Douglas Parker research projects and students.

I am Professor of Meteorology, within the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) at the University of Leeds. I have a joint position between the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science (ICAS; part of the School of Earth and Environment), and the School of Mathematics.

I also have an adjunct position at NORCE Climate in Bergen [NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS].

Meteorology of Tropical West Africa: The Forecasters' Handbook
Douglas J. Parker, Mariane Diop-Kane (Editors)
ISBN: 978-1-118-39130-3
496 pages
April 2017, Wiley-Blackwell

Météorologie de l'Afrique de l'Ouest tropicale: Le manuel du prévisionniste
Douglas J. Parker, Mariane Diop-Kane, Jean Philippe Lafore (Editors)
ISBN: 978-2-7598-2108-2
756 pages
July 2018, EDP Sciences

I am working with the following projects.

Co-supervising the following PhD students.
  • James Bassford
  • Gregory Dritschel
  • Alex Lewis
  • Yutong Lu
  • Kasia Nowakowska
  • Mendrika Rakotomanga

Incomplete list of completed projects

  • EUREC4A (2019-2023): shallow trade cumulus clouds and their interactions with atmospheric circulation.

  • GCRF African SWIFT: African Science for Weather Information and Forecasting Techniques (2017-2022).
  • Met Office Professor of Meteorology at the University of Leeds, 50% supported by the Met Office as part of the Met Office Academic Partnership (2010-2019).
  • Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2014-2018).
  • WX4SEN: Special Weather: a Royal Society project (2021) in partnership with Leeds schools to explore issues around the access to weather information by people with Special Educational Needs.
  • IMPALA (FCFA project, improving climate models for Africa, 2015-2021; Dr Lawrence Jackson)
  • GENESIS (part of the NERC-Met Office ParaCon programme, studying the initiation of clouds and updraughts, 2016-2019: Dr Leif Denby)
  • AMMA-2050 (DFID-NERC Future Climates for Africa (FCFA) regional project, 2015-2019; Dr Rory Fitzpatrick)
  • VERA (NERC West Africa vegetation/rainfall, 2015-2018; Dr Julia Crook)
  • Met Office Academic Partnership Scientist, Dr Steven Böing, 2015-2018
  • NCAS Atmospheric Physics group at Leeds (Dr Alan Gadian, Dr Ralph Burton, Dr John Marsham)
  • INCOMPASS (Indian monsoon campaign 2016; analysis and modelling: Dr Jennifer Fletcher)
  • SAMBBA (NERC Amazonian cloud/aerosol/dynanics)
  • SWAMMA (NERC West Africa cloud/aerosol/dynanics, 2014-2018; Dr Alex Roberts)
  • DIAMET (UK Storms Programme, 2011-2015)
  • Fennec (2010-2014)
  • Cascade (2008-2012)
  • AMMA / AMMA-EU / AMMA-2 (2004-2020)
  • CSIP (2003-2008)
  • JET2000 (2000-2004)
  • WAMP (1998-2002)
and completed PhD students
  • Fran Morris (NERC DTP PhD, NERC CASE with Met Office 2019-2022)
  • Matt Clark (Met Office PT PhD, 2014-2021)
  • Lucy Recchia (NERC DTP PhD student, 2016-2020)
  • Peter Willetts 2019 (NERC DTP PhD student)
  • Oliver Halliday 2018 (NERC CASE with Simon Vosper, Met Office)
  • Tom Richardson 2017 (Piers Forster was lead supervisor; CASE with Tim Andrews, Met Office)
  • Mansi Bhowmick 2017 Commonwealth research student
  • Rory Fitzpatrick 2016 (CASE with Caroline Bain, Met Office)
  • Miroslav Provod 2016
  • David Bekaert 2015
  • Tim Baker
  • Luis Garcia-Carreras
  • Paul Dodds
  • Caroline Bain (CASE with Chris Taylor, CEH)
  • Richard Ellis (CASE with Chris Taylor, CEH)
  • Gerard Devine
  • Wenshou Tian
  • Nick Dixon
  • Charlotte Pascoe

Last modified: January 2025.

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