The £3m ACCACIA project will focus on Arctic low-level clouds, which have a massive impact not just on the polar region, but the climate ... more

We’ve been successful with two NERC Thematic consortia in the last couple of months. The ACCACIA project, led by Ian Brooks at Leeds, ... more

Zongbo Shi has been with us for the last three years serving as very effective glue between Mike Krom’s geochemistry group and the GLOMAP ... more

Tom Breider moved to Harvard last month to work in Dan Jacob’s group. This month Helen Macintyre was offered a postdoc position at MIT ... more

A NERC consortium project got underway this month to improve our understanding of volcanic plumes. The project follows the Eyjafjallajökull Icelandic eruption in May ... more

The overall aims of this project were to quantify the importance of aerosol formation for the global atmospheric aerosol, in particular particles with sizes that ... more

Congratulations to Kathryn Emmerson, a postdoc at Leeds, who will be moving to CSIRO Aspendale for a permanent post in the regional air quality ... more

The first annual UK Composition-Climate Interaction meeting was hosted by the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. The two-day meeting ... more

PEGASOS EU Integrated Project gets underway. Read more at http://researchpages.net/GLOMAP/projects/pegasos/

The Leeds global aerosol modelling group has made a new strategic appointment. Kirsty Pringle has been appointed to a newly created Aerosol Support and Research ... more

Anja Schmidt’s PhD concerns the atmospheric and climatic effects of the 1783 Laki eruption in Iceland, using GLOMAP. In April she got the chance ... more

The second annual GLOMAP meeting was held at Weetwood Hall, Leeds, in December 2009. The morning session was given over to reports from each ... more

Welcome to Lindsay Collins who starts work on the AEROS project in Leeds. AEROS (Aerosol Model Robustness and Sensitivity Analysis) is a collaboration ... more

Our contribution to the Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) project has concluded. The research was funded by NERC for 3 years.

We have used ... more

Cat Scott has started her PhD on geoengineering in Ken Carslaw’s group at Leeds. She is co-supervised by Ken and Piers Forster. Her work will ... more

Dom Spracklen has started his 5 year NERC Advanced Fellowship on the interaction of aerosol with the biosphere. He will continue to use more

Martin Cope for CSIRo Australia visited last week to discuss their future involvement in UKCA. CSIRO have adopted the UM as their operational ... more

The EU MACC project gets underway. MACC (Modelling Atmospheric Composition and Climate) is a 48-partner EU project following on from GEMS ... more

Congratulations to Dom Spracklen on getting a prestigious 5 year NERC Advanced Fellowship. Dom will remain in Leeds and continue working on GLOMAP ... more

Dominick Spracklen’s paper on the impact of boundary layer nucleation on global CCN (here) has been chosen as an Editor’s highlight in more

Dominick Spracklen’s paper on boreal forests and aerosol in the Royal Society journal Philosophical Transactions A has been highlighted by the Guardian newspaper (See more

Tom Breider has developed a coupled chemistry version of GLOMAP. Previously we used offline oxidants which were read in every 6 hours. Now the ... more

The CLOUD Marie Curie Initial Training Network is a multi-site network of 8 Ph.D. students and 2 post-docs at 9 partner institutions across Europe. ... more

The UK Chemistry and Aerosol (UKCA) project was formally launched on 12 January at the Royal Society in London. Over 50 people attended the launch. ... more

The Leeds GLOMAP group held the first GLOMAP away-day to discuss current research, future opportunities as well as technical issues. 19 people took ... more