ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

Natalie Kille, Assoc. Research Scientist

Room 6020, Engineering Building
email: nkille@uwyo.edu 

Education:

  • B.Sc., Meteorology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2013

  • M.Sc., Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, 2015

  • Ph.D., Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, 2020

  • Postdoc, Energy and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany, 2020-2023

Research Statement

Dr. Kille is a scientist with the King Air research aircraft facility. She is interested in leveraging integrated multi-sensor platforms to describe and understand atmospheric phenomena. Her past research has focused on the development of passive optical remote sensing and in situ techniques targeted at understanding the effects of point source emitters on air quality.

Research Areas

  • Trace gas emission fluxes from ground and airborne platforms

  • Trace gas source apportionment

  • Urban air pollution

Selected Publications:

  • Soja, S.-M., R. Wegener, N. Kille, and S. Castell (2023): Merging citizen science with epidemiology: design of a prospective feasibility study of health events and air pollution in Cologne, Germany. Pilot Feasibility Stud., 9, 28, doi:10.1186/s40814-023-01250-0.

  • Rowe, J. P., K. J. Zarzana, N. Kille, et al. (2022): Carbon Monoxide in Optically Thick Wildfire Smoke: Evaluating TROPOMI Using CU Airborne SOF Column Observations. ACS Earth Space Chem., 6, 1799-1812, doi:10.1021/acsearthspacechem.2c00048.

  • Kille, N., K. J. Zarzana, J. Romero-Alvarez, et al. (2022): The CU Airborne Solar Occultation Flux Instrument: Performance Evaluation during BB-FLUX. ACS Earth Space Chem., 6, 582-596, doi:10.1021/acsearthspacechem.1c00281.

  • Bela, M. M., N. Kille, S. A. McKeen, et al. (2022): Quantifying Carbon Monoxide Emissions on the Scale of Large Wildfires. Geophys. Res. Lett., 49, e2021GL095831, doi:10.1029/2021GL095831.

  • Kille, N., R. Chiu, M. Frey, et al. (2019): Separation of methane emissions from agricultural and natural gas sources in the Colorado Front Range, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 3990-3998, doi:10.1029/2019GL082132.

  • Kille, N., S. Baidar, P. Handley, et al. (2017): The CU mobile Solar Occultation Flux instrument: structure functions and emission rates of NH3, NO2 and C2H6, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 373-392, doi:10.5194/amt-10-373-2017.

  • Baidar, S., N. Kille, I. Ortega, et al. (2016): Development of a digital mobile solar tracker, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 963-972, doi:10.5194/amt-9-963-2016.