William Ball

Scientist
Solar, Atmospheric and Climate Physics 
Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos World Radiation Center
Switzerland

Scientist Physics
Biography

Postdoctoral researcher in Solar, Atmospheric and Climate Physics ,Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Researcher employed at the Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos World Radiation Center in Davos, Switzerland, Visiting Researcher in the Astrophysics group, He got Ph.D. in Solar Physics in 2012 at Imperial College London, Astrophysics Group. He did MSci in Mathematics & Physics (JH) in 2006 at Imperial College London, UK University of Durham.

Research Intrest

Natural forcings of climate and weather, total and spectral solar irradiance variability, stratospheric physics, stratospheric ozone, atmospheric chemistry, chemsitry climate models, bayesian inference 

List of Publications
Sukhodolov, T., Usoskin, I., Rozanov, E., Asvestari, E., Ball, W.T., Curran, M. A. J., Fischer, H., Kovaltsov, G., Miyake, F., W., Peter, T. , Plummer, C., Schmutz, Severi, M., Traversi, R, 2017. Atmospheric impacts of the strongest known solar particle storm of 775 AD Nature Scientific Reports, 10.1038/srep45257 Sukhodolov, T., Rozanov, E., Ball, W.T., Peter, T., Schmutz, W., Lossow, S., Peter, T., 2017. Modeling of the middle atmosphere response to 27-day solar irradiance variability J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phys. , 152-153, 50-61, 10.1016/j.jastp.2016.12.004 Ball, W.T., Kuchar, A., Rozanov, E.V., Staehelin, J., Tummon, F., Smith, A.K., Sukhodolov, T., Stenke, A., Revell, L., Coulon, A., Schmutz, W., Peter, T., 2016. An upper-branch Brewer-Dobson circulation index for attribution of stratospheric variability and improved ozone and temperature trend analysis Atmos. Chem. Phys. , 16, 15485-15500, 10.5194/acp-16-15485-2016