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- 19 Feb 2010: AEROFORM project final results
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
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- 2nd annual GLOMAP meeting
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
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- 13 Jan 2010: AEROS project gets underway
Welcome to Lindsay Collins who starts work on the AEROS project in Leeds. AEROS (Aerosol Model Robustness and Sensitivity Analysis) is a collaboration ... more
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- 8 Jan 2010: SOLAS project concludes with some interesting results
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
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- 1 Oct 2009: Cat Scott joins Leeds group for PhD
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
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- 1 Oct 2009: Dom Spracklen starts his NERC Advanced Fellowship
Dom Spracklen has started his 5 year NERC Advanced Fellowship on the interaction of aerosol with the biosphere. He will continue to use more
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- 30 June 2009: CSIRO vistor to discuss GLOMAP/UKCA collaboration
Martin Cope for CSIRo Australia visited last week to discuss their future involvement in UKCA. CSIRO have adopted the UM as their operational ... more
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- 3 June 2009: EU MACC project starts
The EU MACC project gets underway. MACC (Modelling Atmospheric Composition and Climate) is a 48-partner EU project following on from GEMS ... more
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- 1 June 2009: Dom Spracklen gets NERC Advanced Fellowship
Congratulations to Dom Spracklen on getting a prestigious 5 year NERC Advanced Fellowship. Dom will remain in Leeds and continue working on GLOMAP ... more
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- 25 Apr 08: CCN paper highlighted by GRL
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
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- 3 Nov 08: GLOMAP in the Guardian newspaper
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
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- 16 Jan 09: Coupled chemistry version of GLOMAP
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
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- 15 Jan 09: New project on cosmic rays and aerosol starts in Leeds
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
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- 15 Jan 09: UKCA launch meeting
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
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- 15 Jan 09: First GLOMAP annual meeting
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
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- 22 Dec 08: Leeds/Oxford NERC proposal funded
Leeds (Ken Carslaw) and Oxford (Philip Stier) have been successful with a £600k NERC proposal AErosol model RObustness and Sensitivity study for improved climate ... more
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- 10 Oct 08: Support for model optimisation
Graham Mann and Steven Pickering have been successful with a proposal to the Hector National Supercomputer Service for development of GLOMAP. Computational Science and ... more
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- 30 Sept 08: New PhD student in Arctic aerosol
This week we begin a new collaboration with the Met Office to study the transport of aerosol to the Arctic. Jo Browse from Edinburgh joins ... more
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- 27 August 08: New parallelised version of GLOMAP
New versions of GLOMAP have been written in MPI. Previously GLOMAP was coded using OpenMP, which restricted model runs to a small ... more
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- 1 July 08: Anja Schmidt's winning poster
Anja Schmidt, first year PhD student, has won a best poster prize at the Leeds Faculty of Environment annual conference. Her PhD is pushing the ... more
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- 14 May 08: EUFAR funding for Arctic aerosol flights
Steve Arnold, Francois Benduhn and Sarah Monks were successful with a proposal to EUFAR for flight hours during the July POLARCAT campaign. They ... more
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- 25 Apr 08: Royal Society Finnish exchange
The Royal Society has funded a 2-year International Joint Project to facilitate a collaboration between Leeds and the University of Helsinki. The project officially finished ... more
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- 25 Apr 08: ADIENT and EUCAARI campaigns get going
GLOMAP is being used in the ADIENT and EUCAARI intensive campaigns in April and May 2008. Two members of the GLOMAP ... more
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