Atmosphere - Ocean Exchanges

With increasing coastal urbanization, the atmosphere has become an important source of excess nutrients and pollutants to many terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, worldwide, particularly in coastal margins. Urban nearshore regions are characterized by strong variability in atmospheric composition, associated with both anthropogenic emissions and meteorological processes, such as sea- and bay-breeze circulations, that influence the circulation and accumulation of atmospheric pollutants at the land-ocean interface. A major focus in the Tzortziou Lab is studying these highly dynamic and complex atmospheric processes across the land-ocean interface using an integrative approach that combines satellite imagery, aircraft observations, and model calculations with comprehensive in-situ and remote-sensing shipboard measurements.

Selected Publications and Related Links: 

• Tzortziou M, C. Loughner, D. Goldberg, L. Judd, *D. Nauth, *C. F. Kwong, *T. Lin, A. Cede, N. Abuhassan (2023), Intimately tracking NO2 pollution over the NYC-Long Island Sound land-water continuum: An integration of shipboard, airborne, satellite observations, and models. Science of The Total Environment, p.165144.
• Sullivan J., R. Stauffer, A. M. Thompson, M. A. Tzortziou, C. P. Loughner, C. E. Jordan and J.A. Santanello (2023). Surf, turf, and above the Earth: Unmet needs for coastal air quality science in the planetary boundary layer (PBL). Earth's Future, 11(6), e2023EF003535.
• *Nauth D., Loughner C., Tzortziou M., (2023). The influence of synoptic scale wind patterns on column integrated nitrogen dioxide, ground level ozone, and the development of sea breeze circulations in the New York City metropolitan area. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.  https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-22-0145.1
• Tzortziou, M., *Kwong, C. F., Goldberg, D., Schiferl, L., Commane, R., Abuhassan, N., Szykman, J., and Valin, L., 2022, Declines and peaks in NO2 pollution during the multiple waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in the New York metropolitan area, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 2399-2417, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-2399-2022, 2022.
• Jordan, C. E., Stauffer, R. M., *Lamb, B. T., Hudgins, C. H., Thornhill, K. L., Schuster, G. L., Moore, R. H., Crosbie, E. C., Winstead, E. L., Anderson, B. E., Martin, R. F., Shook, M. A., Ziemba, L. D., Beyersdorf, A. J., Robinson, C. E., Corr, C. A., and Tzortziou, M. A. 2021. New in situ aerosol hyperspectral optical measurements over 300–700 nm – Part 1: Spectral Aerosol Extinction (SpEx) instrument field validation during the KORUS-OC cruise, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 695–713, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-695-2021, 2021.
• Loughner C.P., M. B. Follette-Cook, B. N. Duncan, J. Hains, K.  E. Pickering, J. Moy, M. Tzortziou. 2020. "The benefits of lower ozone due to air pollution emissions reductions (2002-2011) in the Eastern U.S. during extreme heat", Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. https://doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2019.1694089
• Thompson A.M., R. M. Stauffer, T. P. Boyle, D. E. Kollonige, K. Miyazaki, M. Tzortziou, J. R. Herman, C. N. Jordan, *B. T. Lamb, B. N. Duncan. 2019. Comparison of Near-surface NO2 Pollution with Pandora Total Column NO2 during the Korea-United States Ocean Color (KORUS OC) Campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. http://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD030765
• Herman J., A. Cede, N. Abuhassan, J. Kim, M. Dubey, M. Raponi, M. Tzortziou. 2019. Underestimation of Column NO2 Amounts from the OMI Satellite Compared to Diurnally Varying Ground-Based Retrievals from Multiple Pandora Spectrometer Instruments. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2019-123
• Tzortziou M., *O. Parker, *B. Lamb, J. R. Herman, L. Lamsal, R. Stauffer and N. Abuhassan, 2018. Atmospheric Trace Gas (NO2 and O3) Variability in South Korean Coastal Waters, and Implications for Remote Sensing of Coastal Ocean Color Dynamics. Remote Sens. 10(10), 1587;  https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10101587