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Faculty publications for 2017

Ariya, P.A.

• Parisa A Ariya, Farhad Raofie, Daniel Deeds, Method and system for the quantitative chemical speciation of heavy metals and other toxic pollutants, Publication date March 2017
• Patent office US, patent issued: L80006342US1
• Chelsea E. Willis, Jane L. Kirk, Vincent L. St.Louis, Igor Lehnherr, Parisa A Ariya, and Rodrigo Benjamin Rangel-Alvarado, Sources of methylmercury to snowpacks of the Alberta Oil Sands Region: A study of in situ methylation and particulates, Environmental Science and Technology, Publication Date (Web): December 3, 2017 (Article) DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b04096
• A. Ghosdastidar, Z. Hu, Y. Nazarenko, and P. A. Ariya, Exposure to Nanoscale and Microscale Particulate Air Pollution prior to Mining Development near a Northern Indigenous Community in Quebec, Canada, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, DOI:
• Kurien, U., H, Lee, Z. HU, A. Dastoor & P. A. Ariya, Radiation Enhanced Uptake of Hg0(g) on on Iron (Oxyhydr)Oxide Nanoparticles, RSC Advances, 2017, 7, 45010 - 45021, 2017
• Yevgen Nazarenko, Parisa A. Ariya. September 2017.Ìý It’s Cold Outside: Effects of Snow on Urban Air Pollution. AWE International. 51. Weymouth, UK: Bay Publishing. 2017
• Hussein Traboulsi, Necola Guerrina, Matthew Iu, Dusica Maysinger,Ìý
• Mark Goldberg, Parisa Ariya, Carolyn Baglole, Inhaled pollutants: the molecular scene behind respiratory and systemic diseases associated with ultrafine particulate matter, J. Molecular Sciences - Molecular pathology, International Journal of Molecular Sciences 18 (2), 243, 2017
• Y. Nazerneko, P. Seers, S.Ìý U. Kurien, R. Alvarez, O. Nepotochykh, P. A. Ariya, Role of Snow in the Fate of Gaseous and Particulate Exhaust Pollutants from Gasoline-Powered Vehicles, Environmental Pollution, Volume 223, 2017, Pages 665–675, 2017, DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2017.01.082
• A. Rocha, C. Wilde, Y. Nazerenko, Z. Hu, O. Nepotochykh & P. A. AriyaÌý Development of a hybrid photo-bioreactor and nanoparticle adsorbent system for the removal of CO2, and selected organic and metal co-pollutants, Volume 57, Journal of Environmental Sciences, Pages 41-53, 2017;
• R. Mortazavi and P. A. Ariya, "The Impact of Renovation on Indoor Air-Borne Bacterial and Fungal Populations", Indoor and Built Environment, 10, 26, 1351-1361 2017, Editorial distinction - selected asF1000Prime recommended list.Ìý

Bartello, P.

• Kafiabad, H.A. & Bartello, P., 2017,, 151, 22-34.Ìý
• Chen, S., M.K. Yau, and P. Bartello, 2018: Turbulence Effects of Collision Efficiency andBroadening of Droplet Size Distribution in Cumulus Clouds. J. Atmos. Sci., 75, 203–217,
• Asselin, O., Bartello, P. & Straub, D., 2018, On Boussinesq dynamics near the tropopause. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-17-0097.1, accepted 22 Nov, 2017, Published Online: 11 December 2017.

Dufour, C.

