Publications

Jordan, G., Malavelle, F., Chen, Y., Peace, A., Duncan, E., Partridge, D. G., Kim, P., Watson-Parris, D., Takemura, T., Neubauer, D., Myhre, G., Skeie, R., Laakso, A., & Haywood, J. (2024). How well are aerosol–cloud interactions represented in climate models? – Part 1: Understanding the sulfate aerosol production from the 2014–15 Holuhraun eruption. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 24(3), 1939–1960. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-1939-2024
Manshausen, P., Watson-Parris, D., Christensen, M. W., Jalkanen, J.-P., & Stier, P. (2023). Rapid saturation of cloud water adjustments to shipping emissions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23(19), 12545–12555. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-12545-2023
Williams, A. I. L., Watson-Parris, D., Dagan, G., & Stier, P. (2023). Dependence of Fast Changes in Global and Local Precipitation on the Geographical Location of Absorbing Aerosol. Journal of Climate, 36(18), 6163–6176. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0022.1
Regayre, L. A., Deaconu, L., Grosvenor, D. P., Sexton, D. M. H., Symonds, C., Langton, T., Watson-Paris, D., Mulcahy, J. P., Pringle, K. J., Richardson, M., Johnson, J. S., Rostron, J. W., Gordon, H., Lister, G., Stier, P., & Carslaw, K. S. (2023). Identifying climate model structural inconsistencies allows for tight constraint of aerosol radiative forcing. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23(15), 8749–8768. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-8749-2023
Regayre, L. A., Deaconu, L., Grosvenor, D. P., Sexton, D., Symonds, C. C., Langton, T., Watson-Parris, D., Mulcahy, J. P., Pringle, K. J., Richardson, M., Johnson, J. S., Rostron, J., Gordon, H., Lister, G., Stier, P., & Carslaw, K. S. (2022). Identifying climate model structural inconsistencies allows for tight constraint of aerosol radiative forcing [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-1330
Watson-Parris, D., Christensen, M. W., Laurenson, A., Clewley, D., Gryspeerdt, E., & Stier, P. (2022). Shipping regulations lead to large reduction in cloud perturbations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(41), e2206885119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2206885119
Manshausen, P., Watson-Parris, D., Christensen, M. W., Jalkanen, J.-P., & Stier, P. (2022). Invisible ship tracks show large cloud sensitivity to aerosol. Nature, 610(7930), 101–106. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05122-0
Che, H., Stier, P., Watson-Parris, D., Gordon, H., & Deaconu, L. (2022). Source attribution of cloud condensation nuclei and their impact on stratocumulus clouds and radiation in the south-eastern Atlantic. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(16), 10789–10807. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-10789-2022
Whaley, C. H., Mahmood, R., von Salzen, K., Winter, B., Eckhardt, S., Arnold, S., Beagley, S., Becagli, S., Chien, R.-Y., Christensen, J., Damani, S. M., Dong, X., Eleftheriadis, K., Evangeliou, N., Faluvegi, G., Flanner, M., Fu, J. S., Gauss, M., Giardi, F., … Weiss-Gibbons, T. (2022). Model evaluation of short-lived climate forcers for the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme: a multi-species, multi-model study. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(9), 5775–5828. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-5775-2022
Kasim, M. F., Watson-Parris, D., Deaconu, L., Oliver, S., Hatfield, P., Froula, D. H., Gregori, G., Jarvis, M., Khatiwala, S., Korenaga, J., Topp-Mugglestone, J., Viezzer, E., & Vinko, S. M. (2022). Building high accuracy emulators for scientific simulations with deep neural architecture search. Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 3(1), 015013. https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/ac3ffa
Christensen, M. W., Gettelman, A., Cermak, J., Dagan, G., Diamond, M., Douglas, A., Feingold, G., Glassmeier, F., Goren, T., Grosvenor, D. P., Gryspeerdt, E., Kahn, R., Li, Z., Ma, P.-L., Malavelle, F., McCoy, I. L., McCoy, D. T., McFarquhar, G., Mülmenstädt, J., … Yuan, T. (2022). Opportunistic experiments to constrain aerosol effective radiative forcing. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(1), 641–674. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-641-2022
Watson-Parris, D., & Smith, C. J. (2022). Large uncertainty in future warming due to aerosol forcing. Nature Climate Change, 12(12), 1111–1113. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01516-0
