| Bob Davies-Jones | |
| Citizenship: | British American (1983) |
| Nationality: | British |
| Fields: | Meteorology |
| Workplaces: | National Severe Storms Laboratory |
| Alma Mater: | University of Birmingham (B.Sc., 1964) University of Colorado Boulder (Ph.D. 1969) |
| Thesis Title: | The Linear Theory of Thermal Convection in Horizontal Plane Couette Flow |
| Thesis Year: | 1969 |
| Known For: | Tornadic supercell dynamics and tornadogenesis |
| Awards: | NOAA Distinguished Career Award;[1] Nikolai Dotzek Award |
Robert Peter Davies-Jones is a British atmospheric scientist who substantially advanced understanding of supercell and tornado dynamics and of tornadogenesis. A theoretician, he utilized numerical simulations as well as storm chasing field investigations in his work as a longtime research meteorologist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma.[2]
Davies-Jones received a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Birmingham in 1964 and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1969. From 1969 to 1970 Davies-Jones did a post-doc at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) before embarking on a long career at NSSL in 1970. He retired from NSSL in 2009 where he remains an emeritus researcher and continues to publish some papers. Davies-Jones is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS). Davies-Jones earned the NOAA Distinguished Career Award[1] and in 2018 the Nikolai Dotzek Lifetime Achievement Award by the European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL).[3]