David Stephenson (climatologist)

David B. Stephenson is a British academic and Professor of Statistical Climatology at the University of Exeter. He is known for his use of statistical modelling in atmospheric and climate science.[1] He is the 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

  • Royal Meteorological Society's Adrian Gill Award (2012)[5]
  • Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2015)[6]

Career

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]

References

  1. ^ "David Stephenson | Royal Society". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 1 January 2023.
  2. ^ "XCS". December 2022.
  3. ^ Robinson, Debbie. "Professor honoured by election to Academia Europaea". www.exeter.ac.uk. University of Exeter. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  4. ^ Google Scholar
  5. ^ "Adrian Gill Prize". Rmets.org.
  6. ^ "Wolfson Merit Award".
  7. ^ ""DB Stephenson (1988) Non-perturbative field theories, PhD thesis."".


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