Physical Climate Change Group Members
Professor of Physical Climate Change in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. Researches several aspects of physical climate related to the Earth's energy budget.
Teaches various masters and undergraduate courses, including SOEE5540M: Introduction to physical climate change, SOEE1280: introduction to atmospheric sciences, SOEE 3630: Strategic Energy issues
Research Fellow on the COSIC project which aims to quantify the climate impact of spreading contrails by developing a parameterisation within the UK Met Office climate model. The project includes a series of dedicated research flights using the UK FAAM BAe 146 atmospheric research aircraft to obtain in-situ contrail data. Main research interests: radiative forcing, climate modelling and impact of aviation contrails, aerosol-cloud microphysics.
EPSRC/NERC funded PDRA as part of the Integrated Assessment of Geoengineering Proposals (IAGP) Project. Previously a NERC funded PhD student looking at causes of high latitude warming.
NERC funded PhD focussed on the relationships between surface energy fluxes and diurnal temperature range. Lawrence uses a combination of statistical methods to investigate surface observations and a single column climate model to analyse the response of surface temperatures and energy fluxes to specific causes of change.
ESRC/NERC funded PhD student looking the climate-driven human migration in Malawi.
NERC funded PhD student with Dom Spracklen and Ken Carslaw looking at the climate impacts of both deforestation and planting trees.
National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) funded PhD student supervised mainly by Andrew Shepherd looking at the evolution of supraglacial lakes on the Greenland ice sheet.
EPSRC/NERC funded PhD student, with a MET Office CASE award. Annabel is part of the Integrated Assessment of Geoengineering Proposals (IAGP) group and uses the WRF/Chem mesoscale model to investigate the potential effectiveness and side-effects of marine stratocumulus cloud brightening.
EPSRC funded MSc and PhD student. Research on the effectiveness of biochar as a geoengineering method. Work will examine the physical science of biochar, from production methods to char characteristics and effects on the biosphere.
NERC funded PhD student from 2011. Research focuses on uncertainties in climate projections and their consequences for adaptation strategies. The aim of the research is to develop a framework for building adaptation strategies accounting for physical climate uncertainties.
PhD funded by FIRS (fully-funded international research scholarship)
Water harvesting for rainfed Africa: System sustainability under climate change. Main supervisors: Dr Luuk Fleskens and Dr Brian Irvine (Geog)
PhD student mainly supervised by Claire Quinn.
Looking at impacts integrated management of Kakamega Forest, Kenya, for climate change adaptation
EPSRC funded MSc and PhD student, researching the impact of climate change on solar energy, and feedbacks between large solar arrays and regional climate. Jointly supervised by Rolf Crook
Rosaleen McDonnell (Administrator)
Ros provides administrative support to the EPSRC/NERC Integrated Assessment of Geoengineering Proposals (IAGP) Project.
Past members
Neil Gordon
NERC funded PDRA working on diagnosing climate feedback from observations. Now at PCMDI in sunny California.
Tim Andrews
2007-2010 NERC funded MPhil and PhD student. Researched new concepts of radiative forcing and surface forcing. Now working at the Met Office.
NERC funded PDRA working towards global food security and more specifically the vulnerability of agricultural systems to droughts as part of the QUEST Project.