Professional Interests

Dr. Hosseinpour is the Director of the Statistical data analysis and Modeling of Atmosphere for Research and AI Technology (SMART) Lab and Assistant Research Professor at the Desert Research Institute.

She has broad research areas on aerosol-cloud interactions and their impacts on climate, radiation and precipitation; extreme weather; and prediction of wildfire emissions and transport. She has more than 12 years of experience analyzing satellite remotely sensed observations and used various statistical techniques, including machine learning techniques, regional and global climate models, and air quality models.

As a PI and Co-PI, Dr. Hosseinpour actively contributes to developing research proposals for federal funding agencies, such as NASA and NOAA. She also works closely with the Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC) on wildfire projects and data developments.

Dr. Hosseinpour is the Graduate Faculty and Associate Director of the Atmospheric Science Graduate Program, at the University of Nevada-Reno. She developed and taught several graduate-level courses, including Satellite Remote Sensing and Graduate Seminar courses at the University of Nevada Reno. She is currently the advisor of 3 Ph.D. students.

Dr. Hosseinpour is also theAssociate Director of NV NASA EPScoR/Space Grant Consortium andserves as a member of the Faculty Senate at DRI.

Education

Research Areas:

Wildfire Smoke probability and transport, Fire Emissions, Aerosol-Cloud Interactions and their impacts on radiation, climate and precipitation, Dust, Air pollution, Air quality, Extreme weather, Climate variability and Climate change

Technical Skills:

Statistical Analysis, Machine Learning, AI, Remote Sensing, Data Analysis, Regional and Global Climate Models

Current Projects:

1- Development of Smoke Transport Probability and Risk Interactive Map from Trajectories and Climatology Analysis of 2-km CANSAC-Reanalysis Database Sponsor: Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), Forest Health Program, 2023-2025, Total award amount:$445K,PI (Active)

2- WRCC Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations (DRSA) for fire weather dataset activities,NOAA/National Centers for Environmental Information, 1-Year project: 2022-2023, Total award amount:$200K, Co-PI (Active)

3- “Estimating Background Ozone Using Data Fusion Sponsor: Electric Power Research Institute, 1-Year project: 2022-2023, Total award amount:$70K,PI (Active)

4- Modeling and Source Attribution of ozone in southeastern New Mexico Sponsor: New Mexico Environmental Department, 1-Year project: 2022-2023, Total award amount:$60K,PI (Active)

4- Toward hyperspectral and microwave-based satellite remote sensing of wildfire impacts on surface waterNASAROSES, Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science (IDS) Program, 2023-2026, Total award amount:$1.5M,CoPI (Pending)

6- An Interactive Heat and Air Quality Hazard Information Platform Supporting Climate Justice CommunityNASA ROSES,Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science (IDS) Program, 2023-2026, Total award amount:$1.2M,Co-PI (Pending)

Completed projects:

7- Sierra Nevada Extreme Weather: A Novel Investigation of the Energetics of Atmospheric Rivers NevadaNASAEPSCoR Program, Total award amount:$38K,PI

8- Wildfires smoke concentration predictions using machine learning methods, Sponsor: Climate AI, 1-Year project: 2021, Total award amount:$52K,Co-PI

9- Conducted study on the effects of dust aerosols on climate using satellite retrievals, reanalysis data, and using Global Climate Model: Community Earth System Model (CESM);

10- Conducted the collaborative effort on developing national-level Smoke-COVID assessment tools; Funded by USFS

11- Developed numerous codes to develop fire weather-related data products and generated hourly forecast data on the CANSAC website at DRI; Funded by NOAA and USFS

12- Conducted the study on Saharan dust effects on tropical Atlantic climate; Funded by NASAIDS Program

Developed Datasets:

Hosseinpour, F., Brown, T. (2021). Hourly and 6-hourly multi-level smoke concentration and visibility rating with 18- and 48-hour forecast lead time for Western US region in png, kmz, and geotiff formats calculated based on NOAA-HRRR results, Dataset.

