Staff information

Education and Credentials

• PhD Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, UT
• MS Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, UT
• BE Mechanical Engineering, Punjab Technical University, Punjab, India

PNNL Publications

2024

• Li J., K. Zhang, M. Hassan Mozumder, S. Zhang, P. Ma, B. Singh, and Q. Yan, et al. 2024. "Assessing the Sensitivity of Aerosol Mass Budget and Effective Radiative Forcing to Horizontal Grid Spacing in E3SMv1 Using A Regional Refinement Approach." Geoscientific Model Development 17, no. 3:1327-1347. PNNL-SA-183690. doi:10.5194/gmd-17-1327-2024
• Yu S., P. Ma, B. Singh, S. Silva, and M.S. Pritchard. 2024. "TWO-STEP HYPERPARAMETER OPTIMIZATION METHOD: ACCELERATING HYPERPARAMETER SEARCH BY USING A FRACTION OF A TRAINING DATASET." Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems 3, no. 1:Art. No. e230013. PNNL-SA-191873. doi:10.1175/AIES-D-23-0013.1

2023

• Geiss A.V., P. Ma, B. Singh, and J.C. Hardin. 2023. "Emulating Aerosol Optics with Randomly Generated Neural Networks." Geoscientific Model Development 16, no. 9:2355-2370. PNNL-SA-173125. doi:10.5194/gmd-16-2355-2023
• Raman A., T.C. Hill, P.J. DeMott, B. Singh, K. Zhang, P. Ma, and M. Wu, et al. 2023. "Long-term Variability in immersion-mode Marine Ice Nucleating Particles from Climate Model Simulations and Observations." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 23, no. 10:5735-5762. PNNL-SA-171035. doi:10.5194/acp-23-5735-2023
• Sharma H., M.B. Shrivastava, and B. Singh. 2023. "Physics informed deep neural network embedded in a chemical transport model for the Amazon rainforest." npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 6, no. 2023:2. PNNL-SA-172595. doi:10.1038/s41612-023-00353-y

2022

• Brown H.Y., H. Wang, M.G. Flanner, X. Liu, B. Singh, R. Zhang, and Y. Yang, et al. 2022. "Brown Carbon Fuel and Emission Source Attributions to Global Snow Darkening Effect." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 14, no. 4:Art. No. e2021MS002768. PNNL-SA-165723. doi:10.1029/2021MS002768
• Burrows S.M., R.C. Easter, X. Liu, P. Ma, H. Wang, S. Elliott, and B. Singh, et al. 2022. "OCEANFILMS (Organic Compounds from Ecosystems to Aerosols: Natural Films and Interfaces via Langmuir Molecular Surfactants) sea spray organic aerosol emissions - implementation in a global climate model and impacts on clouds." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 22, no. 8:5223-5251. PNNL-SA-131643. doi:10.5194/acp-22-5223-2022
• Ma P., B.E. Harrop, V.E. Larson, R. Neale, R. Neale, A. Gettelman, and H. Morrison, et al. 2022. "Better calibration of cloud parameterizations and subgrid effects increases the fidelity of E3SM Atmosphere Model version 1." Geoscientific Model Development 15, no. 7:2881-2916. PNNL-SA-166161. doi:10.5194/gmd-15-2881-2022
• Wu M., H. Wang, R.C. Easter, Z. Lu, X. Liu, B. Singh, and P. Ma, et al. 2022. "Development and evaluation of E3SM-MOSAIC: Spatial distributions and radiative effects of nitrate aerosol." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 14, no. 11:e2022MS003157. PNNL-SA-172258. doi:10.1029/2022MS003157
• Zhang K., W. Zhang, H. Wan, P.J. Rasch, S.J. Ghan, R.C. Easter, and X. Shi, et al. 2022. "Effective radiative forcing of anthropogenic aerosols in E3SM version 1: historical changes, causality, decomposition, and parameterization sensitivities." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 22, no. 13:9129-9160. PNNL-SA-169371. doi:10.5194/acp-22-9129-2022