Watson-Parris, D., Rao, Y., Olivié, D., Seland, Ø., Nowack, P., Camps‐Valls, G., Stier, P., Bouabid, S., Dewey, M., Fons, E., Gonzalez, J., Harder, P., Jeggle, K., Lenhardt, J., Manshausen, P., Novitasari, M., Ricard, L., & Roesch, C. (2022). ClimateBench v1.0: A Benchmark for Data‐Driven Climate Projections. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14(10). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002954
Williams, A. I. L., Stier, P., Dagan, G., & Watson-Parris, D. (2022). Strong control of effective radiative forcing by the spatial pattern of absorbing aerosol. Nature Climate Change, 12(8), 735–742. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01415-4
Salzmann, M., Ferrachat, S., Tully, C., Münch, S., Watson-Parris, D., Neubauer, D., Siegenthaler‐Le Drian, C., Rast, S., Heinold, B., Crueger, T., Brokopf, R., Mülmenstädt, J., Quaas, J., Wan, H., Zhang, K., Lohmann, U., Stier, P., & Tegen, I. (2022). The Global Atmosphere‐Aerosol Model ICON‐A‐HAM2.3–Initial Model Evaluation and Effects of Radiation Balance Tuning on Aerosol Optical Thickness. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002699
Watson-Parris, D., Williams, A., Deaconu, L., & Stier, P. (2021). Model calibration using ESEm v1.1.0 – an open, scalable Earth system emulator. Geoscientific Model Development, 14(12), 7659–7672. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-7659-2021
Sand, M., Samset, B. H., Myhre, G., Gliß, J., Bauer, S. E., Bian, H., Chin, M., Checa-Garcia, R., Ginoux, P., Kipling, Z., Kirkevåg, A., Kokkola, H., Le Sager, P., Lund, M. T., Matsui, H., van Noije, T., Olivié, D. J. L., Remy, S., Schulz, M., … Watson-Parris, D. (2021). Aerosol absorption in global models from AeroCom phase III. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(20), 15929–15947. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-15929-2021
Langton, T., Stier, P., Watson-Parris, D., & Mulcahy, J. P. (2021). Decomposing Effective Radiative Forcing Due to Aerosol Cloud Interactions by Global Cloud Regimes. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(18). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093833
Zhang, S., Stier, P., & Watson-Parris, D. (2021). On the contribution of fast and slow responses to precipitation changes caused by aerosol perturbations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(13), 10179–10197. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-10179-2021
Dagan, G., Stier, P., & Watson-Parris, D. (2021). An Energetic View on the Geographical Dependence of the Fast Aerosol Radiative Effects on Precipitation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 126(9). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JD033045
Watson-Parris, D. (2021). Machine learning for weather and climate are worlds apart. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 379(2194), 20200098. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0098
Watson-Parris, D., Sutherland, S. A., Christensen, M. W., Eastman, R., & Stier, P. (2021). A Large‐Scale Analysis of Pockets of Open Cells and Their Radiative Impact. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(6). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL092213
Gettelman, A., Lamboll, R., Bardeen, C. G., Forster, P. M., & Watson-Parris, D. (2021). Climate Impacts of COVID‐19 Induced Emission Changes. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(3). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL091805
Haywood, J. M., Abel, S. J., Barrett, P. A., Bellouin, N., Blyth, A., Bower, K. N., Brooks, M., Carslaw, K., Che, H., Coe, H., Cotterell, M. I., Crawford, I., Cui, Z., Davies, N., Dingley, B., Field, P., Formenti, P., Gordon, H., de Graaf, M., … Zuidema, P. (2021). The CLoud–Aerosol–Radiation Interaction and Forcing: Year 2017 (CLARIFY-2017) measurement campaign. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(2), 1049–1084. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-1049-2021
Brown, H., Liu, X., Pokhrel, R., Murphy, S., Lu, Z., Saleh, R., Mielonen, T., Kokkola, H., Bergman, T., Myhre, G., Skeie, R. B., Watson-Parris, D., Stier, P., Johnson, B., Bellouin, N., Schulz, M., Vakkari, V., Beukes, J. P., van Zyl, P. G., … Chand, D. (2021). Biomass burning aerosols in most climate models are too absorbing. Nature Communications, 12(1), 277. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20482-9
Dagan, G., Stier, P., & Watson-Parris, D. (2020). Aerosol Forcing Masks and Delays the Formation of the North Atlantic Warming Hole by Three Decades. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(22). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090778
