ProfessorHelen Brindley
Professor in Earth Observation
Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
Orcid identifier0000-0002-7859-9207
- Professor in Earth ObservationDepartment of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- 020 7594 7673 (Work)
- 717, Huxley Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
RESEARCH
Overview
Dr Brindley completed her PhD at Imperial College in 1998 having studied the impact of greenhouse gas forcing on the Earth's radiation field at high spectral resolution, with particular emphasis on the role of water vapour in the far infra-red (FIR) region. Over the next five years she continued her research within the Space and Atmospheric Physics group, working on, amongst other topics, the radiometric calibration of the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instrument; studies of the change in greenhouse forcing observed from satellite; and detailed evaluations of the influence of imperfect temporal and spatial sampling on spectrally resolved radiance fields. In 2003 she won a NERC Fellowship to investigate the impact of aerosol on the Earth's Radiation Budget. Her work in this area led to the subsequent award of a NERC Advanced Fellowship in 2006 and she was appointed to a lectureship position at Imperial in 2011. Dr Brindley is currently Imperial PI on major field and modelling campaigns taking place in the western Sahara and southern Africa, and is collaborating with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) to investigate the radiative effects of aerosol over the Red Sea and its surroundings. She has maintained her interest is the exploitation of spectrally resolved measurements for climate monitoring, including the role of the FIR, and to this end she is leading Imperial's involvement in NASA's CLARREO and NPL's TRUTHS satellite missions. Additional activities include multi-disciplinary projects aimed at better understanding interactions between mineral dust and vegetation and quantifying the potential impact of dust events on solar energy generation from the desert.
Invited Lectures and Presentations
EGU 2011: Using geostationary satellite data to quantify the effects of mineral dust aerosol on the Earth's radiation budget
Royal Meteorological Society, 2001: Using spectral radiances to investigate climate variability: Application to IRIS and IMG
AMS, 2001: Changes in the Earth's resolved outgoing longwave radiation field as seen from the IRIS and IMG instruments
AGU Chapman Conference, 1999: On the Utilisation of Spectral Radiances to Investigate Climate Variability
Dr Brindley completed her PhD at Imperial College in 1998 having studied the impact of greenhouse gas forcing on the Earth's radiation field at high spectral resolution, with particular emphasis on the role of water vapour in the far infra-red (FIR) region. Over the next five years she continued her research within the Space and Atmospheric Physics group, working on, amongst other topics, the radiometric calibration of the Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget (GERB) instrument; studies of the change in greenhouse forcing observed from satellite; and detailed evaluations of the influence of imperfect temporal and spatial sampling on spectrally resolved radiance fields. In 2003 she won a NERC Fellowship to investigate the impact of aerosol on the Earth's Radiation Budget. Her work in this area led to the subsequent award of a NERC Advanced Fellowship in 2006 and she was appointed to a lectureship position at Imperial in 2011. Dr Brindley is currently Imperial PI on major field and modelling campaigns taking place in the western Sahara and southern Africa, and is collaborating with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) to investigate the radiative effects of aerosol over the Red Sea and its surroundings. She has maintained her interest is the exploitation of spectrally resolved measurements for climate monitoring, including the role of the FIR, and to this end she is leading Imperial's involvement in NASA's CLARREO and NPL's TRUTHS satellite missions. Additional activities include multi-disciplinary projects aimed at better understanding interactions between mineral dust and vegetation and quantifying the potential impact of dust events on solar energy generation from the desert.
Invited Lectures and Presentations
EGU 2011: Using geostationary satellite data to quantify the effects of mineral dust aerosol on the Earth's radiation budget
Royal Meteorological Society, 2001: Using spectral radiances to investigate climate variability: Application to IRIS and IMG
AMS, 2001: Changes in the Earth's resolved outgoing longwave radiation field as seen from the IRIS and IMG instruments
AGU Chapman Conference, 1999: On the Utilisation of Spectral Radiances to Investigate Climate Variability