ATUL K. JAIN

Education

Ph.D. (Atmospheric Sciences) Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India, 1988
M.Sc. (Mathematics) Meerut University, India, 1983
B.Sc. (Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics) Meerut University, India, 1980

Relevant Professional Experience:

August 2002-Cont.: Assistant Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.

June 2000 – August 2002

Associate Research Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.

December 1994- May 2000

Research Scientist, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.

January 1993–November 1994

Research Scientist, Global Climate Research Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550, USA.

January 1988– December, 1992

Senior Research Associate, Center for Applied Climatology and Environmental Studies, Department of Geography, University of Münster, D-4400 Münster, Germany.

Selected Recent Honors, Recognitions, and Outstanding Achievements

Listed in “Who’s Who in America”, January 1997-present

Invited Expert, Second United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) Expert Meeting on “The Scientific and Methodological Assessment of Contributions to Climate Change”, Bracknell, UK, Sept. 25-27, 2002.

Recipient of the National Science Foundation Career Award, March 2003.

Invited Expert, Third United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) Expert Meeting on “The Scientific and Methodological Assessment of Contributions to Climate Change”, Berlin, Germany, Sept. 9-8, 2003.

Invited to brief Swiss “Environmental Expert” group (including parliamentarians, NGOs, trade groups) on climate sensitivity and uncertainty, The US Department of State, Chicago, IL, October 30, 2003.

Invited Expert $ , Fourth Expert Meeting on the scientific and methodological aspects of the proposal by Brazil / MATCH, Cologne, Germany, 6-7 May, 2004.

Listed in “Who's Who in Science Higher Education”, January 2004- present

Nominated Dean’s Teaching Fellow for AY 2004/2005

Invited Speaker, Expert Meeting Frontier of Environmental Change Research: Climate Change Drivers, Impacts, and Policy, Brown University, Providence , RI USA , Sept 15-16, 2005.

Appointed Center for Advance Studies Fellow for AY 2005/2006

Selected Professional Activities

Contributing author on two Chapters of IPCC WGI Third Assessment Report, 2001.

Contributing author, IPCC Special Report on Aviation and The Global Atmosphere, 1999.

Lead author, IPCC Technical Paper on Introduction to Simple Climate Models, 1997.

Contributing author, IPCC Technical Paper on Stabilization of Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases: Physical, Biological and Socio-economic Implications, 1997.

Lead author, IPCC Technic. Paper on Implications of Proposed CO 2 Emissions Limitations, 1997.

Contributing author, IPCC Second Scientific Assessment on Climate Change, 1996.  

Selected Recent Publications

Cao, L., and A. K. Jain, 2005: An earth system model of intermediate complexity: simulation of the role of ocean mixing parameterizations and climate change in estimated uptake for natural and bomb radiocarbon and anthropogenic CO 2, J. Geophys. Res.-Ocean, 110, C09002, doi:10.1029/2005JC002919.

Jain, A.K., Z. Tao, X. Yang, C. Gillespie, 2006: Estimates of Global Biomass and Biofuel Burning Emissions for Reactive Greenhouse Gases (CO, NMHCs, and NOx) and CO 2, J. Geophys. Res -Atmosphere (in press).

Jain, A.K. and X. Yang, 2005: Modeling the Effects of Two Different Land Cover Change Data Sets on the Carbon Stocks of Plants and Soils in Concert With CO 2 and Climate Change, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 19, GB2015, doi:10.1029/2004GB002349.

Jain, A.K., and L. Cao, 2005: Assessing the effectiveness of direct injection for ocean carbon sequestration under the influence of climate change, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, GRL09609, doi:10.1029/2005GL022818.

Jain, A.K., T. West, X. Yang, W. Post, 2005: Assessing the Impact of Changes in Climate and CO 2 on Potential Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soil, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L19711, doi:10.1029/2005GL023922.

Tao, Z. and A.K. Jain, 2005: Modeling of Global Biogenic Emissions for Key Indirect Greenhouse Gases and Their Response to Atmospheric CO 2 increases and Changes in Land Cover and Climate, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmosphere , 110, D21309, doi:10.1029/2005JD005874.

Mueller, K., L. Cao, K.Caldeira, and A. Jain, Differing methods of accounting ocean carbon sequestration efficiency, J.Geophys. Res., 109, C12018, doi:10,1029/2003JC002252, 2004.

West, T.O., G. Marland, A.W. King, W.M. Post, A.K. Jain, and K. Andrasko, 2004: Carbon management response curves: estimates of temporal soil carbon dynamics, Environmental Management, 33(4), 507-518.

Calderia, K, A. Jain, M. Hoffert, 2003: Energy implications of uncertainty in climate sensitivity to increased atmospheric CO2 concentration, Science, 299, 2052-2054.

Kheshgi, H.S., and A.K. Jain, 2003, Projecting future climate change: Implications of carbon cycle model intercomparision, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 17(2), 1047, doi:10.1029/2001GB001842.

Jain, A.K., K.A.S. Hayhoe, 2003, Global air pollution problems, In Handbook of Atmospheric Sciences, Vol.2: Problems, Tools and Applications, C. N. Hewitt and A. V. Jackson (eds.), Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK, pp 339– 371.

Hoffert, M.I, K. Caldeira, G. Benford, D. R. Criswell, C. Green, H. Herzog, A. K. Jain, H. S. Kheshgi, K. S. Lackner, J. S. Lewis, H. D. Lightfoot, W. Manheimer, J.C. Mankins, G. Marland, M. E. Mauel, L. John Perkins, M.E. Schlesinger, T. Volk, T. M.L. Wigley, 2002: Planning for future energy resources, Science, 300, 581-584.

Jain, A.K., B. P. Briegleb, K. Minschwaner, D. J. Wuebbles, 2000. Radiative forcings and global warming potentials of thirty-nine greenhouse gases, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 20,773-20,790.

Hoffert M.I., K. Caldeira, A.K. Jain, E.F. Haites, L.D.D. Harvey, S. D. Potter, M.E. Schlesinger, S. H. Schneider, R.G. Watts, T. M. L Wigley, and D. J. Wuebbles. 1998: Energy Implications of CO2 Stabilization, Nature, 395, 881-884.

Jain, A.K., H.S. Kheshgi, M.I. Hoffert, and D.J. Wuebbles, 1995: Distribution of Radiocarbon as a Test of Global Carbon Cycle Models, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, vol. 9, 153-166.