Wood, T., Maycock, A. C., Forster, P. M., Richardson, T. B., Andrews, T., Boucher, O., Myhre, G., Samset, B. H., Kirkevåg, A., Lamarque, J.-F., Mülmenstädt, J., Olivié, D., Takemura, T., & Watson-Parris, D. (2020). The Southern Hemisphere Midlatitude Circulation Response to Rapid Adjustments and Sea Surface Temperature Driven Feedbacks. Journal of Climate, 33(22), 9673–9690. https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-1015.1
McCoy, I. L., McCoy, D. T., Wood, R., Regayre, L., Watson-Parris, D., Grosvenor, D. P., Mulcahy, J. P., Hu, Y., Bender, F. A.-M., Field, P. R., Carslaw, K. S., & Gordon, H. (2020). The hemispheric contrast in cloud microphysical properties constrains aerosol forcing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(32), 18998–19006. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922502117
Allen, R. J., Lamarque, J., Watson-Parris, D., & Olivié, D. (2020). Assessing California Wintertime Precipitation Responses to Various Climate Drivers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125(12). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031736
Che, H., Stier, P., Gordon, H., Watson-Parris, D., & Deaconu, L. (2020). The significant role of biomass burning aerosols in clouds andradiation in the South-eastern Atlantic Ocean [Preprint]. Clouds and Precipitation/Atmospheric Modelling/Troposphere/Physics (physical properties and processes). https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2020-532
Watson-Parris, D., Bellouin, N., Deaconu, L. T., Schutgens, N. A. J., Yoshioka, M., Regayre, L. A., Pringle, K. J., Johnson, J. S., Smith, C. J., Carslaw, K. S., & Stier, P. (2020). Constraining Uncertainty in Aerosol Direct Forcing. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(9). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087141
Bellouin, N., Quaas, J., Gryspeerdt, E., Kinne, S., Stier, P., Watson‐Parris, D., Boucher, O., Carslaw, K. S., Christensen, M., Daniau, A. ‐L., Dufresne, J. ‐L., Feingold, G., Fiedler, S., Forster, P., Gettelman, A., Haywood, J. M., Lohmann, U., Malavelle, F., Mauritsen, T., … Stevens, B. (2020). Bounding Global Aerosol Radiative Forcing of Climate Change. Reviews of Geophysics, 58(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019RG000660
Richardson, T. B., Forster, P. M., Smith, C. J., Maycock, A. C., Wood, T., Andrews, T., Boucher, O., Faluvegi, G., Fläschner, D., Hodnebrog, Ø., Kasoar, M., Kirkevåg, A., Lamarque, J. ‐F., Mülmenstädt, J., Myhre, G., Olivié, D., Portmann, R. W., Samset, B. H., Shawki, D., … Watson-Parris, D. (2019). Efficacy of Climate Forcings in PDRMIP Models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124(23), 12824–12844. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD030581
Heikenfeld, M., Marinescu, P. J., Christensen, M., Watson-Parris, D., Senf, F., van den Heever, S. C., & Stier, P. (2019). tobac 1.2: towards a flexible framework for tracking and analysis of clouds in diverse datasets. Geoscientific Model Development, 12(11), 4551–4570. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-4551-2019
Hodnebrog, Ø., Myhre, G., Samset, B. H., Alterskjær, K., Andrews, T., Boucher, O., Faluvegi, G., Fläschner, D., Forster, P. M., Kasoar, M., Kirkevåg, A., Lamarque, J.-F., Olivié, D., Richardson, T. B., Shawki, D., Shindell, D., Shine, K. P., Stier, P., Takemura, T., … Watson-Parris, D. (2019). Water vapour adjustments and responses differ between climate drivers. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19(20), 12887–12899. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-12887-2019
Watson-Parris, D., Schutgens, N., Reddington, C., Pringle, K. J., Liu, D., Allan, J. D., Coe, H., Carslaw, K. S., & Stier, P. (2019). In situ constraints on the vertical distribution of global aerosol. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19(18), 11765–11790. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-11765-2019
Dagan, G., Stier, P., & Watson-Parris, D. (2019). Contrasting Response of Precipitation to Aerosol Perturbation in the Tropics and Extratropics Explained by Energy Budget Considerations. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(13), 7828–7837. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083479
Fanourgakis, G. S., Kanakidou, M., Nenes, A., Bauer, S. E., Bergman, T., Carslaw, K. S., Grini, A., Hamilton, D. S., Johnson, J. S., Karydis, V. A., Kirkevåg, A., Kodros, J. K., Lohmann, U., Luo, G., Makkonen, R., Matsui, H., Neubauer, D., Pierce, J. R., Schmale, J., … Yu, F. (2019). Evaluation of global simulations of aerosol particle and cloud condensation nuclei number, with implications for cloud droplet formation. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19(13), 8591–8617. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8591-2019
