education and training Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston 2015 - 2018 M.E. in Remote Sensing, University of Tehran 2011 - 2014 B.E. in Civil, University of Tehran 2008 - 2011
awards and honors Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2020 TEMPO Group Achievement Award, conferred by NASA, 2020 Pecora Team Award, conferred by USGS, 2019 Phi Kappa Phi, 2018 Outstanding Academic Achievement in Atmospheric Sciences, conferred by University of Houston, 2017 Outstanding Academic Achievement in Atmospheric Sciences, conferred by University of Houston, 2016 Presidential Fellowship, conferred by University of Houston, 2015
co-principal investigator on SAO Scholarly Award: Corn Sweat: Contribution of Plant Transpiration during Heatwaves 2019 - 2020
investigator on NASA: Algorithm maintenance for SAO standard OMI products (HCHO, BrO, OClO, etc.) 2020 - 2023
selected publications article Pouyaei, Arman, Sadeghi, Bavand, Choi, Yunsoo, Jung, Jia, Souri, Amir H., Zhao, Chun, and Song, Chul Han. 2021. "Development and Implementation of a Physics-Based Convective Mixing Scheme in the Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling Framework." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13, (6), Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002475. 2021 Pouyaei, Arman, Sadeghi, Bavand, Choi, Yunsoo, Jung, Jia, Souri, Amir H., Zhao, Chun, and Song, Chul Han. 2021. "Development and Implementation of a Physics-Based Convective Mixing Scheme in the Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling Framework." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, e02475. 13, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002475. 2021 Souri, Amir H., Chance, Kelly, Bak, Juseon, Nowlan, Caroline R., González Abad, Gonzalo, Jung, Yeonjin, Wong, David C., Mao, Jingqiu, and Liu, Xiong. 2021. "Unraveling pathways of elevated ozone induced by the 2020 lockdown in Europe by an observationally constrained regional model using TROPOMI." Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, 18227–18245. 21, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-18227-2021. 2021 Souri, Amir H., Nowlan, Caroline R., González Abad, Gonzalo, Zhu, Lei, Blake, Donald R., Fried, Alan, Weinheimer, Andrew J., Wisthaler, Armin, Woo, Jung-Hun, Zhang, Qiang, Miller, Christopher E. Chan, Liu, Xiong, and Chance, Kelly. 2020. "An inversion of NOx and non-methane volatile organic compound (NMVOC) emissions using satellite observations during the KORUS-AQ campaign and implications for surface ozone over East Asia." Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics, 9837–9854. 20, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-9837-2020. 2020 Souri, Amir H., Nowlan, Caroline R., Wolfe, Glenn M., Lamsal, Lok N., Chan Miller, Christopher E., González Abad, Gonzalo, Janz, Scott J., Fried, Alan, Blake, Donald R., Weinheimer, Andrew J., Diskin, Glenn S., Liu, Xiong, and Chance, Kelly. 2020. "Corrigendum to "Revisiting the effectiveness of HCHO/NO2 ratios for inferring ozone sensitivity to its precursors using high resolution airborne remote sensing observations in a high ozone episode during the KORUS-AQ campaign" [Atmos. Environ. 224 117341]." Atmospheric Environment, 117792. 240, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117792. 2020 Souri, Amir H., Wang, Huiqun, González Abad, Gonzalo, Liu, Xiong, and Chance, Kelly. 2020. "Quantifying the Impact of Excess Moisture From Transpiration From Crops on an Extreme Heat Wave Event in the Midwestern U.S.: A Top-Down Constraint From Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Water Vapor Retrieval." Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres), e31941. 125, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031941. 2020 Souri, Amir H., Choi, Yunsoo, Kodros, John K., Jung, Jia, Shpund, Jacob, Pierce, Jeffrey R., Lynn, Barry H., Khain, Alexander, and Chance, Kelly. 2020. "Response of Hurricane Harvey's rainfall to anthropogenic aerosols: A sensitivity study based on spectral bin microphysics with simulated aerosols." Atmospheric Research 242:104965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.104965 2020 Souri, Amir Hossein, Nowlan, Caroline R., Wolfe, Glenn M., Lamsal, Lok N., Chan Miller, Christopher E., Abad, Gonzalo González, Janz, Scott J., Fried, Alan, Blake, Donald R., Weinheimer, Andrew J., Diskin, Glenn S., Liu, Xiong, and Chance, Kelly. 2020. "Revisiting the effectiveness of HCHO/NO2 ratios for inferring ozone sensitivity to its precursors using high resolution airborne remote sensing observations in a high ozone episode during the KORUS-AQ campaign." Atmospheric Environment 224:117341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2020.117341 2020 González Abad, Gonzalo, Souri, Amir Hossein, Bak, Juseon, Chance, Kelly, Flynn, Lawrence E., Krotkov, Nickolay A., Lamsal, Lok, Li, Can, Liu, Xiong, Chan Miller, Christopher, Nowlan, Caroline R., Suleiman, Raid, and Wang, Huiqun. 2019. "Five decades observing Earth's atmospheric trace gases using ultraviolet and visible backscatter solar radiation from space." Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 106478. 238, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2019.04.030. 2019