2021

• Caldwell P.M., C.R. Terai, B.R. Hillman, N.D. Keen, P. Bogenschutz, W.N. Lin, and H. Beydoun, et al. 2021. "Convection-Permitting Simulations with the E3SM Global Atmosphere Model." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 13, no. 11:Art. No. e2021MS002544. PNNL-SA-167124. doi:10.1029/2021MS002544
• Jo D.S., A. Hodzic, L.K. Emmons, S. Tilmes, R.H. Schwantes, M.J. Mills, and P. Campuzano-Jost, et al. 2021. "Future changes in isoprene-epoxydiol-derived secondary organic aerosol (IEPOX-SOA) under the shared socioeconomic pathways: the importance of physico-chemical dependency." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 21, no. 5:3395-3425. PNNL-SA-156532. doi:10.5194/acp-21-3395-2021
• Lu Z., X. Liu, R.A. Zaveri, R.C. Easter, S. Tilmes, L. Emmons, and F. Vitt, et al. 2021. "Radiative Forcing of Nitrate Aerosols from 1975 to 2010 as Simulated by MOSAIC Module in CESM2-MAM4." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 126, no. 17:e2021JD034809. PNNL-SA-154136. doi:10.1029/2021JD034809

2020

• Burrows S.M., M.E. Maltrud, X. Yang, Q. Zhu, N. Jeffery, X. Shi, and D.M. Ricciuto, et al. 2020. "The DOE E3SM v1.1 biogeochemistry configuration: Description and Simulated Ecosystem-Climate Responses to Historical Changes in Forcing." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 12, no. 9:e2019MS001766. PNNL-SA-144279. doi:10.1029/2019MS001766
• Wan H., C. Woodward, S. Zhang, C.J. Vogl, P. Stinis, D. Gardner, and P.J. Rasch, et al. 2020. "Improving time step convergence in an atmosphere model with simplified physics: the impacts of closure assumption and process coupling." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 12, no. 10:Article No. e2019MS001982. PNNL-SA-149970. doi:10.1029/2019MS001982
• Wang H., R.C. Easter, R. Zhang, P. Ma, B. Singh, K. Zhang, and D. Ganguly, et al. 2020. "Aerosols in the E3SM Version 1: New Developments and Their Impacts on Radiative Forcing." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 12, no. 1:Article No. e2019MS001851. PNNL-SA-146124. doi:10.1029/2019MS001851

2019

• Golaz J., P.M. Caldwell, L. Van Roekel, M.R. Petersen, Q. Tang, J. Wolfe, and G.W. Abeshu, et al. 2019. "The DOE E3SM coupled model version 1: Overview and evaluation at standard resolution." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 11, no. 7:2089-2129. PNNL-SA-141816. doi:10.1029/2018MS001603
• Rasch P.J., S. Xie, P. Ma, W. Lin, H. Wang, Q. Tang, and S.M. Burrows, et al. 2019. "An Overview of the Atmospheric Component of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 11, no. 8:2377-2411. PNNL-SA-144927. doi:10.1029/2019MS001629
• Zhang S., H. Wan, P.J. Rasch, B. Singh, V.E. Larson, and C. Woodward. 2019. "An objective and efficient method for assessing the impact of reduced-precision calculations on solution correctness." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 11, no. 10:3131-3147. PNNL-SA-145080. doi:10.1029/2019MS001817

