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Daniel Schuch

Name: Daniel Schuch
Tel: TBD (office), (857) 269-8017 (mobile)
Email: d.schuch@northeastern.edu

Education:

D.Sc., Science, Aeronautics Institute of Technology, April 2017

M.S., Meteorology, Federal University of Pelotas, September 2011

B.S., Meteorology, Federal University of Pelotas, September 2009

Research Interests & Specialties:

Research interests include problems of micrometeorology area such as air quality, numerical and analytical solutions for the transport equations and atmospheric boundary layer transport phenomenon in the following subjects: meteorological and air quality models, turbulence, analytical solutions, atmospheric chemistry, climate change and chaos theory.

Research specialties include regional air quality models such as WRF-Chem, emission modeling, development of software (EmissV, eixport, Inventory), essays on wind tunnel, analytical and numerical solution of differential equations and systems, atmospheric and air quality data analysis and turbulence.

Research Experience:

1. Post-Doc, University of São Paulo, November 2018-November 2019

2. Post-Doc, University of São Paulo, May 2017-May 2018

3. Technological Development Researcher, National Institute for Space Research, 2011-2013

Publications:

Refereed Journal Papers:

Published (Google Scholar; ORCHID; ResearcherID; ResearchGate):

GAVIDIA-CALDERÓN, MARIO; SCHUCH, DANIEL; VARA-VELA, ANGEL; INOUE, RITA; FREITAS, EDMILSON D.; ALBUQUERQUE, TACIANA TOLEDO DE A.; ZHANG, YANG; ANDRADE, MARIA DE FATIMA; BELL, MICHELLE L. Air quality modeling in the metropolitan area of São Paulo, Brazil: A review. ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT, v.319, p.120301, 2024. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2023.120301

LYU, XIAOPU; LI, KE; GUO, HAI; MORAWSKA, LIDIA; ZHOU, BEINING; ZEREN, YANGZONG; JIANG, FEI; CHEN, CHANGHONG; GOLDSTEIN, ALLEN H.; XU, XIAOBIN; WANG, TAO; LU, XIAO; ZHU, TONG; QUEROL, XAVIER; CHATANI, SATORU; LATIF, MOHD TALIB; SCHUCH, DANIEL; SINHA, VINAYAK; KUMAR, PRASHANT; MULLINS, BENJAMIN; SEGUEL, RODRIGO; SHAO, MIN; XUE, LIKUN; WANG, NAN; CHEN, JIANMIN; GAO, JIAN; CHAI, FAHE; SIMPSON, ISOBEL; SINHA, BAERBEL; BLAKE, DONALD R. A synergistic ozone-climate control to address emerging ozone pollution challenges. One Earth, v.6, p.964 - 977, 2023. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.07.004

PENDHARKAR, JAYANT; FIGUEROA, SILVIO NILO; VARA-VELA, ANGEL; KRISHNA, R. PHANI MURALI; SCHUCH, DANIEL; KUBOTA, PAULO YOSHIO; ALVIM, DÉBORA SOUZA; VENDRASCO, EDER PAULO; GOMES, HELBER BARROS; NOBRE, PAULO; HERDIES, DIRCEU LUÍS. Towards Unified Online-Coupled Aerosol Parameterization for the Brazilian Global Atmospheric Model (BAM): Aerosol-Cloud Microphysical-Radiation Interactions. Remote Sensing, v.15, p.278 - , 2023. http://doi.org/doi:10.3390/rs15010278

MEDEIROS, LUIZ E.; FISCH, G.; ACEVEDO, OTÁVIO C.; COSTA, FELIPE D.; IRIART, PAULO G.; ANABOR, VAGNER; SCHUCH, Daniel. Low-Level Atmospheric Flow at the Central North Coast of Brazil. BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY, v.179, p.1 - 15, 2021. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10546-021-00625-1

DANIEL SCHUCH, MARIA DE FATIMA ANDRADE, YANG ZHANG, EDMILSON DIAS DE FREITAS AND MICHELLE L. BELL. Short-Term Responses of Air Quality to Changes in Emissions under the Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5 Scenario over Brazil. Atmosphere, 11(8), 799, 2020. doi:10.3390/atmos11080799

