Avelino Arellano Jr. (2023)

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Associate Professor of Data Assimilation and Atmospheric Chemistry Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics - GIDP Associate Professor of Remote Sensing / Spatial Analysis - GIDP Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Degrees Work Experience Interests Courses Selected Publications Awards

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  • Associate Professor of Data Assimilation and Atmospheric Chemistry
  • Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics - GIDP
  • Associate Professor of Remote Sensing / Spatial Analysis - GIDP
  • Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Ave Arellano is an Associate Professor at University of Arizona (UArizona) Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences (HAS). He is also a faculty member of UArizona Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (GIDP) on Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis (RSSA) and on Applied Mathematics. As a professor on data assimilation and atmospheric chemistry, his research at UArizona is directed towards improving our capability to assess, monitor, and predict the changes in the state of our Earth system by exploiting constraints from observational (ground-based to satellite remote-sensing) and modeling (local to global scale) along with correlative ancillary datasets (e.g., socioeconomic indicators).

His current work focuses on determining the changes in atmospheric composition across major megacities in the world through satellite data analysis and chemical transport modeling. Urban agglomeration is expected to continue growing over the coming decades. This is especially problematic as it is in these cities where human (anthropogenic) activities are most intense accompanied by immense energy consumption, mainly in the form of fossil-fuel combustion. This leads to enhanced emissions of air pollutants, greenhouse gases, and waste energy and subsequently impacting air quality, climate, and ecosystems. Atmospheric measurements of combustion products like CO, CO2, NOX, CH4and aerosols offer opportunities to fingerprint the impacts of energy usage on our environment.

His group, in collaboration with scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and faculty at UA, is also developing tools that integrate various types of data into Earth system models. These tools can be used to: a) assess the impacts of new combustion technologies on our environment, b) monitor effectiveness of air pollution control strategies and regulation, c) predict the impacts on air quality from potential changes of fuel usage in the future, and d) improve the skill of meteorological and chemical weather forecasts.

Ave received his Ph.D. in Environment from Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, M.Engg. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from National University of Singapore, and B.S. in Mining Engineering from the University of the Philippines. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a Production Engineer in one of the cement manufacturing plants in the Philippines.

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Degrees

  • Ph.D. Environment
    • Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States
    • Global Carbon Monoxide Cycle: Modeling and Data Analysis
  • Master of Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering
    • National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
    • Investigating the haze transport from 1997 biomass burning in southeast Asia: Its impact upon Singapore
  • B.S. Mining Engineering
    • University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines

Work Experience

  • University of Arizona, Tucson (2010 - Ongoing)
  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (2007 - 2010)
  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (2005 - 2007)
  • Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University (2004 - 2005)
  • Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University (2000 - 2004)
  • Davao Union Cement Corporation, PHINMA Group (1995 - 1997)
  • Davao Union Cement Corporation, PHINMA Group (1994 - 1995)
  • Davao Union Cement Corporation, PHINMA Group (1993 - 1994)

Interests

Teaching

data assimilation, atmospheric composition, air pollution, computational methods, physical meteorology, remote sensing

Research

atmospheric chemistry modeling and data assimilation, satellite remote sensing of atmospheric composition, biomass burning, anthropogenic pollution, urbanization

Courses

Computational Methods

ATMO 430 (Spring 2023)
ATMO 430 (Spring 2021)
ATMO 430 (Spring 2019)

Physical Meteorology II

ATMO 451B (Spring 2023)
ATMO 451B (Spring 2017)
ATMO 451B (Spring 2016)

Air Pollution I:Gases

ATMO 469A (Fall 2022)
ATMO 469A (Fall 2021)
ATMO 469A (Fall 2019)
ATMO 469A (Fall 2016)
ATMO 569A (Fall 2022)
ATMO 569A (Fall 2021)
ATMO 569A (Fall 2019)
ATMO 569A (Fall 2016)
CHEE 569A (Fall 2022)
CHEE 569A (Fall 2021)
CHEE 569A (Fall 2016)

Air Pollution II:Aerosol

ATMO 469B (Spring 2021)
ATMO 569B (Spring 2021)
CHEE 569B (Spring 2021)

