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Dr Alicia Hoffman

Dr Alicia Hoffman

  • Position: Research Fellow
  • Areas of expertise: Air quality; CMAQ; Arctic atmospheric chemistry
  • Email: A.B.Hoffman@leeds.ac.uk
  • Location: SEE

Profile

I am an atmospheric chemist who uses models as my primary tool to study air quality and chemistry. My current work involves improving our understanding of atmospheric chemistry in the cold and dark environments of polar winters. I am a part of the ALPACA project, which investigates both indoor and outdoor air pollution in Fairbanks, Alaska. A field deploment occurred in January and February of 2022 in Fairbanks, and I use these observations to evaluate air quality model performance. I assess the chemical reactions and assumptions in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model, with the goal of improving the model’s ability to predict bad air quality during polar winters.

Research interests

  • Atmospheric modeling of air quality and air pollutants
  • Heterogeneous (gas-particle) reactions
  • Relative impact of regional transport versus local emission of pollutants

Research groups and institutes

  • Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science