Dr Anita Ganesan
PhD
Current positions
Associate Professor
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
8089 NE/V002996/1 OpenGHG A Ganesan
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
14/08/2020 to 13/08/2023
Thesis supervisions
Inverse estimation of sector-level methane emissions using observations of secondary trace gases
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
Publications
Recent publications
05/03/2024Sustained growth of sulfur hexafluoride emissions in China inferred from atmospheric observations
Nature Communications
Anthropogenic Chloroform Emissions from China Drive Changes in Global Emissions
Environmental Science and Technology
In Situ Observations of Halogenated Gases at the Shangdianzi Background Station and Emission Estimates for Northern China
Environmental Science & Technology
Western European emission estimates of CFC-11, CFC-12 and CCl4 derived from atmospheric measurements from 2008 to 2021
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Modelling the growth of atmospheric nitrous oxide using a global hierarchical inversion
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics