Claire Ryder

Associate Professor in Mineral Dust Processes in the School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences, University of Reading

I am an Associate Professor in Mineral Dust Processes at the University of Reading, Department of Meteorology. My research is driven by understanding how desert dust impacts weather and climate, and in turn how weather and climate impacts dust emission and transport. I use observations (research aircraft, ground-based and remote sensing) and models to address these questions, aiming to improve our understanding of dust processes in the atmosphere and their representation in weather and climate models. I have been led field campaigns involving airborne measurements of dust in the West African region.