Physical Scientist
Earth System Processes and Interactions Division
Contact Information:
phone (609) 987-5071
email Paul.Ginoux@noaa.gov
Fax: (609) 987-5065
Paul Ginoux
My research involves the development and application of aerosols modeling to better understand their direct and indirect effects on climate.
Recent results
- Li, X., and Ginoux, P. (2025). An empirical parameterization to separate coarse and fine mode aerosol optical depth over land. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2024GL114397. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL114397
2. Zorzetto, E., Ginoux, P., Malyshev, S., and Shevliakova, E. (2025), Quantifying radiative effects of light-absorbing particle deposition on snow at the SnowMIP sites, The Cryosphere, 19, 1313–1334, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-1313-2025.
3. Gaillard, M., Vionnet, V., Lafaysse, M., Dumont, M., and Ginoux, P. (2025), Improving large-scale snow albedo modeling using a climatology of light-absorbing particle deposition, The Cryosphere, 19, 769–792, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-769-2025.
Research Activities
- Study the aerosols direct and indirect effects on climate using GFDL climate models and observations.
- Model development at GFDL: implementation of on-line aerosols in the GFDL Atmospheric Model (AM4), Land Model LM4.1 of the Earth System Model (ESM4.1), Variable-Resolution chemistry-climate model, and its evaluation by comparing aerosol properties with ground-based and satellite data.
- Inventories of Dust sources: development of global inventories of dust sources using satellite data. Long-time series of high resolution monthly dust storm frequencies from MODIS on Aqua and Terra.
- Intercomparison of Aerosol Models: Participation to AEROCOM.
- Science team member of NASA funded Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT on ISS) project.
Awards
- 2018: NOAA OAR Outstanding Paper Award: Zhao, M., et al. (2016). Uncertainty in model climate sensitivity traced to representations of cumulus precipitation microphysics. J. Climate, DOI:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0191.
- 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics)
- 2014 AGU Editors’ citations for excellence in refereeing
- 2013 AGU Atmospheric Sciences Ascent award for sustained pioneering work on aerosols.
- 2012 US Department of Commerce Gold medal for Meritorious Federal Service
- 2007 DOI and NASA William T. Pecora award: shared as a member of TOMS Science team.
- 2005 US Department of Commerce Silver medal for Meritorious Federal Service
- 2005 NASA GSFC Journal citation award for Ginoux et al., J. Geophys. Res. 2001
- 2004 ESI Thompson citation for Fast Moving Front in Geosciences
Service to profession
- Organization of the 8th International AeroCom workshop at GFDL, October 5-7, 2009
- Review manuscripts submitted for publication in peer reviewed journals
- Lab reviews: LISA (Paris, France, 2014), LOA (Lille, France,
- Review proposals submitted for funding for DOE, NASA, NOAA, NSF, Bi-National (Israel-US) Science
Foundation, National Research council of Canada, Israel, United Kingdom, and Taiwan.
Teaching Activities
- Spring 2016: Guest lecturer for EESC G9910 Columbia University (LDEO, Palisades, NY)
- Fall 2011 Princeton CEE593-AOS593: Aerosol Observations & Modeling. The course covers the different theoretical aspects of aerosol modeling and observations for a specific case study (Siberian fires of July 2006).
- Spring 2009-2010 Princeton CEE 599B Special topics: Aerosol modeling and observation. The course is presenting aerosol properties (physical, chemical and optical) before describing in details the method of measurements (ground-based and satellite) and modeling (global and regional). Course details.
- Spring 2007-2008 Princeton AOS 580 Special topics: Aerosol, Cloud and Climate Change . The course is articulate around our present understanding of the effects of aerosols on climate which is synthesized in IPCC-IV Chapter 2 . The prerequisite is essentially to be senior or higher and a willingness to learn science.
