Publications
23. Das, D., R. Sakai, A. Flores, N. N. Karle, Z. Yang, U. Shah, R. D. Rossi, I. Sloan, S. Chiao, and
B. B. Demoz (2026). “Atmospheric and Meteorological Responses during the April 8, 2024, Total
Solar Eclipse: Advancing Workforce Development through Experiential Learning”. In: Frontiers in
Environmental Science - Atmosphere and Climate. Accepted for publication, March 11, 2026.
22. Elum, D., N. N. Karle, R. K. Sakai, X. Ren, P. Stratton, N. R. Nalli, M. Walker, A. Flores, J. R.
Villanueva, and J. Wilkins (2026). “High Resolution UAV-Based Monitoring of Ambient Methane:
Field Deployment and Intercomparison with Reference Standards”. In: Remote Sensing 18.549. doi:
10.3390/rs18040549.
21. Lechuga, J. and N. N. Karle (2026). “Generating Experimental Text Stimuli for Psychological Research
Using ChatGPT”. In: Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 9.1, p. 25152459251407631.
doi: 10.1177/25152459251407631.
20. Blaszczak-Boxe, C., N. N. Karle, O. Ideki, L. Taku, M. Yu, S. Wang, N. Golosov, M. Riyad, D. S.
Hilaire, K. Smith, et al. (2025). “Temporal variations in NO x, O3, and CO2 and meteorological influences
in New York and New Jersey urban atmospheres”. In: Discover Environment 3.1, p. 98. doi:
10.1007/s44274-025-00226-6.
19. Karle, N. N., R. K. Sakai, R. D. Rossi, A. Flores, and S. Chiao (2025). “Vertical profiling of Canadian
wildfire smoke in the Baltimore-Washington Corridor – interactions with the planetary boundary layer
and impact on surface air quality”. In: Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 18.22, pp. 6727–6746.
doi: 10.5194/amt-18-6727-2025.
18. Penland, R., S. Flanagan, L. Ellison, M. Abdurrahman, C. K. Glenn, O. El Hajj, A. Anosike, K. Kumar,
M. A. Callaham, E. L. Loudermilk, N. N. Karle, R. K. Sakai, A. Flores, T. Hewagam, C. Ichoku, J.
O’Brien, and R. Saleh (2025). “The Effect of Combustion Conditions on Emissions of Elemental Carbon
and Organic Carbon and Formation of Secondary Organic Carbon in Simulated Wildland Fires”. In:
ACS ES&T Air 2.10, pp. 2056–2070. doi: 10.1021/acsestair.4c00300.
17. Golosov, N., S. Wang, M. Yu, N. N. Karle, O. Ideki, B. Abdul-Hamid, and C. Blaszczak-Boxe (2024).
“Socioeconomic and sociodemographic correlations to COVID-19 variability in the United States in
2020”. In: Frontiers in Public Health 12, p. 1359192. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1359192.
16. Guzman-Gonzalez, J., R. M. Fitzgerald, N. N. Karle, R. K. Sakai, and W. R. Stockwell (2024). “Particulate
matter in the American southwest: detection and analysis of dust storms using surface measurements
and ground-based LIDAR”. In: Atmosphere 15.1, p. 110. doi: 10.3390/atmos15010110.
15. Karle, N. N., R. K. Sakai, S. Chiao, R. M. Fitzgerald, and W. R. Stockwell (2024). “Reinterpreting
Trends: The Impact of Methodological Changes on Reported Sea Salt Aerosol Levels”. In: Atmosphere
15.7, p. 740. doi: 10.3390/atmos15070740.
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14. Blaszczak-Boxe, C. S., N. N. Karle, S. Wang, M. Yu, N. Golosov, M. Riyad, K. Smith, T. Hollet, B.
Abdul-Hamid, D. St. Hillaire, et al. (2023). “Environmental assessment and monitoring of heavy metals
in New York City potable water systems: Case study at Medgar Evers college, correlation analysis, and
public health impacts”. In: Water 15.24, p. 4233. doi: 10.3390/w15244233.