2018

• Chen Y., H. Wang, B. Singh, P. Ma, P.J. Rasch, and T.C. Bond. 2018. "Investigating the linear dependence of direct and indirect radiative forcing on emission of carbonaceous aerosols in a global climate model." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 123, no. 3:1657-1672. PNNL-SA-126780. doi:10.1002/2017JD027244
• Parishani H., M.S. Pritchard, C.S. Bretherton, C.R. Terai, M.C. Wyant, M. Khairoutdinov, and B. Singh. 2018. "Insensitivity of the cloud response to surface warming under radical changes to boundary layer turbulence and cloud microphysics: Results from the UltraParameterized CAM." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 10, no. 12:3139-3158. PNNL-SA-140100. doi:10.1029/2018MS001409
• Qian Y., H. Wan, B. Yang, J. Golaz, B.E. Harrop, Z. Hou, and V.E. Larson, et al. 2018. "Parametric Sensitivity and Uncertainty Quantification in the Version 1 of E3SM Atmosphere Model Based on Short Perturbed Parameter Ensemble Simulations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 123, no. 23:13046-13073. PNNL-SA-138521. doi:10.1029/2018JD028927
• Xie S., W. Lin, P.J. Rasch, P. Ma, R. Neale, V. Larson, and Y. Qian, et al. 2018. "Understanding Cloud and Convective Characteristics in Version 1 of the E3SM Atmosphere Model." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 10, no. 10:2618-2644. PNNL-SA-135860. doi:10.1029/2018MS001350
• Zhang K., P.J. Rasch, M. Taylor, H. Wan, L. Leung, P. Ma, and J. Golaz, et al. 2018. "Impact of numerical choices on water conservation in the E3SM Atmosphere Model Version 1 (EAM V1)." Geoscientific Model Development 11, no. 5:1971-1988. PNNL-SA-129738. doi:10.5194/gmd-11-1971-2018

2017

• Lou S., L.M. Russell, Y. Yang, Y. Liu, B. Singh, and S.J. Ghan. 2017. "Impacts of Interactive Dust and its Direct Radiative Forcing on Interannual Variations of Temperature and Precipitation in Winter over East Asia." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 122, no. 16:8761-8780. PNNL-SA-123079. doi:10.1002/2017JD027267
• Wan H., K. Zhang, P.J. Rasch, B. Singh, X. Chen, and J. Edwards. 2017. "A new and inexpensive non-bit-for-bit solution reproducibility test based on time step convergence (TSC1.0)." Geoscientific Model Development 10, no. 2:537-552. PNNL-SA-118076. doi:10.5194/gmd-10-537-2017
• Yang Y., L.M. Russell, S. Lou, H. Liao, J. Guo, Y. Liu, and B. Singh, et al. 2017. "Dust-wind interactions can intensify aerosol pollution over eastern China." Nature Communications 8. PNNL-SA-119019. doi:10.1038/ncomms15333

2016

• DeFlorio M., I.D. Goodwin, D. Cayan, A.J. Miller, S.J. Ghan, D. Pierce, and L.M. Russell, et al. 2016. "Interannual Modulation of Subtropical Atlantic Boreal Summer Dust Variability by ENSO." Climate Dynamics 46, no. 1:585-599. PNNL-SA-107885. doi:10.1007/s00382-015-2600-7
• Liu X., P. Ma, H. Wang, S. Tilmes, B. Singh, R.C. Easter, and S.J. Ghan, et al. 2016. "Description and Evaluation of a New Four-Mode Version of the Modal Aerosol Module (MAM4) within Version 5.3 of the Community Atmosphere Model." Geoscientific Model Development 9, no. 2:505-522. PNNL-SA-110649. doi:10.5194/gmd-9-505-2016
• Lou S., L.M. Russell, Y. Yang, L. Xu, M.A. Lamjiri, M. DeFlorio, and A.J. Miller, et al. 2016. "Impacts of the East Asian Monsoon on springtime dust concentrations over China." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 121, no. 13:8137-8152. PNNL-SA-120697. doi:10.1002/2016JD024758
• Yang Y., L.M. Russell, L. Xu, S. Lou, M.A. Lamjiri, R.C. Somerville, and A.J. Miller, et al. 2016. "Impacts of ENSO events on cloud radiative effects in preindustrial conditions: Changes in cloud fraction and their dependence on interactive aerosol emissions and concentrations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 121, no. 11:6321-6335. PNNL-SA-113420. doi:10.1002/2015JD024503
• Yang Y., L.M. Russell, S. Lou, M.A. Lamjiri, Y. Liu, B. Singh, and S.J. Ghan. 2016. "Changes in sea salt emissions enhance ENSO variability." Journal of Climate 29, no. 23:8575-8588. PNNL-SA-120633. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0237.1
• Yang Y., L.M. Russell, S. Lou, Y. Liu, B. Singh, and S.J. Ghan. 2016. "Rain-aerosol relationships influenced by wind speed." Geophysical Research Letters 43, no. 5:2267-2274. PNNL-SA-115409. doi:10.1002/2016GL067770

