Department of Meteorology, University of Reading

Publications

Please note that prior to 2011 I published under the name of McConnell

My ResearcherID Page: includes up-to-date citations from ISI Web of Science, H-index, publications under both names.
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9892-6113.

In Preparation

Kumar, D., Schiemann, R., Ryder, C.L., Weather for Extreme Dust Events in East Asia, in prep.

Submitted, Published in Discussion and Preprints

Ratcliffe, N.G., Ryder, C.L., Bellouin, N., Woodward, S., Jones, A., Johnson, B., Weinzierl, B., Wieland, L.-M., Gasteiger, J., Long range transport of coarse mineral dust: an evaluation of the Met Office Unified Model against aircraft observations, ACP EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-806, 2024

Savvakis, V., Schön, M., Nicoll, K.A., Ryder, C.L., Papetta, A., Kezoudi, M., Bange, J. and Platis, A., In-situ observations of charged Saharan dust from an uncrewed aircraft system, submitted to Aerosol Science and Technology, 2024.

Zhao, A., Wilcox, L., Ryder, C.L., The key role of atmospheric absorption in the Asian Summer Monsoon response to dust emissions in CMIP6 models, submitted to ACP, 2024.

Scherllin-Pirscher, B., Nickovic, S., Votsis, A., Cvetkovic, B., Amiridis, V., Bolic, T., Brenot, H., Brock, G., Clarkson, R., Durant, A., Hirtl, M., Lekas, T.I., Mona, L., Nasser, H., Ryder C.L., Suarez-Molina, D., Vukovic Mimic, A., Basart, S., Avoiding airborne dust hazards in aviation, submitted to BAMS, 2023.

Ryder, C.L., Bézier, C., Dacre, H., Clarkson, R., Amiridis, V., Marinou, E., Proestakis, E., Kipling, Z., Benedetti, A., Parrington, M., Rémy, S., Vaughan, M., Aircraft Engine Dust Ingestion at Global Airports, Natural Hazards and Earth System Science Discussions, 2023.

Accepted or In Press

Proestakis, E., Gkikas, A., Georgiou, T., Kampouri, A., Drakaki, E., Ryder, C., Marenco, F., Marinou, E., Amiridis,V., A near-global multiyear climate data record of the fine-mode and coarse-mode components of atmospheric pure-dust, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2023-262, accepted for publication at AMT, 2024.

2024

Elsey, J., Bellouin, N., Ryder, C.L., Sensitivity of global direct shortwave aerosol radiative forcing to uncertainties in aerosol optical properties, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 4065–4081, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-4065-2024, 2024

Zheng, J., Zhang, Z., DeSouza-Machado, S., Ryder C.L., Garnier, A., Di Biagio, C., Yang, P., Welton, E., Yu, H., Barreto, A., Gonzales, M., Assessment of dust size retrievals based on AERONET: A case study of radiative closure from visible-near-infrared to thermal infrared, GRL, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106808, 51, 4, 2024.

2023

Marinou, E., Paschou, P., Tsikoudi, I., Tsekeri, A., Daskalopoulou, V., Kouklaki, D., Siomos, N., Spanakis-Misirlis, V., Voudouri, K.A., Georgiou, T., Drakaki, E., Kampouri, A., Papachristopoulou, K., Mavropoulou, I., Mallios, S., Proestakis, E., Gkikas, A., Koutsoupi, I., Panagiotis Raptis, I., Kazadids, S., Baars, H., Floutsi, A., Pirloaga, R., Nemuc, A., Marenco, F., Kezoudi, M., Papetta, A., Močnik, G., Yus Díez, J., Ryder, C.L., Ratcliffe, N., Kandler, K., Sudharaj, A., Amiridis, V., An Overview of the ASKOS Campaign in Cabo Verde, Environmental Sciences Proceedings, 26(1), 200, https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2023026200, 2023.