DANIEL SCHUCH, DIAS DE FREITAS, EDMILSON, IBARRA-ESPINOSA ANDRADE, M. F. EmissV: A preprocessor for WRF-Chem model. Journal of Atmospheric Science Research. v.1, p.1 - 5, 2019. doi:10.30564/jasr.v1i1.347

DANIEL SCHUCH; Sergio Ibarra Espinosa; Leila Droprinchinski Martins; Vanessa Silveira Barreto Carvalho; Bruna Ferreira Ramin; Jayne Souza Silva; Jorge Alberto Martins; Edmilson Dias de Freitas and Maria de Fatima Andrade. A two decades study on ozone variability and trend over the main urban areas of the São Paulo state – Brazil. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2019. doi:10.1007/s11356-019-06200-z

IBARRA-ESPINOSA, SERGIO; SCHUCH, DANIEL; DIAS DE FREITAS, EDMILSON eixport: An R package to export emissions to atmospheric models. Journal of Open Source Software, v.3, p.607 - 1, 2018. DOI:10.21105/joss.00607

SCHUCH, DANIEL; IBARRA-ESPINOSA, SERGIO; DIAS DE FREITAS, EDMILSON EmissV: An R package to create vehicular and other emissions for air quality models. Journal of Open Source Software, v.3, p.662 - 6, 2018. doi:10.21105/joss.00662

LEITE, HENRIQUE FANINI; AVELAR, ANA CRISTINA; DE ABREU, LEANDRA; SCHUCH, DANIEL; CAVALIERI, ANDRÉ Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Spectral Analysis of a Wall-Mounted Square Cylinder Wake. JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (ONLINE), v.10, p.1 - 1, 2018. doi:10.5028/jatm.v10.867

SCHUCH, Daniel; FISCH, G. Rocket emissions representation in atmospheric air quality models: The short-range atmospheric transport and reaction of gases released by solid propellant engines. Meteorological Applications, v.25, p.1 - 10, 2018. doi:10.1002/met.1750

SCHUCH, DANIEL; FISCH, GILBERTO. The Use of an Atmospheric Model to Simulate the Rocket Exhaust Effluents Transport and Dispersion for the Centro de Lançamento de Alcântara. JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (ONLINE), v.9, p.137 - 146, 2017. doi:10.5028/jatm.v9i2.740

CORRÊA, CLEBER SOUZA; SCHUCH, DANIEL; DE QUEIROZ, ANTONIO PAULO; FISCH, GILBERTO FERNANDO; CORRÊA, FELIPE DO NASCIMENTO; COUTINHO, MARIANE MENDES The Long-Range Memory and the Fractal Dimension: A Case Study for Alcântara. JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (ONLINE), v.9, p.461 - 468, 2017. doi:10.5028/jatm.v9i4.683

MEDEIROS, LUIZ E.; FISCH, G.; IRIART, P.; COSTA, F. D.; OLIVEIRA, D. W.; SCHUCH, Daniel. Padrões de vento a nível de superfície para região da costa norte do Brasil (Surface-level wind patterns for the northern Brazilian coast region). CIÊNCIA E NATURA. v.38, p.383 - 387, 2016. doi:10.5902/2179460X21574

SCHUCH, DANIEL; MARCIOTTO, EDSON R.; ACEVEDO, OTÁVIO; FISCH, GILBERTO; AVELAR, ANA CRISTINA. Estudo do escoamento turbulento atmosférico utilizando ensaios em túnel de vento e simulação numérica (Study of atmospheric turbulent flow using wind tunnel and numerical simulation). Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia, v.29, p.338 - 350, 2014. doi:10.1590/0102-778620130580

DEMARCO, G.; PUHALES, F. S.; COSTA, F. D.; SCHUCH, Daniel; FARIA, A. F.; AVELAR, A. C.; FISCH, G.; ACEVEDO, O. Análize da influência da estratificação sobre perfis de vento e temperatura em experimentos de túnel de vento (Analysis of the influence of stratification on wind profiles and temperature in wind tunnel experiments). Ciência e Natura, v.Esp, p.172 - 174, 2013. doi:10.5902/2179460X11592