2015

• Gustafson W.I., P. Ma, and B. Singh. 2015. "Precipitation characteristics of CAM5 physics at mesoscale resolution during MC3E and the impact of convective timescale choice." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 6, no. 4:1271-1287. PNNL-SA-101950. doi:10.1002/2014ms000334
• Shrivastava M.B., R.C. Easter, X. Liu, A. Zelenyuk, B. Singh, K. Zhang, and P. Ma, et al. 2015. "Global transformation and fate of SOA: Implications of Low Volatility SOA and Gas-Phase Fragmentation Reactions." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 120, no. 9:4169-4195. PNNL-SA-105095. doi:10.1002/2014JD022563
• Xu L., D. Pierce, L. Russell, A.J. Miller, R.C. Somerville, C.H. Twohy, and S.J. Ghan, et al. 2015. "Interannual to decadal climate variability of sea salt aerosols in the coupled climate model CESM1.0." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 120, no. 4:1502-1519. PNNL-SA-106628. doi:10.1002/2014JD022888
• Yang Q., R.C. Easter, P. Campuzano-Jost, J.L. Jimenez, J.D. Fast, S.J. Ghan, and H. Wang, et al. 2015. "Aerosol transport and wet scavenging in deep convective clouds: a case study and model evaluation using a multiple passive tracer analysis approach." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 120, no. 16:8448-8468. PNNL-SA-109663. doi:10.1002/2015JD023647
• Zhang R., H. Wang, Y. Qian, P.J. Rasch, R.C. Easter, P. Ma, and B. Singh, et al. 2015. "Quantifying sources, transport, deposition, and radiative forcing of black carbon over the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 15, no. 11:6205-6223. PNNL-SA-106208. doi:10.5194/acp-15-6205-2015

