Manu Thomas
Ph.D., Air Quality researcher.

Manu Thomas
Fields of work
Modeling aerosol-cloud-climate interactions on different spatial scales and to understand how a better representation of the processes can result in accurate radiative forcing estimates. Understanding the intercontinental transport of pollutants, both natural and anthropogenic from satellites.
Research interests
- Aerosol-cloud-climate interactions and the radiative forcing effects
- Long range transport of pollutants and the role of meteorology
- Aerosols from explosive volcanic eruptions; their chemical transformations, long range transport and climate impact.
- Satellite analysis of optical properties of different aerosol species.
Special competences
Global and regional scale modeling, aerosol-cloud and aerosol-radiation interactions, satellite based monitoring of air pollutants and their coupling with meteorology in the high latitude regions including Arctic.
Latest publications
Nutrient recovery in pyrolysis biochars for agricultural applications-Biochemical compositions and nutrient extraction techniques
Mohammad Reza Maghsoodi, Hasan Hosseini, Larissa Ghodszad, Helen Avery
Projected changes in near-surface wind speed in the Arctic by a regional climate model
Mirseid Akperov, Wenxin Zhang, Torben Koenigk, Alexey Eliseev, Vladimir A. Semenov, Igor I. Mokhov
How good is my drought index?
A. Shyrokaya, F. Pappenberger, G. Messori, Ilias Pechlivanidis, H. Cloke, G. Di Baldassarre