Independent Study

ATMO 599 (Spring 2023)
ATMO 599 (Fall 2022)
ATMO 599 (Spring 2022)
ATMO 599 (Spring 2020)
ENVS 499 (Spring 2016)

Intro to Data Assimilation

ATMO 545 (Spring 2022)
ATMO 545 (Fall 2020)
ATMO 545 (Fall 2018)
HWRS 545 (Spring 2022)
HWRS 545 (Fall 2018)

Physical Meterology II

ATMO 551B (Spring 2023)
ATMO 551B (Spring 2020)
ATMO 551B (Spring 2017)
ATMO 551B (Spring 2016)

Progress in Atmo Science

ATMO 596A (Spring 2016)

Research

ATMO 900 (Spring 2021)
ATMO 900 (Fall 2020)
ATMO 900 (Fall 2017)
ATMO 900 (Spring 2016)

Dissertation

ATMO 920 (Spring 2023)
ATMO 920 (Spring 2019)
ATMO 920 (Fall 2018)
ATMO 920 (Spring 2018)
ATMO 920 (Spring 2017)
ATMO 920 (Fall 2016)
ATMO 920 (Spring 2016)

Selected Publications

Journals/Publications

  • Adams, D. K., Moker, J. M., Arellano, A. F., Castro, C. L., & Risanto, C. B. (2021). The impact of assimilating GPS precipitable water vapor in convective-permitting WRF-ARW on North American monsoon precipitation forecasts over northwest Mexico. Monthly Weather Review.
  • Liang, J., Chen, Y., Arellano, A. F., & Mamun, A. A. (2021). Model Sensitivity Study of the Direct Radiative Impact of Saharan Dust on the Early Stage of Hurricane Earl. Atmosphere, 12(9).
  • Lorenzo, G. R., Ba\~naga, P. A., Cambaliza, M. O., Cruz, M. T., AzadiAghdam, M., Arellano, A., Betito, G., Braun, R., Corral, A. F., Dadashazar, H., Edwards, E., Eloranta, E., Holz, R., Leung, G., Ma, L., MacDonald, A. B., Reid, J. S., Simpas, J. B., Stahl, C., , Visaga, S. M., et al. (2021). Measurement report: Firework impacts on air quality in Metro Manila, Philippines, during the 2019 New Year revelry. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(8), 6155--6173.
  • Risanto, C. B., Castro, C. L., Arellano, A. F., Moker, J. M., & Adams, D. K. (2021). The Impact of Assimilating GPS Precipitable Water Vapor in Convective-Permitting WRF-ARW on North American Monsoon Precipitation Forecast over Northwest Mexico. Monthly Weather Review. doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-20-0394.1
  • Gaubert, B., Emmons, L. K., Raeder, K., Tilmes, S., Miyazaki, K., Arellano Jr., ,. A., Elguindi, N., Granier, C., Tang, W., Barr\'e, J., Worden, H. M., Buchholz, R. R., Edwards, D. P., Franke, P., Anderson, J. L., Saunois, M., Schroeder, J., Woo, J., Simpson, I. J., , Blake, D. R., et al. (2020). Correcting model biases of CO in East Asia: impact on oxidant distributions during KORUS-AQ. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20(23), 14617--14647.
  • Lorenzo, G. R., Ba\~naga, P. A., Cambaliza, M. O., Cruz, M. T., Azadi Agdham, M., Arellano, A., Betito, G., Braun, R., Corral, A. F., Dadashazar, H., Edwards, E., Eloranta, E., Holz, R., Leung, G., Ma, L., MacDonald, A. B., Simpas, J. B., Stahl, C., Visaga, S. M., & Sorooshian, A. (2020). Measurement report: Fireworks impacts on air quality in Metro Manila, Philippines during the 2019 New Year revelry. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 2020, 1--34.
