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Richard Pope

Senior Research Fellow

EO Data-Model Evaluation

Research interests

I am interested in atmosphere-biosphere interactions (e.g. wildfire emissions) and links to air quality. I use atmospheric chemistry models and satellite observations, which help quantify long-term changes in tropospheric composition and its impact on global/regional air quality.

Recent publications

Evaluating tropospheric nitrogen dioxide in UKCA using OMI satellite retrievals over south and east Asia. 2025-05-08

Large reductions in satellite-derived and modelled European lower-tropospheric ozone during and after the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2022). 2025-04-23

Performance evaluation of Atmotube PRO sensors for air quality measurements in an urban location. 2025-02-13

Long-range transport of air pollutants increases the concentration of hazardous components of PM<sub>2.5</sub> in northern South America. 2024-10-16

Satellite-observed relationships between land cover, burned area, and atmospheric composition over the southern Amazon. 2024-10-02

Investigation of the impact of satellite vertical sensitivity on long-term retrieved lower-tropospheric ozone trends. 2024-08-22

Quantifying the tropospheric ozone radiative effect and its temporal evolution in the satellite era. 2024-03-22

Quantifying effects of long-range transport of NO<sub>2</sub> over Delhi using back trajectories and satellite data. 2024-01-19

Investigation of spatial and temporal variability in lower tropospheric ozone from RAL Space UV–Vis satellite products. 2023-12-05

Investigation of the summer 2018 European ozone air pollution episodes using novel satellite data and modelling. 2023-10-19

Intercomparison of Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide (TransCom‐COS): 2. Evaluation of Optimized Fluxes Using Ground‐Based and Aircraft Observations. 2023-09-27

Constraining the budget of atmospheric carbonyl sulfide using a 3-D chemical transport model. 2023-09-08

Atmospheric distribution of HCN from satellite observations and 3-D model simulations. 2023-04-24

Intercomparison of Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide (TransCom‐COS; Part One): Evaluating the Impact of Transport and Emissions on Tropospheric Variability Using Ground‐Based and Aircraft Data. 2023-03-27

Investigating the global OH radical distribution using steady-state approximations and satellite data. 2022-08-17

Exploiting satellite measurements to explore uncertainties in UK bottom-up NO<sub><i>x</i></sub> emission estimates. 2022-04-04

Evaluation of SO<sub>2</sub>, SO<sub>4</sub><sup>2−</sup> and an updated SO<sub>2</sub> dry deposition parameterization in the United Kingdom Earth System Model. 2021-12-20

Impact of the 2019/2020 Australian Megafires on Air Quality and Health. 2021-10

Large Enhancements in Southern Hemisphere Satellite‐Observed Trace Gases Due to the 2019/2020 Australian Wildfires. 2021-09-27

The 2019 Raikoke volcanic eruption – Part 1: Dispersion model simulations and satellite retrievals of volcanic sulfur dioxide. 2021-07-19

Diagnosing air quality changes in the UK during the COVID-19 lockdown using TROPOMI and GEOS-Chem. 2021-05-01

COVID-19 lockdown-induced changes in NO<sub>2</sub> levels across India observed by multi-satellite and surface observations. 2021-04-01

Late-spring and summertime tropospheric ozone and NO<sub>2</sub> in western Siberia and the Russian Arctic: regional model evaluation and sensitivities. 2021-03-25

Tropospheric ozone radiative forcing uncertainty due to pre-industrial fire and biogenic emissions. 2020-09-22

Analysis and attribution of total column ozone changes over the Tibetan Plateau during 1979–2017. 2020-07-22

Impact on air quality and health due to the Saddleworth Moor fire in northern England. 2020-07-14

Description and evaluation of the UKCA stratosphere–troposphere chemistry scheme (StratTrop vn 1.0) implemented in UKESM1. 2020-03-17

Impact of the June 2018 Saddleworth Moor wildfires on air quality in northern England. 2020-03-13

Substantial Increases in Eastern Amazon and Cerrado Biomass Burning‐Sourced Tropospheric Ozone. 2020-02-16

Quantifying the transboundary contribution of nitrogen oxides to UK air quality. 2020-02

Impact of weather types on UK ambient particulate matter concentrations. 2020-01

High resolution satellite observations give new view of UK air quality. 2019-09

Impact of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on the interannual variability of methane and tropospheric ozone. 2019-07-09

Influence of the wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation on European tropospheric composition: an observational and modelling study. 2018

Widespread changes in UK air quality observed from space. 2018

The TOMCAT global chemical transport model v1.6: description of chemical mechanism and model evaluation. 2017

Detection of the Yorkshire power stations from space: an air quality perspective. 2016

Identifying errors in dust models from data assimilation. 2016

Intercomparison and evaluation of satellite peroxyacetyl nitrate observations in the upper troposphere–lower stratosphere. 2016

Observing UK Bonfire Night pollution from space: analysis of atmospheric aerosol. 2016

The impact of synoptic weather on UK surface ozone and implications for premature mortality. 2016

Evaluation of a regional air quality model using satellite column NO2: treatment of observation errors and model boundary conditions and emissions. 2015

The influence of synoptic weather regimes on UK air quality: regional model studies of tropospheric column NO2. 2015

The influence of synoptic weather regimes on UK air quality: analysis of satellite column NO2. 2014