Dr. Jeffrey O. Young

AMD Staff

Education:

Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics, 1970, Brown University
M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, 1965, Pennsylvania State University
B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, cum laude, 1961, Pennsylvania State University

Professional Experience:

Research Physical Scientist, USEPA/ORD/NERL/AMAD/AMDB, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2008–present
Mathematician, NOAA Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division (in partnership with USEPA/NERL), Research Triangle Park, NC, 1991–2008
Technical Project Leader, Computer Sciences Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC, 1986–1991
Scientific Applications Analyst, Computer Data Systems, Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC, 1983–1986
Assistant Professor of Mathematics (Visiting), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 1983–1984
Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1969–1973
National Science Foundation Trainee, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1966–1969
Research Assistant, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 1961–1966

Awards and Honors :

NOAA Silver Medal, 2005, for exceptional achievement in developing, testing, and implementing national air quality forecasting in less than two years
USEPA Bronze Medal, 2005, for contribution to the development and application of the Nation’s premier numerical air quality simulation model
USEPA Silver Medal, 1999, for outstanding team research achievement in the development and evaluation of the Models-3 Computational Framework and the Community Multi-Scale Air Quality Modeling System

Publications:

Pleim, J., S. Roselle, P. Bhave, R. Bullock, W. Hutzell, D. Luecken, C. Nolte, G. Sarwar, K. Schere, J. Young, J. Godowitch, and W. Appel, The 2006 CMAQ Release and Plans for 2007, Extended abstract for the 5th Annual CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill, October 16-18, 2006
Yu, S., R. Mathur, K. Schere, D. Kang, J. Pleim, J. Young, D. Tong, G. Pouliot, S. A. McKeen, and S. T. Rao (2008), Evaluation of real-time PM2.5 forecasts and process analysis for PM2.5 formation over the eastern United States using the Eta-CMAQ forecast model during the 2004 ICARTT study, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D06204, doi:10.1029/2007JD009226
Otte, T. L., G. Pouliot, J. E. Pleim, J. O. Young, K. L. Schere, D. C. Wong, P. C. S. Lee, M. Tsidulko, J. T. McQueen, P. Davidson, R. Mathur, H.-Y. Chuang, G. DiMego and N. L. Seaman. 2005: Linking the Eta Model with the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System to Build a National Air Quality Forecasting System. Weather and Forecasting: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 367-384
Mathur, R., U. Shankar, A. Hanna, M. T. Odman, J. N. McHenry, C. J. Coats, Jr., K. Alapaty, A. Xiu, S. Arunachalam, D. T. Olerud, Jr., D. W. Byun, K. L. Schere, F. S. Binkowski, J. K.S. Ching, R. L. Dennis, T. E. Pierce, J. E. Pleim, S. J. Roselle, J. O. Young, 2005, The Multiscale Air Quality Simulation Platform (MAQSIP): Initial Applications and Performance for Tropospheric Ozone and Particulate Matter, J. Geophys. Res., 110, D13308, doi:10.1029/2004JD004918, 2005
Pleim, J., S. Roselle, J. Young, G. Gipson, and R. Mathur, New Developments in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Model, Extended abstract for the 3rd Annual CMAS Models-3 Users’ Conference, Chapel Hill, October 18-20, 2004
Pleim, J., G. Gipson, S. Roselle, and J. Young, New Features of the 2003 Release of the CMAQ Model, Extended abstract for the 2nd Annual CMAS Models-3 Users’ Conference, Research Triangle Park, October 27-29, 2003
Pleim, J., F. Binkowski, R. Dennis, J. Godowitch, T. Otte, T. Pierce, S. Roselle, K. Schere, and J. Young. Application of the Models-3 Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model system to SOS/Nashville 1999. Preprints, 12th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with A&WMA, May 20-24, 2002, Norfolk, Virginia. American Meteorological Society, Boston, May 20-24, 2002
Sections in “Science Algorithms of the EPA Models-3 Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Modeling System”, March 1999, EPA/600/R-99/030:
Section 6: Byun, D. W., Young, J. O., Odman, M. T., Governing Equations and Computational Structure of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Chemical Transport Model
Section 7: Byun, D. W., Young, J. O., Pleim, J. E., Odman, M. T., Alapaty, K., Numerical Transport Algorithms for the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) Chemical Transport Model
Section 8: Gipson, G. L., Young, J. O., Gas-Phase Chemistry
Section 15: Young, J. O., Program Control Processing in Models-3
Section 18: Young, J. O., Integration of Science Codes into Models-3
Wong, D. C., Davis, E. W., Young, J. O., A Software Approach to Avoiding Spatial Cache Collisions in Parallel Processor Systems, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 9, No. 6, June 1998
Mathur, R., Young, J. O., Schere, K. L., Gipson, G. L., A Comparison of Numerical Techniques for Solution of Atmospheric Kinetic Equations, Atmos. Env. Vol. 32, No. 9, pp. 1535-1553, 1998
Young, J. O., et al., The Regional Oxidant Model (ROM) User’s Guide Part 3: The Core Model, EPA/600/8-90/083c, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1991
Young, J. O., et al., Development of the Regional Oxidant Model Version 2.1, EPA-600/3-89/044, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1989
Young, J. O. and Holl, J. W., Effects of Cavitation on Periodic Wakes Behind Symmetric Wedges, Trans, ASME, Ser. D, Vol. 88, 1966
Lehman, A. F. and Young, J. O., Experimental Investigations of Incipient and Desinent Cavitation, Trans. ASME, Ser. D, Vol. 86, 1964
Young, J. O., Preliminary Investigation of the Unsteady Cavity and Wake behind a Wedge at Zero Angle of Attack, Ordnance Research Laboratory Internal Memorandum, File No. 5.3410-07, The Pennsylvania State University, 1962

Presentations:

Young, J. O., Layer Dependent Advection in CMAQ, Presented at the 4th Annual CMAS Models-3 Users’ Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, Sep. 27, 2005
Young, J. O., Computational Aspects of the Air Quality Forecasting Version of CMAQ (CMAQ-F), Presented at the 3rd Annual CMAS Models-3 Users’ Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, Oct. 19, 2004
Young, J. O., Recent Developments for Parallel CMAQ, Presented at the Models-3 Users’ Workshop, Res. Tri. Pk., Oct. 27-29, 2003

Young, J. O., Wong, D. C., Bourgeois, A. J., Parallel CCTM User Guide, Presented at the Sixth SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Boulder, CO, June 11-14, 2001

Godowitch, J. M., Young, J. O., Photochemical Simulations of Point Source Emissions with the Models-3 CMAQ Plume-In-Grid Approach, Presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the AWMA Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, June 18-22, 2000, EPA/600/A-00/016
Roberts, A. and Young, J.O., The Regional Oxidant Model Multi-Processor (ROMMP), presented at the 83rd Air & Waste Management Association Annual Meeting, Pittsburg, PA, June 1990
Young, J. O. and Burggraf, O. R., Terminal Similarity Solutions of the Vortex Boundary Layer, presented at the University of Chicago, Feb. 1973 – also cited in: Odus R. Burggraf and Keith Stewartson, The Ladder Structure of the Generalised Vortex, Jour. App. Math. And Physics (ZAMP), Vol. 26, 1975

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Dr. Jeffrey O. Young

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