Our People
Dr Adam Povey
Lecturer in Earth Observation
EO Data-Model Evaluation
Research interests
I observe the interactions between clouds, aerosols, and their environment in order to understand how humans affect the climate, precipitation, and air quality. That involves processing petabytes of satellite images with the Optimal Retrieval of Aerosol and Cloud, integrated with ground-based observations, and applying statistical analyses able to handle such large datasets, with a particular focus on the uncertainty in the data.
Recent publications
The Challenges and Limitations of Validating Satellite-Derived Datasets Using Independent Measurements: Lessons Learned from Essential Climate Variables. 2025-08-11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-025-09898-4 ISSN: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/0169-3298 ISSN: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1573-0956
Making Sense of Uncertainties: Ask the Right Question. 2025-06-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-025-09889-5 ISSN: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/0169-3298 ISSN: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1573-0956
Geostationary aerosol retrievals of extreme biomass burning plumes during the 2019–2020 Australian bushfires. 2024-05-29
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-3279-2024
Characterization of dust aerosols from ALADIN and CALIOP measurements. 2024-04-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-2521-2024
Uncertainty in aerosol–cloud radiative forcing is driven by clean conditions. 2023-04-05
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-4115-2023
Uncertainty-bounded estimates of ash cloud properties using the ORAC algorithm: application to the 2019 Raikoke eruption. 2022-10-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2022-166
Is Anthropogenic Global Warming Accelerating?. 2022
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Opportunistic experiments to constrain aerosol effective radiative forcing. 2022
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Description and evaluation of aerosol in UKESM1 and HadGEM3-GC3.1 CMIP6 historical simulations. 2020-12-21
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-6383-2020
Cloud_cci ATSR-2 and AATSR data set version 3: a 17-year climatology of global cloud and radiation properties. 2020-09-09
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-2121-2020
A review and framework for the evaluation of pixel-level uncertainty estimates in satellite aerosol remote sensing. 2020-02-03
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-373-2020
The Evaluation of the North Atlantic Climate System in UKESM1 Historical Simulations for CMIP6. 2020
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Toward More Representative Gridded Satellite Products. 2019-05
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2018.2881762
The Community Cloud retrieval for CLimate (CC4CL) – Part 1: A framework applied to multiple satellite imaging sensors. 2018-06-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3373-2018
The Community Cloud retrieval for CLimate (CC4CL) – Part 2: The optimal estimation approach. 2018-06-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3397-2018
Finding ocean states that are consistent with observations from a perturbed physics parameter ensemble. 2018
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Unveiling aerosol–cloud interactions – Part 1: Cloud contamination in satellite products enhances the aerosol indirect forcing estimate. 2017-11-07
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-13151-2017
Cloud property datasets retrieved from AVHRR, MODIS, AATSR and MERIS in the framework of the Cloud_cci project. 2017
Uncertainty information in climate data records from Earth observation. 2017
Development, production and evaluation of aerosol climate data records from European satellite observations (Aerosol_cci). 2016
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Known and unknown unknowns: uncertainty estimation in satellite remote sensing. 2015-11-06
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-4699-2015
Retrieval of aerosol backscatter, extinction, and lidar ratio from Raman lidar with optimal estimation. 2014-03-13
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-757-2014
Estimation of a lidar's overlap function and its calibration by nonlinear regression. 2012
The Radiation Tolerance of Specific Optical Fibers for the LHC Upgrades. 2012
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The radiation tolerance of specific optical fibres exposed to 650 kGy(Si) of ionizing radiation. 2009
