David Douglass (physicist) explained

David H. Douglass
Fields:Solid-state physics
Workplaces:University of Rochester
Alma Mater:University of Maine, MIT
Thesis Title:Antiferromagnetic resonance in manganous chloride
Thesis Url:https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32535666
Thesis Year:1959

David H. Douglass (born 1932) is an American physicist at the University of Rochester.

Climate change

A 2005 study by Douglass and fellow University of Rochester physicist Robert S. Knox argued that global climate models underestimated the climate response to the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. The study also contended that global temperature returned to normal much faster after the eruption than the models had predicted.[1] [2]

A 2007 paper by Douglass and coworkers questioned the reliability of 22 of the most commonly used global climate models analyzed by Benjamin D. Santer and used by the IPCC to predict accelerated warming in the troposphere.[3] [4] The study had originally been submitted to Geophysical Research Letters the previous year, but was rejected in September 2006 on Santer's recommendation.[5] Santer and 17 co-authors later rebutted Douglass' paper.[6] [7]

Douglass was named a fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1963[8] and elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1969.[9] He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences.

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Notes and References

  1. Douglass . David H. . Knox . Robert S.. Climate forcing by the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo. Geophysical Research Letters. 2005. 32. 5. L05710 . 10.1029/2004GL022119. physics/0509166 . 2005GeoRL..32.5710D . 13563394 .
  2. Web site: Press release: AGU Journal highlights - 23 March 2005. AGU via EurekAlert!. en. 23 March 2005.
  3. Douglass. David H.. Christy, John R. . Pearson, Benjamin D. . Singer, S. Fred . A comparison of tropical temperature trends with model predictions. International Journal of Climatology. 15 November 2008. 28. 13. 1693–1701. 10.1002/joc.1651. 2008IJCli..28.1693D . 10364112 . free.
  4. Book: Pearce, Fred . Fred Pearce

    . Fred Pearce . The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth about Global Warming . 2010 . . 978-0-85265-229-9 . XIV.

  5. News: Victory for openness as IPCC climate scientist opens up lab doors . . 9 February 2010 . 15 March 2014 . Pearce . Fred.
  6. 10.1002/joc.1756 . 28 . 13 . Consistency of modelled and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere . 2008 . International Journal of Climatology . 1703–1722 . Santer . B. D.. 2008IJCli..28.1703S . 14941858 .
  7. Heffernan. Olive. Riddle resolved. Nature Reports Climate Change. 1. November 2008. 811. 139. 10.1038/climate.2008.112. free.
  8. Web site: Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Official Website. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 21 October 2014. 23 September 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140923123354/http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/past-fellows/?tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows[action]=list&tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows[controller]=Fellows&cHash=8f53adde7b4458aff6de5c2679773fee. dead.
  9. Web site: APS Fellow Archive, search on year 1969 and institution University of Chicago. American Physical Society.

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