Hosseinpour, F., Brown, T. (2021). Hourly dispersion variables (mixing height, transport wind, turner stability, dispersion index, and low visibility index) with 384- and 72-hour forecast lead time for contiguous US region in png format calculated based on GFS and NAM data, Dataset.

Hosseinpour, F., Brown, T. (2020). Hourly meteorological variables (min/max temperature, min/max relative humidity, accumulated precipitation) with 384-hour forecast lead time for contiguous US region in geotiff format calculated based on GFS data, Dataset.

Publications:

Hosseinpour, F., and Wilcox E.M. (2023). A New Look into the Impacts of Dust Radiative Forcing on the Energetics of Tropical Easterly Waves, J. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-1210.

Chang, C. and Hosseinpour, F., (2023). Aerosols-Cloud Interactions during the Godzilla Dust Storm, paper draft ready.

Hosseinpour, F., Chang, C., Wilcox, E. (2023). Mechanisms of Aerosol Activity on Wave-Jet Systems: Constructive and Destructive Effect, paper in preparation.

Hosseinpour, F., Kumar, K. (2022). Estimating Background Ozone Using Data Fusion, Final summary report to Electric Power Research Institute, 2 pp, October 2022.

Hosseinpour, F., and co-authors (2022). Development of Smoke Transport Probability and Risk Interactive Map from Trajectories and Climatology Analysis of 2-km CANSAC-Reanalysis Database, 1st quarterly progress report, 8 pp, September 2022.

Hosseinpour, F., Wilcox, E., (2022). Sierra Nevada Extreme Weather: A Novel Investigation of the Energetics of Atmospheric Rivers, Final annual report to NASA EPSCOR, 10 pp, June 2022.

Hosseinpour, F., Tran, T., Kumar, K. (2022). Modeling and Source Attribution of ozone in southeastern New Mexico, Final Progress report to New Mexico Environment Department, 21 pp, June 2022.

Tran, T., Hosseinpour, F., Kumar, K. (2022). Modeling and Source Attribution of ozone in southeastern New Mexico, Mid Progress report to New Mexico Environment Department, 39 pp, May 2022.

Hosseinpour, F., Brown, T. (2021). Developing a Smoke Concentration model based on machine learning, Final report to Climate AI, 10 pp, Nov. 2021.

Mitchell, D. L., Mejia, J., Garnier, A., Tomii, Y., Krmer, M., and Hosseinpour, F., 2020: An Estimate of Global, Regional and Seasonal Cirrus Cloud Radiative Effects Contributed by Homogeneous Ice Nucleation, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2020-846.

Hosseinpour, F. 2017: Mechanisms of Interactions between Atmospheric Particles and Climate Dynamics, Dissertation, Publications of University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 200 PP.

http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.19424.76805

Hosseinpour, F., and E.W. Wilcox, 2014: Aerosol Interactions with African/ Atlantic Climate Dynamics, Environ. Res. Lett. 9 (2014) 075004, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/075004

Chakrabarty, R. K., I. J. Arnold , D. M. Francisco, B. Hatchett, F. Hosseinpour, M. Loria, A. Pokharel, B. M. Woody, 2013: Black and brown carbon fractal aggregates from combustion of two fuels widely used in Asian rituals. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 122, 25-30, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2012.12.011

Hosseinpour, F., A.R. Mohebalhojeh, and F. Ahmadi-Givi, 2013: Storm track Dynamics in Anomalous winter 2007-2008 from Energetic Perspective, Journal of Earth and Space Physics, 38, 175187. https://doi.org/10.22059/jesphys.2013.30214

Hosseinpour, F., 2009: A Large-Scale Dynamical Analysis of Global Climate and Anomalies in 2007-2008 winter, M.Sc. thesis, Publications of Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran, 150 PP., http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.35782.55362

Invited talks:

Moosmller, H.,Hosseinpour, F. E.,Fenstermaker, L.F.,Wilcox, E.M.(2022).NASA funding opportunities and RFP Process, DRI Lunch and Learn, Desert Research Institute: Reno & Las Vegas, Nevada, April 20, 2022, Invited

Hosseinpour, F., Saftner, D. M.,Fenstermaker, L.F.,Moosmller, H.,Wilcox, E.M.(2021). NASA Proposal Writing Workshop, NV Space Grant and NASA EPSCoR Statewide Virtual Meeting: Reno and Las Vegas, NV, April 30, 2021, (Talk).

