Tara AbuBakir Ali Rasoul

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Doctoral Researcher

Contact details

Address: School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Tara Rasoul is undertaking doctoral research into Urban Climate Effects on Air Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry. She is using a modelling approach to investigate the effect of nitryl chloride gas upon air quality in terms of ozone formation, and to examine the effect of temperature and NOx emission variation upon the abundance of nitryl chloride in urban climate.

Qualifications

B.Sc - Geology, University of Sulaimanyah, Iraq
MSc - Climate and Environmental Change, Coventry University, UK
PhD - Atmospheric Science and Air Pollution, University of Birmingham, UK

Biography

Tara Rasoul obtained her degree in Geology at the University of Sulaimanyah in Iraq and she worked as a geologist for six years. Then she obtained an Msc in Climate and Environmental Change at Coventry University before undertaking her PhD with Integrated Study in Atmospheric Sciences and Air Pollution at the University of Birmingham.

Doctoral research

PhD title: Urban Climate Effects on Air Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry
Supervisors: Professor William Bloss and Professor Francis Pope

Research

Research interests

Air pollution and modelling, Nighttime Chemistry