Roseanne Diab is a researcher, the Director of ''Gender in science, innovation, technology and engineering'' (SITE), a

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's programme unit hosted by

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(TWAS) and former

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of the

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. She is Fellow of the

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and Emeritus Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the same university.

Career

Diab has published over 86

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scholarly articles. She is recognised for her contribution in the field of

atmospheric sciences Atmospheric science is the study of the Earth's atmosphere and its various inner-working physical processes. Meteorology includes atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics with a major focus on weather forecasting. Climatology is the study of ...

, particularly

climate change In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...

air quality Air pollution is the contamination of air due to the presence of substances in the atmosphere that are harmful to the health of humans and other living beings, or cause damage to the climate or to materials. There are many different types ...

dispersion modeling Atmospheric dispersion modeling is the mathematical simulation of how air pollutants disperse in the ambient atmosphere. It is performed with computer programs that include algorithms to solve the mathematical equations that govern the pollutant ...

and

tropospheric ozone Ground-level ozone (O3), also known as surface-level ozone and tropospheric ozone, is a trace gas in the troposphere (the lowest level of the Earth's atmosphere), with an average concentration of 20–30 parts per billion by volume (ppbv), with cl ...

variability. She is also a

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of the Society of South African Geographers and has been a member of various international bodies such as the Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (CACGP) and the International Ozone Commission (IOC).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Diab, Roseanne South African women scientists Fellows of the African Academy of Sciences Members of the Academy of Science of South Africa 21st-century women scientists Academic staff of the University of KwaZulu-Natal Year of birth missing (living people) Living people