Chris J. Walcek Air Pollution Meteorology Senior Research Associate phone (518) 437-8720 walcek@asrc.cestm.albany.edu

Research / Publications

Education:

B.S. (Atmospheric Sciences), 1979, University of California, Los Angeles
M.S. (Atmospheric Sciences), 1981, University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. (Atmospheric sciences), 1983, University of California, Los Angeles

Worked as an Air Quality Consulting Atmospheric Scientist and a Research Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) before joining
SUNY Albany in 1986.

Research Interests:

Air pollution meteorology and atmospheric chemistry. Interactions between larger-scale meteorology, clouds, and chemistry of atmosphere.

Selected Publications:

Walcek, C. J. (2001) Effects of wind shear on pollutant dispersion.
Atmospheric Environment, 35, in press.

Walcek, C. J., Minor flux Adjustment near mixing ratio extremes for simplified yet highly accurate monotonic calculation of tracer advection. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 9335-9348, 2000.

C. J. Walcek and N. M. Aleksic, "A simple but accurate mass conservative, peak-preserving, mixing ratio bounded advection algorithm with FORTRAN code", Atmospheric Environment, 32, 3863-3880, 1998.

C. J. Walcek, H. H. Yuan and W. R. Stockwell, "The Influence of aqueous-phase chemical reactions on ozone formation in polluted and nonpolluted clouds", Atmospheric Environment, 31, 1221-1237, 1997.

C. J. Walcek, H. H. Yuan, Journal of Applied Meteorology, "Calculated influence of temperature-related factors on ozone formation rates in the lower troposphere", 34, 1056-1069, 1997.

C. J. Walcek, Monthly Weather Review, "Cloud cover and its relationship to relative humidity during a springtime midlatitude cyclone",122, 1021-11035, 1994.

"A cumulus parameterization scheme of detraining drafts" C. J. Walcek and Q. Hu,
Extended Abstracts: 20th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, 345-348, 1993.

C. J. Walcek, W. R. Stockwell and J. S. Chang, "Theoretical estimates of the dynamic, radiative and chemical effects of clouds on tropospheric trace gases", Atmospheric Research, 25, 53-69, 1990.

J. S. Chang, R. A. Brost, I. S. A. Isaksen, S. Madronich, P. Middleton, W. R. Stockwell and C. J. Walcek, "A three-dimensional Eulerian acid deposition model: physical concepts and model formulation", Journal of Geophysical Research, 92, 13682-14700, 1987.

C. J. Walcek and. Taylor, "A theoretical method for computing vertical distributions of acidity and sulfate production within cumulus clouds", Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 43, 439-355, 1986.