2014

• DeFlorio M., S.J. Ghan, B. Singh, A.J. Miller, D. Cayan, L.M. Russell, and R.C. Somerville. 2014. "Semidirect Dynamical and Radiative Impact of North African Dust Transport on Lower Tropospheric Clouds over the Subtropical North Atlantic in CESM 1.0." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119, no. 13:8284-8303. PNNL-SA-98910. doi:10.1002/2013JD020997
• Fan J., L. Leung, P.J. DeMott, J.M. Comstock, B. Singh, D. Rosenfeld, and J.M. Tomlinson, et al. 2014. "Corrigendum to Aerosol impacts on California winter clouds and precipitation during CalWater 2011: local pollution versus long-range transported dust published in Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 81-101, 2014." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 14. PNNL-SA-102971. doi:10.5194/acp-14-3063-2014
• Hagos S.M., L. Leung, W.I. Gustafson, and B. Singh. 2014. "Eddy Fluxes and Sensitivity of the Water Cycle to Spatial Resolution in Idealized Regional Aquaplanet Model Simulations." Climate Dynamics 42, no. 3-4:931-940. PNNL-SA-90821. doi:10.1007/s00382-013-1857-y
• Huneeus N., O. Boucher, K. Alterskjaer, J.N. Cole, C.L. Curry, D. Ji, and A. Jones, et al. 2014. "Forcings and Feedbacks in the GeoMIP Ensemble for a Reduction in Solar Irradiance and Increase in CO2." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119, no. 9:5226-5239. PNWD-SA-10229. doi:10.1002/2013JD021110
• Irvine P., O. Boucher, B.S. Kravitz, K. Alterskjaer, J.N. Cole, D. Ji, and A. Jones, et al. 2014. "Key Factors Governing Uncertainty in the Response to Sunshade Geoengineering from a Comparison of the GeoMIP Ensemble and a Perturbed Parameter Ensemble." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119, no. 13:7946-7962. PNWD-SA-10176. doi:10.1002/2013JD020716
• Kravitz B.S., D. MacMartin, A. Robock, P.J. Rasch, K.L. Ricke, J.N. Cole, and C.L. Curry, et al. 2014. "A Multi-Model Assessment of Regional Climate Disparities Caused by Solar Geoengineering." Environmental Research Letters 9, no. 7:Article No. 074013. PNWD-SA-10200. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/7/074013
• Lim K., J. Fan, L. Leung, P. Ma, B. Singh, C. Zhao, and Y. Zhang, et al. 2014. "Investigation of Aerosol Indirect Effects using a Cumulus Microphysics Parameterization in a Regional Climate Model." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119, no. 2:906-926. PNNL-SA-98519. doi:10.1002/2013JD020958
• Ma P., P.J. Rasch, J.D. Fast, R.C. Easter, W.I. Gustafson, X. Liu, and S.J. Ghan, et al. 2014. "Assessing the CAM5 Physics Suite in the WRF-Chem Model: Implementation, Resolution Sensitivity, and a First Evaluation for a Regional Case Study." Geoscientific Model Development 7, no. 3:755-778. PNNL-SA-98517. doi:10.5194/gmd-7-755-2014
• Vinoj V., P.J. Rasch, H. Wang, J. Yoon, P. Ma, K. Landu, and B. Singh. 2014. "Short-term modulation of Indian summer monsoon rainfall by West Asian dust." Nature Geoscience 7. PNNL-SA-85785. doi:10.1038/NGEO2107
• Wang H., P.J. Rasch, R.C. Easter, B. Singh, R. Zhang, P. Ma, and Y. Qian, et al. 2014. "Using an Explicit Emission Tagging Method in Global Modeling of Source-Receptor Relationships for Black Carbon in the Arctic: Variations, Sources and Transport Pathways." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119, no. 12:12,888-12,909. PNNL-SA-103903. doi:10.1002/2014JD022297
• Xia L., A. Robock, J.N. Cole, C.L. Curry, D. Ji, A. Jones, and B.S. Kravitz, et al. 2014. "Solar Radiation Management Impacts on Agriculture in China: A Case Study in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 119, no. 14:8695-8711. PNWD-SA-10177. doi:10.1002/2013JD020630

2013

• Gustafson W.I., P. Ma, H. Xiao, B. Singh, P.J. Rasch, and J.D. Fast. 2013. "The Separate Physics and Dynamics Experiment (SPADE) framework for determining resolution awareness: A case study of microphysics." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 118, no. 16:9258-9276. PNNL-SA-92473. doi:10.1002/jgrd.50711
• Jones A., J. Haywood, K. Alterskjaer, O. Boucher, J.N. Cole, C.L. Curry, and P. Irvine, et al. 2013. "The Impact of Abrupt Suspension of Solar Radiation Management (Termination Effect) in Experiment G2 of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 118, no. 17:9743-9752. PNNL-SA-94600. doi:10.1002/jgrd.50762
• Kravitz B.S., K. Caldeira, O. Boucher, A. Robock, P.J. Rasch, K. Alterskjaer, and D. Bou Karam, et al. 2013. "Climate Model Response from the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 118, no. 15:8320-8332. PNNL-SA-89208. doi:10.1002/jgrd.50646
• Kravitz B.S., P.J. Rasch, P. Forster, T. Andrews, J.N. Cole, P. Irvine, and D. Ji, et al. 2013. "An Energetic Perspective on Hydrologic Cycle Changes in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 118, no. 23:13,087-13,102. PNWD-SA-10157. doi:10.1002/2013JD020502
• Tilmes S., J. Fasullo, J. Lamarque, J. Lamarque, D. Marsh, M. Mills, and K. Alterskjaer, et al. 2013. "The Hydrological Impact of Geoengineering in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 118, no. 19:11,036-11,058. PNNL-SA-93247. doi:10.1002/jgrd.50868