Dr Helen Brindley

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Reader in Earth Observation

Contact

+44 (0)20 7594 7673h.brindley

Location

717Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

Summary

Research Interests:

Direct impacts of aerosol on the Earth's radiation budget
The role of Saharan dust in the global climate system
Diagnosing climate impacts and feedbacks due to greenhouse gases and aerosol using spectrally resolved ground-based, in situ and satellite observations
Atmospheric impacts on the potential for solar energy generation from the desert

Current Projects:

PI (Collaborative Research Grant) - Quantifying the radiative impact of dust aerosol over the Arabian Peninsula and the Red Sea and its implications for local, regional and global climate
PI (NERC Consortium) - Fennec: The Saharan Heat Low
PI (NERC joint grant): Do-4-Models: Improving the representation of dust uplift in regional climate models
Co-I (NERC Standard Grant): CLARREO: A new opportunity for climate monitoring from space

Education/Qualifications:

PhD in Atmospheric Physics from the Space and Atmospheric Physics Group, Imperial College London
BSc in Physics and Meteorology from the University of Reading

Publications

Journals

Choi KTH, Brindley H, 2020, COVID-19 lockdown air quality change implications for solar energy generation over China, Environmental Research Letters, ISSN:1748-9326

Bantges RJ, Brindley HE, Murray JE, et al.Bantges RJ, Brindley HE, Murray JE, Last AE, Russell JE, Fox C, Fox S, Harlow C, O'Shea SJ, Bower KN, Baum BA, Yang P, Oetjen H, Pickering JC close, 2020, A test of the ability of current bulk optical models to represent the radiative properties of cirrus cloud across the mid- and far-infrared, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Vol:20, ISSN:1680-7316, Pages:12889-12903

Murray JE, Brindley HE, Fox S, et al.Murray JE, Brindley HE, Fox S, Bellisario C, Pickering JC, Fox C, Harlow C, Smith M, Anderson D, Huang X, Chen X, Last A, Bantges R close, 2020, Retrievals of high latitude surface emissivity across the infrared from high altitude aircraft flights, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, ISSN:2169-897X

Saito M, Yang P, Huang X, et al.Saito M, Yang P, Huang X, Brindley HE, Mlynczak MG, Kahn BH close, 2020, Spaceborne mid‐ and far‐infrared observations improving nighttime ice cloud property retrievals, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol:47, ISSN:0094-8276, Pages:1-10

Palchetti L, Brindley H, Bantges R, et al.Palchetti L, Brindley H, Bantges R, Buehler SA, Camy-Peyret C, Carli B, Cortesi U, Del Bianco S, Di Natale G, Dinelli BM, Feldman D, Huang XL, C.-Labonnote L, Libois Q, Maestri T, Mlynczak MG, Murray JE, Oetjen H, Ridolfi M, Riese M, Russell J, Saunders R, Serio C close, 2020, FORUM: unique far-infrared satellite observations to better understand how Earth radiates energy to space, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol:101, ISSN:0003-0007, Pages:E2030-E2046

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