Weiyu Zhang

Email: eewz@leeds.ac.uk
Thesis title: Non-CO2 effects of aviation on climate
Supervisors: Dr Alex Rap, Professor Piers Forster, Dr Kwinten Van Weverberg (Ghent University), Dr Kalli Furtado (Met Office)

Profile

I am a PhD student in the Institute of Climate and Atmospheric Science. My PhD project aims to improve our understanding of the climatic effect of aviation non-CO2 emissions from standard and future generation aircraft. In particular, it focuses on quantifying the climate forcing from contrail cirrus. My PhD project is part of the NERC Panorama DTP with CASE partner Met Office.

Research interests

Contrail cirrus parameterisation
Radiative forcing of contrails
Climate modelling – UKESM Unified Model and CESM CAM

Qualifications

MSc, Cartography and GIS, Beijing Normal University, China
BEng, Remote Sensing, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China

Research groups and institutes

Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science