(As of March 2024: 50 publications, 11 first author, 9 trainee advisee first author)
(** indicates student/postdoc advisee **)
2024
0. Njeru, M.**, E. Mwangi, Gatari, M.J., Kaniu, I., Raheja, G.**, and Westervelt, D.M. First results from a hybrid network of reference and low-cost PM2.5 monitors in Mombasa, Kenya. Submitted to AGU Geohealth, March 2024.2023
1.Westervelt, D.M., Paulson Kasereka**, Garima Raheja**, Jean-Luc Balogije Selenge, Rodriguez Yombo Phaka, V. Faye McNeill, Guillaume Kiyombo Mbela, Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglu, Joel Nkiama Konde, Jean-Pierre Mfuamba Mulumba, Djibi Buenimio. “A Low cost investigation into sources of PM2.5 in Kinshasa, DRC.” ACS EST Air 2024, 1, 1, 43–51. 2023
2. Previdi, M., J.-F. Lamarque, A.M. Fiore, D.M. Westervelt, D.T. Shindell, G. Correa, and G. Faluvegi, 2023: Arctic warming in response to regional aerosol emissions reductions. Environ. Res. Climate, 2, no. 3, 035011, doi:10.1088/2752-5295/ace4e8.
3. Wilcox, L. J., Allen, R. J., Samset, B. H., Bollasina, M. A., Griffiths, P. T., Keeble, J., Lund, M. T., Makkonen, R., Merikanto, J., O'Donnell, D., Paynter, D. J., Persad, G. G., Rumbold, S. T., Takemura, T., Tsigaridis, K., Undorf, S., and Westervelt, D. M.: The Regional Aerosol Model Intercomparison Project (RAMIP), Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 4451–4479, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4451-2023, 2023.
4. Raheja, Garima**, James Nimo, Emmanuel K.-E. Appoh , Benjamin Essien, Maxwell Sunu, John Nyante, Mawuli Amegah, Reginald Quansah, Raphael E Arku, Stefani L. Penn, Michael R. Giordano, Zhonghua Zheng**, Darby Jack, Steven Chillrud, Kofi Amegah, R Subramanian, Rob Pinder, Ebenezer Appah-Sampong, Esi Nerquaye Tetteh, Mathias A. Borketey, Allison Felix Hughes, Daniel M. Westervelt. “Low-Cost Sensor Performance Intercomparison, Correction Factor Development, and 2+ Years of Ambient PM2.5 monitoring in Accra, Ghana.” Environmental Science and Technology, 75, 29, 10708-10720, 2023
5. Yang, Benjamin**, Wiser, F.C., McNeill, V.F., Fiore, A.M., Tao, M., Henze, D.K, Sen, S., and Westervelt, D.M. Implementation and Evaluation of the Automated Model Reduction (AMORE) Version 1.1 Isoprene Oxidation Mechanism in GEOS-Chem. Environmental Research: Atmospheres. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3EA00121K
6.G. Persad, B. H. Samset, L. J. Wilcox, Robert J. Allen , Massimo A. Bollasina, Ben B. B. Booth Celine Bonfils, Manoj Joshi, Marianne T. Lund, Kate Marvel, Joonas Merikanto, Kalle Nordling, Sabine Undorf, Detlef van Vuuren, Daniel M. Westervelt, Alcide Zhao. “Rapidly evolving aerosol emissions are a dangerous blind spot in near-term climate risk.” Environmental Research: Climate, 2 032001, 10.1088/2752-5295/acd6af, 2023.
7. Nobell, S., Majumdar, A., Mukherjee, S., Chakraborty, S., Chatterjee, S., Bose, S., Dutta, A., Sethuraman, S., Westervelt, D.M., Sengupta, S., Basu, R., McNeill, V.F. (2023). Validation of In-field Calibration for Low-Cost Sensors Measuring Ambient Particulate Matter in Kolkata, India. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. 23, 230010. https://doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.230010
8. Wiser, F., Place, B. K., Sen, S., Pye, H. O. T., Yang, B., Westervelt, D. M., Henze, D. K., Fiore, A. M., and McNeill, V. F.: AMORE-Isoprene v1.0: a new reduced mechanism for gas-phase isoprene oxidation, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 1801–1821, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-1801-2023, 2023.