Zheng, J., Zhang, Z., Yu, H., Garnier, A., Song, Q., Wang, C., Di Biagio, C., Kok, J.F., Derimian, Y., Ryder C.L., Thermal infrared dust optical depth and coarse-mode effective diameter retrieved from collocated MODIS and CALIOP observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 8271–8304, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-8271-2023, 2023.

Adebiyi, A., Kok, J., Murray, B., Ryder, C.L., Stuut, J-B.W., Kahn, R., Knippertz, P., Formenti, P., Mahowald, N.M., Garcia-Pando, C.P. Klose, M., Ansmann, A., Samset, B.H., Ito, A., Balkanski, Y., Di Biagio, C., Romanias, M.N., Huang, Y., Meng, J., A review of coarse mineral dust in the Earth system, Aeolian Research, 60, 100849, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2022.100849, 2023

2022

Drakaki, E., Amiridis, V., Gkikas, A., Proestakis, E., Mallios, S., Solomos, S., Spyrou, S., Marinou, E., Ryder, C.L., Demetri, B., Katsafados, P., Modelling coarse and giant desert dust particles, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 12727–12748, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-12727-2022, 2022.

Jones, A., Hill, A., Hemmings, J., Lemaitre, P., Quérel, A., Ryder, C.L., Woodward, S. Below-cloud scavenging of aerosol by rain: a review of numerical modelling approaches and sensitivity simulations with mineral dust in the Met Office's Unified Model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 11381–11407, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-11381-2022, 2022.

Meng, J., Huang, Y., Leung, D., Li, L., Adebiyi, A., Ryder, C.L., Mahowald, N., Kok, J., Improved Parameterization for the Size Distribution of Emitted Dust Aerosols Reduces Model Underestimation of Super Coarse Dust, Geophys. Res. Lett., 49, e2021GL097287, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097287, 2022.

Zhao, A., Ryder, C.L., Wilcox, L., How well do the CMIP6 models simulate dust aerosols?, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 2095–2119, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-2095-2022, 2022.

2021

Ryder, C.L., Radiative Effects of Increased Water Vapour Associated with Enhanced Dustiness in the Saharan Air Layer, J. Geophys. Res.,126, 21, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD034696, 2021.

Marsham, J.H. and Ryder, C.L., Weather Insight: Dust Storms and Haboobs, Weather, https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.4071, 2021

Yu, H., Tan, Q., Zhou, L., Zhou, Y., Bian, H., Chin, M., Ryder, C.L., Levy, R., Pradhan, Y., Shi, Y., Song, Q., Zhang, Z., Colarco, P., Kim, D., Remer, L., Yuan, T., Mayol-Bracero, O., Holben, B., Observation and modeling of the historic “Godzilla” African dust intrusion into the Caribbean Basin and the southern US in June 2020, ACP, 21, 12359–12383, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-12359-2021, 2021.

Kudo, R., Diémoz H., Estellés, V., Campanelli, M., Momoi, M., Marenco, F., Ryder, C.L., Ijima, O., Uchiyama, A., Nakashima, K., Yamakazi, A., Nagasawa, R., Ohkawara, N., Ishida, H., Optimal use of PREDE POM sky radiometer for aerosol, water vapor and ozone retrievals, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 3395-3426, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3395-2021, 2021.

2020

O'Sullivan, D., F. Marenco, Ryder, C.L., Pradhan, Y., Kipling, Z., Johnson, B., Benedetti, A., Brooks, M., McGill, M., Yorks, J., Selmer, P., Models transport Saharan dust too low in the atmosphere: a comparison of the MetUM and CAMS forecasts with observations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 20, 12955–12982, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-12955-2020, 2020.

Nakajima, T., Campanelli, M., Che, H., Estellés, V., Irie, H., Kim, S., Kim, J., Liu, D., Nishizawa, T., Pandithurai, G., Soni, V., Thana, B., Tugjsurn, N., Aoki, K., Hashimoto, M., Higurashi, A., Kazadzis, S., Khatri, P., Kouremeti, N., Kudo, R., Marenco, F., Momoi, M., Ningombam, S.S., Ryder, C.L., Uchiyama, A. and Yamazaki, A., An overview and issues with the sky radiometer technology and SKYNET, Atmos. Meas. Techniques, 13, 4195-4218, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4195-2020, 2020.

