Atmospheric physics

Dan Weaver

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

• Campus
  • U of T Scarborough
• Department
  • Physical and Environmental Sciences

Areas of Expertise

• Air quality
• Atmospheric physics
• Climate
• Physics education
• Remote sensing
• Science policy.

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: dan.weaver@utoronto.ca

Kimberly Strong

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts and Science
• Department
  • Physics
• Centres
  • Centre for Global Change Science
  • School of the Environment

Areas of Expertise

• Arctic atmospheric science
• Arctic Atmospheric Science: PEARL, CANDAC, and PAHA
• Atmospheric measurements
• Atmospheric physics
• Balloons
• Climate change
• Concept study for OH Measurements from Space (OHMS)
• Ground-based ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy to measure the concentrations of stratospheric gases
• Ground-Based UV-Visible Remote Sounding of the Stratosphere
• How are balloons controlled?
• Identifying objects using debris
• Intracavity laser spectroscopy using a Fourier transform spectrometer in step-scan mode for temporal resolution
• Middle Atmosphere Nitrogen TRend Assessment (MANTRA)
• Modelling the retrieval of vertical profiles of tropospheric gases using a ranging spectrometer
• Near-infrared laboratory spectroscopy of methane in support of the Galileo mission to Jupiter
• Ozone depletion
• Remote sounding of the atmosphere (ground satellites)
• SCISAT-1 and the ACE-FTS and MAESTRO Satellite Instruments
• Stratospheric Science with the Odin Satellite
• Studies of Planetary Atmospheres
• The University of Toronto Atmospheric Observatory (TAO)
• Tropospheric pollution
• Ultraviolet-Visible-Infrared Laboratory Spectroscopy
• Weather balloons

Office: 416-978-5205
Website
Email: strong@atmosp.physics.utoronto.ca
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