Tegen, I., Neubauer, D., Ferrachat, S., Siegenthaler-Le Drian, C., Bey, I., Schutgens, N., Stier, P., Watson-Parris, D., Stanelle, T., Schmidt, H., Rast, S., Kokkola, H., Schultz, M., Schroeder, S., Daskalakis, N., Barthel, S., Heinold, B., & Lohmann, U. (2019). The global aerosol–climate model ECHAM6.3–HAM2.3 – Part 1: Aerosol evaluation. Geoscientific Model Development, 12(4), 1643–1677. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1643-2019
Dagan, G., Stier, P., & Watson-Parris, D. (2019). Analysis of the Atmospheric Water Budget for Elucidating the Spatial Scale of Precipitation Changes Under Climate Change. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(17–18), 10504–10511. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL084173
Smith, C. J., Kramer, R. J., Myhre, G., Forster, P. M., Soden, B. J., Andrews, T., Boucher, O., Faluvegi, G., Fläschner, D., Hodnebrog, Ø., Kasoar, M., Kharin, V., Kirkevåg, A., Lamarque, J. ‐F., Mülmenstädt, J., Olivié, D., Richardson, T., Samset, B. H., Shindell, D., … Watson-Parris, D. (2018). Understanding Rapid Adjustments to Diverse Forcing Agents. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(21). https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079826
Myhre, G., Kramer, R. J., Smith, C. J., Hodnebrog, Ø., Forster, P., Soden, B. J., Samset, B. H., Stjern, C. W., Andrews, T., Boucher, O., Faluvegi, G., Fläschner, D., Kasoar, M., Kirkevåg, A., Lamarque, J. ‐F., Olivié, D., Richardson, T., Shindell, D., Stier, P., … Watson-Parris, D. (2018). Quantifying the Importance of Rapid Adjustments for Global Precipitation Changes. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(20). https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL079474
Lund, M. T., Samset, B. H., Skeie, R. B., Watson-Parris, D., Katich, J. M., Schwarz, J. P., & Weinzierl, B. (2018). Short Black Carbon lifetime inferred from a global set of aircraft observations. Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 1(1), 31. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-018-0040-x
Watson-Parris, D., Schutgens, N., Winker, D., Burton, S. P., Ferrare, R. A., & Stier, P. (2018). On the Limits of CALIOP for Constraining Modeled Free Tropospheric Aerosol. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(17), 9260–9266. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078195
Watson-Parris, D., Schutgens, N., Cook, N., Kipling, Z., Kershaw, P., Gryspeerdt, E., Lawrence, B., & Stier, P. (2016). Community Intercomparison Suite (CIS) v1.4.0: a tool for intercomparing models and observations. Geoscientific Model Development, 9(9), 3093–3110. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-3093-2016
Badcock, T. J., Hammersley, S., Watson-Parris, D., Dawson, P., Godfrey, M. J., Kappers, M. J., McAleese, C., Oliver, R. A., & Humphreys, C. J. (2013). Carrier Density Dependent Localization and Consequences for Efficiency Droop in InGaN/GaN Quantum Well Structures. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 52(8S), 08JK10. https://doi.org/10.7567/JJAP.52.08JK10
Hammersley, S., Watson-Parris, D., Dawson, P., Godfrey, M. J., Badcock, T. J., Kappers, M. J., McAleese, C., Oliver, R. A., & Humphreys, C. J. (2012). The consequences of high injected carrier densities on carrier localization and efficiency droop in InGaN/GaN quantum well structures. Journal of Applied Physics, 111(8), 083512. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3703062
Watson-Parris, D., Godfrey, M. J., Dawson, P., Oliver, R. A., Galtrey, M. J., Kappers, M. J., & Humphreys, C. J. (2011). Carrier localization mechanisms in In x Ga 1 − x N/GaN quantum wells. Physical Review B, 83(11), 115321. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.83.115321
Hammersley, S., Badcock, T. J., Watson-Parris, D., Godfrey, M. J., Dawson, P., Kappers, M. J., & Humphreys, C. J. (2011). Study of efficiency droop and carrier localisation in an InGaN/GaN quantum well structure. Physica Status Solidi c, 8(7–8), 2194–2196. https://doi.org/10.1002/pssc.201001001
Watson-Parris, D., Godfrey, M. J., Oliver, R. A., Dawson, P., Galtrey, M. J., Kappers, M. J., & Humphreys, C. J. (2010). Energy landscape and carrier wave‐functions in InGaN/GaN quantum wells. Physica Status Solidi c, 7(7–8), 2255–2258. https://doi.org/10.1002/pssc.200983516