SCHUCH, Daniel; MARCIOTTO, E. R.; FISCH, G.; AVELAR, A. C. Perfils de vento e turulência atmosférica simulados em túnel de vento (Wind profiles and atmospheric turbulence simulated in wind tunnel). Ciência e Natura, v.Esp, p.159 - 161, 2013. doi: 10.5902/2179460X11588

SCHUCH, Daniel; WEYMAR, Guilherme J.; FURTADO, Igor C.; QUADROS, R. S.; BUSKE, D. Simulação da dispersão de poluentes na camada limite atmosférica incluindo o efeito da deposição seca no solo (Simulation of dispersion of pollutants in the atmospheric boundary layer including the effect of dry deposition on soil). Ciência e Natura. v.33, p.127 - 130, 2011.

Non-Refereed Conference Proceedings:

IBARRA, S. ; SCHUCH, D. ; YNOUE, R. ; FREITAS, E. D. . VEIN, EmissV and eixport R packages for multiscale emissions inventories. In: EGU General Assembly 2018, 2018, Viena. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 2018. v. 20. p. 1-1.

IBARRA, S. ; YNOUE, R. ; GIANNOTTI, M. ; ANDRADE, M. F. ; FREITAS, E. ; SCHUCH, D. . Using Internet GPS traffic data for vehicular emissions inventories and air pollution modeling. In: EGU General Assembly 2018, 2018, Viena. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 2018. v. 20. p. 1-1.

FREITAS, E. ; Schuch, D. . Avaliação do modelo WRF-Chem para disperção das emissões da frota veicular da região metropolitana da grande São Paulo (Evaluation of the WRF-Chem model for dispersion of vehicle fleet emissions from the metropolitan region of São Paulo). In: X Workshop Brasileiro de Micrometeorologia, 2017, Santa maria. Ansi, 2017. v. 1. p. 1-4. (in Portuguese)

Leite, H. F. ; Abreu, L. I. ; Schuch, D. ; AVELAR, A. C. . POD and spectral analizys of a wall-mounted square cylinder wake. In: Escola de Primavera de Transição e Turbulência - ETPP, 2016, São José dos Campos. Proceedings of EPTT 2016. São José dos Campos: 2012 ABCM, 2016. v. 01. p. 1.

SCHUCH, Daniel; FISCH, GILBERTO . Dispersão de efluentes de foguetes em Alcântara usando o WRF-CHEM 3.7: Implementação de um novo mecanismo para compostos clorados (Rocket effluent dispersion in Alcântara using WRF-CHEM 3.7: Implementation of a new mechanism for chlorinated compounds). In: IX Workshop Basileiro de Micrometeorologia, 2015, Santa Maria. ANAIS, 2015. v. 1. p. 1-7. (in Portuguese)

MEDEIROS, L. E. ; FISCH, G. ; IRIART, P. G. ; SCHUCH, Daniel . Padrões de vento a nível de superfície para a região da costa norte do Brasil (Surface level wind patterns for the northern coast of Brazil). In: IX Workshop Brasileiro de Micrometeorologia, 2015, Santa Maria. ANAIS, 2015. v. 1. p. 1-8. (in Portuguese)

IRIART, P. G. ; Couto, V. M. ; SCHUCH, Daniel ; FISCH, G. . Uso do Modelo WRF-CHEM para a simulação da Dispersão de gases no centro de lançamento de ALcantara (Using the WRF-CHEM Model for the Simulation of Gas Dispersion at the ALcantara Launch Center). In: XVIII CBMET - Congresso Brasileiro de Meteorologia, 2014, Recife - PE. Anais. -: -, 2014. v. 1. p. 1-2. (in Portuguese)

SCHUCH, Daniel; BUSKE, D. . Solução analítica da equação de advecção-difusão-reação bidimencional transiente pela técnica GILTT (Analytical solution of the transient two-way advection-diffusion-reaction equation by the GILTT technique). In: XVIII Congreço de Iniciação Científica, 2009, Pelotas. XVIII Congreço de Iniciação Científica - XI EMPOS - I mostra científica, 2009. v. 1. p. 1-1. (in Portuguese)

