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Douglas J. Parker
Researcher at University of Leeds
Publications - 169
Citations - 8043
Douglas J. Parker is an academic researcher from University of Leeds. The author has contributed to research in topics: Monsoon & Convection. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 157 publications receiving 7037 citations. Previous affiliations of Douglas J. Parker include University of Reading & Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research.
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African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis: An International Research Project and Field Campaign
Jean-Luc Redelsperger,Chris D. Thorncroft,Arona Diedhiou,Thierry Lebel,Douglas J. Parker,Jan Polcher +5 more
TL;DR: The African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) as discussed by the authors is an international project to improve our knowledge and understanding of the West African monsoon and its variability with an emphasis on daily-to-interannual time scales.
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The diurnal cycle of the West African monsoon circulation
Douglas J. Parker,Ralph Burton,Aida Diongue-Niang,R. J. Ellis,M. Felton,Christopher M. Taylor,Chris D. Thorncroft,P. Bessemoulin,Adrian M. Tompkins +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a coherent diurnal cycle of the West African monsoon winds is shown, where the convective boundary layer (CBL) is deep and the boundary-layer turbulence is much weaker, and the meridional advection, with isentropic upgliding and downgliding is most efficient at night.
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Statistical comparison of InSAR tropospheric correction techniques
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors performed a statistical comparison of the state-of-the-art tropospheric corrections estimated from the MERIS and MODIS spectrometers, a low and high spatial-resolution weather model (ERA-I and WRF), and both the conventional linear and new power-law empirical methods.
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Frequency of extreme Sahelian storms tripled since 1982 in satellite observations
Christopher M. Taylor,Danijel Belušić,Françoise Guichard,Douglas J. Parker,Théo Vischel,Olivier Bock,Phil Harris,Serge Janicot,Cornelia Klein,Gérémy Panthou +9 more
TL;DR: It is argued that Saharan warming intensifies convection within Sahelian MCSs through increased wind shear and changes to the Saharan air layer, suggesting that the Sahel will experience particularly marked increases in extreme rain.
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Seasonal evolution of the West African heat low: a climatological perspective
Christophe Lavaysse,Cyrille Flamant,Serge Janicot,Douglas J. Parker,Jean-Philippe Lafore,Benjamin Sultan,Jacques Pelon +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method to detect the West African heat low (WAHL) in order to monitor its seasonal displacement over West Africa during the period 1979-2001, using the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) ERA-40 reanalyses.