9.Zheng, Z.**, Fiore, A. M., Westervelt, D. M., Milly, G. P., Goldsmith, J., Karambelas, A., et al. (2023). Automated machine learning to evaluate the information content of tropospheric trace gas columns for fine particle estimates over India: A modeling testbed. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, e2022MS003099
10.E. X. Bonilla , L. J. Mickley , G. Raheja , S. D. Eastham , J. J. Buonocore , A. Alencar , L. Verchot , D. M. Westervelt , M. C. Castro. Health impacts of smoke exposure in South America: Increased risk for populations in the Amazonian Indigenous territories. Environmental Research: Health. 1 021007 DOI 10.1088/2752-5309/acb22b
11. Baublitz CB, Fiore AM, Ludwig SM, Nicely JM, Wolfe GM, Murray LT, Commane R, Prather MJ, Anderson DC, Correa G, Duncan BN, Follette-Cook M, Westervelt DM, Bourgeois I, Brune WH, Bui TP, DiGangi JP, Diskin GS, Hall SR, McKain K, Miller DO, Peischl J, Thames AB, Thompson CR, Ullmann K, Wofsy SC. An observation-based, reduced-form model for oxidation in the remote marine troposphere. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Aug 22;120(34):e2209735120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2209735120. Epub 2023 Aug 14. PMID: 37579162; PMCID: PMC10451388.
2022
12. Garima Raheja**, Kokou Sabi, Hèzouwè Sonla, Eric Kokou Gbedjangni, Celeste M. McFarlane, Collins Gameli Hodoli, and Daniel M. Westervelt** ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 2022. DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.1c00391
13. Raheja, G**.; Harper, L.; Hoffman, A.; Gorby, Y.; Freese, L.; O’Leary, B.; Deron, N.; Smith, S.; Auch, T.; Goodwin, M.; Westervelt, D. M. Community-Based Participatory Research for Low-Cost Air Pollution Monitoring in the Wake of Unconventional Oil and Gas Development in the Ohio River Valley: Empowering Impacted Residents through Community Science. Environ. Res. Lett. 2022, 17 (6), 065006. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac6ad6.
14. Hancock, S.**, Fiore, A.M., Westervelt D.M., Correa, G., Lamarque, J.-F., Venkataraman, C., Sharma, A. “Changing PM 2.5 and related meteorology over India from 1950-2014: A new perspective from a chemistry-climate model ensemble”. Volume 2, 015003 DOI 10.1088/2752-5295/acb22a15. Sebastian, M., Kompalli, S. K., Kumar, A. V., Jose, S., Babu, S. S., Pandithurai, Singh, S., Hooda, R. K., Soni, V. K., Pierce, J. R., Vakkari, V., Asmi, E., Westervelt, D. M., Hyvärinen, A.-P., and Kanawade, V. P.: Observations of particle number size distributions and new particle formation in six Indian locations, Atmos. Chem. Phys. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2021-804, 2022
16. Karambelas, A., Fiore, A. M., Westervelt, D. M., McNeill, V. F., Randles, C. A., Venkataraman, C., et al. (2022). Investigating drivers of particulate matter pollution over India and the implications for radiative forcing with GEOS-chem-tomas15. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2021JD036195. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD036195
17. Yang, H., Huang, X., Westervelt, D.M., Horowitz, L.W. and Peng, W. "Socio-demographic factors shaping the future global health burden from air pollution". Nat Sustain (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-00978-6
18. Ivey CE, Amegah AK, Hodoli CG, Kelly KE, Lawal A, Pant P, Singh S, Subramanian R, Torres I, Westervelt D, and Yu H (2022). To Share Or Not To Share? Academic Incentives May Hamper Public Good. Environmental Science & Technology, 55, 22, 15072–15081. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c05721
2021
19. McFarlane, C.M.**, Raheja, G., Malings., C., Appoh, Emmanuel K.E., Hughes, Alison Felix, and Westervelt, D.M. "Application of Gaussian Mixtrue Regression for the Correction of Low Cost PM2.5 Monitoring Data in Accra, Ghana". ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 10.1021/ acsearthspacechem.1c00217
