Owen Cooper

Research Physical Scientist

Atmospheric Composition Modeling

NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory
325 Broadway, R/CSL4
Boulder, CO 80305 USA

Affiliation

NOAA

Education

Ph.D., Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 2001
M.S., Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 1997
B.S., Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 1994

Research

Application of polar orbiting and geostationary satellite products for air quality research; the impact of weather, climate and wildfires on air quality; trends in U.S. and global air quality; the global tropospheric ozone budget and trends

Current Topics

New research published in Geophysical Research Letters on the impact of the 2023 Canadian wildfires on U.S. air quality:

Cooper, O. R., K.-L. Chang, K. Bates, S. S. Brown, W. S. Chace, M. Coggon, A. M. Gorchov Negron, , A. M. Middlebrook, J. Peischl, A. Piasecki, N. Schafer, C. E. Stockwell, S. Wang, C. Warneke, K. Zuraski. K. Miyazaki, V. H. Payne, E. A. Pennington, J. R. Worden, K. W. Bowman and B. C. McDonald, Early season 2023 wildfires generated record-breaking surface ozone anomalies across the U.S. Upper Midwest, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2024GL111481, 2024

last modified: November 20, 2024