Hosseinpour, F.,Saftner, D. M.,Sion, B.,Fenstermaker, L.F.,Moosmller, H.,Wilcox, E.M.(2021). NASA Proposal Writing Workshop, Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Webinar: Reno and Las Vegas, NV, February 18, 2021, (Talk).

Conference Presentations:

2023

Hosseinpour, F.,Brown, T. J., Larki, N. K., Lahm, P. W. (2023). Assessment of seasonal Fire Emissions and predictions in California and Nevada, 103rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, January 11, 2023, (Talk).

Chang C., Hosseinpour, F.(2023). Untangling Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions using Machine-Learning Algorithms, 103rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, January 9, 2023.

2022

Hosseinpour, F.,and Wilcox, E.M. (2022). A Novel Investigation of the Energetics of Atmospheric Rivers, 35th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, 102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, January 26, 2022, (Talk).

Chang C., C. Atkinson, K. Axelrod, P. Bahdanovich, S. Ross, S. Xia, andHosseinpour, F.(2022). AerosolCloud Interactions over the Tropical Atlantic Ocean, Atmospheric Chemistry, Aerosols, and Air Quality Session, 102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, January 23, 2022.

Khatri A. andHosseinpour, F. (2022). Developing Deep Learning Methods For Prediction Of Pollutant Concentration, AI and Machine Learning Session, 102nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, January 23, 2022.

Billmire, M., French, N., Brown, T., Hosseinpour, F., Tavasoli, O., Kletter, W. (2022). Long-term climate change impacts on fire occurrence in California, Fire & Climate 2022: International Association of Wildland Fire, Pasadena, CA, 26 May 2022 (Talk)

Moosmller, H.,Hosseinpour, F.,Fenstermaker, L.F.,Wilcox, E.M.(2022).NASA funding opportunities and RFP Process, DRI Lunch and Learn, Desert Research Institute: Reno & Las Vegas, Nevada, April 20, 2022, (Invited talk)

2021

Hosseinpour, F.,Brown, T. J., Larki, N. K., Lahm, P. W., (2021) Wildfire Smoke Emission Forecasts from an Early Warning System during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Lightning talk on wildland fire, smoke, and human dimensions of fire, Desert Research Institute, January 12, 2021, (Talk).

2020

Hosseinpour, F., and Wilcox, E.M. (2020). The influence of Saharan Dust Radiative Forcing on Wave Activity over the Tropical Atlantic Ocean, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting, Online, Dec 2, 2020 (Talk).

Hosseinpour, F., T. J. Brown, N. K. Larki2and P.W. Lahm. (2020). Air quality during the COVID-19 pandemic: Novel Development of Wildfire Smoke Emission Forecasts from an Early Warning System, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting, Online, December 2, 2020.

Hosseinpour, F., and Wilcox, E.M. (2020). A New Look to Atmospheric Rivers from an Energy Perspective, International Atmospheric Rivers Conference (IARC) Community: Online, October 5, 2020 (Talk).

Hosseinpour, F., and Wilcox, E.M. (2020).Dust-Induced Changes on Energy and Activity of Atmospheric Waves Using a Global Climate Model, 100th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, January 16, 2020, (Talk).

Mitchel D. J. l, J. Mejia,Y. Tomii, and F. Hosseinpour (2020). Combining measurements by satellite and aircraft with climate modeling to evaluate the efficacy of cirrus cloud thinning, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9, 2020.

Mitchell D. L., Mejia J., Tomii Y. and Hosseinpour F. (2020). How Do We Make Progress in Cirrus Cloud Thinning Research? Geoengineering Modeling Research Consortium meeting, April 16, 2020.