20. McFarlane, C. M.**, Isevulambire, P.K., Lumbuenamo, R.S., Ndinga, A.M.E., Dhammapala, R., Jin, X., McNeill, V.F., Malings, C., Subramanian, R., Westervelt, D.M.** “First measurements of ambient PM2.5 in Kinshasa, DRC and Brazzaville, ROC, using field-calibrated low cost sensors”. Aerosol Air Qual. Res. 21, 200619. https:// doi.org/10.4209/aaqr.200619
21. Sebastian, M., Kanawade, V. P., Soni, V. K., Asmi, E., Westervelt, D. M., Vakkari, V., etal. (2021). New particle formation and growth to climate-relevant aerosols at a background remote site in the Western Himalaya. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2020JD033267
22. Michael R. Giordano, Carl Malings, Spyros N. Pandis, Albert A. Presto, V.F. McNeill, Daniel M. Westervelt, Matthias Beekmann, R. Subramanian, From low-cost sensors to high-quality data: A summary of challenges and best practices for effectively calibrating low-cost particulate matter mass sensors, Journal of Aerosol Science, Volume 158, 2021, 105833, ISSN 0021-8502, https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.jaerosci.2021.105833.
23. Westervelt, D. M., Fiore, A. M., Baublitz, C. B., and Correa, G.: Impact of regional Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude anthropogenic sulfur dioxide emissions on local and remote tropospheric oxidants, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 6799–6810, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-6799-2021, 2021.
24. Liu, S., Xing, J., Westervelt, Daniel M., et al... "Role of emission controls in reducing the 2050 climate change penalty for PM2.5 in China", Science of The Total Environment, Volume 765, 2021, 144338, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144338.
202025. Westervelt, D.M. ; You, Y.; Li, X.; Ting, M.; Lee, D.E.; and Ming, Y., 2020: "Relative importance of greenhouse gases, sulfate, organic carbon, and black carbon aerosol for South Asian monsoon rainfall changes". Geophys. Res. Lett.,47, e2020GL0883, 63. -- https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/we09200d.html
26. Baublitz, C.B, Fiore, A.M; Clifton, O.E.; Mao, J.; Li, J.; Correa, G., Westervelt, D. M., Horowitz, L.W., Paulot, F.; Williams, A.P.., (2020). Sensitivity of Tropospheric Ozone Over the Southeast USA to Dry Deposition. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL087158. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087158
27. Malings, C., Westervelt, D.M., Hauryliuk, A., Presto, A. A., Grieshop, A., Bittner, A., Beekmann, M., and Subramanian, R.: Application of Low-Cost Fine Particulate Mass Monitors to Convert Satellite Aerosol Optical Depth Measurements to Surface Concentrations in North America and Africa, Atmos. Meas. Tech., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2020-67, 13,3873-3892, 2020.
28. Allen, R. J., Turnock, S., Nabat, P., Neubauer, D., Lohmann, U., Olivie, D., Oshima, N., Michou, M., Wu, T., Zhang, J., Takemura, T., Schulz, M., Tsigaridis, K., Bauer, S. E., Emmons, L., Horowitz, L., Naik, V., van Noije, T., Bergman, T., Lamarque, J.-F., Zanis, P., Tegen, I., Westervelt, D. M., Le Sager, P., Good, P., Shim, S., O'Connor, F., Akritidis, D., Georgoulias, A. K., Deushi, M., Sentman, L. T., Fujimori, S., and Collins, W. J.: Climate and air quality impacts due to mitigation of non-methane near-term climate forcers, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2019-1209, in review, 2020.
29. Amiri-Farahani, A., Allen, R.J., Li, King-Fai, Nabat, P., and Westervelt, D.M. A La Niña‐like climate response to south African biomass burning aerosol in CESM simulations. JGR-Atmospheres, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031832
30. Westervelt, D. M., Mascioli, N. R., Fiore, A. M., Conley, A. J., Lamarque, J.-F., Shindell, D. T., Faluvegi, G., Previdi, M., Correa, G., and Horowitz, L. W.: Local and remote mean and extreme temperature response to regional aerosol emissions reductions, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 3009–3027, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3009-2020, 2020.