Warren E., Charlton-Perez, C., Kotthaus, S., Marenco, F., Ryder, C., Johnson, B., Green., Lean, H., Ballard, S., Grimmond, S., Observed aerosol characteristics to improve forward-modelled attenuated backscatter in urban areas, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.117177, Atmospheric Environment, 224, 117177, 2020.

2019

Ryder, C.L. Highwood, E.J., Walser, A., Seibert, P. Philipp, A., Weinzierl, B., Coarse and Giant Particles are Ubiquitous in Saharan Dust Export Regions and are Radiatively Significant over the Sahara, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15353–15376, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-15353-2019, 2019.

2018

Marenco, F., Ryder, C.L., Estelles, V., O'Sullivan, D., Brooke, J., Orgill, L., Lloyd, G., Gallagher, M., Unexpected vertical structure of the Saharan Air Layer and giant dust particles during AER-D, ACP, 18, 17655-17668, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17655-2018, 2018.

Ryder, C.L., Marenco, F., Brooke, J., Estelles, V., Cotton, R., Formenti, P., McQuaid, J.B., Price, H., Liu, D., Ausset, P., Rosenberg, P., Taylor, J., Choularton, T., Bowerk, K., Coe, H., Gallagher, M., Crosier, J., Lloyd, G., Highwood, E., Murray, B.J., Coarse mode mineral dust size distributions, composition and optical properties from AER-D aircraft measurements over the Tropical Eastern Atlantic, ACP, 17225-17257, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-17225-2018, 2018.

Song, Q., Zhang, Z., Yu, H., Kato, S., Yang, P., Colarco, P., Remer, L.A., Ryder, C.L., Net radiative effects of dust in the tropical North Atlantic based on integrated satellite observations and in situ measurements, ACP, 18, 11303-11322, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-11303-2018, 2018.

Roberts, A., Woodage, M., Marsham, J.M., Highwood, E., Ryder, C.L., McGinty, W., Wilson, S. and Crook, J., Can explicit convection improve modelled dust in summertime West Africa? ACP, 18, 9025-9048, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-9025-2018, 2018.

Harrison, R.G., Nicoll, K.A., Marlton, G.J., Ryder, C.L., Bennett, A.J., Saharan dust plume charging observed over the UK Environmental Research Letters, 13, 054018, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aabcd9, 2018.

Jones, A., Haywood, J., Vance, A., Ryder, C.L., Pitch and Roll Corrections for the CLARIFY-2017 Radiation Data, Met Office Technical Note, 91, July 2018.

Thornhill,. G., Ryder, C.L., Highwood, E.J., Shaffrey, L., and Johnson, B., The Effect of South American Biomass Burning Aerosol Emissions on the Regional Climate, ACP, 18, 5321-5342, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-5321-2018, 2018.

Liu, D., Taylor, J.W., Crosier, C., Marsden, N., Bower, K.N., Lloyd, G., Ryder, C.L., Brooke, J., Cotton, R., Marenco, F., Blyth, A., Cui, Z., Estelles, V., Gallagher, M., Coe, H., Choularton, T.W., Aircraft and ground measurements of dust aerosols over the West Africa coast in summer 2015 during ICE-D and AER-D, ACP, 18, 3817-3838, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-3817-2018, 2018.

Alamirew, N.K., Todd, M.C., Ryder, C.L., Marsham, J.M., Wang, Y., The summertime Saharan heat low: Sensitivity of the radiation budget and atmospheric heating to water vapour and dust aerosol, ACP, 18,1241-1262, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1241-2018, 2018.

Rocha-Lima, A., Martins, J.V., Remer, L.A., Todd, M., Marsham, J.H., Engelstaedter, S., Ryder, C.L., Cavazos-Guerra, C., Artaxo, P., Colarco, P. and Washington, R., A detailed characterization of the Saharan dust collected during the Fennec Campaign in 2011: in situ ground-based and laboratory measurements, ACP, 18, 1023-1043, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-1023-2018, 2018.

