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Ian Brooks Dr Ian Brooks

Senior Lecturer

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 36743/36805 lab
Email address: i.m.brooks@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 10.103

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Biography

Ian Brooks obtained a PhD from UMIST where he studied the cloud microphysical processes leading to thunderstorm electrification. He then spent 8 years at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, first as a PDRA and then as associate project scientist, working on various problems in marine boundary layer meteorology: turbulent processes in marine stratocumulus, radar ducting, coastally trapped flows, and entrainment processes.

His research interests remain in boundary layer processes, in particular turbulent air-sea exchange, entrainment, and Arctic boundary layers. Most of this work is based on in-situ measurements; Ian has extensive experience in many aspects of field measurement - aircraft based measurements, oceanographic research cruises, and surface based campaigns. He has undertaken fieldwork all over the world from the central Arctic Ocean to the Weddell Sea, and from the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea. While primarily an observational specialist, recent work has increasingly utilised numerical models, notably the UK Met Office Large Eddy Simulation and Unified Models.

Current research projects include analysis of data from the 2008 Arctic Summer Cloud-Ocean Study (ASCOS) field campaign; a study of the impact of sea-spray on the air-sea fluxes of heat and moisture within typhoons in the Pacific (joint with the University of Miami); and a multi-year study of air-sea gas (CO2) and aerosol fluxes (WAGES)(joint with the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton). Details of all these projects can be found here.

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. (UMIST): Laboratory studies of thunderstorm electrification processes
  • B.Sc. (UMIST): Pure and Applied Physics (Hons, 1st class)

Memberships/Fellowships

  • Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Member of the American Meteorological Society
  • Member of the American Geophysical Union
  • Member of the Challenger Society for Marine Science

Research Interests

  • Boundary layer meteorology
  • Air-sea interaction
  • Arctic meteorology and climate, turbulent processes

Academic CV

Publications