Dr. Martin Airey
Senior Meteorological Support Scientist
Research Interests:
- Planetary atmospheres
- Planetary geology
- Volcanology
- Atmospheric Electricity
- Meteorological instrumentation
Research Projects:
- VENI: Venusian Electricity, Nephology, and Ionisation
- UAEREP: UAE Rain Enhancement Program
- VOLCLAB: Balloon-borne volcanic laboratory
Postdoctoral, graduate, & undergraduate student supervision:
- Blair McGinness (PGR): Observing Atmospheric Electricity and Space Weather Effects in Venus’ Atmosphere
- Lauren James (UG): Laboratory Studies of Volcanic Lightning on Venus and Early Earth
- Treve Nicol (UG): Meteorological instrumentation for the in situ measurement of supercooled liquid water in clouds
2020/24:
2018/19:
2016/17:
Biography:
- DPhil (Oxon) Earth Sciences (2015)
- MRes (Lancaster) Science of the Environment (2010)
- BSc (Hons) (Open) Geosciences (2007)
Links:
Centaur Publications
2024
Airey, M. W. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9784-0043, Harrison, R. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0693-347X, Aplin, K. L., Pfrang, C. and McGinness, B.
(2024)
Electrical effects on droplet behaviour.
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2702.
012015.
ISSN 1742-6588
doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2702/1/012015
2023
McGinness, B., Harrison, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0693-347X, Aplin, K. and Airey, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9784-0043
(2023)
Evaluation of a modern point discharge sensor as an atmospheric electricity instrument.
In: Electrostatics 2023, 4-7 September 2023, Brunel University.
(In Press)
(Journal of Physics: Conference Series. ISSN 1742-6588)
2021
Airey, M. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9784-0043, Nicoll, K. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5580-6325, Harrison, R. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0693-347X and Marlton, G. J.
(2021)
Characteristics of desert precipitation in the UAE derived from a ceilometer dataset.
Atmosphere, 12 (10).
1245.
ISSN 2073-4433
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12101245
2020
Nicoll, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5580-6325, Harrison, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0693-347X, Marlton, G. J. and Airey, M. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9784-0043
(2020)
Consistent dust electrification from Arabian Gulf sea breezes.
Environmental Research Letters, 15 (8).
084050.
ISSN 1748-9326
doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9e20
2019
Dexheimer, D., Airey, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9784-0043, Roesler, E., Longbottom, C., Nicoll, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5580-6325, Kneifel, S., Mei, F., Harrison, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0693-347X, Marlton, G. and Williams, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9713-9820
(2019)
Evaluation of ARM Tethered Balloon System instrumentation for supercooled liquid water and distributed temperature sensing in mixed-phase Arctic clouds.
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 12 (12).
pp. 6845-6864.
ISSN 1867-8548
doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-6845-2019
Nicoll, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5580-6325, Airey, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9784-0043, Cimarelli, C., Bennett, A., Harrison, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0693-347X, Gaudin, D., Aplin, K., Koh, K. L., Knuever, M. and Marlton, G.
(2019)
First in‐situ observations of gaseous volcanic plume electrification.
Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (6).
pp. 3532-3539.
ISSN 0094-8276
doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL082211
2017
Harrison, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0693-347X, Nicoll, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5580-6325, Marlton, G., Williams, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9713-9820 and Airey, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9784-0043
(2017)
A self-calibrating wide range electrometer for in-cloud measurements.
Review of Scientific Instruments, 88 (12).
126109.
ISSN 0034-6748
doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5011177
Aplin, K., Airey, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9784-0043 and Warriner-Bacon, E.
(2017)
Electrical processes in planetary atmospheres.
In: Electrostatics Society of America Conference, Ottawa, June 2017, June 2017, Ottowa.
Airey, M. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9784-0043, Mather, T. A., Pyle, D. M. and Ghail, R. C.
(2017)
The distribution of volcanism in the Beta-Atla-Themis region of Venus: its relationship to rifting and implications for global tectonic regimes.
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 122 (8).
pp. 1626-1649.
ISSN 21699097
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JE005205
Airey, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9784-0043, Harrison, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0693-347X, Nicoll, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5580-6325, Williams, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9713-9820 and Marlton, G.
(2017)
A miniature oscillating microbalance for sampling ice and volcanic ash from a small airborne platform.
Review of Scientific Instruments, 88 (8).
086108.
ISSN 0034-6748
doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4998971
2015
Airey, M. W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9784-0043, Mather, T. A., Pyle, D. M., Glaze, L. S., Ghail, R. C. and Wilson, C. F.
(2015)
Explosive volcanic activity on Venus: The roles of volatile contribution, degassing, and external environment.
Planetary and Space Science, 113 - 114.
33 - 48.
ISSN 0032-0633
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2015.01.009
Last update: 11th November 2024
