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Richard Pope

Senior Research Fellow

EO Data-Model Evaluation

Research interests

I am interested in atmosphere-biosphere interactions (e.g. wildfire emissions) and links to air quality. I use atmospheric chemistry models and satellite observations, which help quantify long-term changes in tropospheric composition and its impact on global/regional air quality.

Recent publications

Analysis and attribution of total column ozone changes over the Tibetan Plateau during 1979–2017. 2020-07-22

Impact on air quality and health due to the Saddleworth Moor fire in northern England. 2020-07-14

Description and evaluation of the UKCA stratosphere–troposphere chemistry scheme (StratTrop vn 1.0) implemented in UKESM1. 2020-03-17

Impact of the June 2018 Saddleworth Moor wildfires on air quality in northern England. 2020-03-13

Substantial Increases in Eastern Amazon and Cerrado Biomass Burning‐Sourced Tropospheric Ozone. 2020-02-16

Quantifying the transboundary contribution of nitrogen oxides to UK air quality. 2020-02

Impact of weather types on UK ambient particulate matter concentrations. 2020-01

High resolution satellite observations give new view of UK air quality. 2019-09

Impact of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on the interannual variability of methane and tropospheric ozone. 2019-07-09

Influence of the wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation on European tropospheric composition: an observational and modelling study. 2018

Widespread changes in UK air quality observed from space. 2018

The TOMCAT global chemical transport model v1.6: description of chemical mechanism and model evaluation. 2017

Detection of the Yorkshire power stations from space: an air quality perspective. 2016

Identifying errors in dust models from data assimilation. 2016

Intercomparison and evaluation of satellite peroxyacetyl nitrate observations in the upper troposphere–lower stratosphere. 2016

Observing UK Bonfire Night pollution from space: analysis of atmospheric aerosol. 2016

The impact of synoptic weather on UK surface ozone and implications for premature mortality. 2016

Evaluation of a regional air quality model using satellite column NO2: treatment of observation errors and model boundary conditions and emissions. 2015

The influence of synoptic weather regimes on UK air quality: regional model studies of tropospheric column NO2. 2015

The influence of synoptic weather regimes on UK air quality: analysis of satellite column NO2. 2014