• Goddard, P., C. O. Dufour, J. Yin, S. M. Griffies, and M. Winton (2017): CO2-induced ocean warming around the Antarctic ice sheet in an eddying global climate model. Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, 122, 8079-8101.
• Kamenkovich, I., A. Haza, A. R. Gray, C. O. Dufour, Z. Garraffo (2017): Observing System Simulation Experiments for an array of autonomous biogeochemical profiling floats in the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans. 122.
• Dufour, C. O., A. K. Morrison, S. M. Griffies, I. Frenger, H. Zanowski, and M. Winton (2017): Preconditioning of the Weddell Sea polynya by the ocean mesoscale and dense water overflows. Journal of Climate, 30, 7719-7737.
• Tamsitt, V., H. Drake , A. K. Morrison , L. D. Talley , C. O. Dufour , A. R. Gray , S. M. Griffies , M. R. Mazloff , J. L. Sarmiento , J. Wang , W. Weijer (2017): Spiraling up: pathways of global deep waters to the surface of the Southern Ocean. Nature Communications, 8, 172.

Fabry, F.

• Besson, L., O. Caumont, L. Goulet, S. Bastin, L. Menut, F. Fabry, and J. Parent du Châtelet, 2017. Comparison of real-time refractivity measurement by radar with automatic weather stations, AROME-WMED and WRF forecasts simulations during the SOP1 of HyMeX campaign. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 142, 138–152, doi: 10.1002/qj.2799.
• Fabry, F., V. Meunier, B.Puigdomènech Treserras, A. Cournoyer, and B. Nelson, 2017: On the climatological use of radar data composites: Possibilities and challenges. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98, 2135–2148,Ìý doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00256.1.
• Boulanger, Y., F. Fabry, A. Kilambi, D. S. Pureswaran, B. R. Sturtevant, and R. Saint-Amant, 2017: The use of weather surveillance radar coupled with high-resolution three dimensional weather data to monitor a spruce budworm mass exodus flight. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 234-235, 127–135, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.12.018.

Gyakum, J.R.

• Evans, C., K. M. Wood, S. D. Aberson, H. M. Archambault, S. M. Milrad, L. F. Bosart, K. L. Corbosiero, C. A. Davis, J. R. Dias Pinto, J. Doyle, C. Fogarty, T. J. Galarneau Jr., C. M. Grahams, K. S. Griffin, J. R. Gyakum, R. E. Hart, N. Kitabatake, H. S. Lentink, R. McTaggart-Cowan, W. Perrie, J. F. D. Quinting, C. A. Reynolds, M. Riemer, E. A. Ritchie, Y. Sun, and F. Zhang, 2017: The extratropical transition of tropical cyclones. Part I: Cyclone evolution and direct impacts. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 4317-4344.
• Milrad, S. M., K. Lombardo, E. H. Atallah, and J. R. Gyakum, 2017:Ìý Numerical simulations of the 2013 Alberta Flood: Dynamics, thermodynamics, and the role of orography. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 3049-3072.
• McTaggart-Cowan, R., J. R. Gyakum, R. W. Moore, 2017:Ìý The baroclinic moisture flux.Ìý Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 25-47. DOI:

Huang, Y.

• Xia, Y., Y. Huang, and Y. Hu (2017), On the climate impacts of upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric ozone, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos. doi:
• Jing, F. and Y. Huang, (2017), Cloud-assisted retrieval of lower stratospheric water vapor from nadir view satellite measurements, J. Atmos. and Oceanic Tech. doi:
• Xia, Y. and Y. Huang, (2017), Differential radiative heating drives tropical atmospheric circulation weakening, Geophys. Res. Lett.,
• Huang, Y., Y. Xia and X. Tan, (2017), On the pattern of CO2 radiative forcing and poleward energy transport, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., doi: 10.1002/2017JD027221
• Li, Y., D. Thompson, and Y. Huang, (2017), The influence of atmospheric cloud radiative effects on the large-scale stratospheric circulation, J. Climate. 30, 5621–5635, doi:
• MacVicar, S., L. Berrang-Ford, S. Harper, Y. Huang, D. Namanya and S. Yang, (2017), Whether weather matters: Evidence of association between in utero meteorological exposures and foetal growth among Indigenous and non-Indigenous mothers in rural Uganda, PLoS ONE. 12(6): e0179010, doi:

Kirshbaum, D.