SCHUCH, Daniel; MARCIOTTO, E. R. ; ACEVEDO, O. ; FISCH, G. ; AVELAR, A. C. . Estudo do escoamento turbulento em cavidade raza via túnel de vento e simulação LES (Study of turbulent flow in shallow cavity via wind tunnel and LES simulation). In: XVII Congresso Brasileiro de Meteorologia, 2012, Gramado - RS. Anais: XVII Congresso Brasileiro de Meteorologia, 2012. (in Portuguese)

SCHUCH, Daniel; BUSKE, D. ; QUADROS, R. S. . Simulação da dispersão de poluentes na camada limite atmosferica considerando a deposição seca de poluentes (Simulation of pollutant dispersion in the atmospheric boundary layer considering the dry deposition of pollutants). In: IV Encontro Sul-Brasileiro de Meteorologia, 2011, Pelotas - RS. IV ESBMET, 2011. (in Portuguese)

SCHUCH, Daniel; BUSKE, D. ; CARVALHO, J. . Solução analítica para a advecção-difusão-reação-deposição bidimencional transiente via GILTT (Analytical solution for transient bidimental advection-diffusion-reaction-deposition via GILTT). In: XIX Congreço de iniciaçao científica - XII ENPOS - II Mostra Científica, 2010, Pelotas - RS. XVIII CIC, 2010. (in Portuguese)

SCHUCH, Daniel; HENRIQUES E. F. . A física-matemática por trás do sistema de Lorenz (The mathematical physics behind Lorenz's system). In: XVIII Congreço de Iniciação Científica, 2009, Pelotas. XVIII Congreço de Iniciação Científica - XI EMPOS - I mostra científica, 2009. v. 1. p. 1-5. (in Portuguese)

SCHUCH, Daniel. Atrator de Lorenz (Lorenz Attractor) . In: XVII Congresso de Iniciação Científica, 2008, Pelotas. XVII Congresso de Iniciação Científica. Pelotas: não aplicavel, 2008. v. 1. p. 1-4. (in Portuguese)

Contributed Conference Presentations:

Daniel Schuch, Maria de Fatima. Ozone changes under pessimist emission scenarios for Brazil in 2030. 19th GEIA Conference, Chile, Santiago, 2020.

Daniel Schuch, Yang Zhang, Maria de Fatima Andrade, Sergio Ibarra-Espinosa, Mario Eduardo Gavidia Calderón, and Michelle L. Bell, Title: Modeling air quality over two major urban centers in Brazil using combined bottom-up and top-down inventories with new temporal profiles. Oral presentation presented at the 102nd AMS Annual Meeting (online), Houston, TX, 23-27, January 2022.

Daniel Schuch, Yang Zhang, Sergio Ibarra-Espinosa, Maria de Fatima Andrade, Mario Eduardo Gavidia Calderón, and Michelle L. Bell, Title: Simulation of O3 and PM2.5 from WRF-Chem model for Metropolitan Area of São Paulo for 2012-2016. Presentation for Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) Research & Education Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, Jun 20-23, 2023.

Daniel Schuch, Yang Zhang, Sergio Ibarra-Espinosa, Mariana Império and Roberto Schaeffer, Maria de Fatima Andrade, Mario Eduardo Gavidia Calderón, and Michelle L. Bell, Title: Projecting air quality in Brazil using WRF-Chem considering current policies for 2050. Presented at the 22nd Annual CMAS Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, October 16-18, 2023.

Daniel Schuch, Yang Zhang, Maria de Fatima Andrade, Edmilson Dias de Freitas and Michelle L. Bell: Responses of ozone to changes of emissions under the representative concentration pathway 4.5 scenario over Brazil. In 19th Annual CMAS Conference - October 26-30, 2020.

Daniel Schuch, Maria de Fatima. Simulation of air quality in Brazilian capitals: Initial results. In: 2019 Klimapolis Reunion - São Paulo. (in English)

Daniel Schuch, Maria de Fatima, Edmilson Dias de Freitas, Atmospheric emissions of pm 2.5 scenarios for Brazil in 2030, In: IX Workshop de Micrometeorologia, 2019.