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13. Karle, N. N., R. K. Sakai, R. M. Fitzgerald, C. Ichoku, F. Mercado, and W. R. Stockwell (2023). “Systematic
analysis of virga and its impact on surface particulate matter observations”. In: Atmospheric
Measurement Techniques 16.4, pp. 1073–1085. doi: 10.5194/amt-16-1073-2023.
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12. Hallar, A. G., S. S. Brown, E. Crosman, K. C. Barsanti, C. D. Cappa, I. Faloona, J. Fast, H. A. Holmes,
J. Horel, J. Lin, N. N. Karle, et al. (2022). “Breadth of Un-Fresh Air: Comprehensively Studying
Winter Air Pollution Maxima Out West”. In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 103.12,
pp. 911–914. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0017.A.
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11. Lara, P., R. M. Fitzgerald, N. N. Karle, J. Talamantes, M. Miranda, D. Baumgardner, and W. R.
Stockwell (2022). “Winter and wildfire season optical characterization of black and brown carbon in
the El Paso-Ciudad JuÅLarez airshed”. In: Atmosphere 13.8, p. 1201. doi: 10.3390/atmos13081201.
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10. Fitzgerald, R. M., N. N. Karle, P. Lara, J. Polanco, and W. R. Stockwell (2021). “Optical Measurements
of Particulate Matter in the El Paso–JuÅLarez Region: Natural Mineral Dust and Soot”. In: The Magazine
for Environmental Managers.
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9. Hallar, A. G., S. S. Brown, E. Crosman, K. C. Barsanti, C. D. Cappa, I. Faloona, J. Fast, H. A. Holmes,
J. Horel, J. Lin, N. N. Karle, et al. (2021). “Coupled air quality and boundary-layer meteorology in
Western US basins during winter: design and rationale for a comprehensive study”. In: Bulletin of the
American Meteorological Society 102.10, E2012–E2033. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-20-0017.1.
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8. Karle, N. N., R. M. Fitzgerald, R. K. Sakai, D. W. Sullivan, and W. R. Stockwell (2021). “Multiscale
atmospheric emissions, circulation, and meteorological drivers of ozone episodes in El Paso-JuÅLarez
airshed”. In: Atmosphere 12.12, p. 1575. doi: 10.3390/atmos12121575.
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7. Karle, N. N. (2021). “Studies of the planetary boundary layer and their impact on air pollution in a
semi-arid region with complex terrain”. PhD thesis. The University of Texas at El Paso.
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6. Karle, N. N., S. Mahmud, R. K. Sakai, R. M. Fitzgerald, V. R. Morris, and W. R. Stockwell (2020).
“Investigation of the successive ozone episodes in the El Paso–Juarez region in the summer of 2017”.
In: Atmosphere 11.5, p. 532. doi: 10.3390/atmos11050532.
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5. Mahmud, S., N. N. Karle, R. M. Fitzgerald, D. Lu, N. R. Nalli, and W. R. Stockwell (2020). “Intercomparison
of Sonde, WRF/CAMx and Satellite Sounder Profile Data for the Paso Del Norte Region”. In:
Aerosol Science and Engineering 4.4, pp. 277–292. doi: 10.1007/s41810-020-00075-1.
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4. Karle, N. N. (2017). DFT Study of Adsorption of Trimetallic Endohedral Fullerenes on Graphene. The
University of Texas at El Paso.
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3. Reveles, J. U., N. N. Karle, T. Baruah, and R. R. Zope (2016). “Electronic and structural properties
of C60 and Sc3N@ C80 supported on graphene nanoflakes”. In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
120.45, pp. 26083–26092. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b07405.
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2. Karle, N. N. and K. M. Kolwankar (2015). “CHARACTERIZATION OF THE IRREGULARITY OF A
TERRAIN USING FRACTAL DIMENSION OF LAKES’ BOUNDARIES”. In: Fractals 23.02, p. 1550002.
doi: 10.1142/S0218348X15500024.
