Dr. Leonid Nikolayevich Yurganov

Current position: Senior Research Scientist, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, Atmospheric Remote Sensing, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Address:  JCET/Physics, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD, 21250.

Tel: (410) 455-3612, Fax: (410) 455-1072,

E-mail: yurganov@umbc.edu
 
 

EDUCATION

1979 PhD., Atmospheric Physics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Moscow, USSR.

1973-1976 Postgraduate course, Atmospheric Physics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Moscow, USSR.

1969 M.Sc., Physics, Atmospheric Optics, Leningrad State University, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), USSR (now Russia).

CAREER/EMPLOYMENT

March 2006 – present: Senior Research Scientist, JCET, UMBC, Baltimore MD, USA

October 2001 – February 2006: Sub-group Leader, Frontier Research Center for Climate Change, Yokohama, Japan

March 1997 – September 2001: Research Associate, Physics Department, University of Toronto, Canada

March 1995 - February 1997: Visiting Scientist, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA

1986- 1996: Senior Researcher, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia,.

1969-1986: Researcher, Senior Researcher,  Institute of Atmospheric Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Current scientific interests and goals.

I am interested in application of the IR spectroscopy for studying the tropospheric composition. These techniques should complement existing in-situ and satellite measurements.

Carbon monoxide (CO) is the gas of primary interest, as an active, easily measurable and variable species. It can be used as an atmospheric tracer for anthropogenic and natural combustion processes. Satellite instruments (MAPS, MOPITT, SCIAMACHY, AIRS, etc) are measuring CO now. Spectroscopic ground based measurements are currently being used for validation of satellite data. 

My recent publications are devoted to impact of biomass burning in mid- high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere on the atmospheric composition. All available routine CO measurements (including total column ground-based and satellite-based) since 1996 have been compiled and variations of CO tropospheric burden in the Northern Hemisphere were obtained. After removing the seasonal cycle (due to seasonal OH changes) the residual variations correlated with forest fires detected from satellites. Changes in the CO burden have been converted into changes of emission. During some years (1998, 2002, 2003) they were as high as 100-150 Tg CO per year comparing to quiet 2000-2001.

My current interests are in using spectroscopic ground-based routine data, including those from the ARM sites (Oklahoma, Alaska, tropics). Together with highly qualified “retrievers” from UMBC we will try to study transport, emissions, cycles of CO, tropospheric ozone, carbon gases (CO2 and CH4 ). These measurements will be tightly connected to the data from satellites.  
 
 

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If you have comments or suggestions, email me at yurganov@umbc.edu

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