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William I. Gustafson is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States and has a research profile focused primarily on environmental and earth sciences. Their work emphasizes atmospheric science, global and planetary change, and related subfields.

The researcher has contributed extensively to studies in meteorological phenomena and simulations, climate variability and models, and atmospheric aerosols and clouds. Additional topics in their research include wind and air flow studies, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, cryospheric studies and observations, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Among recent publications, key papers include:

  • The Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) Activity for Continental Shallow Convection, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Large-Eddy Simulations of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds Associated with Cold-Air Outbreaks during the ACTIVATE Campaign. Part I: Case Setup and Sensitivities to Large-Scale Forcings, 2021, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Neglecting irrigation contributes to the simulated summertime warm-and-dry bias in the central United States, 2020, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Understanding irrigation impacts on low-level jets over the Great Plains, 2020, Climate Dynamics
  • Effect of dust on rainfall over the Red Sea coast based on WRF-Chem model simulations, 2022, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

The scientist collaborates frequently with a number of coauthors, including Heng Xiao, Larry K. Berg, Zhao Yang, Yun Qian, and Jerome D. Fast.

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in several venues known for atmospheric and environmental research such as the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and arXiv (Cornell University).

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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: comparison of simple and complex representations of the volatility basis set approach

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

  • A Preliminary Synthesis of Modeled Climate Change Impacts on U.S. Regional Ozone Concentrations

    C. P. Weaver;X. Z. Liang;J. Zhu;P. J. Adams

  • Potential regional climate change and implications to U.S. air quality

    L. Ruby Leung;William I. Gustafson

  • Spatiotemporal Characteristics and Large-Scale Environments of Mesoscale Convective Systems East of the Rocky Mountains

    Zhe Feng;Robert A. Houze;L. Ruby Leung;Fengfei Song

  • 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

  • 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

  • Effects of soot‐induced snow albedo change on snowpack and hydrological cycle in western United States based on Weather Research and Forecasting chemistry and regional climate simulations

    Yun Qian;William I. Gustafson;L. Ruby Leung;Steven J. Ghan

  • The effects of aerosols on intense convective precipitation in the northeastern United States

    Alexandros A. Ntelekos;James S. Smith;Leo J. Donner;Jerome D. Fast

  • Assessing regional scale predictions of aerosols, marine stratocumulus, and their interactions during VOCALS-REx using WRF-Chem

    Qing Yang;William I. Gustafson;Jerome D. Fast;Hailong Wang

  • WRF-Chem version 3.8.1 user's guide

    Steven E. Peckham;Georg Grell;Stuart A. McKeen;Ravan Ahmadov

  • Overview of the 2010 Carbonaceous Aerosols and Radiative Effects Study (CARES)

    R. A. Zaveri;W. J. Shaw;D. J. Cziczo;B. Schmid

  • Assessing the CAM5 physics suite in the WRF-Chem model: implementation, resolution sensitivity, and a first evaluation for a regional case study

    Po-Lun Ma;Philip J. Rasch;Jerome D. Fast;Richard C. Easter

  • The Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) Activity for Continental Shallow Convection

    William I. Gustafson;Andrew M. Vogelmann;Zhijin Li;Xiaoping Cheng

  • CAUSES: Attribution of Surface Radiation Biases in NWP and Climate Models near the U.S. Southern Great Plains

    K. Van Weverberg;C. J. Morcrette;J. Petch;S. A. Klein

  • CAUSES: On the Role of Surface Energy Budget Errors to the Warm Surface Air Temperature Error Over the Central United States

    H.‐Y. Ma;S. A. Klein;S. Xie;C. Zhang

  • The multi-scale aerosol-climate model PNNL-MMF: model description and evaluation

    M. Wang;S. Ghan;R. Easter;M. Ovchinnikov

  • Evaluation of a Modified Scheme for Shallow Convection: Implementation of CuP and Case Studies

    Larry K. Berg;William I. Gustafson;Evgueni I. Kassianov;Liping Deng

  • An investigation of the sub-grid variability of trace gases and aerosols for global climate modeling

    Yun Qian;William I. Gustafson;Jerome D. Fast

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerome D. Fast
Jerome D. Fast Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Larry K. Berg
Larry K. Berg Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richard C. Easter
Richard C. Easter Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Yun Qian
Yun Qian Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Maoyi Huang
Maoyi Huang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Steven J. Ghan
Steven J. Ghan Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Georg A. Grell
Georg A. Grell National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Hailong Wang
Hailong Wang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Xiaohong Liu
Xiaohong Liu Texas A&M University
Lai-yung Ruby Leung
Lai-yung Ruby Leung Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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