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Overview

Douglas J. Parker is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a specialization in Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Additional subfields include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Environmental Engineering, and Computational Mechanics.

Their main research topics cover a broad range of subjects, including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis

Douglas J. Parker has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • What Drives the Intensification of Mesoscale Convective Systems over the West African Sahel under Climate Change? (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
  • The African SWIFT Project: Growing Science Capability to Bring about a Revolution in Weather Prediction (2021), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Late-stage" deforestation enhances storm trends in coastal West Africa (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Combining CMIP data with a regional convection-permitting model and observations to project extreme rainfall under climate change (2021), Environmental Research Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Parker include:

  • John H. Marsham
  • Christopher M. Taylor
  • Cornelia Klein
  • David P. Rowell
  • Jennifer K. Fletcher

Parker's scholarly work has often appeared in several publication venues, notably:

  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York)
  • Journal of Climate
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis: An International Research Project and Field Campaign

    Jean-Luc Redelsperger;Chris D. Thorncroft;Arona Diedhiou;Thierry Lebel

  • Statistical comparison of InSAR tropospheric correction techniques

    D.P.S. Bekaert;R.J. Walters;T.J. Wright;A.J. Hooper

  • Frequency of extreme Sahelian storms tripled since 1982 in satellite observations

    Christopher M. Taylor;Danijel Belušić;Françoise Guichard;Douglas J. Parker

  • Seasonal evolution of the West African heat low: a climatological perspective

    Christophe Lavaysse;Cyrille Flamant;Serge Janicot;Douglas J. Parker

  • The diurnal cycle of the West African monsoon circulation

    D. J. Parker;R. R. Burton;A. Diongue-Niang;R. J. Ellis

  • The Geostationary Earth Radiation Budget Project

    J. E. Harries;J. E. Russell;J. A. Hanafin;H. Brindley

  • Overview of the Dust and Biomass-burning Experiment and African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis Special Observing Period-0

    Jim M. Haywood;Jacques Pelon;Paola Formenti;N. A. Bharmal

  • An observational case study of mesoscale atmospheric circulations induced by soil moisture

    Christopher M. Taylor;Douglas J. Parker;Philip P. Harris

  • The role of moist convection in the West African monsoon system: Insights from continental‐scale convection‐permitting simulations

    John H. Marsham;Nick S. Dixon;Luis Garcia-Carreras;Grenville M. S. Lister

  • EUREC 4 A

    Bjorn Stevens;Sandrine Bony;David Farrell;Felix Ament

  • Airborne observations of the impact of a convective system on the planetary boundary layer thermodynamics and aerosol distribution in the inter-tropical discontinuity region of the West African Monsoon

    Cyrille Flamant;Jean-Pierre Chaboureau;D.J. Parker;C.M. Taylor

  • Analysis of the African easterly jet, using aircraft observations from the JET2000 experiment

    Douglas J. Parker;Chris D. Thorncroft;Ralph R. Burton;Aïda Diongue-Niang

  • Dynamical mechanisms controlling the vertical redistribution of dust and the thermodynamic structure of the West Saharan atmospheric boundary layer during summer

    Juan Cuesta;Juan Cuesta;John H. Marsham;Douglas J. Parker;Cyrille Flamant

  • The importance of the representation of deep convection for modeled dust‐generating winds over West Africa during summer

    John H. Marsham;Peter Knippertz;Nick S. Dixon;Douglas J. Parker

  • The AMMA field campaigns: multiscale and multidisciplinary observations in the West African region

    Thierry Lebel;Douglas J. Parker;Cyrille Flamant;Bernard Bourlès

  • Scale Interactions between the MJO and the Western Maritime Continent

    C. E. Birch;S. Webster;S. C. Peatman;D. J. Parker

  • Modeling soil moisture-precipitation feedback in the Sahel: Importance of spatial scale versus convective parameterization

    Christopher M. Taylor;Cathryn E. Birch;Cathryn E. Birch;Douglas J. Parker;Nick Dixon

  • Meteorology and dust in the central Sahara: Observations from Fennec supersite‐1 during the June 2011 Intensive Observation Period

    J. H. Marsham;M. Hobby;C. J. T. Allen;J. R. Banks

  • Uplift of Saharan dust south of the intertropical discontinuity

    J. H. Marsham;D. J. Parker;C. M. Grams;C. M. Taylor

  • The Convective Storm Initiation Project

    Keith A. Browning;Alan M. Blyth;Peter A. Clark;Ulrich Corsmeier

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Marsham
John H. Marsham University of Leeds
Cathryn E. Birch
Cathryn E. Birch University of Leeds
Peter Knippertz
Peter Knippertz Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Cyrille Flamant
Cyrille Flamant Sorbonne University
Chris D. Thorncroft
Chris D. Thorncroft University at Albany, State University of New York
Alan M. Blyth
Alan M. Blyth University of Leeds
Jan Polcher
Jan Polcher École Polytechnique
Andrew G. Turner
Andrew G. Turner University of Reading
Andreas H. Fink
Andreas H. Fink Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Adrian M. Tompkins
Adrian M. Tompkins International Centre for Theoretical Physics

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