31. Li, Xiaoqiong, Ting, Mingling, You, Yujia, Lee, Dong Eun, Westervelt, D. M. Ming, Yi., South Asian summer monsoon response to aerosol-forced sea surface temperatures. Vol 47, Issue 1. 2020 https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL085329
32. Nicely, J. M., Duncan, B. N., Hanisco, T. F., Wolfe, G. M., Salawitch, R. J., Deushi, M., Haslerud, A. S., Jöckel, P., Josse, B., Kinnison, D. E., Klekociuk, A., Manyin, M. E., Marécal, V., Morgenstern, O., Murray, L. T., Myhre, G., Oman, L. D., Pitari, G., Pozzer, A., Quaglia, I., Revell, L. E., Rozanov, E., Stenke, A., Stone, K., Strahan, S., Tilmes, S., Tost, H., Westervelt, D. M., and Zeng, G.: A machine learning examination of hydroxyl radical differences among model simulations for CCMI-1, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 1341–1361, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-1341-2020, 2020.
2019
33. Westervelt, D.M., Ma, C.T., He, M.Z., Fiore, A.M, Kinney, P.L, Kioumourtzoglou, M.-A., Wang, S., Xing, J., Ding., D, Correa, G. Mid-21st century ozone air quality and health burden in China under emissions scenarios and climate change. Environmental Research Letters. doi: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab260b
34. Fanourgakis, G.S.; Kanakidou, M.; Nenes, A.; Bauer, S.E.; Bergman, T.; Carslaw, K.S.; Grini, A.; Hamilton, D.S.; Johnson, J.S.; Karydis, V.A.; Kirkevag, A.; Kodros, J.K.; Lohmann, U.; Luo, G.; Makkonen, R.; Matsui, H.; Neubauer, D.; Pierce, J.R.; Schmale, J.; Stier, P.; Tsigaridis, K.; van Noije, T.; Wang, H.; Watson-Parris, D.; Westervelt, D.M.; Yang, Y.; Yoshioka, M.; Daskalakis, N.; Decesari, S.; Gysel Beer, M.; Kalivitis, N.; Liu, X.; Mahowald, N.M.; Myriokefalitakis, S.; Schroedner, R.; Sfakianaki, M.; Tsimpidi, A.P.; Wu, M.; and Yu, F., 2019: Evaluation of global simulations of aerosol particle number and cloud condensation nuclei, and implications for cloud droplet formation. Atmos. Chem. Phys., doi:10.5194/acp-2018-1340
2018
35. Westervelt, D. M., Conley, A. J., Fiore, A. M., Lamarque, J.-F., Shindell, D. T., Previdi, M., Mascioli, N. R., Faluvegi, G., Correa, G., and Horowitz, L. W.: Connecting regional aerosol emissions reductions to local and remote precipitation responses, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 12461-12475, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12461-2018, 2018.
36. Conley, A.J., Westervelt, D.M., Lamarque, J.-F., Fiore, A.M., Shindell, D., Correa, G., Faluvegi, G., Horowitz, L.W. Multi-model surface temperature responses to removal of U.S. sulfur dioxide emissions. 123, no. 5, 2773-2796, doi:10.1002/2017JD027411.
2017
37. Liu T., Marlier M.E., DeFries R.S., Westervelt D.M., Xia K.R., Fiore A.M., Mickley L.J., and Cusworth D.C. Contributions of outdoor biomass burning to air pollution in three Indian cities: Delhi, Bengaluru, and Pune 172, 83-92, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.10.024, 2018.
38. Westervelt, D. M., A. J., Conley, A. M., Fiore, J.-F., Lamarque, D., Shindell, M., Previdi, G., Faluvegi, G., Correa, and L. W.,Horowitz (2017), Multimodel precipitation responses to removal of U.S. sulfur dioxide emissions, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122, doi:10.1002/2017JD026756.