2016

Marsham, J., Parker, D., Todd, M.C., Banks, J., Brindley, H., Garcia-Carreras, L., Roberts, A., Ryder, C.L., The contrasting roles of water and dust in controlling daily variations in radiative heating of the summertime Saharan Heat Low, 16, 3563-3575, doi:10.5194/acp-16-3563-2016, ACP, 2016.

Esteve, A.R., Highwood, E.J. and Ryder, C.L., A case study of the radiative effect of aerosols over Europe: EUCAARI-LONGREX, 16, 7639-7651, doi:10.5194/acp-16-7639-2016, ACP, 2016.

2015

Ryder, C.L., J.B. McQuaid, C. Flamant, P.D. Rosenberg, R. Washington, H.E.Brindley, E.J. Highwood, J.H.Marsham,D.J.Parker, M.C.Todd, J.R.Banks, J.K.Brooke, S.Engelstaedter, V.Estelles, P.Formenti, L.Garcia-Carreras, C.Kocha, F.Marenco, P.Rosenberg H.Sodemann, C.J.T.Allen, A.Bourdon, M.Bart, C.Cavazos-Guerra, S.Chevaillier, J.Crosier, E.Darbyshire, A.R.Dean, J.R.Dorsey, J.Kent, D.O'Sullivan, K.Schepanski, K.Szpek, J. Trembath, A.Woolley, Advances in understanding mineral dust and boundary layer processes over the Sahara from Fennec aircraft observations, 15, 8479-8520, doi:10.5194/acp-15-8479-2015, ACP, 2015.

Sodemann, H., Lai, T.M., Marenco, F., Ryder, C.L., Flamant, C., Knippertz, P., Rosenberg, P., Bart, M., and McQuaid, J.B., Lagrangian dust model simulations for a case of moist convective dust emission and transport in the western Sahara region during Fennec/LADUNEX, J. Geophys Res, doi:10.1002/2015JD023283, 2015.

2014

Highwood, E. and Ryder, C.L., 'Radiative effects of dust,' in 'Mineral Dust: A Key Player in the Earth System,' Springer, ISBN 978-94-017-8977-6, September 2014. (book chapter)

Rosenberg, P., Parker, D., Ryder, C.L., Marsham, J.H., Garcia-Carreras, L., Dorsey, J.R., Brooks, I.M., Dean, A.R., Crosier, J., McQuaid, J.B., Washington, R., Quantifying Particle Size and Turbulent Scale dependence of Dust Uplift in the Sahara using Aircraft Measurements, 2014, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 12, doi:10.1002/2013JD021255

2013

Ryder, C.L., Highwood, E.J., Lai, T.M., Sodemann, H. and Marsham, J.H., Impact of Atmospheric Transport on the Evolution of Microphysical and Optical Properties of Saharan Dust, 2013, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 10, 2433-2438, doi:10.1002/grl.50482.

Randles, C., Kinne, S., Myhre, G., Schulz, M., Stier, P., Fischer, J., Doppler, L., Highwood, E., Ryder, C., Harris, B., Rumbold, S., and co-authors, Intercomparison of shortwave radiative transfer schemes in global aerosol modeling: Results from the AeroCom Radiative Transfer Experiment, 2013, 13, 2347-2379, doi:10.5194/acp-13-2347-2013, ACP.

Ryder, C.L., Highwood, E., Rosenberg, P., Trembath, J., Brooke, J., Bart, M., Dean, A., Crosier, J., Dorsey, J., Brindley, H., Banks, J., Marsham, J.H., McQuaid, J.B., Sodemann, H., Washington, R., Optical properties of Saharan dust aerosol and contribution from the coarse mode as measured during the Fennec 2011 aircraft campaign, 2013, 13, 303-325, doi:10.5194/acp-13-303-2013, ACP.

