Description | Keith Shine is one of the leading international authorities on atmospheric radiative transfer. His work encompasses the factors that determine the energy budget of the climate system, the factors that drive climate change, and the development of methods to enable others to incorporate radiative processes in their work. He has been at the forefront in identifying and quantifying radiative forcing, the principal metric for measuring the strength of climate change mechanisms, and in assessing the limitations of this approach. Seminal contributions range from studies of stratospheric ozone depletion to the role of clouds, water vapour and aerosols in the troposphere. |