Current Research

The Atmospheric Chemistry Research Group (ACRG) carries out research here at Bristol and worldwide in collaboration with other atmospheric chemistry research centres, universities and third parties. Worldwide the group is involved in the Atmospheric Global Gases Experiment (AGAGE), monitoring global background levels of a wide range of greenhouse gases. The group is actively involved in the verification of UK greenhouse gas emissions through the Deriving Emissions linked to Climate Change (DECC) network.

The ACRG is a member of the Bristol Biogeochemistry Research Centre (BBRC) and collaborates with other researchers from the University of Bristol through the Cabot Institute. The ACRG has also been involved in a number of previous projects.

Links to data archives are included on the project pages where available. 

• AGAGE

  The ACRG runs three of the world's nine AGAGE (Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment) global background stations.
• Air quality modelling

  The ACRG uses a suite of global and regional chemical transport models to simulate the emissions and transportation of species linked to air quality.
• Chemistry-climate modelling

  The ACRG uses chemistry-climate models which aim to integrate chemical processes, such as ozone formation, aerosol dynamics, and greenhouse gas cycles, with physical climate models to simulate the Earth system more faithfully.
• Childhood Cancer

  The ACRG are collaborating with the Chulabhorn Research Institute in Thailand to investigate the effects of some air pollutants on pregnant women and their children.
• CORSO

  The CORSO project directly contributes to the implementation of the new European anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions Monitoring and Verification Support capacity (CO2MVS) in the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS).
• GEMMA

  GEMMA is a programme to enhance the UK's measurement and modelling capability for greenhouse gas emission estimation.
• HECTER

  Understanding the climate and air quality impacts of hydrogen energy.
• InHALE

  InHALE (Investigating HALocarbon impacts on the global Environment) is a NERC funded research programme to improve understanding in global halocarbon measurements and modelling to ensure the success of the Montreal Protocol.
• OpenGHG

  OpenGHG is a cloud-computing platform being developed to allow collation, comparison and analysis of greenhouse gas data. This builds on work completed as part of the HUGS project.
• PARIS

  PARIS is a 4-year Horizon Europe research project that aims to improve estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from a selection of European countries
• Tracers

  The ACRG uses a range of perfluorocarbon tracers to 'track' the movement of air parcels on urban and regional scales
• TwinAIR

  Digital Twins Enabled Indoor Air Quality Management for Healthy Living
• UK DECC Network

  The UK DECC (Deriving Emissions linked to Climate Change) Network consists of four sites in the UK and Ireland measuring greenhouse and ozone depleting gases.