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Research Associate

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate working with Professor Alex Archibald at Department of Chemistry and Centre for Atmospheric Science. My research expertise is in atmospheric chemistry and climate modelling. My research interests and experiences are

Quantifying the ocean-atmosphere sulphur cycle's contribution to the climate

My current research focuses on improving the representation of global marine sulphur cycle in climate models, utilising the  UK Chemistry and Aerosol model (UKCA) and the UK Earth System Model (UKESM). This work includes understanding new chemical mechanisms for newly discovered sulphur molecules in the marine atmosphere, such as hydroperoxymethyl thioformate (HPMTF) and CH₃SH, and incorporating these into the UKESM. This allows me to investigate how this novel chemistry influences the impact of natural marine aerosol on climate and on human-driven climate change. 

Atmospheric modelling of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

This work focused on the development of emission profiles and chemistry module for VOCs in the atmospheric chemistry transport model of European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) in order to understand the roles of different VOCs in ozone and particle formation. My first-author paper on this work is published in Atmos. Chem. Phys.. Concurrently, I worked with colleagues to implement the Cloud-J photolysis rate calculation module into the EMEP model; our co-authored paper is published in Geosci. Model Dev.. Additionally, I also participated in a VOCDep project, focusing on enhancing the model parameterisation of the dry deposition processes of VOCs from the atmosphere to different land surfaces.

Global modelling of atmospheric reactive N and S

My doctoral research centred on simulating atmospheric reactive N and S species concentrations and chemistry and their mitigation at regional and global scales. By validating against measurements from different air quality monitoring networks worldwide, my work confirmed the EMEP-WRF modelling system's credibility for global budget analyses and for investigation of the effectiveness of different N and S emission control strategies. I have three first-author publications in Atmos. Chem. Phys. (2) and Geosci. Model Dev. from this work.

Analytical Method Development for aerosol N and S

This research created an innovative coupling of aerosol carbon and chemiluminescent NOx analysers capable of distinguishing between organic and inorganic nitrogen-containing species in aerosols. This work led to a co-authored paper in Environ. Sci. Technol. Additionally, I contributed to research on the kinetics of the production of SO42- from the heterogeneous OH oxidation of CH3SO4Na using an oxidation flow reactor and ion chromatography, a study that also yielded a co-authored publication in ACS Earth Space Chem..

Publications

A new assessment of global and regional budgets, fluxes and lifetimes of atmospheric reactive N and S gases and aerosols
Y Ge, M Vieno, D Stevenson, P Wind, M Heal
(2022)
Evaluation of global EMEP MSC-W (rv4.34) WRF (v3.9.1.1) model surface concentrations and wet deposition of reactive N and S with measurements
Y Ge, MR Heal, DS Stevenson, P Wind, M Vieno
– Geoscientific Model Development
(2021)
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7021
Simultaneous Determination of Aerosol Inorganic and Organic Nitrogen by Thermal Evolution and Chemiluminescence Detection
X Yu, Q Li, Y Ge, Y Li, K Liao, XH Huang, J Li, JZ Yu
– Environmental science & technology
(2021)
55,
11579
Supplementary material to "Evaluation of global EMEP MSC-W (rv4.34)-WRF (v3.9.1.1) model surface concentrations and wet deposition of reactive N and S with measurements"
Y Ge, MR Heal, DS Stevenson, P Wind, M Vieno
(2021)
Evaluation of global EMEP MSC-W (rv4.34)-WRF (v3.9.1.1) model surface concentrations and wet deposition of reactive N and S with measurements
Y Ge, MR Heal, DS Stevenson, P Wind, M Vieno
(2021)
Inorganic Sulfur Species Formed upon Heterogeneous OH Oxidation of Organosulfates: A Case Study of Methyl Sulfate
R Xu, Y Ge, KC Kwong, HY Poon, KR Wilson, JZ Yu, MN Chan
– ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
(2020)
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Centre Highlights

• January 2024: The CCPG have successfully submitted a proposal for PACESETTERS!

• September 2nd 2023: Dr Annela Anger-Kraavi has co-authored a paper analysing just transition narratives in European coal regions. Read the paper here

• December 13th 2022: The CCPG have co-authored a paper on game-changing innovations towards net-zero, published in Energy Strategy Reviews. Read the open access paper here.

• November 15th 2022: The final conference of PARIS REINFORCE is taking place today in Sorbonne. Read more about the event here

• October 24th 2022: The CCPG have successfully submitted a proposal for the Cambridge-Tsinghua joint research initiative! 

• May 5th 2022: We've submitted to the UNFCCC's Global Stocktake (GST). More information is available on our news page. 

• March 23rd 2022: Multiple CAS academics have published a paper investigating the future role of anthropogenic methane emissions. Read the open access paper here.

• Feb 18th 2022: Dr Parris and Dr Anger-Kraavi have co-authored a paper that develops a tool to support co-designed transformative change. Read the open access paper here.

• Dec 16th 2021: Dr Parris has co-authored a paper that introduces a tool to support plastic pollution policy. Read the open access paper here.

• Nov 22nd 2021: Dr Anger-Kraavi has co-authored a paper with Paris Reinforce. Read the open access version here


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