Category: Air

Matters pertaining to air, the atmosphere and atmospheric gases, as well as weather patterns.

CDE Webinar – Professor David Topping, University of Manchester. AI in Environmental Sciences from research developments to underlying infrastructure and policy implementation

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

Professor David Topping, University of Manchester provides an overview of the role and opportunity of AI in environmental science. David’s research interests focus on building computational models of atmospheric aerosol particles for use in interpretation of measured properties and as sub models for incorporation into climate change models. The research area is highly multi-disciplinary, covering: […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Matt Rigby and team. OpenGHG – A community platform for greenhouse gas data science

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

On Friday 21st October, we were pleased to welcome Dr Matt Rigby and colleagues, to present their webinar entitled ‘OpenGHG – A community platform for greenhouse gas data science‘. This talk commenced our sixth ‘CDE Demonstrator Projects’ webinar series. Evaluating the emission trends of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and ozone-depleting substances (ODS) is critically important for […]

CDE Webinar – Dr Kirsty Pringle, Using citizen science to measure environmental pollution – learnings from two very different studies.

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

On Friday 30th September, we were pleased to welcome Dr Kirsty Pringle of the SSI, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh, to present her webinar entitled ‘Using citizen science to measure environmental pollution – learnings from two very different studies‘. This talk was an additional event in our ‘Sensing the Environment’ webinar series, led […]

CDE Webinar – Malcolm Kitchen: Opportunistic Data for Weather Forecasting

Posted on by Stephen Hallett

On Friday 8th April, we were pleased to welcome Malcolm Kitchen, a CDE Expert Network member, to present his webinar entitled ‘Opportunistic Data for Weather Forecasting’. This talk continued our ‘Data digitisation, rescue, and re-purposing’ webinar series. The economic benefits of accurately targeting weather warnings is driving the development of higher resolution operational forecasting models. […]

CDE Webinar – Prof. Rob Allan: ACRE and International Global Weather Data Rescue

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On Friday 18th March, we were pleased to welcome Professor Rob Allan from ACRE, to present his webinar entitled ‘CDE Webinar – Prof. Rob Allan: ACRE and International Global Weather Data Rescue’. This talk commenced our ‘Data digitisation, rescue, and re-purposing’ webinar series. During the 1990s, Rob worked at the then CSIRO Division for Atmospheric Research in […]

A data trail from present to past meteorology around the globe

Posted on by Jenny Brown

We’ve just competed our 2nd round of #EnvironmentalDataDiscovery trails. This trail focused on meteorology and ran 11th – 14th & 21st – 24th April 2021. It comprised 5 questions to explore the Met Office’s Weather Observations Website (WOW), and 4 questions to explore the Meteorological Observations taken from Ben Nevis and Fort William available through NERC’s repository for […]

Assimilation of new low-cost wind observations from aircraft

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New low-cost wind observations from aircraft are now being assimilated in the Met Office’s high-resolution UK model. In situ upper air observations of the atmosphere have been of interest to meteorologists since the first thermometers were flown on kites in the mid-1700s. Kites were still used for routine observations into the early 1900s. The advent […]