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 TH, Brindley H, Ekins-Daukes N, et al., 2021, Developing automated methods to estimate spectrally resolved direct normal irradiance for solar energy applications, Renewable Energy, Vol:173, ISSN:0960-1481, Pages:1070-1086
Mackie A, Brindley HE, Palmer PI, 2021, Contrasting observed atmospheric responses to tropical SST warming patterns, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Vol:126, ISSN:2169-897X, Pages:1-12
Choi KTH, Brindley H, 2021, COVID-19 lockdown air quality change implications for solar energy generation over China, Environmental Research Letters, Vol:16, ISSN:1748-9326, 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
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, Vol:125, ISSN:2169-897X, Pages:1-16