• Harrison, R. G., G. Pretor-Pinney, G. J. Marlton, G. D. Anderson, D. J. Kirshbaum, and R. J. Hogan, 2017: Asperitas---a newly identified cloud supplementary feature. Weather, 72, 5: 132-141.
• Wang*, C.-C. and D. J. Kirshbaum, 2017: Idealized simulations of sea breezes over mountainous islands. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 143: 1657-1669.
• Cookson-Hills*, P., D. J. Kirshbaum, M. Surcel, J. G. Doyle*, L. Fillion, D. Jacques, and S.-J. Baek, 2017: Verification of 24-hour quantitative precipitation forecasts over the Pacific Northwest from a high-resolution Ensemble Kalman Filter system. Wea. Forecasting, 32: 1185-1208.
• Fairman*, J. G. Jr, D. M. Schultz, D. J. Kirshbaum, S. L. Gray, and A. I. Barrett*, 2017: Climatology of size, shape and intensity of precipitation features over the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. J. Hydromet., 18: 1595-1615.
• Rousseau-Rizzi*, R., D. J. Kirshbaum, and M. K. Yau, 2017: Initiation of deep convection over an idealized mesoscale convergence line. J. Atmos. Sci., 74: 835--853.
• Kirshbaum, D. J., 2017: On upstream blocking over heated mountain ridges. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 143: 53--68.

Merlis, T.

• Defforge, C. L. and T. M. Merlis, 2017: Evaluating the evidence of a global sea surface temperature threshold for tropical cyclone genesis. Journal of Climate, 30, 9133-9145.ÌýÌý
• Viale, F. and T. M. Merlis, 2017: Variations in tropical cyclone frequency response to solar and CO2 forcing in aquaplanet simulations. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 9, 4-18, doi:10.1002/2016MS000785.ÌýÌý
• Defforge, C. L. and T. M. Merlis, 2017: Observed warming trend in sea surface temperature at tropical cyclone genesis. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 1034-1040, doi:10.1002/2016GL071045.ÌýÌý
• Seo, J., S. Kang, and T. M. Merlis, 2017: A model intercomparison of the tropical precipitation response to a CO2 doubling in aquaplanet simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 993-1000, doi:10.1002/2016GL072347.ÌýÌý
• Feldl, N., S. Bordoni, and T. M. Merlis, 2017: Coupled high-latitude climate feedbacks and their impact on atmospheric heat transport. Journal of Climate, 30, 189-201.Ìý

Mysak, L.

• Brault, M-O., H.D. Matthews and L.A. Mysak, The importance of terrestrial weathering changes in multimillennial recovery of the global carbon cycle: a two-dimensional perspective. Earth System Dynamics, 8, 455-475, .Ìý
• Brault, M-O., L.A. Mysak and H.D. Matthews, Carbon-cycle implications of terrestrial weathering changes since the last glacial maximum. FACETS, 2: 267-285, doi:10.1139/facets-2016-0040 (published online Mar. 14, 2017).

Preston, T.

• Moridnejad, A., Preston, T. C., and Krieger, U. K. (2017) Tracking water sorption in glassy aerosol particles using morphology-dependent resonances. Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 121: 8176–8184.
• Preston, T. C., Davies, J. F., and Wilson, K. R. (2017) The frequency-dependent response of single aerosol particles to vapour phase oscillations and its application in measuring diffusion coefficients. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 19: 3922–3931.

Straub, D.

• Trossman, D., B. Arbic, D. Straub, J. Richman, E. Chassinet and A. Wallcraft, 2017. The role of rough topography in mediating impacts of bottom drag in eddying ocean circulation models. J. Phys. Oceanogr., Vol. 47. #8, pp. 1941-1959.

• Asselin, O., P. Bartello and D.N. Straub, 2017. On Boussinesq dynamics near the Stropopause. under review, J. Atmos. Sci.. (online in 2017 in print in 2018)

Tremblay, B.

