APPRAISE
Awards, facts and Figures
Timing
2005 - 2010/2011
Can I apply for a grant?
No, there are currently no open calls for this programme.
Budget
NERC allocated £5·6m to APPRAISE.
Programme Awards
Funding Round 1 - Core Programme
The core programme awards are issued as contracts, which will cover specifically targeted areas to provide underpinning science to the programme. Awards were made in each of the following four activities and deliverables:
Formation Pathways and Properties of Organic Aerosols
1.1 An improved description of secondary organic aerosol production
1.2 A framework for assessing its role in the behaviour of mixed component.Dr Alastair Lewis
University of York
Covering deliverable 1.1Dr John Reid
University of Bristol
Covering deliverable 1.1-1.2-
Improved Representation and Validation of the Radiative Properties and Impacts of Aerosols and Clouds
2.1 A community radiative transfer model that can be both simplified or made more complex and so be incorporated into a wide range of aerosol models, and an assessment of the quality of the required inputs.
2.2 Provision of aerosol optical depth, size distribution and refractive index such as is already available from the development/enhancement of existing sunphotometer measurements in the UK.
2.3 A database of aerosol products including aerosol optical depth, aerosol Angstrom coefficients, aerosol size distributions, and single scattering albedo, and similar products for specific FAAM aircraft operations/dedicated aerosol measurement campaigns.
Dr Eleanor Highwood,
University of Reading -
Development of a Global Model to Investigate Key Aerosol and Cloud Processes
3.1 A global aerosol transport model that is capable of (i) carrying the main aerosol types, (ii) deal with complex mixing states and (iii) act as a key stage in the hierarchical testing of aerosol processes in APPRAISE
3.2 Coordination of the development of the hierarchical model development, interfacing with other modelling effort in the UK.
Professor Ken Carslaw
University of Leeds -
Improved Coupling of In Situ Cloud Measurements with Novel Model Schemes
4.1 Improved treatment of cloud / aerosol interactions in cloud resolving models including explicit aerosol and cloud microphysics that is based on an improved knowledge of the interaction of clouds and aerosol especially mixed phase clouds.
Professor Thomas Choularton
University of Manchester
Funding Round 2
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