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1. Kolwankar, K. M. and N. N. Karle (2014). “A simple method to estimate fractal dimension of mountain
surfaces”. In: arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.2747. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.1412.2747.
Conference Presentations
Nakul Nitin Karle, David D Turner, Duane Rosenberg, Sen Chiao, Isidora Jankov. "Characterizing Turbulence in Quasi-Stationary Convective Mixed Layers Using Water Vapor Raman Lidar Profiles." Poster presentation in 105th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2025.
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Nakul Nitin Karle, David D Turner, Duane Rosenberg, Sen Chiao, Isidora Jankov. "Quantifying Higher Order Statistical Moments in Quasi-Stationary Convective Mixed Layers Using Water Vapor Turbulence Profiles." Poster presentation in American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, Washington D.C., 2024.
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Nakul N. Karle, Sen Chiao, Jason Laney, James Barham, and Greg Lundeen. "Assessment of Long-term Variability on Rainfall Distribution and Extreme Flash Flood Events in the Semi-Arid Region of El Paso, Texas." Poster presentation in 104th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 2024.
Ricardo K. Sakai, Sen Chiao, Adrian Flores, Nakul N. Karle, and Belay Demoz. "Investigating Turbulent Exchange of Scalars within the Stable Boundary Layer over an Urban and a Semi-Urban Research Site." Poster presentation in 104th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 2024.
Nakul N. Karle, Ricardo K. Kendi Sakai, Rosa M. Fitzgerald, Sen Chiao, and William R. Stockwell. "Wind-Terrain Effects on Local Circulation, and Meteorological Drivers of Ozone Episodes in El Paso-Juarez Airshed." Poster presentation in 103rd American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 2023.
Nakul N. Karle, Ricardo Sakai, Rosa M. Fitzgerald, Charles M. Ichoku, and William Ross Stockwell. "Systematic Analysis of Virga Precipitation Events Over the Semi-Arid Region of El Paso, Texas." Poster presentation in American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, vol. 2022, pp. A54H-04. 2022, San Francisco, CA, 2022.
Nakul N. Karle, S. Mahmud, R. Fitzgerald, M. Estes, P. Walter, and G. Morris. "Analysis of Boundary Layer Heights Using Ceilometer and Models in the El Paso-Juarez Airshed." Oral presentation in 101st American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, Online, pp. 10-15. 2021, Virtual meeting.
Mahmud, Suhail, Nakul N. Karle, Rosa M. Fitzgerald, Duanjun Lu, Ricardo K. Sakai, and Nicholas Nalli. "Extensive Study of Planetary Boundary Layer Height in the Paso Del Norte Region Using CALIPSO Satellite, Ground-Based Ceilometer, Radiosonde Measurement, and Numerical Weather Prediction Models." Poster presentation in 100th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2020.
Nakul N. Karle, Suhail Mahmud, Rosa M. Fitzgerald, Ricardo K. Sakai, William R. Stockwell, Belay Demoz, and Vernon R. Morris. "Analysis of regional meteorology during the ozone episodes in the El Paso—Juarez Airshed in the summer of 2017." Oral presentation in 99th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 2019.
Mahmud, Suhail, Nakul N. Karle, Rosa M. Fitzgerald, Scott Williams, Ana Quevedo, David DuBois, Duanjun Lu et al. "Intercomparison of WRF Simulations, Radiosonde Meteorological Observations, and Satellite Data for the Paso del Norte Region." Oral presentation in 98th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, 2018.
Nakul N. Karle, Suhail Mahmud, Rosa Fitzgerald, Ricardo Sakai, and Vernon Morris. "Study of the Urban Heat Island and its Effect on the Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) for the El PasoJuarez Airshed." Poster presentation in the American Geophysical Union (AGU), New Orleans, Louisiana, 2017.