Dr Brian Kerridge
Remote Sensing Programme Lead
Email address:
brian.kerridge@stfc.ac.uk
Following award of his doctorate from U. Oxford in 1985 and post-doc at NOAA Aeronomy Lab, Kerridge joined RAL in 1987. He established RAL’s Remote-Sensing Group which has international standing in retrieving atmospheric constituent distributions from satellite observations. Kerridge was co-leader of NCEO’s Atmospheric Composition Theme from 2007-12. In parallel he helped define the operational satellite system to monitor atmospheric composition 2025-45 through memberships of advisory groups for EC, Eumetsat and ESA. Kerridge has lectured on ESA’s advanced atmospheric training courses and was a member of the Science Advisory Committee for the Space Research Organisation of Netherlands (SRON) 2007-17. He has associations with several UK Universities including co-supervision or examination of PhD students (Oxford, Reading, Imperial, Leeds, Leicester, Bristol).
Research Interests
- Satellite sounding of atmospheric composition: development and application of state-of-the-art schemes to produce global data and their scientific exploitation.
