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Overview

Adrian Chappell is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and focuses research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly work covers a variety of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Soil Science, Earth-Surface Processes, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research topics encompass multiple aspects of environmental dynamics and processes. Key topics include Aeolian processes and effects, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Wind and Air Flow Studies, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Recent publications by Adrian Chappell include:

  • "Satellites reveal Earth's seasonally shifting dust emission sources" (2023, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • "A unifying modelling of multiple land degradation pathways in Europe" (2024, Nature Communications)
  • "Rapid urbanization induced daily maximum wind speed decline in metropolitan areas: A case study in the Yangtze River Delta (China)" (2022, Urban Climate)
  • "A North American dust emission climatology (2001-2020) calibrated to dust point sources from satellite observations" (2021, Aeolian Research)
  • "Evaluation of Global Reanalysis Land Surface Wind Speed Trends to Support Wind Energy Development Using In Situ Observations" (2020, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology)

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Nicholas P. Webb
  • Mark Hennen
  • Lee Heng
  • Hanqing Yu
  • Kerstin Schepanski

Adrian Chappell has published regularly in several academic journals. Most notably, multiple papers have appeared in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and The Science of The Total Environment. Other venues include Energy and Built Environment, Aeolian Research, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Best Publications

  • Dust cycle: An emerging core theme in Earth system science

    Yaping Shao;Karl-Heinz Wyrwoll;Adrian Chappell;Jianping Huang

  • A global spectral library to characterize the world’s soil

    R.A. Viscarra Rossel;T. Behrens;E. Ben-Dor;D.J. Brown

  • Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

    Yiqi Luo;Yiqi Luo;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström;Steven D. Allison;Niels H. Batjes

  • A reversal in global terrestrial stilling and its implications for wind energy production

    Zhenzhong Zeng;Zhenzhong Zeng;Alan D. Ziegler;Timothy Searchinger;Long Yang

  • Fertilizing the Amazon and equatorial Atlantic with West African dust

    Charlie S. Bristow;Karen A. Hudson-Edwards;Adrian Chappell

  • Current and future assessments of soil erosion by water on the Tibetan Plateau based on RUSLE and CMIP5 climate models.

    Hongfen Teng;Zongzheng Liang;Songchao Chen;Yong Liu

  • The global significance of omitting soil erosion from soil organic carbon cycling schemes

    Adrian Chappell;Jeffrey Baldock;Jonathan Sanderman;Jonathan Sanderman

  • Land degradation and climate change: building climate resilience in agriculture

    Nicholas P Webb;Nadine A Marshall;Lindsay C Stringer;Mark S Reed

  • Drought in the Sahel

    C.T. Agnew;A. Chappell

  • Lateral transport of soil carbon and land-atmosphere CO2 flux induced by water erosion in China.

    Yao Yue;Yao Yue;Jinren Ni;Philippe Ciais;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao

  • Using the 'grieving' process and learning journals to evaluate students' responses to problem-based learning in an undergraduate geography curriculum

    Adrian Chappell

  • Assimilating satellite imagery and visible-near infrared spectroscopy to model and map soil loss by water erosion in Australia

    Hongfen Teng;Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel;Zhou Shi;Thorsten Behrens

  • Sources, transport and deposition of iron in the global atmosphere

    Rong Wang;Rong Wang;Yves Balkanski;Yves Balkanski;Olivier Boucher;Laurent Bopp

  • Minimising soil organic carbon erosion by wind is critical for land degradation neutrality

    Adrian Chappell;Nicholas P. Webb;John F. Leys;Cathleen M. Waters

  • Microbial hitchhikers on intercontinental dust: catching a lift in Chad

    Jocelyne Favet;Ales Lapanje;Adriana Giongo;Suzanne Kennedy

  • Evaluating geostatistical methods of blending satellite and gauge data to estimate near real-time daily rainfall for Australia

    Adrian Chappell;Luigi J. Renzullo;Tim H. Raupach;Malcolm Haylock

  • Modelling climate change in West African Sahel rainfall (1931–90) as an artifact of changing station locations

    Adrian Chappell;Clive T. Agnew

  • Connectivity as a concept for characterising hydrological behaviour

    Katerina Michaelides;Adrian Chappell

  • AUSTRALIAN DUST STORMS: TEMPORAL TRENDS AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH SYNOPTIC PRESSURE DISTRIBUTIONS (1960-99)

    Marie Ekstrom;Grant Harvey McTainsh;Adrian Chappell

  • Dust-raising in the dustiest place on earth

    Andrew Warren;Adrian Chappell;Martin C. Todd;Charlie Bristow

  • Using albedo to reform wind erosion modelling, mapping and monitoring

    Adrian Chappell;Nicholas P. Webb

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas P. Webb
Nicholas P. Webb New Mexico State University
Grant Harvey McTainsh
Grant Harvey McTainsh Griffith University
Ted M. Zobeck
Ted M. Zobeck Agricultural Research Service
Jeffrey E. Herrick
Jeffrey E. Herrick New Mexico State University
Jonathan Sanderman
Jonathan Sanderman Woods Hole Research Center
R. A. Viscarra Rossel
R. A. Viscarra Rossel Curtin University
Zhou Shi
Zhou Shi Zhejiang University
Charlie S. Bristow
Charlie S. Bristow Birkbeck, University of London
Zhenzhong Zeng
Zhenzhong Zeng Southern University of Science and Technology
Jeff Baldock
Jeff Baldock Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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