We are now recruiting for 3 PhD positions based at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, as part of the Dust-DN Network, also offering 17 PhD positions on Atmospheric Dust at…Read More >
Radiative Effect of Two Contrail Cirrus Outbreaks
Newly published work by Nicolas Bellouin, Xinyue Wang and colleagues used satellite retrievals of cloud properties and a radiative transfer code to calculate the radiative forcing of two contrail-cirrus outbreaks…Read More >
Evaluation of long range transport of dust in the Met Office UM
Recently published on EGUSphere, ‘Long range transport of coarse mineral dust: an evaluation of the Met Office Unified Model against aircraft observations‘ – new article by Natalie Ratcliffe evaluating Saharan…Read More >
Climate benefits of planting forests
‘Climate benefits of planting forests might be overestimated,’ says Dr James Weber. Read more in the New Scientist…
Anthropogenic Aerosol PhD Position Open
The role of anthropogenic aerosol in near-future sub-Saharan precipitation change Supervisors: Laura Wilcox (University of Reading), Bjørn Samset (CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway), Andrew Turner (University of…Read More >
Dust Modelling PhD Position Open
The impact of high resolution modelling on mineral dust forecasts over West Africa using the ECMWF integrated forecast system Supervisors: Dr Claire Ryder (University of Reading) , Dr Angela Benedetti…Read More >
Air Pollution Cuts Could Cause Climate Change Acceleration
Dramatic cuts to air pollution in Europe and Asia could cause a short-term spike in temperatures and rainfall, but doing nothing would be worse in the long run, scientists say….Read More >
COVID-19 and Air Quality
Aerosol group members are taking a keen interest in observed changes in particulate matter and air pollution resulting from disruptions due to coronavirus. Bill Collins comments on the air pollution…Read More >
Giant Particles, Giant Consequences?
Claire Ryder writes in the Department of Meteorology’s Blog about the importance of giant dust particles in the Earth’s climate system
The latest on aerosol radiative forcing
Read a Department of Meteorology blog article by Nicolas Bellouin to find out all the latest on aerosol radiative forcing. Nicolas and co-authors take a fresh and comprehensive look at our…Read More >
