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Cambridge, Chemistry (ACMSU) News
Personnel changes
The Atmospheric Chemistry Modelling Support Unit at Cambridge, Chemistry Dept. has seen some changes to personnel recently. Dr. Robert MacKenzie moved to Lancaster University to take up a lectureship there. Dr. Glenn Carver has now taken over the role of Centre for Atmospheric Science Coordinator from Rob. MacKenzie. Dr. Martyn Chipperfield will soon be leaving us as he moves to Leeds to take up a lectureship in the Environment Centre. Dr. Mathew Evans will also shortly be leaving to take up a post-doc position in the USA. Dr. Kathy Law moved 'sideways' to take up the position of managing the new NERC funded UTLS-Ozone thematic programme, based in the European Ozone Research Coordinating Unit.
We offer our (belated) congratulations to Dr. David Lary who got married last year. Also to Dr. Jamie Kettleborough who found romance in the Centre for Atmospheric Science and married Samantha Pullen of Dr. Rod Jones' group. Last but not least, congratulations also to Dr. Adrian Lee who wins the prize for the most exotic wedding in Trinidad. We wish them all well for the future.
We've also seen some new arrivals. Dr. Helen Steele is currently a visiting scientist within the group. We welcome: Dr. Guang Zeng who will working on a new project using the UKMO Unified Model, Dr. Olaf Morgenstern to work with Dr. Glenn Carver on the EC funded METRO project, Dr. Hubert Teyssedre to work with Dr. Martyn Chipperfield on the TOPOZ II project. We also welcome some new Ph.D. students: Genevieve Cahill who's working on stratospheric chemistry and Matthew Johnson who's working on tropospheric chemistry.
IUPAC Kinetic Data Website
The Centre for Atmospheric Science web server is now hosting the new website for the IUPAC Subcommittee on Kinetic Data Evaluation for Atmospheric Chemistry, described elsewhere in this issue. This new service means that the ACMSU is now able to offer a virtually complete support role to the community by providing not just off-line models and chemical modelling software, but also the reaction data for constructing chemical schemes.
Collaboratory for Atmospheric Science and Technology
Dr. Glenn Carver and Dr. Heng Wang of the Centre for Atmospheric Science (CAS)/ACMSU are non-funded cooperating partners in the pilot NERC project CAST. The aim of CAST is to explore ways of exploiting the web for greater collaboration between scientists at remote sites. The CAST project is administered by Dr. Ben Whitaker at Leeds University (see http://cast.nerc.ac.uk/).
Mathew Evans and Heng Wang have both been busy within the CAST remit. Mathew has developed a web 'trajectory viewer' whereby remote scientists can browse an online database of precomputed trajectories for the ACSOE campaign. This service has proved popular with US scientists. Heng Wang has been learning Java and developing a web front-end to Mathew's tropospheric chemistry box model. The work is well advanced and a simple interface is already functioning. We see this new approach primarily as a way of supporting CAS and closely associated scientists when they are distant from Cambridge, particularly during campaigns. But we also see this as a way of improving research collaboration between CAS and other groups. To this end Glenn Carver is currently evaluating the 'Live Server' software which enables netCDF files to be browsed and plotted via the web using the Ferret visualisation package.
Some Recent Publications
Chipperfield, M.P., T. Glassup, I. Pundt, and O.V. Rattigan, Model calculations of stratospheric OBrO indicating very small abundances, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 3575-3578, 1998.
Chipperfield, M.P., and J.A. Pyle, Model Sensitivity Studies of Arctic Ozone Depletion, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 28,389-28,403, 1998.
Law K.S., P-H. Plantevin, D.E. Shallcross, H.L.Rogers, J.A. Pyle, C.Grouhel, V. Thouret and A. Marenco, 1998, Evaluation of modelled O3 using MOZAIC data, J. Geophys. Res., 103, pp. 25,721-25,741.
D. J. Hofmann and J. A. Pyle (lead authors), Predicting Future Ozone Changes and Detection of Recovery, Chapter 12, WMO/UNEP Ozone assessment, 1998, WMO report number XX, 1999.
Searle, K.R., M.P. Chipperfield, S. Bekki, and J.A. Pyle, The Impact of Spatial Averaging on Calculated Polar Ozone Loss: I. Model Experiments, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 25397-25408, 1998.
Searle, K.R., M.P. Chipperfield, S. Bekki, and J.A. Pyle, The Impact of Spatial Averaging on Calculated Polar Ozone Loss: II. Theoretical Analysis, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 25409-25416, 1998.
Stockwell D.Z., C. Giannakopoulos, P-H. Plantevin, G.D. Carver, M.P. Chipperfield, K.S. Law, J.A. Pyle, K.-Y. Wang and D.E. Shallcross, 1999, Modelling NOx emissions from lightning and its impact on global chemical fields, Accepted by Atmos. Environ.
Glenn Carver
ACMSU, University of Cambridge
Glenn.Carver@atm.ch.cam.ac.uk