• Ungermann, M., L.B. Tremblay, T. Martin, M. Losch, 2017: Impact of the ice strength formulation on the performance of a sea ice thickness distribution model in the Arctic, Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans, Vol. 122, doi: 10.1002/2016JC012128.
• Bouchat, A., L.B. Tremblay, 2017: Using sea-ice deformation fields to constrain mechanical strength parameters of geophysical sea ice, Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans, Vol. 122, doi: 10.1002/2017JC013020.
• Auclair, J.P., J.F. Lemieux, L.B. Tremblay, H. Ritchie, 2017: Implementation of Newton's method with an analytical Jacobian for solving the sea ice momentum equation: an investigation in 1D, Journal Of Computational Physics, Vol. 340, page 69-90.
• Newton R., S. Pfirman, L.B. Tremblay, P. DeRepentigny, Increasing Transnational Sea Ice Exchange in a Changing Arctic Ocean, Earth's Future, Arpil, doi: 10.1002/2016EF000500.
• Williams, J., L.B. Tremblay, J.-F. Lemieux, 2017: The effects of plastic waves on the numerical convergence of the viscous–plastic and elastic–viscous–plastic sea-ice models, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 340, Pages 519-533, ISSN 0021-9991, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2017.03.048.
• Blanken, H., L.B. Tremblay, S. Gaskin, A. Slavin, 2017: Modelling the long-term evolution of worst-case Arctic oil spills, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 116, Pages 315-331, ISSN 0025-326X.

Yau, M.K.

• Rousseau-Rizzi, R., D. J. Kirshbaum, and M.K. Yau, 2017: Initiation of deep convection over an idealized mesoscale convergence line. J. Atmos. Sci., 74, 835-853.
• Surcel, M., I. Zawadzki, M.K. Yau, M. Xue, and F. Y. Kong, 2017:Ìý More on the scale-dependence of the predictability of precipitation patterns. Extension to the 2009-2013 Spring Experiment ensemble forecasts. Mon. Wea. Rev., 145, 3625-3646.
• Paull, G., K. Menelaou, and M. K. Yau, 2017: Sensitivity of tropical cyclone intensification to axisymmetric heat sources: The role of inertial stability. J. Atmos. Sci., 74, 2325-2340.
• Asaadi, A., G. Brunet, and M. K. Yau, 2017: The importance of critical layer in differentiating developing from nondeveloping easterly waves. J. Atmos. Sci., 74, 409-417.

Zuend, A.

• Ovadnevaite, J., Zuend, A., Laaksonen, A., Sanchez, K. J., Roberts, G., Ceburnis, D., Decesari, S., Rinaldi, M., Hodas, N., Facchini, M. C., Seinfeld, J. H., and O’ Dowd, C.: Surface tension prevails over solute effect in organic-influenced cloud droplet activation, Nature, 546, 637–641, , 2017.
• Rastak, N., Pajunoja, A., Acosta Navarro, J. C., Ma, J., Song, M., Partridge, D. G., Kirkevag, A., Leong, Y., Hu, W. W., Taylor, N. F., Lambe, A., Cerully, K., Bougiatioti, A., Liu, P., Krejci, R., Petäjä, T., Percival, C., Davidovits, P., Worsnop, D. R., Ekman, A. M. L., Nenes, A., Martin, S., Jimenez, J. L., Collins, D. R., Topping, D. O., Bertram, A. K., Zuend, A., Virtanen, A., and Riipinen, I.: Microphysical explanation of the RH-dependent water-affinity of biogenic organic aerosol and its importance for climate, Geophys. Res. Lett., 6, 2017.
• Chim, M. M., Cheng, C. T., Davies, J. F., Berkemeier, T., Shiraiwa, M., Zuend, A., and Chan, M. N.: Compositional evolution of particle-phase reaction products and water in the heterogeneous OH oxidation of model aqueous organic aerosols, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 14415–14431, , 2017.

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