Eric A Kort

 

  1. W.M. Keck Institute for Space Studies Postdoctoral Fellow

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Caltech


Eric.A.Kort [at] jpl.nasa.gov


mailing address:

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MS 233-300

4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91109

Human activities have significantly perturbed our planet’s atmospheric composition with impacts on air quality, stratospheric ozone, and climatic warming.  Eric’s research is focused on long-lived greenhouse gases that perturb the earth’s energy balance.  Understanding the atmospheric concentration and distribution of these climatically relevant species enables us to understand human and natural emissions, and processes driving trends in these gases.  Targeting this point, research activities have included greenhouse gas instrument development & deployment, as well as modeling studies to link observations with fluxes.  Points of focus have been regional methane and nitrous oxide emissions in North America, tropical nitrous oxide, and arctic methane.  Present work involves attempting to employ atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane observations in megacity environments to attribute and track anthropogenic emissions.