University of Manchester Research Associate Job

August 30, 2007

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JOB DESCRIPTION Chemical and Physical Properties of Aerosols
Job Title: Research Associate
Reference: EPS/180/07
School: School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Grade: Level 6
Responsible to: Prof Hugh Coe
Main purpose of

The job: The appointee will contribute to the UK APPRAISE programme by making measurements of the physical and chemical properties of aerosol particles. This will involve working with a wide range of instruments on both aircraft and ground based platforms in a suite of experiments that are aimed at understanding how the processing and transformation of aerosol affects their radiative properties on regional scales. This is part of the APPRAISE ADIENT (Appraising the Direct Impacts of aerosol oN climaTe) project, a consortium that involves the universities of Oxford, Reading, Leeds, Imperial College London, and Manchester and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

The role will include working closely with a range of state of the art instruments for aerosol characterisation that are available to the Manchester group. The successful applicant will be expected to become familiar with these instruments; calibrate and prepare them for field measurement; be actively involved in the field measurements; and ensure the quality of the data. The studies involve a plume characterisation downwind of major pollution sources in the UK; a characterisation of aerosol properties and their radiative impacts downwind of the UK as a whole; and a major characterisation of aerosol across Europe. Much of the work will involve the UK Facility for Airborne Atmospheric Measurements (FAAM), a BAE146 aircraft, the major airborne research platform in the UK. New instruments are currently being installed on this aircraft by the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences in Manchester including a new Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer; a single particle soot photometer (SP2) and a Differential Mobility Analyser and a particle counter. It is expected that the applicant will play a major role in developing and using these instruments. The European study will form a major field component of the EU FP6 EUCAARI programme and will involve the BAE146 working closely with the DLR Falcon aircraft during May 2008. As well as the field measurement and instrumentation elements of the project, a major part of the activities will be to analyse and interpret the data. The main goals will be to: obtain new measurements of the physical, chemical and optical properties of aerosol over the UK and Europe; provide a comprehensive description of the spatio-temporal evolution of anthropogenic aerosol; and assess the radiative impact of anthropogenic aerosol.

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