  • Pfister, G. G., Eastham, S. D., Arellano, A. F., Aumont, B., Barsanti, K. C., Barth, M. C., Conley, A., Davis, N. A., Emmons, L. K., Fast, J. D., Fiore, A. M., Gaubert, B., Goldhaber, S., Granier, C., Grell, G. A., Guevara, M., Henze, D. K., Hodzic, A., Liu, X., , Marsh, D. R., et al. (2020). The Multi-Scale Infrastructure for Chemistry and Aerosols (MUSICA). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(10), E1743-E1760.
  • Tang, W., Gaubert, B., Emmons, L., Choi, Y., DiGangi, J. P., Diskin, G. S., Xu, X., He, C., Worden, H., Tilmes, S., Buchholz, R., Halliday, H. S., & Arellano, A. F. (2020). On the relationship between tropospheric CO and CO$_2$ during KORUS-AQ and its role in constraining anthropogenic CO$_2$. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions, 2020, 1--53.
  • Minjarez-Sosa, C. M., Fierro, L. M., Adams, D. K., Arellano, A. F., Moker, Jr., J. M., Castro, C. L., & Risanto, C. B. (2019). Evaluating Forecast Skills of Moisture from Convective-Permitting WRF-ARW Model during 2017 North American Monsoon Season. Atmosphere. doi:10.3390/atmos10110694
  • Tang, W., Arellano, A. F., Gaubert, B., Miyazaki, K., & Worden, H. M. (2019). Satellite data reveal a common combustion emission pathway for major cities in China. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19(7), 4269--4288.
  • Tang, W., Emmons, L. K., Arellano Jr, ,., Gaubert, B., Knote, C., Tilmes, S., Buchholz, R. R., Pfister, G. G., Diskin, G. S., Blake, D. R., Blake, N. J., Meinardi, S., DiGangi, J. P., Choi, Y., Woo, J., He, C., Schroeder, J. R., Suh, I., Lee, H., , Jo, H., et al. (2019). Source Contributions to Carbon Monoxide Concentrations During KORUS-AQ Based on CAM-chem Model Applications. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(5), 2796-2822.
  • Edwards, D. P., Worden, H. M., Neil, D., Francis, G., Valle, T., & Arellano Jr., ,. A. (2018). The CHRONOS mission: capability for sub-hourly synoptic observations of carbon monoxide and methane to quantify emissions and transport of air pollution. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 11(2), 1061--1085.
  • Fox, A., Hoar, T., Anderson, J., Arellano, A. F., Smith, W., Litvak, M., MacBean, N., Schimel, D., & Moore, D. (2018). Evaluation of a Data Assimilation System for Land Surface Models using CLM4.5. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.
  • Granier, C., Arellano, A. F., & Stavrakou, J. (2018). The new Analysis of eMIssions usinG Observations (AMIGO) project of IGAC. IGACnews.
  • Jiang, Z., Worden, H., Worden, J., Miyazaki, K., McDonald, B., Qu, Z., Henze, D., Jones, D., Arellano, A. F., Fischer, E., Zhu, L., & Boersma, K. F. (2018). Unexpected slowdown of US pollutant emission reduction in the past decade. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Poster Presentations

