Ananth Ranjithkumar
- Email: eeara@leeds.ac.uk
- Thesis title: Global modelling of nucleation and its impact on climate
- Supervisors: Professor Ken Carslaw, Dr Kirsty Pringle, Dr. Hamish Gordon
Profile
My research focuses on the impacts of New particle formation and clouds on global climate. My project is a join collaboration between the University of leeds, CERN, the UK Met office and several other European universities. As part of this project I participate in the CLOUD experiment at CERN, which is a chamber experiment where we artificially create particles and clouds to better understand the underlying mechanism of how they form. My goal is to implement that understanding in a global climate model (the UK’s Earth system model – UKESM). The aim will be to quantify the effect of new particle formation and particle growth rates (from CLOUD measurements) on the global aerosol system in pre-industrial and present-day conditions and to evaluate the model against ambient observations and assess the uncertainty.
Supervisors: Professor Ken Carslaw, Dr Hamish Gordon, and Dr Kirsty Pringle
Project network: CLOUD-MOTION (Marie Curie ITN)
Qualifications
- Master of Science - Chemical Engineering, TU Delft
- B.Tech - Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Research groups and institutes
- Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science