Occasional Blog Articles

2025

The Meteorology Department's Weather and Climate Blog, Who's up for a PICO? A look at survey results reflecting EGU dust session 2025 attendees' thoughts on the PICO session format. PICO is particualrly popular with early career scientists!

2020

The Meteorology Department's Weather and Climate Blog, Desert Dust in the Atmosphere: Giant Particles, Giant Consequences.

2018

The Conversation, an article on Sydney's November 2018 dust storm and how dust storms may change in the future: Sydney's orange sky reminds us how unpredictable dust storms can be.

The Meteorology Department's Weather and Climate Blog, "What's The Secret of Coarse Dust?", where I explain why understanding the long-range transport of coarse mineral dust particles is so important.

2017

A short piece on why we saw a yellow sun over the UK on Monday 16th October 2017, associated with transport of Saharan dust and Iberian wildfire smoke, ahead of ex-hurricane Ophelia. Red Sun at Midday, Meteorologist's Delight. (Or even better, Red Sun at Midday, Crazy Shepherd?!)

2012

Blood Rain for Halloween - will we really get red rain this Halloween?.

2011

A day in the life of a mission scientist - what it's like to take part in an aircraft campaign with the BAe146 research aircraft.

Is pollution making London Duller? - can spatial patterns of aerosol have an effect on the amount of sunlight reaching the surface?