Understanding weather through fluid dynamics
Professor Douglas Parker explains how adventurous, sky-high research in meteorology often starts with the study of maths and physics. Heading intentionally into a storm, on an...
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LIFD Early Career Research Spotlight June: Tien Nguyen
Photograph of Tien and his supervisor - Prof Andrew Bayly standing in front of his poster at the International Congress on Particle Technology in Germany...
First responders may have high SARS-CoV-2 infection risks
Our Deputy Director Prof. Cath Noakes and colleagues have done some great work on the influence of masks on transmission risks in ambulances. First responders...
How to protect people from airborne transmission of the coronavirus
“It's no good just having a recirculating air-conditioning unit...What we need to do is let fresh air in from outside.” LIFD Deputy Director Cath Noakes argues for...
Ventilation in buildings: where water sanitation was in the 1800s
Professor Noakes stands by the side of the ducting in a ventilation system of a large building. The image must be credited: Jude Palmer/Royal Academy...
The Parallel Performance of Dynamo Simulations
Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics Deputy Director, Chris Davies, reports on the outcomes of his successful LIFD seedcorn funding award. These internal funding awards are...
Energy unleashed by submarine volcanoes could power a continent
Volcanic eruptions deep in our oceans are capable of extremely powerful releases of energy, at a rate high enough to power the whole of the...
Weather forecasts that predict meningitis outbreaks
Scientists are using weather forecasts to predict the location and scale of impending meningitis outbreaks in sub-Saharan Africa. It is part of an early-warning system...
This is the sound of West Africa's Changing Climate
If you could take a year’s worth of rain gauge readings from a city in Ghana, and transform the information into a musical track, what...
LIFD member wins 2020 Price Medal for Geophysics
Dr Philip Livermore: 2020 Price Medal for Geophysics Dr Philip Livermore, Associate Professor at the University of Leeds and LIFD member, receives the Price medal...