The GASSP team consists of scientists from the UK, the United States and Germany, and is growing all the time. The project is a collaboration of the Universities of Leeds, Oxford and Manchester, with international data partners. The team consists of expertise in global aerosol modelling combined with aerosol observations from ship, aircraft and land-based sites, as well as statistical modelling.
Principal Investigators
Ken Carslaw is the Leeds principal investigator of the GASSP project. The Global Model of Aerosol Processes (GLOMAP) developed by Ken’s research group has been used to study a wide range of aerosol processes in the atmosphere, including new particle formation, marine aerosol, dust emission and transport, and cloud condensation nuclei. GLOMAP is also being used in an Earth System model to study the interactions between aerosol, the oceans and the biosphere from seasonal to palaeo timescales.
Philip Stier is the Oxford PI on GASSP. Philip is a University Lecturer in Atmospheric Physics at the Department of Physics and a Fellow in Physics at Oriel College, University of Oxford. Global aerosol and cloud microphysics are a key focus of Philip’s research, combining global aerosol-climate models (HadGEM-UKCA, ECHAM-HAM) with in-situ and remote sensing observations. Philip is co-chair of the AeroCom intercomparison project working group on aerosol radiative forcing.philip.stier@physics.ox.ac.uk
Hugh Coe is a co-investigator on GASSP, responsible for collection and harmonisation of aerosol measurements. Hugh’s current research interests include: biomass burning and dust aerosols; the long range transport of pollution aerosol; aerosol-cloud interactions; organic aerosol; transformation and transport of aerosols on urban to regional scales. Email@something.com
Scientific team
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Lindsay Lee is a statistician at Leeds. She is developing methods for model emulation, calibration and statistical analysis.
Carly Reddington is an aerosol modeller at Leeds. Carly’s role in GASSP is aerosol model analysis and evaluation against measurements.
Graham Mann at Leeds is funded by NCAS to develop the UKCA aerosol model.
Dominick Spracklen is an Associate Professor at Leeds and is a co-investigator in GASSP.
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Kirsty Pringle is an aerosol research scientist at Leeds. Kirsty’s role in GASSP is aerosol model analysis and evaluation against measurements.
Nick Schutgens is a researcher at Oxford. He is working on structural uncertainty in global aerosol models, aerosol microphysics and global parameter estimations.
Dantong Liu is an aerosol research scientist at Manchester. Dantong’s role in GASSP is aerosol measurement compilation and analysis.
James Alan is an aerosol research scientist at Manchester. James’s role in GASSP is aerosol measurement compilation and analysis.
Aerosol measurement project partners
Andreas MINIKIN. DLR (German Aerospace Center) Institute of Atmospheric Physics. Andreas contributes aerosol data from the DLR Falcon aircraft.
Markus Hermann, IfT Leipzig contributes aerosol measurements from the CARIBIC experiment using commercial aircraft.
David Fahey and Joshua Schwarz contribute data and expertise on the SP2 soot photometer; Trish Quinn (NOAA PMEL) has expertise in shipborne aerosol measurements and John Ogren (NOAA ESRL) is responsible for a global network of aerosol concentration and absorption data.
Athanasios Nenes. Georgia Institute of Technology. Thanos Nenes’ contribution to GASSP is expertise and datasets on cloud condensation nuclei.
Tony Clarke, University of Hawaii, will contribute particle microphysics measurements from several airborne campaigns around the world.
Gao Chen, NASA Langley, has expertise on the aerosol measurements made in many NASA airborne campaigns.
Jorgen Jensen, NCAR, contributes data from NCAR experiments.