Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Olivia Elaine Clifton

(POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW)

Olivia Elaine Clifton's Contact Card & Information.
Email: olivia.e.clifton@nasa.gov
Phone: 212.678.5630
Org Code: 611
Address:
NASA/GISS
Mail Code 611
New York, NY 10025
Employer: TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Brief Bio


Dr. Olivia Clifton is an Associate Research Scientist at the Center for Climate Systems Research at the Columbia Climate School. Dr. Clifton sits at NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York, New York. Dr. Clifton’s research is on interactions between climate and atmospheric chemistry. Most of Dr. Clifton’s past work examines the dry deposition of reactive gases and aerosols relevant for air pollution, climate, and ecosystems, and uses a hierarchy of models, including global Earth System models and large eddy simulation, together with multiscale observations, including many eddy covariance flux datasets.


Dr. Clifton was a NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Postdoctoral Fellow at GISS from 2021 to 2023 and an Advanced Study Program (ASP) Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado from 2018 and 2021. Dr. Clifton received her PhD in 2018 from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University in the City of New York where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and worked with Arlene Fiore. In 2012, Dr. Clifton received her BS in Mathematics from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Positions/Employment


Associate Research Scientist

Columbia Climate School, Center for Climate Systems Research - NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies, New York, NY

March 2023 - Present

Teaching Experience


Education


Ph.D. Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2018. 

B.S. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mathematics, 2012.

Professional Societies


American Geophysical Union

2012 - Present

Professional Service


Awards


Publications


Refereed

2022. "Large Eddy Simulation for Investigating Coupled Forest Canopy and Turbulence Influences on Atmospheric Chemistry." Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 14 (10): [10.1029/2022ms003078] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Does Organization in Turbulence Influence Ozone Removal by Deciduous Forests?." Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 126 (6): [10.1029/2021jg006362] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Influence of Dynamic Ozone Dry Deposition on Ozone Pollution." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 125 (8): [10.1029/2020jd032398] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Sensitivity of Tropospheric Ozone Over the Southeast USA to Dry Deposition." Geophysical Research Letters 47 (7): [10.1029/2020gl087158] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Peroxy acetyl nitrate (PAN) measurements at northern midlatitude mountain sites in April: a constraint on continental source–receptor relationships." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 18 (20): 15345-15361 [10.5194/acp-18-15345-2018] [Journal Article/Letter]