Multi-scale environmental remote sensing for understanding dust in the high latitudes

多尺度环境遥感了解高纬度地区的灰尘

• 批准号: 2755219
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Loughborough University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2755219
• 关键词: Multi; scale; environmental; remote; sensing

Mineral dust is now established as having a key influence in a wide range of biogeochemical cycles, and as a significant player within the Earth system. While most research on dust has been undertaken in the desert low latitudes, the operation of high latitude regions as important dust sources has only recently been appreciated. This importance is especially acute because dust generated in high latitude regions may have local impacts on particularly sensitive environmental and ecological systems (e.g. cryosphere, Arctic lake systems). While low latitude dust research has been well-informed by satellite studies, a number of challenges has meant the full potential of using remote sensing to better understand dust processes at the high latitudes has not yet been realised. This PhD will tap the diverse and exciting range of Earth Observation resources that now exist, applying them to examine dust activity at different temporal and spatial scales in a global study of the high latitude regions. The project offers an excellent chance to develop high level expertise and experience in a wide range of satellite and climate datasets, as well as GIS techniques, and apply them to better understanding land-atmosphere interactions in the high latitude environments.

矿物粉尘现在被认为在广泛的地球化学循环中具有关键影响，并在地球系统中发挥重要作用。虽然大多数关于沙尘的研究都是在沙漠低纬度地区进行的，但高纬度地区作为重要沙尘源的作用直到最近才被认识到。这一重要性尤其突出，因为高纬度地区产生的灰尘可能对特别敏感的环境和生态系统（如冰冻圈、北极湖泊系统）产生局部影响。虽然卫星研究为低纬度沙尘研究提供了充分的信息，但一些挑战意味着利用遥感更好地了解高纬度沙尘过程的全部潜力尚未实现。这个博士学位将利用现有的地球观测资源的多样性和令人兴奋的范围，应用它们来研究高纬度地区全球研究中不同时空尺度的尘埃活动。该项目提供了一个极好的机会，可以在广泛的卫星和气候数据集以及地理信息系统技术方面发展高水平的专门知识和经验，并将其应用于更好地了解高纬度环境中的陆地-大气相互作用。