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Dr Adam Povey

Lecturer in Earth Observation
EO Data-Model Evaluation

Research interests

I observe the interactions between clouds, aerosols, and their environment in order to understand how humans affect the climate, precipitation, and air quality. That involves processing petabytes of satellite images with the Optimal Retrieval of Aerosol and Cloud, integrated with ground-based observations, and applying statistical analyses able to handle such large datasets, with a particular focus on the uncertainty in the data.

Recent publications

Geostationary aerosol retrievals of extreme biomass burning plumes during the 2019–2020 Australian bushfires. 2024-05-29

Characterization of dust aerosols from ALADIN and CALIOP measurements. 2024-04-26

Uncertainty in aerosol–cloud radiative forcing is driven by clean conditions. 2023-04-05

Is Anthropogenic Global Warming Accelerating?. 2022-12-15

Uncertainty-bounded estimates of ash cloud properties using the ORAC algorithm: application to the 2019 Raikoke eruption. 2022-10-20

Opportunistic experiments to constrain aerosol effective radiative forcing. 2022-01-17

Cloud_cci ATSR-2 and AATSR data set version 3: a 17-year climatology of global cloud and radiation properties. 2020-09-09

The Evaluation of the North Atlantic Climate System in UKESM1 Historical Simulations for CMIP6. 2020-09

Description and evaluation of aerosol in UKESM1 and HadGEM3-GC3.1 CMIP6 historical simulations. 2020-03-25

A review and framework for the evaluation of pixel-level uncertainty estimates in satellite aerosol remote sensing. 2020-02-03

Description and evaluation of aerosol in UKESM1 and HadGEM3-GC3.1 CMIP6 historical simulations. 2020

Toward More Representative Gridded Satellite Products. 2019-05

The Community Cloud retrieval for CLimate (CC4CL) – Part 2: The optimal estimation approach. 2018-06-13

The Community Cloud retrieval for CLimate (CC4CL) – Part 1: A framework applied to multiple satellite imaging sensors. 2018-06-13

Finding Ocean States That Are Consistent with Observations from a Perturbed Physics Parameter Ensemble. 2018-06

Cloud property datasets retrieved from AVHRR, MODIS, AATSR and MERIS in the framework of the Cloud_cci project. 2017

Uncertainty information in climate data records from Earth observation. 2017

Unveiling aerosol-cloud interactions – Part 1: Cloud contamination in satellite products enhances the aerosol indirect forcing estimate. 2017

Retrieval of aerosol backscatter, extinction, and lidar ratio from Raman lidar with optimal estimation. 2014-03-13

Estimation of a lidar’s overlap function and its calibration by nonlinear regression. 2012

The Radiation Tolerance of Specific Optical Fibers for the LHC Upgrades. 2012

The radiation tolerance of specific optical fibres exposed to 650 kGy(Si) of ionizing radiation. 2009

Contact details

University of Leicester

+44 116 229 7719