  • Knickrehm, L., Yuan, S., Roychoudhury, C., Arellano, A. F., & Furlong, M. (2022, January). An Ensemble Approach in Modeling the Atmospheric Dispersion of Pesticide Spray Drift in Yuma County. American Meteorological Society (AMS) 102nd Annual Meeting: 22nd Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA. Virtual: AMS.
  • Roychoudhury, C., He, C., Kuman, R., & Arellano, A. F. (2021, September). Investigating the relationship of meteorology and atmospheric composition to snow cover: A comparative study over High-Mountain Asia and Ande. 2021 International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project Science Conference. Virtual: IGAC.
  • Mottungan, K., Arellano, A. F., Gaubert, B., DiGangi, J., Choi, Y., & Diskin, G. (2021, January). Characterizing the urban emission signatures of CO, CO2 and CH4 over Southeast Asia during CAMP2EX. American Meteorological Society (AMS) 101st Annual Meeting. Virtual Conference: AMS.
  • Arellano, A. F., Tang, W., Gaubert, B., Choi, Y., DiGangi, J., & Diskin, G. (2019, December). Assessing the Utility of CO2:CO Correlations in Improving Top-down Estimates of Fossil-fuel CO2 Emissions. 2019 AGU Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA: AGU.
  • Arellano, A. F., Gaubert, B., Miyazaki, K., Inness, A., Jiang, Z., Yin, Y., & Flemming, J. (2018, December/Fall). Towards a Chemical Inverse Modeling System Experiment: First Results on CO Inter-comparison,. 2018 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Washington, D.C.: AGU.
  • Brocchi, V., Arellano, A. F., Tang, W., & Gaubert, B. (2020, January). Impact of African Urban Agglomerations to Global Air Quality,. 22nd Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry/100th AMS Annual Meeting. Boston, MA: AMS.
  • Castro, C. L., Moker, Jr., J. M., Serra, Y., Arellano, A. F., & Adams, D. K. (2018, January). Convective-permitting hindcast simulations during the North American monsoon GPS Transect Experiment 2013: Establishing baseline model performance.. 98th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting.
  • Arellano, A. F., Tang, W., Silva, S., Gaubert, B., & Miyazaki, K. (2017, October). Multi-Species Analysis of Anthropogenic Pollution Using IASI Data: Emerging Patterns over Chinese Cities. EUMETSAT Meteorological Conference. Rome, Italy: EUMETSAT.
  • Tang, W., & Arellano, A. F. (2017, January). Investigating Combustion and Emission Trends in Megacities through Synthesis of Combustion Signatures Using Multiple Datasets. AMS 2017 Annual Meeting.
  • Tang, W., Arellano, A. F., Choi, Y., DiGangi, J., Woo, J., Diskin, G., Agusti-Panareda, A., Parrington, M., Massart, S., Lee, M., Kanaya, Y., Jang, J., Lee, Y., Hong, J., Flynn, J., Thompson, A., & Kim, D. (2017, December). Joint Evaluation of Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) High-resolution Global Near-Real Time CO and CO2 Forecasts during KORUS-AQ Field Campaign. 2017 AGU Fall Meeting. New Orleans, LA: AGU.
  • Tang, W., Arellano, A. F., Emmons, L., & Gaubert, B. (2018, January). Ensemble Simulation of Anthropogenic and Biomass Burning CO2 and CO in CAM-chem. 20th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, AMS 98th Annual Meeting. Austin, Texas: AMS.
  • Deeter, M., Emmons, L., Arellano, A. F., Martinez-Alonso, S., Wiedinmyer, C., Val Martin, M., Gatti, L., Miller, J., Gloor, M., Domingues, L., & Carvalho-Correia, C. (2016, December). Towards Improved MOPITT-based Biomass Burning Emission Inventories for the Amazon Basin. AGU 2016 Fall Meeting.
  • Gaubert, B., Barre, J., Arellano, A. F., Worden, H., Emmons, L., Tilmes, S., Martinez-Alonso, S., Anderson, J., & Edwards, D. (2016, December). Overview of the NCAR-MOPITT reanalysis, investigation of chemical error correlations. AGU 2016 Fall Meeting.
  • Gaubert, B., Worden, H., Arellano, A. F., Barre, J., Emmons, L., Tilmes, S., Bucholz, R., Anderson, J., Martinez-Alonso, S., & Vitt, F. (2016, September). A Reanalysis of MOPITT-CO observations. 2016 International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project Science Conference.
  • Kumar, R., Raman, A., Delle-Monache, L., Alessandrini, S., Chang, W., Gaubert, B., & Arellano, A. F. (2016, December). A novel method to improve MODIS AOD retrievals in cloudy pixels using an analog ensemble approach. AGU 2016 Fall Meeting.

