Welcome to the Atmospheric Physics Group.
Atmospheric physics is the study of the fundamental processes governing the behaviour of the atmosphere. Atmospheric physicists perform experiments, make observations and use computational models to understand atmospheric processes, climate variability and weather patterns. Atmospheric physics is key in addressing environmental challenges such as climate change, ozone depletion, air quality and extreme weather events.
Group members
Remote sensing, climate data analytics, model evaluation.
Climate change emergence, event attribution and impacts, simple climate modelling for policy.
Chemistry-climate interactions, airborne microplastics, aerosols, ozone layer, Earth system modelling.
Atmospheric boundary layer, mesoscale and microscale modelling.
Regional climate dynamics, air pollution, dispersion modelling.
Atmospheric composition, aerosol-cloud-climate interactions, Earth system modelling.
Climate data analytics, precipitation, cyclone compositing, Earth system modelling, airborne microplastics.
Recent funding
- 2023 - 2028 Protecting Aotearoa from aerial invaders in a changing climate - $842k (Marwan Katurji)
- 2023-2026 Marsden Fund (principal investigator $960,000): Laura Revell -The longevity of airborne microplastic-climate forcing from legacy plastic pollution
- 2023-2028 Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (principal investigator $800,000): Laura Revell - Airborne microplastics in a changing climate
- 2022-2024 Deep South National Science Challenge (principal investigator $670,000): Laura Revell - Organic aerosol-cloud coupling
- 2022-2024 Catalyst: Seeding (principal investigator $67,000): Laura Revell - Development of a standardized analytical method for measuring airborne microplastics
- 2022-2025 Marsden (associate investigator $40,000): Laura Revell - Electromagnetic scattering by particles of arbitrary size and shape with application to microplastics
- 2021 - 2026 Extreme Wildfire: Our new reality - are we ready? - $1.7m (Marwan Katurji)
- 2021-2024 Deep South National Science Challenge (principal investigator $729,780: Adrian McDonald - Cloud and aerosol measurements for improved climate projections
- 2021-2021 Brian Mason Scientific Technical Trust (principal investigator $15,000): Adrian McDonald - Supercool clouds, rainfall and snow
- 2020-2023 Marsden Fast-start (principal investigator $300,000): Laura Revell - Could airborne microplastics play a role in climate change?
- 2020-2024 MBIE Endeavour Dave Frame: PI, 11.5m, Laura Revell and Adrian McDonald: Key researchers, whakahura: extreme events and the emergence of climate change
- 2019-2020 Deep South National Science Challenge (principal/associate investigator $230,000): Adrian McDonald/Laura Revell - Cloud and aerosol observations to improve the NZSEM
- 2019-2025 Antarctic Science Platform (key researcher $255,836): Adrian McDonald - Sea ice and carbon cycle feedbacks
- 2019-2022 MBIE Smart Ideas (key researcher $93,000): Adrian McDonald - Extreme weather event realtime attribution machine
- 2019-2022 Deep South National Science Challenge (principal investigator $1,000,000): Laura Revell - Simulating clouds and aerosols in the NZSEM
Recent publications
Undergraduate courses in atmospheric physics.
PHYS319: Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics Course, Subject and Qualifications Page | University of Canterbury
PHYS330: Environmental and Climate Modelling Course, Subject and Qualifications Page | University of Canterbury