- 2005-2007: Princeton AOS-527 Lectures on Aerosol Modeling and Observations
Publications
- List of publications with abstract and full text in pdf format: click here
Curriculum Vitae
Links to aerosol datasets
- List of ground-based and satellite web sites providing chemical and optical properties of aerosol in different parts of the world: click here
Data
- Ginoux, P. (2025), Monthly Frequency of Dust Storm over Land for Varying Intensities, Based on MODIS Terra Deep Blue Level 2 Aerosol Products MOD04_L2 Collection 6.1, on a Global 0.1 by 0.1 Degree Grid, Level 3 Version 1, Greenbelt, MD, USA, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), 10.5067/97NBV5RAIPB2
- Ginoux, P. (2025), Monthly Frequency of Dust Storm over Land for Varying Intensities, Based on MODIS Aqua Deep Blue Level 2 Aerosol Products MYD04_L2 Collection 6.1, on a Global 0.1 by 0.1 Degree Grid, Level 3 Version 1, Greenbelt, MD, USA, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), 10.5067/7HMNS4GKXVRK
- Ginoux, P. (2025), Climatological Monthly Frequency of Dust Storm over Land for Varying Intensities, Based on MODIS Aqua Deep Blue Level 2 Aerosol Products MYD04_L2 Collection 6.1, on a Global 0.1 by 0.1 Degree Grid, Level 3 Version 1, Greenbelt, MD, USA, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), 10.5067/0U8YH42HD3QK
- Ginoux, P. (2025), Climatological Monthly Frequency of Dust Storm over Land for Varying Intensities, Based on MODIS Terra Deep Blue Level 2 Aerosol Products MOD04_L2 Collection 6.1, on a Global 0.1 by 0.1 Degree Grid, Level 3 Version 1, Greenbelt, MD, USA, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), 10.5067/5DI0OTH93I9C
- Ginoux, P. (2025), Standard Deviation of Monthly Frequency of Dust Storm over Land for Varying Intensities, Based on MODIS Aqua Deep Blue Level 2 Aerosol Products MYD04_L2 Collection 6.1, on a Global 0.1 by 0.1 Degree Grid, Level 3 Version 1, Greenbelt, MD, USA, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), 10.5067/5YXHND14680I
- Ginoux, P. (2025), Standard Deviation of Monthly Frequency of Dust Storm over Land for Varying Intensities, Based on MODIS Terra Deep Blue Level 2 Aerosol Products MOD04_L2 Collection 6.1, on a Global 0.1 by 0.1 Degree Grid, Level 3 Version 1, Greenbelt, MD, USA, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC), 10.5067/PMBREH7Q9P50
Natural, anthropogenic and hydrologic dust sources
Dust sources detected from MODIS (Aqua) Deep Blue Level 2 aerosol products are attributed natural (yellow shading), anthropogenic (magenta shading) or hydrologic (blue shading) origin if at least 30% land use (anthropogenic) or 10% ephemeral water bodies (hydrologic) are present
| Units | % FoO Dust Optical Depth>0.2 |
|---|---|
| Resolution | 0.1×0.1 degree (~10km) |
| Format | kmz (zip kml file, no need to unzip just open with Google Earth) |
| Files | Australia, North Africa, South Africa, Middle East, Central-South Asia, East Asia, North America, South America |
| Reference | Ginoux et al. (2010), Ginoux et al. (2012) |
Dust source inventory
Fractional area of grid cell with erodible dust
| Units | none |
|---|---|
| Representation | cartesian latitude-longitude grid |
| Resolution | 1×1 or 0.25×0.25 |
| Format | netcdf |
| Reference | Ginoux et al. (2001) |
Velocity threshold of dust emission
| Units | m/s |
|---|---|
| Representation | cartesian latitude-longitude grid |
| Spatial Resolution | 0.5×0.5 degree |
| Temporal Resolution (DOD>0.2) | Annual, Monthly |
| Temporal Resolution (DOD>0.5) | Annual, Monthly |
| Format | netcdf |
| Reference | Pu et al., 2020 |