V. Rao Kotamarthi

Atmospheric Scientist
Atmospheric Research Section, Environmental Research Division
vrkotamarthi@anl.gov

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, 1991, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
M.E., Chemical Engineering, 1986, Indian Institute of Science, India
B.S., Chemical Engineering, 1984, Osmania University, India

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Investigating the effects of aerosols on radiation and regional climate. Modeling the spatial and temporal evolution of green house gases and their impact on climate. Development of modeling tools to study tropospheric chemistry at multiple scales.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Kotamarthi, V. R., and Carmichael, G. R., "The Long Range Transport of Pollutants in the Pacific Rim Region," Atmos. Environ. 24A:1521-1534 (1990).

Sunwoo, Y., Kotamarthi, V.R., and Carmichael, G.R., "The Regional Distribution of Tropospheric Ozone in East Asia from Satellite-Based Measurements," J. Atmos. Chem. 14:285-295 (1992).

Shia, R. L., Ko, M. K. W., Zou, M., and Kotamarthi, V. R., "Cross-Tropopause Transport of Excess 14C in a Two-dimensional Model," J. Geophys. Res. 98:8,599-18,606 (1993).

Kotamarthi, V. R., and Carmichael, G. R., "A Modeling Study of the Long Range Transport of Kosa Using Particle Trajectory Methods," Tellus 45B:426-441 (1993).

Kotamarthi, V. R. , Ko, M. K. W., Weisenstein, D. K., Rodriguez, J. M., and Sze, N. D., "The Effect of Lightning on the Concentration of Odd Nitrogen Species in the Lower Stratosphere: An Update," J. Geophys. Res. 99:8167-8173 (1994).

Kotamarthi, V. R., Rodriguez, J. M., Sze, N. D., Kondo, Y., Pueschel, R., Ferry, G., Sandholm, S., Gregory, G., Davis, D., and Liu, S., "Evidence of Heterogeneous Chemistry on Sulfate Aerosols in Stratospheric Air Masses Measured in PEM- West B," J. Geophys. Res. 102:28,425-28,436 (1997).

Kotamarthi, V. R., Rodriguez, J. M., Ko, M. K. W., Tromp, T. K., Sze, N. D., and Prather, M. J., "Triflouoroacetic Acid from the Degradation of HCFC and HFCs: A Three Dimensional Modeling Study," J. Geophys. Res. 103:5747-5758 (1998).

Wuebbles, D.J., Kotamarthi, R., Patten, K.O., "Updated Evaluation of Ozone Depletion Potentials for Chlorobromomethane (CH2ClBr) and 1-Bromo-Propane (CH2BrCH2CH3)," Atmospheric Environment 33:1641-1643 (1999).

Kotamarthi, V.R., Wuebbles, D. J., and Reck, R.A., "Effects of Non-methane Hydrocarbons on Lower Stratospheric and Upper Tropospheric 2-D Zonal Average Model Climatology," J. Geophys. Res. 104:21,537-21,547 (1999).

Kheshgi, H.S., Jain, A.K., Kotamarthi, V.R., and Wuebbles, D.J., "Future Atmospheric Methane Concentrations in the Context of the Stabilization of Greenhouse Gas Concentrations," J. Geophys. Res. 104:191,183-19,190 (1999).

Wuebbles, D. J., Hayhoe, K. A. S., and Kotamarthi, V. R., "Methane in the Global Environment," in Atmospheric Methane, M. A. K. Khalil, editor, Springer-Verlag, New York, NY (2000).

Kotamarthi, V. R., Wei, C. F., Ogunsola, O. J., and Wuebbles, D. J., "Examination of the tropical Southern-Pacific ozone mixing ratios and budgets in the MOZART2 3-D CTM," in Proceedings of the Quadrannial Ozone Symposium, Sopporo, Japan, in press.