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Overview

Richard C. Easter is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work is focused mainly on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change, with additional contributions in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Pollution.

The scientist's research encompasses extensive studies of atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, particularly addressing interactions between atmospheric aerosols and clouds. Areas of investigation also include Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Energy and Environment Impacts.

Frequent collaborators include Hailong Wang, Philip J. Rasch, Xiaohong Liu, Balwinder Singh, and Po-Lun Ma. These partnerships have contributed to advancing knowledge in the atmospheric science domain.

Richard C. Easter has published numerous papers in several notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues are the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Geoscientific Model Development, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. Among the recent publications are:

  • OCEANFILMS (Organic Compounds from Ecosystems to Aerosols: Natural Films and Interfaces via Langmuir Molecular Surfactants) sea spray organic aerosol emissions - implementation in a global climate model and impacts on clouds, 2022, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Future changes in isoprene-epoxydiol-derived secondary organic aerosol (IEPOX SOA) under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways: the importance of physicochemical dependency, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Development and Evaluation of Chemistry-Aerosol-Climate Model CAM5-Chem-MAM7-MOSAIC: Global Atmospheric Distribution and Radiative Effects of Nitrate Aerosol, 2021, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Radiative Forcing of Nitrate Aerosols From 1975 to 2010 as Simulated by MOSAIC Module in CESM2-MAM4, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Effective radiative forcing of anthropogenic aerosols in E3SM version 1: historical changes, causality, decomposition, and parameterization sensitivities, 2022, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Best Publications

  • Analysis and quantification of the diversities of aerosol life cycles within AeroCom

    C. Textor;M. Schulz;S. Guibert;S. Kinne

  • Model for Simulating Aerosol Interactions and Chemistry (MOSAIC)

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

  • Global dust model intercomparison in AeroCom phase I

    N. Huneeus;M. Schulz;Y. Balkanski;J. Griesfeller

  • 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

  • Radiative forcing of the direct aerosol effect from AeroCom Phase II simulations

    Gunnar Myhre;Bjørn Hallvard Samset;M. Schulz;Y. Balkanski

  • 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

  • An AeroCom Initial Assessment - Optical Properties in Aerosol Component Modules of Global Models

    S. Kinne;M. Schulz;C. Textor;S. Guibert

  • The DOE E3SM Coupled Model Version 1: Overview and Evaluation at Standard Resolution

    Jean Christophe Golaz;Peter M. Caldwell;Luke P. Van Roekel;Mark R. Petersen

  • Description and evaluation of a new four-mode version of the Modal Aerosol Module (MAM4) within version 5.3 of the Community Atmosphere Model

    X. Liu;X. Liu;P.-L. Ma;Hailong Wang;S. Tilmes

  • Evaluation of black carbon estimations in global aerosol models

    D. Koch;D. Koch;M. Schulz;S. Kinne;C. McNaughton

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

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

  • Aerosol indirect effects – general circulation model intercomparison and evaluation with satellite data

    Johannes Quaas;Yi Ming;Surabi Menon;Surabi Menon;T. Takemura

  • Radiative forcing in the ACCMIP historical and future climate simulations

    D.T. Shindell;J.-F. Lamarque;M. Schulz;M. Flanner

  • 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

  • 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

  • An Overview of the Atmospheric Component of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model

    P. J. Rasch;S. Xie;P.-L. Ma;W. Lin

  • Monthly averages of aerosol properties: A global comparison among models, satellite data, and AERONET ground data

    Stefan Kinne;Ulrike Lohmann;Johann Feichter;M. Schulz

  • The Lagrangian particle dispersion model FLEXPART-WRF version 3.1

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

  • Prediction of cloud droplet number in a general circulation model

    Steven J. Ghan;L. Ruby Leung;Richard C. Easter;Hayder Abdul-Razzak

  • 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

  • Global volcanic aerosol properties derived from emissions, 1990-2014, using CESM1(WACCM)

    Michael J. Mills;Anja Schmidt;Richard Easter;Susan Solomon

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven J. Ghan
Steven J. Ghan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Xiaohong Liu
Xiaohong Liu Texas A&M University
Rahul A. Zaveri
Rahul A. Zaveri Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jerome D. Fast
Jerome D. Fast Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Trond Iversen
Trond Iversen Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Susanne E. Bauer
Susanne E. Bauer Goddard Institute for Space Studies
William I. Gustafson
William I. Gustafson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mian Chin
Mian Chin Goddard Space Flight Center
Hailong Wang
Hailong Wang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Philip J. Rasch
Philip J. Rasch Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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