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Leonid Iourganov

Leonid Iourganov

Sr Res Sci

Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology

Technology Research Center

Education

Ph D Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics 1979

MS Leningrad State University 1969

About

Dr. Yurganov is a physicist, specializing in atmospheric physics, optics, spectroscopy, and remote sensing of atmospheric gaseous composition from satellites. He has been being involved in different geophysical projects in USSR/Russia for 26 years. Between 1995 and 2011 he was working in Canada, Japan, and USA, and took part in validation and analysis of carbon monoxide satellite measurements. During last three years he devoted most of his time to investigation of atmospheric sulfur dioxide and methane concentrations measured by US and European satellite sounders.

Research Interests

Both of two projects, Dr. Yurganov is involved in now, are connected with Global Change and funded by NASA. A goal of the first project is to study interconnections between the currently progressing Arctic warming that is twice as fast compared to the global warming and methane concentrations in the Arctic. Methane is known as an important greenhouse gas. Huge amounts of methane are buried in the Arctic permafrost and under the Arctic Ocean sea floor. Sooner or later these amounts would be released into the atmosphere and amplify the ongoing warming (positive feed back). Satellite data, analyzed by Dr. Yurganov, make possible monitoring of methane concentration in this climatically sensitive area. The second project is connected with climatic impact of volcanic aerosols. Volcanic sulfur dioxide is a precursor of sulfur aerosols and can be easily measured in the Thermal IR spectral region by several sounders (AIRS, IASI, TES, GOSAT, CrIS). These instruments deliver valuable global data on sulfur dioxide, year round, day and night. Retrieval algorithms being developed by Dr. Yurganov are supposed to be realized in the NASA processing schemes.

Teaching Interests

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Contracts, Fellowships, Grants, and Sponsored Research

Iourganov, Leonid N (Co-Principal). “Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEASURES),” Grant (Funded). Sponsored By: NASA/Task 357 Funds. (Oct 1, 2012 – Sep 30, 2017).

Iourganov, Leonid N (Co-Principal). “Long-term Satellite Data Fusion Observations of Arctic Ice Cover and Methane as a Climate Change Feedback,” SubContract (Funded). Sponsored By: Bubbleology Research International/NASA. (Nov 1, 2014 – Oct 30, 2017).

Intellectual Contributions

Yurganov, Leonid, Leifer, Ira, Vadakkepuliyambatta, Sunil. (2017). . 5. 14 248-258 Moscow: Current problems in remote sensing of the Earth from space.

yurganov, Leonid. (2016). . 8. Moscow: Nauka i Zhizn.

Yurganov, Leonid, Leifer, Ira. (2016). . 3. 13 231-234 Moscow: CPRSES.

Yurganov, Leonid, Leifer, Ira, Lund Myhre, Cathrine. (2016). . 2. 13 107-119 Moscow: CPRSES.

Presentations

Iourganov, Leonid (Author & Presenter), Leifer, ira (Author). NASA Sounder Science Team Meeting. Oral Presentation. "Methane retrievals from AIRS, IASI (MetOp-A and MetOp-B) over the Arctic Ocean: comparisons with concentrations in-situ and locations of methane hydrates," NASA. (Sep 15, 2016).

Yurganov, Leonid (Author). INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM "ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION and DYNAMICS" (ISARD - 2015). Poster. "Arctic methane: a view from satellites.," SPbU. (Jun 23, 2015).

Iourganov, Leonid (Author), Leifer, Ira (Author & Presenter), Xiong, Shawn (Author). AGU Fall meeting 2014. Poster. "Arctic Methane: the View from Space," AGU. (Dec 19, 2014).

Iourganov, Leonid (Author & Presenter), Leifer, Ira (Author), Xiong, Shawn (Author). Non-CO2 Greenhouse gases. Oral Presentation. "Atmospheric Methane over the Arctic Ocean: Thermal IR Satellite and Ship-Based Observations," VVM. (Nov 7, 2014).

Iourganov, Leonid (Author & Presenter), Krotkov, Nick (Author), Hughes, Eric (Author). NASA Sounder Science Team Meeting. "Intercomparison of three algorithms for retrievals of volcanic SO2 from AIRS data," NASA. (Oct 2, 2014).

Iourganov, Leonid (Author & Presenter), Leifer, Ira (Author), Xiong, Shawn (Author). NASA Sounder Science Team Meeting. Oral Presentation. "Evaluation of CH4 standard AIRS and IASI retrievals for the Arctic and recent findings," NASA. (Oct 1, 2014).

Iourganov, Leonid (Author). agu fall meeting 2013. Poster. "Arctic satellite thermal infrared CH4 data compared to surface in-situ and total column measurements," AGU. (Dec 10, 2013).