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93
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516
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  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Rolando R. Garcia is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography, and Organic Chemistry.

Their work covers multiple main topics such as Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

Garcia has contributed to a significant body of scientific literature, with notable recent publications including:

  • The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2), 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • The Chemistry Mechanism in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2), 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • An Evaluation of the Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation and Its Variability in CESM2 and Other CMIP Models, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Evaluation of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in global climate models for the SPARC QBO-initiative, 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Causes and Climatic Consequences of the Impact Winter at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Their research collaborations involve frequent co-authors such as Douglas E. Kinnison, Jadwiga H. Richter, M. G. Mlynczak, Simone Tilmes, and D. R. Marsh.

Throughout their career, Garcia has been engaged in advancing understanding in areas of atmospheric and environmental sciences, with extensive contributions to the modeling and analysis of climate systems and atmospheric chemistry.

Recognition for their work includes being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • The Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)

    G. Danabasoglu;J. F. Lamarque;J. Bacmeister;D. A. Bailey

  • On the depletion of Antarctic ozone

    Susan Solomon;Rolando R. Garcia;F. Sherwood Rowland;Donald J. Wuebbles

  • The effect of breaking gravity waves on the dynamics and chemical composition of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere

    Rolando R. Garcia;Susan Solomon

  • Simulation of secular trends in the middle atmosphere, 1950–2003

    R. R. Garcia;D. R. Marsh;D. E. Kinnison;B. A. Boville

  • The Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model Version 6 (WACCM6)

    A. Gettelman;M. J. Mills;D. E. Kinnison;R. R. Garcia

  • The Chemistry Mechanism in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2)

    Louisa K. Emmons;Rebecca H. Schwantes;Rebecca H. Schwantes;Rebecca H. Schwantes;John J. Orlando;Geoff Tyndall

  • On the role of iodine in ozone depletion

    Susan Solomon;Rolando R. Garcia;A. R. Ravishankara

  • A numerical model of the zonally averaged dynamical and chemical structure of the middle atmosphere

    Rolando R. Garcia;Susan Solomon

  • Sensitivity of chemical tracers to meteorological parameters in the MOZART-3 chemical transport model

    D.E. Kinnison;Guy P. Brasseur;S. Walters;R.R. Garcia

  • The role of aerosol variations in anthropogenic ozone depletion at northern midlatitudes

    S. Solomon;R. W. Portmann;R. R. Garcia;L. W. Thomason

  • Assessment of temperature, trace species, and ozone in chemistry-climate model simulations of the recent past

    V. Eyring;N. Butchart;D. W. Waugh;H. Akiyoshi

  • Toward a Physically Based Gravity Wave Source Parameterization in a General Circulation Model

    Jadwiga H. Richter;Fabrizio Sassi;Rolando R. Garcia

  • A new numerical model of the middle atmosphere. 2: Ozone and related species

    Rolando R. Garcia;Susan Solomon

  • Transient Response to Localized Episodic Heating in the Tropics. Part I: Excitation and Short-Time Near-Field Behavior.

    Murry L. Salby;Rolando R. Garcia

  • Review of the global models used within phase 1 of the Chemistry–Climate Model Initiative (CCMI)

    Olaf Morgenstern;Michaela I. Hegglin;Eugene Rozanov;Fiona M. O'Connor

  • The impact of stratospheric ozone recovery on the Southern Hemisphere westerly jet.

    S.-W. Son;L. M. Polvani;D. W. Waugh;H. Akiyoshi

  • An overview of geoengineering of climate using stratospheric sulphate aerosols.

    Philip J Rasch;Simone Tilmes;Richard P Turco;Alan Robock

  • Acceleration of the Brewer–Dobson Circulation due to Increases in Greenhouse Gases

    Rolando R. Garcia;William J. Randel

  • Multimodel projections of stratospheric ozone in the 21st century

    V. Eyring;D. W. Waugh;G. E. Bodeker;Eugene C. Cordero

  • Impact of stratospheric ozone on Southern Hemisphere circulation change: A multimodel assessment

    S.-W. Son.;E. P. Gerber;J. Perlwitz;J. Perlwitz;L. M. Polvani

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas E. Kinnison
Douglas E. Kinnison National Center for Atmospheric Research
Daniel R. Marsh
Daniel R. Marsh National Center for Atmospheric Research
Fabrizio Sassi
Fabrizio Sassi United States Naval Research Laboratory
Eugene Rozanov
Eugene Rozanov Saint Petersburg State University
Anne K. Smith
Anne K. Smith National Center for Atmospheric Research
Jadwiga H. Richter
Jadwiga H. Richter National Center for Atmospheric Research
David A. Plummer
David A. Plummer Environment and Climate Change Canada
Martyn P. Chipperfield
Martyn P. Chipperfield University of Leeds
Olaf Morgenstern
Olaf Morgenstern National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

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