Daniel Schuch, Maria de Fatima. Simulation of air quality in Brazilian capitals: Initial results. In: 2019 Klimapolis Reunion - São Paulo. (in English)

Daniel Schuch, Maria de Fatima, Edmilson Dias de Freitas, Atmospheric emissions of pm 2.5 scenarios for Brazil in 2030, In: IX Workshop de Micrometeorologia, 2019.

Daniel Schuch, Maria de Fatima, Edmilson Dias de Freitas, Air quality during a heat wave period on Brazilian capitals, In: São Paulo School of Aerosols, 2019.

Daniel Schuch. Air Quality projections for Brazil, In: Science Day IV IAG-USP. 2019.

IBARRA-ESPINOSA S., YNOUE R., SCHUCH D. e FREITAS, E.D. VEIN, EmissV e eixport R packages for multiscale emissions inventories. In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018. Geophysical Research Abstracts, v. 20, EGU2018-18440, 2018.

IBARRA-ESPINOSA S., YNOUE R., GIANNOTTI M., ANDRADE M.F., FREITAS, E.D. E, SCHUCH D. Using Internet GPS traffic data for vehicular emissions inventories and airpollution modeling. In: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018. Geophysical Research Abstracts, v. 20, EGU2018-18528, 2018.

SCHUCH, Daniel; FISCH, GILBERTO . Dispersão de efluentes de foguetes em Alcântara usando o WRF-CHEM 3.7: Implementação de um novo mecanismo para compostos clorados (Rocket effluent dispersion in Alcântara using WRF-CHEM 3.7: Implementation of a new mechanism for chlorinated compounds), 2015.

SCHUCH, Daniel; MARCIOTTO, E. R. ; ACEVEDO, O. ; FISCH, G. ; AVELAR, A. C. . Estudo do escoamento turbulento em cavidade raza via túnel de vento e simulação LES (Study of turbulent flow in shallow cavity via wind tunnel and LES simulation), 2012.

SCHUCH, Daniel; BUSKE, D. ; QUADROS, R. S. . Simulação da dispersão e deposição seca de poluentes pela técnica da transformada integral GILTT (Simulation of dispersion and dry deposition of pollutants by the GILTT integral transform technique), 2011.

SCHUCH, Daniel; WEYMAR, Guilherme J. ; FURTADO, Igor C. ; QUADROS, R. S. ; BUSKE, D. . Simulação da dispersão de poluentes na camada limite atmosférica incluindo o efeito da deposição seca no solo (Simulation of pollutant dispersion in the atmospheric boundary layer including the effect of dry deposition on soil), 2011.

SCHUCH, Daniel; BUSKE, D. ; CARVALHO, J. ; QUADROS, R. S. . Modelo analítico de dispersão de poluentes considerando o efeito de ascensão da pluma (Analytical model of pollutant dispersion considering the rising effect of the plume), 2011.

SCHUCH, Daniel; BUSKE, D. . Solução analítica da equação de advecção-difusão-reação bidimencional transiente pela técnica GILTT (Analytical solution of the transient two-way advection-diffusion-reaction equation by the GILTT technique), 2009.

SCHUCH, Daniel; HENRIQUES E. F. . A física-matemática por trás do sistema de Lorenz (The mathematical physics behind Lorenz's system), 2009.

SCHUCH, Daniel; HENRIQUES E. F. . Sistema de Lorenz (Lorenz system), 2008.

Book:

Schuch, Daniel. Simulação de dispersão de poluentes na atmosfera: A técnica de transformada integral para uma fonte arbitrária (Atmospheric pollutant dispersion simulation: The integral transform technique for an arbitrary source). 1. ed. Saarbrüken: Novas Edições Acadêmicas, 2014. (in Portuguese) v. 1. 113p.

Honors and Awards:

1. Graduate Student Fellowship from Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil, 2013

2. PNPD Scholarship, National Institute of Space Research, Brazil, 2011

3. Graduate Student Fellowship from Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil, 2009

Membership:

1. Invited editor of the Journal of Atmospheric Science Research

2. Invited reviewer for Atmospheric Pollution Research; Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy; Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets and Microchemical Journal

3. Author and maintainer of the R-package designed to estimate and process emissions EmissV on CRAN

4. Author of the R-package to export emissions for air quality models eixport on CRAN and other R-packages available on atmoschem group and personal github.