Tomii, Y., Hosseinpour, F., Mejia, J. F., Mitchell, D. L. (2020). An evaluation of cirrus cloud thinning through improved integration of satellite retrievals and climate modeling, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (100th anniversary): Boston, MA, January 12, 2020-January 17, 2020.

2019

Hosseinpour, F., Wilcox, E.M. (2019). Large-Scale Impacts of Dust on Weather and Climate, Dust Seminar, Desert Research Institute, June 4, 2019 (Talk)

Hosseinpour, F., Wilcox, E.M., Colarco, P. R., 2019: Energetics of the African Easterly Waves Coupled to Saharan Dust Radiative Heating: A New Look to Variability of Tropical Atlantic Storm Tracks, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Phoenix, AZ, January 6-10, 2019 (Talk)

Mitchell, D. L., Mejia, J. F., Tomii, Y., Hosseinpour, F. (2019). Evaluating cirrus cloud thinning using CALIPSO retrievals and the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model v. 6, Invited presentation, Geoengineering Modeling Research Consortium (GMRC), Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS): Cambridge, MA, September 30, 2019

2018

Mitchell, D. L., Mejia, J. F., Garnier, A., Hosseinpour, F. (2018). Comparing standard CAM5 against CALIPSO Cirrus CAM5 and the need for a better cirrus cloud parameterization, CESM Atmosphere Model Working Group (AMWG) Annual Meeting, National Center for Atmospheric Research: Boulder, CO, February 12, 2018-February 14, 2018.

Mitchell, D. L., Mejia, J. F., Garnier, A., Hosseinpour, F. (2018). Can changes in cirrus cloud ice nucleation affect the jet stream and storm track?, Atmospheric Radiation Conference, American Meteorological Society: Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 9, 2018-July 13, 2018.

Mitchell, D. L., Mejia, J. F., Garnier, A., Hosseinpour, F. (2018). On the Potential Role of Arctic Cirrus Clouds in Predicting Anomalous Mid-Latitude Weather and Climate, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: Washington, DC, December 10, 2018-December 14, 2018.

2017

Hosseinpour, F., Wilcox, E.M., Colarco, P. R. (2017). Mechanisms of Saharan Dust Radiative Effects Coupled to Eddy Energy and Wave Activity, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: New Orleans, LA, December 11, 2017-December 15, 2017.

Mitchell, D. L., Mejia, J. F., Garnier, A., Hosseinpour, F., Avery, M. A. (2017). A potential regulation of jet stream behavior by changes in Arctic cirrus cloud formation mechanism and coverage, Session Proposal: A54G The Dynamics of the Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation in Present and Future Climates: Jet Streams, Storm Tracks, Stationary Waves, and Monsoons III, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: New Orleans, LA, December 11, 2017-December 15, 2017.

2016

Hosseinpour, F., Wilcox, E.M., Colarco, P. R. (2016). A New Look to Impacts of Aerosols on Storm Track Dynamics through Wave Activity, American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, January 14, 2016 (Talk).

Wilcox, E.M., Hosseinpour, F. (2016). The transport of southern Africa smoke aerosols and transient dynamics of the subtropical circulation, Ed. Shan, Y., American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 12, 2016-December 16, 2016.

Wilcox, E.M., Hosseinpour, F., Gao, L., Thomas, R., Praveen, P. S., Pistone, K., Bender, F. A., Ramanathan, V. (2016). Semi-direct effects of black carbon aerosols on low clouds: Mechanisms for climate cooling, Aerosols and Clouds: Connections from the Laboratory to the Field to the Globe: Telluride Science Research Center, CO, June 27, 2016-July 1, 2016.

2015

Hosseinpour, F., Wilcox, E.M., Colarco, P. R. (2015). Aerosol Radiative Forcing and Interactions with Atmospheric Wave Activity, Paper, 95th AMS Annual Meeting: Phoenix, AZ, Jan 7, 2015 (Talk)

Hosseinpour, F., Wilcox, E.M., Colarco, P. R. (2015). Aerosol-Climate Interactions through Atmospheric Wave Activities, Gordon Conference on Radiation and Climate: Lewiston, ME, July 26, 2015-July 31, 2015 (Talk).

