David Parsons

David Parsons
Senior Research Scientist - Boulder, CO
DaveParsons@nwra.com

Research interests: Understanding the structure, predictability, and impacts of extreme convective rainfall events in our warming climate. Utilizing convective-permitting models and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to understand both local and downstream forecast failures in weather and climate models. Research on mesoscale phenomena, such as the nocturnal low-level jet , atmospheric bores, and diurnal variations in orographic flows.

News & Events

Accolade: KD Leka, Senior Research Scientist | March 2025 | More ⇒

Visitor: NWRA welcomes Dr. Hannah Schunker, Physicist, & Ms. Asha Venu, graduate student, Newcastle University (Australia) | February 2025 | More ⇒

Visitor: NWRA welcomes Dr. Alina Donea, Senior Lecturer, Astrophysics & Applied Mathematics & Mr. Angel Cifuentes, graduate student, Monash University (Australia) | February 2025 | More ⇒

Accolade: KD Leka, Graham Barnes, Ashley Crouch, Eric Wagner, Orion Poplawski | January 2025 | More ⇒

Highlighted Publications

"Student knowledge gains in polar literacy and statistics after completing guided inquiry modules in an undergraduate statistics course" | February 2025 | More ⇒

“Fingerprinting the Recovery of Antarctic Ozone” | January 2025 | More ⇒

“Higher-order gravity waves and traveling ionospheric disturbances from the polar vortex jet on 11-15 January 2016: Modeling with HIAMCM-SAMI3 and comparison with observations in the thermosphere and ionosphere” | January 2025 | More ⇒

“Two major sudden stratospheric warmings during winter 2023/2024” | January 2025 | More ⇒

“Coherent float arrays for near-inertial wave studies” | November 2024 | More ⇒

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