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Dr. Ruth Doherty
I am a lecturer and researcher in the Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Science. My research interests lie in the area of modelling climate-chemistry interactions and how these are influenced by Climate Change and year-to-year variations in climate. Before I came to Edinburgh university, I worked in the field of Climate Change research at two leading climate research centres: the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK and in the Institute for Study of the Environment at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA.
I lecture courses on Meteorology: Weather and Climate and on Atmospheric Dynamics.
My research interests are:
- Coupled climate and atmospheric chemistry modelling - hemispheric ozone transport, natural emissions of ozone precursors and how these vary with climate change and climate variability, quantifying uncertain processes and interactions
- Climate variability - large scale climate indices - ENSO, NAO, IOD and their influence on regional climate, future changes as represented in global climate models
- Climate change and variability effects on ecosystems and their uncertainty
Since 2003 I have also given a series of lectures on weather forecasting and climate change for the undergraduate course in �Weather and Climate� at the University of Edinburgh. I am a co-organiser of the Global Change seminar series. If you are interested in coming to give a seminar in the field of atmospheric sciences please contact me at: ruth.doherty@ed.ac.uk
Current Projects:
- Modelling climate-tropsopheric ozone interactions in the present and future UTLS - NERC
- ozone- heat interactions and their effect on human health - NERC
- Modelling future climate variability and ecosystem change and representing uncertainty - Climate-land-use Interaction Project (CLIP) US NSF and BIOSS
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