Hosseinpour, F., Wilcox, E.M., Colarco, P. R. (2015). A New Look to Interactions of Saharan Dust with Waves in the Tropical Atlantic Storm Track, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2015-December 18, 2015.

2014

Hosseinpour, F., Wilcox, E.M. (2014). Aerosol interactions with African/Atlantic climate dynamics, Environ. Res. Lett., 9, 075004, DOI:10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/075004.

Hosseinpour, F., Wilcox, E.M. (2014). A Dynamic Perspective on aerosol-vorticity-wave Interactions, Oral presentation at the 94th American Meteorological Society (AMS): Atlanta, GA, February 2, 2014, (Talk, Best Student Presentation Award).

Hosseinpour, F., Wilcox, E.M. (2014). An Energetic Perspective on Aerosol Radiative Forcing and Interactions with Atmospheric Wave Activity, Poster, 2014 AGU Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 15, 2014.

Wilcox, E.M., Hosseinpour, F., Colarco, P. R. (2014). Signatures of semi-direct radiative forcing by absorbing aerosols in satellite observations and models, Poster, 2014 AGU Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 15, 2014.

2013

Hosseinpour, F., Mohebalhojeh A.R., and Ahmadi-Givi F. (2013). Storm track Dynamics in Anomalous winter 2007-2008 from Energetic Perspective, Journal of Earth and Space Physics, 38, 175-187.

Hosseinpour, F. (2013). Mechanistic understanding of Aerosol-Climate Interactions: Atmospheric Teleconnection Induced by African Aerosols, Poster presentation at the Gordon Research Conference on Radiation and Climate: London, NH, July 7, 2013.

Hosseinpour, F., Wilcox, E.M. (2013). Large-Scale Interactions of African Smoke and Dust Aerosols with Tropical/Subtropical Atmospheric Circulations and Precipitation, Presentation at the 93rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: Austin, TX, January 5, 2013.

Hosseinpour, F., Wilcox, E.M. (2013). Interactions between Oceanic Saharan Air Layer and African Easterly Jet- African Easterly Waves System, Presentation at the AGU Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 9, 2013.

2012

Hosseinpour, F., Raymond, D.J. (2012). The Relationships between Atmospheric Rivers and the MJO, 30th conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, April 15, 2012-April 20, 2012.

Hosseinpour, F., Wilcox, E.M. (2012). Mechanisms of African Aerosol-Climate Interactions and their Forcing on Dynamical Systems, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting: San Francisco, CA, December 3, 2012.

Hosseinpour, F., and Raymond D.J. (2012). Atmospheric River Dynamics from Energy and Momentum

Perspectives, Annual Nevada NSF EPSCoR Climate Change Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 13 February 2012, poster Presentation.

2010

Hosseinpour. F., Mohebalhojeh, A.R., and Ahmadi-Givi, F. (2010). The Effect of Transients on Climate

Anomalies over the Storm Tracks in winter 2007-08 from Large-Scale Dynamics Perspective, 14th Geophysics Conference, University of Tehran, Tehran, May 11-3, 2010, 161-164, conference paper.

Hosseinpour, F., Mohebalhojeh A. R., and Ahmadi-Givi F. (2010). The Middle East Climate Dynamics in Winter Season, 13th annual and 2nd International Fluid Dynamics Conference, Shiraz University, October 26-28, 2010, conference paper.

2009

Hosseinpour, F. (2009). A Large-Scale Dynamical Analysis of Global Climate and Anomalies in 2007-2008 winter, M.Sc. thesis, Publications of Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran, 150 PP.

Hosseinpour, F., Mohebalhojeh, A.R., and Ahmadi-Givi, F. (2009). A Large-Scale Dynamical Analysis of Global Climate Anomalies in winter 2007-08. Proceedings of IAMAS, IAPSO and IACS Joint Assembly, MOCA-09, Montreal, Canada, July 19-29, 2009, poster presentation.

Hosseinpour, F. (2008). Rossby wave breaking and its relationship with storm track, Publications of Geophysics Institute, University of Tehran, 45 PP.

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