Claire Ryder : NERC Independent Research Fellowship : UoR, Dept Of Meteorology

NERC Independent Research Fellowship

I have been awarded a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Independent Research Fellowship. This is a research position held at the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, in order to fully exploit the new in-situ measurements of coarse and giant mineral dust particles measured over the Sahara during Fennec (June 2011 and 2012), and also over the Atlantic Ocean during ICE-D (August 2015).

My fellowship research involves detailed analysis of dust size, chemical, morphological and optical properties, radiative closure under high loadings of dust, application of the dust properties to satellite retrievals, and a regional and global estimate of the radiative effect due to coarse dust particles.

A recent publication from this research demonstrates the prevalence of the coarse and giant dust particles, and their contribution to the radiative effect of dust.