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Overview

Rahul A. Zaveri is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions to the subfields of Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Automotive Engineering, and Organic Chemistry.

The main topics of Zaveri's work include atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, atmospheric ozone and climate, atmospheric aerosols and clouds, air quality and health impacts, vehicle emissions and performance, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and chemical thermodynamics and molecular structure.

Recent papers authored by Zaveri or co-authored include:

  • The acidity of atmospheric particles and clouds, 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Exploring dimethyl sulfide (DMS) oxidation and implications for global aerosol radiative forcing, 2022, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • High concentration of ultrafine particles in the Amazon free troposphere produced by organic new particle formation, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Photolysis Controls Atmospheric Budgets of Biogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Particle-Phase Diffusion Modulates Partitioning of Semivolatile Organic Compounds to Aged Secondary Organic Aerosol, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

Frequent publication venues for Zaveri include:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Zaveri are:

  • John E. Shilling
  • Manish Shrivastava
  • Alla Zelenyuk
  • Zheng Lu
  • Bin Zhao

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

  • A new lumped structure photochemical mechanism for large-scale applications

    Rahul A. Zaveri;Leonard K. Peters

  • Recent advances in understanding secondary organic aerosol: Implications for global climate forcing

    Manish Shrivastava;Christopher D. Cappa;Jiwen Fan;Allen H. Goldstein

  • Toward a Minimal Representation of Aerosols in Climate Models: Description and Evaluation in the Community Atmosphere Model CAM5

    Xiaohong Liu;Richard C. Easter;Steven J. Ghan;Rahul A. Zaveri

  • Radiative Absorption Enhancements Due to the Mixing State of Atmospheric Black Carbon

    Christopher D. Cappa;Timothy B. Onasch;Paola Massoli;Douglas R. Worsnop

  • The acidity of atmospheric particles and clouds

    Havala O. T. Pye;Athanasios Nenes;Becky Alexander;Andrew P. Ault

  • Nitrate radicals and biogenic volatile organic compounds: oxidation, mechanisms, and organic aerosol

    Nga Lee Ng;Steven S. Brown;Steven S. Brown;Alexander T. Archibald;Elliot Atlas

  • The AeroCom evaluation and intercomparison of organic aerosol in global models

    K. Tsigaridis;K. Tsigaridis;N. Daskalakis;N. Daskalakis;M. Kanakidou;P. J. Adams

  • Toward a Minimal Representation of Aerosols in Climate Models: Comparative Decomposition of Aerosol Direct, Semidirect, and Indirect Radiative Forcing

    Steven J. Ghan;Xiaohong Liu;Richard C. Easter;Rahul A. Zaveri

  • MIRAGE: Model description and evaluation of aerosols and trace gases

    Richard C. Easter;Steven J. Ghan;Yang Zhang;Rick D. Saylor

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • NMR Investigation of the Quasi-Brine Layer in Ice/Brine Mixtures

    H. Cho;P. B. Shepson;L. A. Barrie;and J. P. Cowin

  • Parameterization of optical properties for hydrated internally mixed aerosol

    Steven J. Ghan;Rahul A. Zaveri

  • Simulating the evolution of soot mixing state with a particle-resolved aerosol model

    Nicole Riemer;Matt West;Rahul A. Zaveri;Richard C. Easter

  • Uncertainty in modeling dust mass balance and radiative forcing from size parameterization

    Chun Zhao;Siyu Chen;Siyu Chen;Lai-Yung R. Leung;Yun Qian

  • Where do winds come from? A new theory on how water vapor condensation influences atmospheric pressure and dynamics

    AM Makarieva;AM Makarieva;VG Gorshkov;VG Gorshkov;Douglas Sheil;Douglas Sheil;Douglas Sheil;AD Nobre;AD Nobre

  • Hydrolysis of Organonitrate Functional Groups in Aerosol Particles

    Shang Liu;John E. Shilling;Chen Song;Naruki Hiranuma

  • A physically based estimate of radiative forcing by anthropogenic sulfate aerosol

    Steven J. Ghan;Richard C. Easter;Elaine G. Chapman;Hayder Abdul-Razzak

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard C. Easter
Richard C. Easter Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jerome D. Fast
Jerome D. Fast Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
John E. Shilling
John E. Shilling Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Alla Zelenyuk
Alla Zelenyuk Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Stephen R. Springston
Stephen R. Springston Brookhaven National Laboratory
Jian Wang
Jian Wang Washington University in St. Louis
Jose L. Jimenez
Jose L. Jimenez University of Colorado Boulder
Alexander Laskin
Alexander Laskin Purdue University West Lafayette
Timothy B. Onasch
Timothy B. Onasch Boston College
Steven J. Ghan
Steven J. Ghan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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