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Dr Nigel Richards |
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Post
Doctoral Research Fellow Institute
for Climate and Atmospheric Science, I utilise satellite observations in
conjunction with chemistry transport modeling and aircraft observations to
investigate tropospheric composition. My current research involves use of the
TOMCAT
global chemical-transport model to help interpret the first global distributions
of peroxyacetylnitrate (PAN) in the upper troposphere. These observations are
retrieved from the MIPAS satellite instrument, providing routine upper
tropospheric concentration profiles in remote regions, where only sparse
aircraft observations have been possible to date. I am a member of and work closely with
the TES (tropospheric emission
spectrometer) science team. Through this collaboration I am involved in the
validation and use of TES tropospheric profile measurements of CO and ozone. More recently I have taken a position as
a postdoctoral research fellow with the National Centre for Earth Observation
(NCEO), in which I will continue my work
of combining satellite observations and chemistry transport modeling to
investigate the factors controlling the composition of the troposphere. |
