Marcela Loría-Salazar

I am an assistant professor at the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. I have worked on a broad range of topics relevant to health effects studies, atmospheric composition, and aerosol physics, including the impact of meteorology on aerosol physical properties and aerosol transport, evaluation of novel aerosol satellite retrievals in the U.S., air quality modeling using aerosol satellite retrievals and data assimilation techniques, and studying the atmospheric processes affecting the complex relationship between surface PM2.5 concentrations and AOD. I have considerable expertise in processing and analyzing large data sets; these datasets include different satellite platforms, aerosol data from NASA’s AERONET and NOAA networks (related to optical properties of the atmosphere), air quality and weather stations, balloon soundings, ultrasonic anemometers, LIDAR, and weather forecast models.