Dale R. Durran Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Adjunct Professor of Applied Mathematics Atmospheric Sciences Box 351640 University of Washington Seattle, WA  98195-1640 telephone : (206) 543-7440 facsimile:  (206) 543-0308 drdee <at> uw [dot] edu NVIDIA Principal Research Scientist, Climate My position is split 60% UW, 25% NVIDIA
Research Interests Deep Learning Weather Prediction Atmospheric Predictability Numerical Methods Mesoscale Dynamic Meteorology Mountain Meteorology Atmospheric Waves
		Iceland: International Conference on Alpine Meteorology, 2017.
		(Rain is not falling from the lenticular cloud, but blowing horizontally from the left to form the rainbow)

Curriculum Vitae

My Sculpture

Video

Textbooks and Similar Materials

• Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics: with Applications in Geophysics (2nd Ed) New York: Springer, ISBN 978-1-4419-6411-3, 516 p.
• Errata 
• Numerical Methods for Wave Equations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (1st Ed) New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0-387-98376-7, 465 p.
• Errata 
• Animated Course Notes: Rising Air and Thunderstorms (ATMS 103)
• Flash Course Note Snippet: Developing Rotation in Mesocyclones (ATMS 103)
• Animated Course Notes: Introduction to Weather for Non-Science Majors (ATM S 101)
• Flow visualization software: The Interactive Visualization Environment (IVE)

Visuals

• Fluid Dynamics Animations
  • Comparison of streamlines and trajectories
  • Vertically propagating internal gravity waves generated by a isolated source
  • Gravity waves generated by a similated 2D squall line propagating into the stratosphere
    
    
• YouTube Videos (available in HD)
  • Rocky Mountain Wave Clouds: time lapse movie photographed from Boulder, CO
  • Trapped lee waves over the western US
    
    
• Laboratory Demonstration
  • Comparing the rates of heat transport by convection and conduction
  • Watch the YouTube video in HD
    
    
• Thunderstorm development along the dryline (May 2008, note edge of low clouds in western Texas and Kansas)
  • Satellite loop only
  • Satellite with surface data

Coriolis Force Articles

• Is the Coriolis Force Really Responsible for the Inertial Oscillation (1993: BAMS, 74, 2179-2184) © Copyright 1993 AMS. This pdf incorporates the errata published in BAMS, p. 261 (probably in 1994).
• An Apparatus for Demonstrating the Inertial Oscillation (1996: BAMS, 77, 557-559) © Copyright 1996 AMS.

Publications

• Journal articles since 2000
• Selected additional works
• Our Washington Post Perspective: An imperative to act: Carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere takes ages to draw down. Published October 31, 2021 (First day of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow).  
• My Washington Post Perspective: Don't ask officials what they think of global warming -- ask if they want a warning. Published April 23, 2021 (Earth Day was the 22nd). Hollywood debut was 8 months later.     
• My article in The Conversation:  Whose votes count least in the Electoral College  

Former Ph.D Students (listed chronologically with current affiliation)

• Louisa Nance: NCAR, Boulder, CO (RAL Program Director) 
• Rajul Pandya: AGU (Founding Director: Thriving Earth Exchange)
• Craig Epifanio: Texas A&M, College Station, TX
• Claudio Piani:   American University, Paris, France (Dean of Educational Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness)
• Gretchen Mullendore: NCAR, Boulder, CO (Director MMM Laboratory)
• Sasa Gabersek: Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA
• Daniel Kirshbaum: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• Chih-Chieh Chen: NCAR, Boulder, CO
• Tomislav Maric: Vestas, Denmark
• P. Alex Reinecke: Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA
• Lucas Harris: GFDL, Princeton, NJ (Deputy Division Leader, Weather and Climate Dynamics Division)
• Justin Minder: University at Albany, Albany, NY
• Tra Dinh: University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
• Matt Hills: Weathernews, Netherlands
• Nick Siler, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
• Xiaoming Shi: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
• Maximo Menchaca, Food Revolution Network, Portland, OR
• Jonathan Weyn, Microsoft, Kirkland, OR 
• Johnathan Metz: Citadel, Greenwich, CT
• Lydia Tierney: Natural Power, Seattle, WA