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David P. Rowell

David P. Rowell

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
23470
World Ranking
5384
National Ranking
409

Overview

David P. Rowell is affiliated with the Met Office in the United Kingdom, focusing on environmental and planetary sciences with an emphasis on climate variability and meteorological phenomena. Their research spans several interconnected topics, including climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and climate change impacts on agriculture. Additional areas of work include tropical and extratropical cyclones research, hydrology and drought analysis, flood risk assessment and management, and the study of atmospheric aerosols and clouds.

The scientist has published extensively in leading journals, with frequent contributions to the Journal of Climate, Environmental Research Letters, and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Other venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) and Climatic Change, reflecting a breadth of publication channels linked to climate and environmental research.

Some of the recent published papers include:

  • What Drives the Intensification of Mesoscale Convective Systems over the West African Sahel under Climate Change?, 2020, Journal of Climate
  • Effects of Explicit Convection on Future Projections of Mesoscale Circulations, Rainfall, and Rainfall Extremes over Eastern Africa, 2020, Journal of Climate
  • Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Change Simulations for Understanding Future Climate and Informing Decision-Making in Africa, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Combining CMIP data with a regional convection-permitting model and observations to project extreme rainfall under climate change, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Future Changes in Seasonality in East Africa from Regional Simulations with Explicit and Parameterized Convection, 2020, Journal of Climate

David P. Rowell collaborates regularly with a number of co-authors, including John H. Marsham, D Finney, Douglas J. Parker, Lawrence Jackson, and Rory G. J. Fitzpatrick. These collaborations highlight a network of researchers dedicated to advancing understanding in climate science, particularly in modeling and regional climate impact assessment.

The main fields of study consist primarily of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these, subfields include Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Water Science and Technology, and Economics and Econometrics.

Best Publications

  • Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century

    N. A. Rayner;D. E. Parker;E. B. Horton;C. K. Folland

  • Oceanic forcing of the wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation and European climate

    M. J. Rodwell;D. P. Rowell;C. K. Folland

  • An intercomparison of regional climate simulations for Europe: assessing uncertainties in model projections

    M. Déqué;D. P. Rowell;D. Lüthi;F. Giorgi

  • Variability of summer rainfall over tropical north Africa (1906–92): Observations and modelling

    David P. Rowell;Chris K. Folland;Kathy Maskell;M. Neil Ward

  • Selecting CMIP5 GCMs for downscaling over multiple regions

    C. F. McSweeney;R. G. Jones;R. G. Jones;Robert W. Lee;D. P. Rowell

  • Assessing Potential Seasonal Predictability with an Ensemble of Multidecadal GCM Simulations

    David P. Rowell

  • On the predictability of the interannual behaviour of the Madden‐Julian oscillation and its relationship with el Nin̄o

    J. M. Slingo;D. P. Rowell;K. R. Sperber;F. Nortley

  • The Impact of Mediterranean SSTs on the Sahelian Rainfall Season

    David P. Rowell

  • The Met Office Global Coupled model 2.0 (GC2) configuration

    K. D. Williams;C. M. Harris;A. Bodas-Salcedo;J. Camp

  • Causes and uncertainty of future summer drying over Europe

    David P. Rowell;Richard G. Jones

  • Large rainfall changes consistently projected over substantial areas of tropical land

    Robin Chadwick;Peter Good;Gill Martin;David P. Rowell

  • Enhanced future changes in wet and dry extremes over Africa at convection-permitting scale.

    Elizabeth J. Kendon;Rachel A. Stratton;Simon Tucker;John H. Marsham

  • Reconciling Past and Future Rainfall Trends over East Africa

    David P. Rowell;Ben Bb B. Booth;Sharon E. Nicholson;Peter Good

  • The Elements of Climate Variability in the Tropical Atlantic Region

    R. T. Sutton;S. P. Jewson;D. P. Rowell

  • Progress in regional downscaling of west African precipitation

    Heiko Paeth;Nicholas M.J. Hall;Miguel Angel Gaertner;Marta Dominguez Alonso

  • Teleconnections between the tropical Pacific and the Sahel

    David P. Rowell

  • A scenario of European climate change for the late twenty-first century: seasonal means and interannual variability

    David P. Rowell

  • The Atmospheric Response over the North Atlantic to Decadal Changes in Sea Surface Temperature

    S. Venzke;M. R. Allen;R. T. Sutton;D. P. Rowell

  • Robustness of Future Changes in Local Precipitation Extremes

    Elizabeth J. Kendon;David P. Rowell;Richard G. Jones;Erasmo Buonomo

  • Variability and predictability of West African droughts: a review on the role of sea surface temperature anomalies.

    Belen Rodríguez-Fonseca;Elsa Mohino;Carlos R. Mechoso;Cyril Caminade

  • Reconciling Past and Future Rainfall Trends over East Africa

    B. Booth;D. Rowell;S. E. Nicholson;P. Good

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Marsham
John H. Marsham University of Leeds
Kerry H. Cook
Kerry H. Cook The University of Texas at Austin
Jinming Feng
Jinming Feng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yongkang Xue
Yongkang Xue University of California, Los Angeles
Edward K. Vizy
Edward K. Vizy The University of Texas at Austin
Douglas J. Parker
Douglas J. Parker University of Leeds

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