Georgiy Stenchikov

Research Professor

Department of Environmental Sciences
Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey
14 College Farm Rd.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551
Phone: (732) 932-3637
Fax: (732) 932-8644
Email: gera@envsci.rutgers.edu

Ph.D., Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia
Habilitation, Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Curriculum Vitae
Research and Teaching Interests

Public Recognition:

• NJ News Movie About 9/11 Research
• Public Recognition: ScienceCentral/ABC Story About 9/11 Research
• NJ News TV story about environmental impact of a regional NUCLEAR WAR
• Mt. Pinatubo eruption of 1991 - NASA TOP STORY
• Mt. Katmai eruption of 1912 - NASA TOP STORY
• Mt. Laki eruption of 1783 - NASA TOP STORY

Current Research

Global Climate Change - IPCC AR4

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Meeting in Paris, January 2007

"We basically have three choices: mitigation, adaptation and suffering. We are going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required and the less suffering there will be.”   John Holdren

Dr. Stenchikov is a Contributing Author for the IPCC AR4 Chapter 2: Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and Radiative Forcing. Below is a link to the paper on testing the historic volcanic climate impacts simulated in the IPCC runs against observations.

• Stenchikov, G., K. Hamilton, R. J. Stouffer, A. Robock, V. Ramaswamy, B. Santer, and H.-F. Graf, 2006: Arctic Oscillation response to Volcanic Eruptions in the IPCC AR4 Climate Models, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D07107, doi:10.1029/2005JD006286.
• Stenchikov, G., T. Delworth, and A. Wittenberg, Volcanic climate impacts and ENSO interactions, AGU Joint Assembly, 22-25 May, 2007, Acapulco, Mexico.

Effect of Volcanic Aerosols on Climate

• Summer Cooling and Winter Warming: Radiative forcing and climate effect of volcanic aerosols
• Mechanisms of Arctic Oscillation (AO) response to volcanic forcing

Deep Convection

ND Storm, CO and Ozone mixing ratios, stream lines, hydrometeor concentration.

• Parametrization of deep convection, Radiative-Convective and Single-column Models
• Stratosphere-troposphere exchange caused by deep convection
• Effect of convective mixing on regional chemical balances
• Gravity wave generation by deep convection

Climate Downscaling using Stretched Grid GCM and Nested Regional Models

• Stretched grid GCM development
• Climate downscaling over US using Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS)

Regional Air Pollution Modelling and Simulations of Global Tracer Transport

 

• Publications on environmental consequences of the World Trade center Disaster
• Continental-scale transport and strat-trop exchange of smoke from forest fires in Canada
• High-resolution simulation of PCBs transport from the lendfill at the Bayonne Peninsula
• Effect of aerosols on photolysis rates and ozone pfotochemistry
• Global tracer transport using Stretched Grid CTM

Climatic Consequences of Regional Nuclear Conflicts

• Toon, O., B. A. Robock, Turco, L. Oman, C. Bardeen, G. Stenchikov, 2007: Consequences of Regional-Scale Nuclear Conflicts, Science, 315, 1224-1225.
• Toon, O., B. A. Robock, R. Turco, L. Oman, C. Bardeen, and G. Stenchikov, 2006: Consequences of regional scale nuclear conflicts and acts of individual nuclear terrorism, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 6, 11745-11816.
• Robock, A., L. Oman, G. Stenchikov, O Toon, C. Bardeen, R. Turco, 2006: Climatic consequences of regional nuclear conflicts, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 6, 11817-11843.
• Robock, A., Luke Oman, and Georgiy Stenchikov, 2007: Nuclear Winter revisited with a modern climate model and current nuclear arsenals: Still catastriphic consequences, J. Geoph. Res, accepted.
• Study of the cross-tropopause transport of smoke from multiple city fires