Dr. Charles Chemel
BSc, MSc, PhD
Job title: Research Fellow in Atmospheric Science
Email Address: C.Chemel@herts.ac.uk
Telephone Number: 01707286143
Memberships and Appointments: Research Scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) Weather Directorate Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Atmospheric Science, at the University of Cambridge
Charles Chemel undertook his university studies in France. On completion of his PhD, in Fluid Mechanics and Transfers in 2005, at the Laboratory of Geophysical and Industrial Fluid Flows, he was retained as a temporary lecturer at the University of Grenoble. In 2006 he came to the UK as a research fellow with the Centre for Atmospheric and Instrumentation Research (CAIR) at the University of Hertfordshire. In 2009 he joined the Weather Directorate of the National Centre of Atmospheric Science.
Our understanding of the conditions and mechanisms whereby pollutants are redistributed respective to the atmospheric boundary layer, in particular over heterogeneous surfaces, is still very limited. Convection is one of the key processes by which the atmosphere transports water, pollutants, and energy, but remains poorly understood in the natural environment. Dr. Chemel’s research work, involving a mixture of modelling and data analysis, aims at improving knowledge and models of such transport processes. He uses state-of-the-art models, often at high resolution, to interpret the natural environment. Improvement in our physical understanding contributes to the development of such models leading to improved predictions of weather, climate, and air quality.
Currently he plays a key role in the MEGAPOLI (Megacities: Emissions, urban, regional and Global Atmospheric POLlution and climate effects, and Integrated tools for assessment and mitigation) project funded by the EU under FP7 and the CREMO (Comparison of simple and advanced REgional MOdels) project funded by the UK Environment Agency. He is also involved in other national and international projects which concern the distribution and effects of pollution in the environment. He is a theme leader as regards modelling of weather and air quality in CAIR, as well as a visiting researcher at the Centre for Atmospheric Science, at the University of Cambridge, where he is working on the modelling of tropical convection on local to global scales.
Highlights: New paper published in Mon. Wea. Rev. (see the 'Publications' tab below)
Funding Councils
Research Interests
His current research interests are concerned with atmospheric dynamics and chemistry and include: environmental fluid dynamics, transport processes, atmospheric boundary-layer physics, convection, flow over heterogeneous surfaces, and urban air quality.
Teaching specialisms
The courses he is most eager to teach are: environmental fluid dynamics, atmospheric dynamics and turbulence, buoyancy effects in fluids, and numerical methods for environmental fluid dynamics.
Collaborations and Projects
Currently he plays a key role in:
MEGAPOLI (Megacities: Emissions, urban, regional and Global Atmospheric POLlution and climate effects, and Integrated tools for assessment and mitigation). Funding agency: EU under FP7
CREMO (Comparison of simple and advanced REgional MOdels). Funding agency: UK Environment Agency
He is also involved in other national and international projects which concern the distribution and effects of pollution in the environment, including:
ClearfLo (Clean Air for London). Funding agency: UK Environment Research Council (NERC)
TRANSPHORM (TRANSport related air Pollution and Health impacts - Integrated methodologies fOR assessing particulate Matter). Funding agency: EU under FP7
COST 728 (Enhancing Mesoscale Meteorological Modelling Capabilities for Air Pollution and Dispersion Applications). Funding agency: European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)