Universidade Nacional da Irlanda em Galway -- Ciência sem Fronteiras
PhD Project: Developing a parameterisation to describe the impact of anthropogenic aerosols on heterogeneous and homogeneous freezing in Ice cloud. PI name & contact details:
School: Professor Colin O’Dowd, MRIA, DSc, FInsP, FRMetS Tel: +353‐87‐811‐4988 email: colin.odowd@nuigalway.ie Physics (Agreed with Head of School)
Director: Centre for Climate & Air Pollution Studies (C‐CAPS)
Research Centre: Research centre website:
www.macehead.org
www.nuigalway.ie/c‐caps PI website & CV: http://www.nuigalway.ie/physics/staff_pages/c_odowd/ Summary of PI Metrics: Director of Ireland’s leading Centre for climate & air pollution research (65 researchers) with a particular focus on atmospheric composition and biogeochemical cycling, both measurement based (at the WMO Mace Head Supersite) and large‐scale climate modelling. PhDs ~20 over last 8 years; Funding ~18M€; Large‐scale international project/Coordination ~28; Publications:180 papers (5 Nature/Science), h‐index 44. Awards: 2012 IoP Appleton Award; 2011 Member Royal Irish Academy; 2009 FRMetS; 2007 DSc Uni. Manchester; 2006 FInsP; 2004 Smoluchowski Award. PI has high‐level collaborative links with Brazilian Environmental Physics Professor Paulo Artaxo, University of São Paulo. Currently, we co‐
author two highly‐cited papers. Project Title: Developing a parameterisation to describe the impact of anthropogenic aerosols on heterogeneous and homogeneous freezing in Ice cloud Project Description: NUIG/CCAPS, at Mace Head, possess the most fruitful database of in‐situ aerosol physical‐chemical and dynamical continuous measurements. In addition, there exists a temporally‐parallel database of cloud properties which is to be combined with aerosol properties to develop an aerosol‐cloud‐
interaction parameterisation for both liquid and ice phase clouds. Unlike liquid clouds, modification of ice cloud microphysics by anthropogenic particles emitted at the surface and by airborne sources is incompletely understood to date. The increasing need to better understand these interactions imposes the development of innovative techniques to parameterise the aerosol‐cloud interactions for ice cloud (ACI‐IC). This PhD offers the possibility to use state‐of‐the‐art instrumentation like Raman LIDAR, Doppler cloud RADAR, microwave‐
radiometer and a number of latest‐generation in‐situ aerosol physical‐chemical instrumentation to develop a new technique to describe the ACI‐IC. Key Words: Ice cloud microphysics; aerosol; RADAR; LIDAR; microwave radiometer. Unique selling points of PhD project in NUI Galway:  NUI Galway/C‐CAPS operates the world leading marine Global Atmosphere Watch station which monitors and researches Essential Climate Variables and runs the most sophisticated aerosol‐cloud in‐situ and remotely‐sensed measurements operationally – no other station operates the same level of instrumentation worldwide!.  The PI & NUI Galway were the 1st in the country to implement a structured Graduate Education Research Programme (in Environment & Climate) to enhance the learning and training experience and opportunities.  C‐CAPS is heavily connected to the leading groups in Europe having led, and participated on large‐scale international projects within which researcher exchange, summer student schools, and advanced study schools are a regular occurrence. Excellent exposure, exchange and collaborative opportunities exist for the student (e.g. the PI produced ~20 internationally‐collaborative papers in each of the last four years and has the highest research metrics within the NUIG STEM areas currently).  C‐CAPS operate large‐scale climate‐air pollution studies with a focus on marine continental interactions. Although most countries have such activities, the unique opportunity offered by CCAPS is an integrated Earth System approach specifically integrating the most current and advanced atmospheric measurements and process in the models. Name & contact details for project queries: as above
Universidade Nacional da Irlanda em Galway -- Ciência sem Fronteiras
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