David Stephenson (climatologist)
David B. Stephenson is a British academic and Professor of Statistical Climatology at the University of Exeter known for his use of statistical modelling in atmospheric and climate science.[1] He is founder and director of the Exeter Climate Systems research centre and also the Head of Statistical Science at the University of Exeter.[2]
He was one of the authors of Chapter 14 of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report. He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea.[3]
Together with IT Joliffe, he edited Forecast verification: a practitioner's guide in atmospheric science (John Wiley & Sons, 2nd ed. 2012), which has been cited over 2200 times.[4]
Awards
[edit]- Royal Meteorological Society's Adrian Gill Award (2012)[5]
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2015)[6]
Career
[edit]He received a 1st class Honours degree in Physics at Oxford University (1982-1985) and received a PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics from Edinburgh University (1982-1988) (supervised by Profs. Peter Higgs and Richard Kenway) [7][better source needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "David Stephenson | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
- ^ "XCS". December 2022.
- ^ Robinson, Debbie. "Professor honoured by election to Academia Europaea". www.exeter.ac.uk. University of Exeter. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- ^ Google Scholar
- ^ "Adrian Gill Prize". Rmets.org.
- ^ "Wolfson Merit Award".
- ^ ""DB Stephenson (1988) Non-perturbative field theories, PhD thesis."".
External links
[edit]- "Staff page". emps.exeter.ac.uk. University of Exeter. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- David Stephenson at Google Scholar
- Exeter Climate Systems
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