aerosols over the Amazon rainforest

    Manish Shrivastava;Meinrat O. Andreae;Meinrat O. Andreae;Meinrat O. Andreae;Paulo Artaxo;Henrique M. J. Barbosa

  • The VTMX 2000 campaign

    J C. Doran;Jerome D. Fast;John D. Horel

  • Simulation of semi-explicit mechanisms of SOA formation from glyoxal in aerosol in a 3-D model

    C. Knote;A. Hodzic;J. L. Jimenez;R. Volkamer

  • Relative humidity dependence of HONO chemistry in urban areas

    Jochen Stutz;Björn Alicke;Ralf Ackermann;Andreas Geyer

  • Meteorological factors associated with inhomogeneous ozone concentrations within the Mexico City basin

    Jerome D. Fast;Shiyuan Zhong

  • Impact on modeled cloud characteristics due to simplified treatment of uniform cloud condensation nuclei during NEAQS 2004

    William I. Gustafson;Elaine G. Chapman;Steven J. Ghan;Richard C. Easter

  • Correlation of Secondary Organic Aerosol with Odd Oxygen in Mexico City

    Scott C. Herndon;Timothy B. Onasch;Ezra C. Wood;Jesse H. Kroll

  • An Evaluation of the MM5, RAMS, and Meso-Eta Models at Subkilometer Resolution Using VTMX Field Campaign Data in the Salt Lake Valley

    Shiyuan Zhong;Jerome D. Fast

  • A meteorological overview of the MILAGRO field campaigns

    J. D. Fast;B. de Foy;F. Acevedo Rosas;E. Caetano

Frequent Co-Authors

William I. Gustafson
William I. Gustafson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richard C. Easter
Richard C. Easter Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Rahul A. Zaveri
Rahul A. Zaveri Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Larry K. Berg
Larry K. Berg Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
John E. Shilling
John E. Shilling Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
James C. Barnard
James C. Barnard University of Nevada Reno
Jean-Christophe Raut
Jean-Christophe Raut Sorbonne University
Jose L. Jimenez
Jose L. Jimenez University of Colorado Boulder
Stephen R. Springston
Stephen R. Springston Brookhaven National Laboratory
Alma Hodzic
Alma Hodzic National Center for Atmospheric Research

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