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Professor Matthew Rigby
MSci(Cantab.), PhD(Lond.)
Current positions
Professor
School of Chemistry
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Research interests
My work focuses on developing methods for determining sources and sinks of greenhouse gases and ozone depleting substances. I carry out this work in collaboration with researchers around the world through the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE), a global monitoring network that measures over 40 trace gases at high frequency and precision. I use models of atmospheric chemistry and transport to determine emissions and sinks of atmospheric gases using the AGAGE measurements. I am the PI of the NERC higlight topic "Detection and Attribution of Regional Emissions in the UK (DARE-UK)" and the NERC Digital Environment project "Hub for Greenhouse Gas data Science (HUGS)". I am a co-of the NERC highlight topic MOYA, investigating the global methane budget, and co-I of the London GHG project. I am a lead author of the 2018 World Meteorological Organisation Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Self-Learning Digital Twins for Sustainable Land Management
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/05/2023 to 31/03/2025
Self-Learning Digital Twins for Sustainable Land Management
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/05/2023 to 31/03/2025
UK Emissions Measurement System 2023 - 2025
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/04/2023 to 31/03/2025
UK Emissions Measurement System 2023 - 2025
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/04/2023 to 31/03/2025
Investigating HALocarbon impacts on the global Environment
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/12/2022 to 30/11/2026
Thesis supervisions
Using Gaussian process emulation to quantify the global methane budget
Supervisors
Estimating London’s methane emissions using a novel urban observation system
Supervisors
Atmospheric inverse modelling of biospheric carbon dioxide fluxes in the UK and Europe
Supervisors
The Southern Ocean seasonal cycle of N 2 O, an atmospheric modelling study.
Supervisors
Publications
Selected publications
20/11/2008Renewed growth of atmospheric methane
Geophysical Research Letters
Re-evaluation of the lifetimes of the major CFCs and CH3CCl3 using atmospheric trends
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Three decades of global methane sources and sinks
Nature Geoscience
Recent publications
11/06/2024A 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
MALTA
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Rising Perfluorocyclobutane (PFC-318, c-C4F8) Emissions in China from 2011 to 2020 Inferred from Atmospheric Observations
Environmental Science and Technology
Sustained growth of sulfur hexafluoride emissions in China inferred from atmospheric observations
Nature Communications