
Professor Anita Ganesan
PhD
Current positions
Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry
School of Geographical Sciences
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Research interests
My research focuses on understanding the composition of the atmosphere, including greenhouse gases and ozone depleting substances. I am interested in finding new ways to understand how sources and sinks of these trace gases vary from different systems and regions. I use both measurements and models to derive this understanding.
Some of my interests include:
- understanding why methane concentrations in the atmosphere exhibit large year-to-year changes, using data from surface, aircraft and satellite platforms, and incorporating information from isotopologues and other tracers
- understanding emissions of halocarbons from key regions of the world such as India
- using atmospheric measurements to investigate questions about biogeochemical processes, such as nitrous oxide emissions from the coastal ocean
- developing novel inverse modeling strategies and advancing methods for uncertainty quantification in this approach
- conducting measurement programs to collect data from critical source regions in the world
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
UK Emissions Measurement System 2023 - 2025
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/04/2023 to 31/03/2025
Investigating HALocarbon impacts on the global Environment
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/12/2022 to 30/11/2026
A pilot programme to measure the South Asian outflow of ozone depleting substances and greenhouse gases
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
31/12/2020 to 30/12/2022
A pilot programme to measure the South Asian outflow of ozone depleting substances and greenhouse gases
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
31/12/2020 to 30/12/2022
Thesis supervisions
Inverse estimation of sector-level methane emissions using observations of secondary trace gases
Supervisors
Evaluating methane emissions in a warming Arctic
Supervisors
Modelling the global atmospheric methane uptake by soils in the past, present and future
Supervisors
Modelling the global atmospheric methane uptake by soils in the past, present and future
Supervisors
The Southern Ocean seasonal cycle of N 2 O, an atmospheric modelling study.
Supervisors
Metrology and measurements of atmospheric nitrous oxide in the UK
Supervisors
Global Climate System Response to Antarctic Meltwater and Implications for Future Climate
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
01/08/2024A decrease in radiative forcing and equivalent effective chlorine from hydrochlorofluorocarbons
Nature Climate Change
Atmospheric oxygen as a tracer for fossil fuel carbon dioxide
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Combining Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches to Evaluate Recent Trends and Seasonal Patterns in UK N2O Emissions
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Increases in Global and East Asian Nitrogen Trifluoride (NF3) Emissions Inferred from Atmospheric Observations
Environmental Science & Technology
Increasing Methane Emissions and Widespread Cold-Season Release From High-Arctic Regions Detected Through Atmospheric Measurements
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres