School of Earth and Environment

Martyn Chipperfield Prof Martyn Chipperfield

Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry; Director of Faculty Graduate School

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 36459
Email address: m.chipperfield@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 11.110

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Research Group

TOMCAT/SLIMCAT 3D model

Publications

Martyn Chippefield on Google Scholar

Biography

Martyn Chipperfield joined the School in January 1999. After obtaining his PhD at Cambridge he worked in the Space Science Department of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and then at the French Met. Office in Toulouse. Before coming to Leeds he was a Research Fellow and Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

His research interests centre on the chemistry of the global stratosphere and troposphere, e.g. studying the impact of global pollution and its interaction with climate change. In particular his work focuses on developing and using sophisticated three-dimensional atmospheric chemical-dynamical models. These models contain detailed descriptions of atmospheric chemistry and other processes and are used to interpret data from field campaigns and satellite instruments, and to predict future changes to the Earth's atmosphere.

Martyn's research group includes 5 postdoctoral research associates and 4 PhD students. Their current work includes:

  • Modelling of tropospheric chemistry and aerosols (e.g. bromine/iodine).
  • Studies of stratospheric chemistry and transport (e.g. stratospheric ozone depletion and recovery and impact of solar variability).
  • Interpretating and exploiting satellite observations in the stratosphere and troposphere (as part of NERC NCEO).
  • Data assimilation and inverse modelling to retrieve carbon fluxes.
  • Modelling of regional air quality using Met Office model.
  • Modelling mesospheric metal layer chemistry.

Academic CV

Qualifications

  • BA Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge
  • PhD Atmospheric Science (Modelling of Atmospheric Chemistry), University of Cambridge

Memberships/Fellowships

  • Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC CChem)
  • Royal Meteorological Society
  • American Geophysical Union

Research Interests

  • Atmospheric chemistry and climate
  • Global modelling of stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry and transport
  • Chemistry-climate interactions