2012

Washington, R., Flamant, C., Parker, D.J., Marsham, J., McQuaid, J.B., Brindley, H., Todd, M., Highwood, E.J., Ryder, C.L., Chaboreau, J.-P., Kocha, C., Bechir, M., Saci, A., Fennec - The Saharan Climate System, 2012, No. 60, Vol. 17, No. 3 p31-32, CLIVAR Exchanges.

McMeeking, G.R., Bart, M., Chazette, P., Haywood, J.M., Hopkins, J.R., McQuaid, J.B., Morgan, W.T., Raut, J.-C., Ryder, C.L., Savage, N., Turnbull, K. and Coe, H., Airborne measurements of trace gases and aerosols over the London metropolitan region, 2012, 12, 5163-5187, doi:10.5194/acp-12-5163-2012, ACP.

Ackerley, D., Joshi, M., Highwood, E., Ryder, C.L., Harrison, M., Walters, D., Milton, S., Strachan, J., A comparison of two dust uplift schemes within the same general circulation model, 2012, 260515, doi:10.1155/2012/260515, Advances in Meteorology.

Brindley, H., Knippertz, P., Ryder, C. and Ashpole, I., A critical evaluation of the ability of the Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI) thermal infrared red-green-blue rendering to identify dust events. Part A: Theoretical Analysis, 2012, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D07201, doi:10.1029/2011JD017326.

Highwood, E.J., Northway, M.J., McMeeking, G.R., Morgan, W.T., Liu, D., Osborne, S., Bower, K., Coe, H., Ryder, C. and Williams, P., Scattering and absorption by aerosols during EUCAARI-LONGREX: can airborne measurements and models agree?, 2012, ACP, 12, 7251-7267, doi:10.5194/acp-12-7251-2012.

2011

Ryder, C.L. and Toumi, R., An urban solar flux island: measurements from London, 2011, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.03.045, Atmos. Env.

Davies, L., Bell, J., Bone, J., Hill, L., Howard, C., Hobbs, S., Power, S., Rose, N., Ryder, C., Seed, L., Stevens, G., Toumi, R., Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) A community-driven research programme, 2011, Environmental Pollution, 159, 2203-2210, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2011.02.053.

Bulgin, C., Palmer, P., Merchant, C., Siddans, R., Gonzi, S., Poulsen, C., Thomas, G., Sayer, A., Carboni, E., Grainger, R., Highwood, E., Ryder, C., 2011, Quantifying the response of ORAC aerosol optical depth retrieval for MSG Seviri to aerosol model assumptions, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D05208, doi:10.1029/2010JD014483.

2010

McConnell, C., Formenti, P., Highwood, E., Harrison, M.A.J., 2010, Using aircraft measurements to determine the refractive index of Saharan dust during the DODO experiments, Atmos. Chem. Phys., doi:10.5194/acp-10-3081-2010, 10, 3081-3098.

2009

Ackerley, D., Highwood, E., Harrison, M.A.J., McConnell, C., Joshi, M., Walters, S., Milton, S., Greed, G., Brooks, M., 2009, The development of a new dust uplift scheme in the Met Office Unified Model™, Meteorol. Appl., 16, 445-460.

2008

McConnell, C., Highwood, E., Coe, H., Formenti, P., et al., 2008, Seasonal variations of the physical and optical characteristics of Saharan dust: results from the Dust Outflow and Deposition to the Ocean (DODO) Experiment, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2007JD009606.

Osborne, S., Johnson, B., Haywood, J., Baran, A., Harrison, M.A.J., McConnell, C., 2008, Physical and optical properties of mineral dust aerosol during the Dust and Biomass-burning Experiment, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D00C03, doi:10.1029/2007JD009551.

2005

Jones, C.D., McConnell, C., Coleman K., Cox P., Falloon P., Jenkinson D., Powlson D., 2005, Global climate change and soil carbon stocks; predictions from two contrasting models for the turnover of organic carbon in soil, Global Change Biology, 11,1, 154-166.