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Graham Mann Dr Graham Mann

NCAS Research Scientist

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 3 8668
Email address: g.w.mann@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 10.115

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Biography

Dr. Mann joined the University of Leeds in 1994, as a postgraduate research student in the School of Mathematics before joining the Atmospheric Dynamics research group in the School of the Environment in 1995 to continue his PhD, Surface Heat and Water Vapour Budgets in Antarctica . This work, in the atmospheric boundary layer research team was funded by a CASE studentship from the Natural Environment Research Council in collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey.

He obtained his doctorate in September 1998, and continued his initial research interest in blowing snow processes as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant until June 2001. This research, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council aims to reduce one of the uncertainties in the paleoclimatological record available from ice cores by asking: How much of the observed spatial and temporal variability in accumulation results from local wind transport of snow at the time the snow was deposited and how much is a true climate signal?

The project is a collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey, who carried out three phases of Antarctic field work in December 1998, 1999 and 2000 on the Lyddan Ice Rise near Halley on the Brunt Ice Shelf. The collaborators in this work from B.A.S. are John King, Phil Anderson and David Vaughan in the Physical Sciences Division .

Dr. Mann has now joined the Aerosols and Clouds research group where he is taking part in a European Union funded Postdoctorate Research Project MAPSCORE looking at into denitrification processes and stratospheric ozone depletion in the region of Europe.

More details of this work can be found on the Cloud Dynamics web pages.

Qualifications

  • BSc, Applied Mathematics, University of Warwick;
  • PhD Meteorology, University of Leeds

Memberships/Fellowships

  • Member of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Member of the International Glaciological Society

Research Interests

  • Blowing snow
  • boundary layer meterology
  • particles in turbulence
  • stratospheric ozone depletion
  • climate change

Publications