Daniel Phoenix
Senior Data Scientist, Contractor, Lidar Sciences Branch, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center
About
Daniel Phoenix earned his Ph.D. in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma in 2019. His dissertation topic focused on utilizing numerical simulations to understand the effects of tropopause-overshooting thunderstorms on the chemical composition of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. After working as a post-doc at SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry, where he developed machine learning models to estimate above ground biomass from airborne lidar-derived tree heights, he joined the LMOL (Langley Mobile Ozone Lidar) and NAIRAS (Nowcast of Aerospace Ionizing Radiation System) teams at LaRC in 2021.
Select Publications
- Phoenix, D. B., et al. (2025). Analysis of atmospheric conditions responsible for an ozone exceedance event in southeast Virginia on June 15, 2022. Atmospheric Pollution Research, 16(3), 102409.
- Phoenix, D. B., Mertens, C. J., Gronoff, G. P., & Tobiska, K. (2024). Characterization of radiation exposure at aviation flight altitudes using the Nowcast of Aerospace Ionizing Radiation System (NAIRAS). Space Weather, 22, e2024SW003869.
- Tamiminia, H., Salehi, B., Mahdianpari, M., Beier, C. M., Johnson, L., & Phoenix, D.B. (2021). A comparison of decision tree-based models for forest above-ground biomass estimation using a combination of airborne lidar and landsat data. ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., V-3-2021, 235–241
- Phoenix, D. B., & Homeyer, C. R. (2021). Simulated impacts of tropopause-overshooting convection on the chemical composition of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126, e2021JD034568.
- Phoenix, D. B., Homeyer, C. R., Barth, M. C., & Trier, S. B. (2020). Mechanisms responsible for stratosphere-to-troposphere transport around a mesoscale convective system anvil. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125, e2019JD032016.
- Phoenix, D. B., Khodayari A., Wuebbles, D. J., & K. Stewart, K. (2019). Aviation impact on air quality in present day and mid-century as simulated in the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM). Atmospheric Environment, 196, 125-132.
- Khodayari, A., Vitt, F., Phoenix, D. B., & Wuebbles, D. J. (2018). The impact of NOx emissions from lightning on the production of aviation-induced ozone. Atmospheric Environment, 187, 410-416.
- Phoenix, D. B., C. R. Homeyer, and M. C. Barth (2017), Sensitivity of simulated convection-driven stratosphere-troposphere exchange in WRF-Chem to the choice of physical and chemical parameterization, Earth and Space Science, 4, 454–471, doi:10.1002/2017EA000287.
Publication Bibliography
Education
- Ph.D. in Meteorology, University of Oklahoma
- M.S. in Atmospheric Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- B.S. in Meteorology & Music, SUNY Oswego