Prof. Dr. Tim Butler
Research Group Leader
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Tim Butler obtained his PhD in 2003 at the University of Melbourne, Australia on the topic of the global atmospheric methane budget. After several years of research experience at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, he joined RIFS Potsdam to lead a research group with a focus on air pollution modelling. In 2017, he was appointed guest professor at the Freie Universität Berlin in the Faculty of Geosciences.
Projects
Groups
Blog Posts
- 2017 to the present: Project Leader, Air Quality Modelling for Policy Advice, RIFS (formerly IASS) Potsdam
- 2015-2016: Programme Leader, Air Quality in the Context of Global Change, IASS Potsdam
- 2012-2016: Project Leader, Chemistry of Short-Lived Climate-Forcing Pollutants, IASS Potsdam
- 2003-2011: Postdoctoral research associate, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz
- 1998-2002: PhD studies, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne
- Climate change
- Air quality from global, through regional, to urban scales
- Tropospheric ozone
- Emissions
- Modelling
Publications at the RIFS
Publications prior to joining the RIFS
- Butler, T.M., Lawrence, M.G., Taraborrelli, D., Lelieveld, J. Multi-day ozone production potential of volatile organic compounds calculated with a tagging approach (2011) Atmospheric Environment, 45 (24), pp. 4082-4090.
- Butler, T.M., Lawrence, M.G. The influence of megacities on global atmospheric chemistry: A modelling study (2009) Environmental Chemistry, 6 (3), pp. 219-225.
- Lelieveld, J., Butler, T.M., Crowley, J.N., Dillon, T.J., Fischer, H., Ganzeveld, L., Harder, H., Lawrence, M.G., Martinez, M., Taraborrelli, D., Williams, J. Atmospheric oxidation capacity sustained by a tropical forest (2008) Nature, 452 (7188), pp. 737-740.
- Dentener, F., Stevenson, D., Ellingsen, K., Van Noije, T., Schultz, M., Amann, M., Atherton, C., Bell, N., Bergmann, D., Bey, I., Bouwman, L., Butler, T., Cofala, J., Collins, B., Drevet, J., Doherty, R., Eickhout, B., Eskes, H., Fiore, A., Gauss, M., Hauglustaine, D., Horowitz, L., Isaksen, I.S.A., Josse, B., Lawrence, M., Krol, M., Lamarque, J.F., Montanaro, V., Müller, J.F., Peuch, V.H., Pitari, G., Pyle, J., Rast, S., Rodriguez, J., Sanderson, M., Savage, N.H., Shindell, D., Strahan, S., Szopa, S., Sudo, K., Van Dingenen, R., Wild, O., Zeng, G.The global atmospheric environment for the next generation (2006) Environmental Science and Technology, 40 (11), pp. 3586-3594.
- Butler, T.M., Simmonds, I., Rayner, P.J. Mass balance inverse modelling of methane in the 1990s using a chemistry transport model (2004) Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 4 (11-12), pp. 2561-2580.
- Member of the Geo.X Steering Committee
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (journal)
- Geoscientific Model Development (journal)