Prof Geraint Vaughan - personal details

Role: Professor Of Atmospheric Science

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Tel: 0161 306 3931

Location: Simon Building-3.04
School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
The University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL

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• School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences

A native of North Wales, Prof. Vaughan gained his BA from Cambridge University and DPhil from Oxford. He started his research career in the Meteorological Office, initially on rocket-borne measurements of mesospheric ozone, then on airborne measurements of stratosphere-troposphere exchange. In 1984 he joined the Physics department at the University of Wales Aberystwyth, moving to Manchester in January 2005.

Prof Vaughan's research interests are concerned with measurements of atmospheric dynamics and chemistry, and interpreting those measurements in terms of the atmospheric physics involved. He is Principal Investigator of the NERC Mesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere radar facility near Aberystwyth, and operates a number of lidars at this site to measure profiles of ozone, aerosols and humidity. He is also responsible for mobile remote sensing instruments as part of the Universities Facility for Atmospheric measurements, another NERC facility.

Currently, he is working on the the impact of convection on the upper tropical troposphere, the transport of chemicals from the boundary layer to the free troposphere, interpretation of clear-air radar echoes and improvements in lidar profiling of the atmosphere. Prof. Vaughan is the President of the Royal Meteorological Society and Director of Weather Research for the National Centre for Atmospheric Science. He is also a member of the American Geophysical Union and an associate editor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.