2016
39. Donahue, N.M, Posner, L.N., Westervelt, D.M., Li, Z., Shrivastava, M., Presto, A.A., Sullivan, R.C., Adams, P.J., Pandis, S.N., Robinson, A.L. Where Did This Particle Come From? Sources of Particle Number and Mass for Human Exposure Estimates. Airborne Particulate Matter: Sources, Atmospheric Processes, and Health. pp 35-71. doi:10.1039/9781782626589-00035, 2016.
40. Westervelt, D.M., Naik, V., Horowitz, L.W., Tai, A.P.K., Fiore, A., and Mauzerall, D.L.: Quantifying PM2.5-meteorology sensitivities in a global climate model. Atmospheric Environment, 142, 43-56, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.07.040, 2016
2015
41. Westervelt, D. M., Horowitz, L. W., Naik, V., Golaz, J.-C., and Mauzerall, D. L.: Radiative forcing and climate response to projected 21st century aerosol decreases, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 12681-12703, doi:10.5194/acp-15-12681-2015, 2015.
2014
42. Pierce, J.R., Westervelt, D.M., Atwood, S.A., Barnes, E.A., Leaitch, W.R.: New-particle formation, growth and climate-relevant particle production in Egbert, Canada: Analysis from one year of size-distribution observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 8647-8663, doi:10.5194/acp-14-8647-2014, 2014.
43. Westervelt, D. M., Pierce, J. R., and Adams, P. J.: Analysis of feedbacks between nucleation rate, survival probability and cloud condensation nuclei formation, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 5577-5597, doi:10.5194/acp-14-5577-2014, 2014.
2013
44. D'Andrea, S. D., Hakkinen, S. A. K., Westervelt, D. M., Kuang, C., Levin, E. J. T., Kanawade, V. P., Leaitch, W. R., Spracklen, D. V., Riipinen, I., and Pierce, J. R.: Understanding global secondary organic aerosol amount and size-resolved condensational behavior, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 13, 11519-11534, doi:10.5194/acp-13-11519-11534, 2013.
45. Westervelt, D. M., Pierce, J. R., Riipinen, I., Trivitayanurak, W., Hamed, A., Kulmala, M., Laaksonen, A., Decesari, S., and Adams, P. J.: Formation and growth of nucleated particles into cloud condensation nuclei: model-measurement comparison, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13, 7645-7663, doi:10.5194/acp-13-7645-2013, 2013.
2012
46. Hennigan, C. J., Westervelt, D.M. , I. Riipinen, G. J. Engelhart, T. Lee, J. L. Collett Jr., S. N.Pandis, P. J. Adams, and A.L. Robinson (2012), New particle formation and growth in biomass burning plumes: An important source of cloud condensation nuclei, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L09805, doi:10.1029/2012GL050930.
47. Westervelt, D. M., Moore, R. H., Nenes, A., and Adams, P. J.: Effect of primary organic sea spray emissions on cloud condensation nuclei concentrations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 89-101, doi:10.5194/acp-12-89-2012, 2012.
48. Pierce, J. R., Leaitch, W. R., Liggio, J., Westervelt, D. M., Wainwright, C. D., Abbatt, J. P. D., Ahlm, L., Al-Basheer, W., Cziczo, D. J., Hayden, K. L., Lee, A. K. Y., Li, S.-M., Russell, L. M., Sjostedt, S. J., Strawbridge, K. B., Travis, M., Vlasenko, A., Wentzell, J. J. B., Wiebe, H. A., Wong, J. P. S., and Macdonald, A. M.: Nucleation and condensational growth to CCN sizes during a sustained pristine biogenic SOA event in a forested mountain valley, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 12, 3147-3163, doi:10.5194/acp-12-3147-2012, 2012.
2011
49. Snow-Kropla, E. J., Pierce, J. R., Westervelt, D. M., and Trivitayanurak, W.: Cosmic rays, aerosol formation and cloud-condensation nuclei: sensitivities to model uncertainties, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 4001-4013, doi:10.5194/acp-11-4001-2011, 2011.
