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. , 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. , 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. , 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. , 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