Clouds, Water Vapour and Climate – Projects

Project number	Project title	Round number	End date	Principal investigators
GST/02/2314	Three-dimensional high resolution meso-scale modeling of droplet growth in cumulus clouds and comparison with observations	1	31 October 2002	Dr Alan Gadian
GST/02/2316	Observations and modelling of the microphysical and radiative properties of mixed phase frontal cloud	1	31 March 2003	T. Choularton P. Jonas C. Saunders A. Illingworth
GST/02/2874	The microphysical and radiative properties of mixed phase clouds	2	30 November 2003	T. Choularton A. Illingworth G. Craig P. Kaye
GST/02/2318	Airborne measurements of the IR radiative properties of ice clouds and clear air using ARIES and TAFTS	1	31 May 2002	J. Harries
GST/02/2321	Single particle experiments to determine the scattering properties of representative regular and irregular ice crystals	1	4 August 2001	P. Kaye
GST/02/2879	Characterising particle size, shape and distribution in ice and mixed-phase clouds	2	30 November 2003	P. Kaye
NER/T/S/2001/203	Measurements of scattering and absorption properties of ice crystals appropriate to tropical cirrus cloud	3	1 January 2005	P. Kaye J. Ulanowski
GST/02/2324	Cirrus, dynamics and water vapour	1	31 March 2002	J. Whiteway G. Vaughan T. Choularton P. Jonas
GST/02/2881	EMERALD-I: Egrett microphysics experiment with radiation, lidar and dynamics	2	30 June 2003	J. Whiteway T. Choularton
NER/T/S/2001/201	EMERALD-II: Egrett microphysics experiments with radiation, lidar and dynamics in the tropics	3	31 December 2004	J. Whiteway
GST/02/2867	The radiative properties of inhomogeneous cirrus clouds	2	30 June 2003	P. Jonas
GST/02/2871	Near-infrared absorption by water vapour: a co-ordinated laboratory modelling study	2	30 September 2002	K. Shine
NER/T/S/2001/194	Field observations of near-infrared absorption by water vapour	3	31 August 2003	K. Shine D. Newnham
GST/02/2873	Impacts of cloud inhomogeneities on their optical properties	2	25 September 2003	J. Haigh
GST/02/2892	The origin, evolution and effects of non-convective clouds at the tropical tropopause	2	31 March 2004	R. MacKenzie
NER/T/S/2001/195	Low humidity in the tropical and subtropical atmosphere	3	31 December 2004	B. Hoskins J. Methven
NER/T/S/2001/199	Obtaining maximum greenhouse gas and cloud information from EOSMLS measurements	3	31 December 2004	R. Harwood
NER/T/S/2001/204	The global distribution, variability and radiative-climatological impact of atmospheric water vapour	3	31 December 2004	J. Harries R. Toumi
NER/T/S/2001/205	GRAPE: Global retrieval of ATSR cloud parameters and evaluation	3	28 February 2005	R. Grainger B. Lawrence P. Watts