Background

Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science, 2007

Harvard University Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group

Research Interests

1. Interactions among climate, atmospheric chemistry, air quality, and land use/land cover
2. Impacts of global change on atmospheric chemistry and long-range transport of air pollution
3. Anthropogenic perturbations to the atmosphere and implications for environmental sustainability
4. Atmosphere-biosphere interactions, especially in the context of global change
5. Impacts of aerosols on the global hydrological cycle

Most recent publications

Wu, S., B.N. Duncan, D.J. Jacob, A.M. Fiore and O. Wild, Chemical nonlinearities in relating intercontinental ozone pollution to anthropogenic emissions, submitted to Geophys. Res. Lett., 2009. [PDF]

Book: Global Change and Ozone Air Quality, VDM Verlag, pp 116, 2008. (ISBN-10: 3639079930 / ISBN-13: 978-3639079937) (Invited publication by the Publisher of VDM Verlag).

Wu, S., L.J. Mickley, D.J. Jacob, D. Rind, and D. Streets (2008), Effects of 2000-2050 changes in climate and emissions on global tropospheric ozone and the policy-relevant background ozone in the United States, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D18312, doi:10.1029/2007JD009639. [PDF]

Wu, S., L.J. Mickley, Eric M. Leibensperger, D.J. Jacob,D. Rind, and D. G. Streets (2008), Effects of 2000-2050 global change on ozone air quality in the United States,J. Geophys. Res., 113, D06302, doi:10.1029/2007JD008917. [PDF]

Pye, H. O. T, H. Liao, S. Wu, L. J. Mickley, D. J.Jacob, D. K. Henze, and J. H. Seinfeld (2008), Effect of changes in climate and emissions on future sulfate-nitrate-ammonium aerosol levels in the United States, J. Geophys. Res., in press. [PDF]

Hudman R. C., L. T. Murray, D. J. Jacob, D. B. Millet, S. Turquety, S. Wu, D. R. Blake, A. H. Goldstein, J. Holloway, G. W. Sachse (2008), Biogenic versus anthropogenic sources of CO in the United States, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L04801, doi:10.1029/2007GL032393.

Liao, H., D.K.Henze, J. H. Seinfeld, S. Wu, and L. J. Mickley (2007), Biogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol over the United States: Comparison of Climatological Simulations with Observations, J. Geophys. Res.,112, D06201, doi:10.1029/2006JD007813. [PDF]

Wu, S., L.J. Mickley, D.J. Jacob, J.A. Logan, R.M. Yantosca, and D. Rind (2007), Why are there large differences between models in global budgets of tropospheric ozone? J. Geophys. Res., 112, D05302, doi:10.1029/2006JD007801.[PDF]