Presentations

  • Arellano, A. F. (2021, March). On the Emergence of a Rise in Anthropogenic Combustion in Sub-Saharan Africa. Advancing Air Quality and Carbon Science in Africa (NCAR). Virtual: NCAR.
  • Arellano, A. F. (2021, November). Towards Seamless Prediction of Chemical Weather and Air Quality. Program in Applied Mathematics Seminar Series (City Air and University of Arizona Air Quality Seminar). Virtual: UArizona Applied Mathematics and City Air.
  • Arellano, A. F. (2022, January). The Impact of Precipitable Water Vapor Data Assimilation on North American Monsoon Precipitation Forecast in Northern Mexico. RIken Data Assimilation Seminar Series. Kobe, Japan (virtual): RIKEN Center for Computational Science.
  • Arellano, A. F., & Gaubert, B. (2022, January). Investigating the Interactions between CH4, CO, and OH from Modeling and Observational Perspectives. American Meteorological Society (AMS) 102nd Annual Meeting: 24th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry. Virtual: AMS.
  • Arellano, A. F., McKinnon, J., Roychoudhury, C., Buccholtz, R., & Gaubert, B. (2021, December). Spatio-temporal Pattern Analysis of Trace Gases and Aerosol Abundance Using PCA, SOMs, and Convolution Auto-encoders. 2021 AGU Fall Meeting. New Orleans, LA: AGU.
  • McKinnon, J., Roychoudhury, C., Gaubert, B., Buchholz, R., & Arellano, A. F. (2022, January). Spatiotemporal Pattern Analysis of Trace Gases and Aerosol Abundance over Sub-Saharan Africa Using PCA/CCA and SOMs. American Meteorological Society (AMS) 102nd Annual Meeting: 24th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry. Virtual: AMS.
  • Roychoudhury, C., He, C., Kumar, R., & Arellano, A. F. (2021, September). Exploring the association of meteorology and atmospheric composition to snow cover changes: A case study over High-Mountain Asia and Central Andes. Meteorology and Climate - Modeling for Air Quality Conference (MAC-MAQ). Virtual: UC Davis.
  • Roychoudhury, C., He, C., Kumar, R., Shrivastava, M., McKinnon, J., & Arellano, A. F. (2021, December). Model simulations and satellite data analysis of aerosol impacts to snow cover over High Mountain Asia. 2021 AGU Fall Meeting. New Orleans, LA: AGU.
  • Arellano, A. F. (2020, December). Observational Constraints of Anthropogenic Combustion from Space: Opportunities for Monitoring Efficiency. 1st International Conference on Innovative Technologies for a Sustainable Environment (ICITSE2020). Virtual Conference: Society of Environmental Engineers of the Philippines, Inc..
  • Arellano, A. F. (2020, July). Towards the Identification of Emergent Properties in Atmospheric Composition Using Satellite Data: A Case of Megacity Emissions Monitoring from Space. 40th Anniversary and 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting (APAMS). Virtual Conference: Philippine-American Academy of Science and Engineering.
  • Arellano, A. F. (2020, November). Investigating the Human Fingerprints in the Atmosphere: The Role of Remote Sensing and Data Science. UP DMMME Distinguished Alumni Seminar. Virtual Conference: University of the Philippines, Dept. of Mining, Metallurgical, and Materials Engineering.
  • Brocchi, V., Mottungan, K., Gaubert, B., Tang, W., & Arellano, A. F. (2021, January). On the Emergence of a Rise in Anthropogenic Combustion in Sub-Saharan Africa. American Meteorological Society (AMS) 101st Annual Meeting. Virtual Conference: AMS.
  • Mottungan, K., Arellano, A. F., Brocchi, V., & Gaubert, B. (2020, June). Utilizing the synergies between air quality and greenhouse gas measurements in constraining anthropogenic CO2 and CH4 over Sub-Saharan Africa. International Workshop oOn Greenhouse Gas Measurements from Space (IWGGMS-16). Virtual Conference: ECMWF/EUMETSAT/ESA/EC.
  • Risanto, C. B., Castro, C. L., Arellano, A. F., Moker, J. M., & Adams, D. K. (2021, January). The Impact of PWV Data Assimilation in Convective-Permitting WRF-ARW on North American Monsoon Precipitation Forecasts over Northwest Mexico. American Meteorological Society (AMS) 101st Annual Meeting. Virtual Conference: AMS.
  • Arellano, A. F. (2019, August). Exploring Multiple Observational and Modeling Constraints on Anthropogenic Pollution over Megacities and Biomass Burning Regions: Opportunities and Challenges in Improving Emissions Inventories. 2019 Panorama Actual De las Ciencias Atmosféricas. National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico: UNAM.

Awards

  • Citation of Merit
    • University of the Philippines Alumni Engineers, Fall 2020
  • NASA Group Achievement Award
    • NASA, Fall 2017
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