Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental SciencesCooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder

Brian Carroll

Research Associate

brian.carroll-1@colorado.edu

Research Interests

Dr. Brian Carroll is a CIRES Research Scientist affiliated with the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL). His research answers questions about planetary boundary layer processes affecting air quality, wildfires, wind energy, and more. As a member of the Atmospheric Remote Sensing group within CSL, he participates in field campaign planning and operations; Doppler lidar deployment, algorithms, and data analysis; and interprets the data alongside other instrumentation and models to answer science questions. Dr. Carroll earned his PhD in Atmospheric Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Current Research

Current projects of Dr. Carroll include the CalFiDE field campaign leveraging observations of wildfire smoke plumes and fire-affected winds from mobile platforms, the CUPiDS campaign focusing on summertime air quality and the associated dynamics around New York City, and the AMED campaign measuring winds to help quantify oil and gas emissions in Colorado. Upcoming projects include a summertime ozone study in the Salt Lake City region in 2024.

Research Categories

Atmosphere, Chemistry, Climate and Weather, Energy

Research Images

Wildfire heat and plume

The bottom panel shows a wildfire smoke plume using Doppler lidar backscatter. A wind profile from the lidar is shown to the left. The blue/green terrain-following data is infrared camera intensity mapping fire intensity.