Luke Abraham
Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
Biography
I am a NCAS Senior Research Associate working with Prof. John Pyle in the Centre for Atmospheric Science. I work with the United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosols community chemistry-aerosol-climate model. This is based on the Met Office Unified Model, and is a collaboration between the Universities of Cambridge, Leeds, Oxford, and the Met Office. I am also a member of NCAS-CMS and provide model support for UKCA on both ARCHER and MONSooN. If you require support please raise a ticket with the CMS Helpdesk, or if you would like to know more about UKCA in general, please email me, or browse through the UKCA wiki. This provides information about the model, the standard jobs that are available, publications using the model, and also a tutorial covering how to get started with the model and add in new chemistry, emissions, species etc.
Research Interest
I am interested in chemistry-climate interactions and Earth-system modelling. I joined the group to work on the QUEST Earth-System Model, and now work on the UKCA chemistry-aerosol-climate model, which is part of the UM and will form the chemistry and aerosol components of UK-ESM1, the next generation UK joint NERC-Met Office Earth-system model. A lot of my recent work has been on the development of a coupled atmosphere-ocean-chemistry model, using the MetUM atmosphere and NEMO/CICE, as covered in a NCAS research highlight. Recently I have also been involved with the CCMI project. The video below follows the evolution of the Total Ozone Column from 1960-2100 from one of our ensemble members.
Publications
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Heterogeneous reaction of ClONO<sub>2</sub> with TiO<sub>2</sub> and SiO<sub>2</sub> aerosol particles: implications for stratospheric particle injection for climate engineering M Tang, J Keeble, PJ Telford, FD Pope, P Braesicke, PT Griffiths, NL Abraham, J McGregor, IM Watson, RA Cox, JA Pyle, M Kalberer – Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2016) 16, 15397
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Review of the global models used within phase 1 of the Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI) O Morgenstern, M Hegglin, E Rozanov, F O'Connor, N Luke Abraham, H Akiyoshi, A Archibald, S Bekki, N Butchart, M Chipperfield, M Deushi, S Dhomse, R Garcia, S Hardiman, L Horowitz, P Jöckel, B Josse, D Kinnison, M Lin, E Mancini, M Manyin, M Marchand, V Marécal, M Michou, L Oman, G Pitari, D Plummer, L Revell, D Saint-Martin, R Schofield, A Stenke, K Stone, K Sudo, T Tanaka, S Tilmes, Y Yamashita, K Yoshida, G Zeng – Geoscientific Model Development (2017) 10, 639
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On the role of ozone feedback in the ENSO amplitude response under global warming. PJ Nowack, P Braesicke, N Luke Abraham, JA Pyle – Geophys Res Lett (2017) 44, 3858
