David Douglass (physicist)
{{Short description|American physicist}}
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| fields = Solid-state physics
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| thesis_title = Antiferromagnetic resonance in manganous chloride
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David H. Douglass (born 1932) is an American physicist at the University of Rochester.
Background
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Climate change
A 2005 study by Douglass and fellow University of Rochester physicist Robert S. Knox argued that global climate models underestimated the climate response to the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. The study also contended that global temperature returned to normal much faster after the eruption than the models had predicted.{{cite journal|last1=Douglass |first1=David H. |last2=Knox |first2=Robert S.|title=Climate forcing by the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo|journal=Geophysical Research Letters|date=2005|volume=32|issue=5|pages=L05710 |doi=10.1029/2004GL022119|arxiv = physics/0509166 |bibcode = 2005GeoRL..32.5710D |s2cid=13563394 }}{{cite web|title=Press release: AGU Journal highlights - 23 March 2005|url=https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-03/agu-ajh032305.php|publisher=AGU via EurekAlert!|language=en|date=23 March 2005}}
A 2007 paper by Douglass and coworkers questioned the reliability of 22 of the most commonly used global climate models analyzed by Benjamin D. Santer and used by the IPCC to predict accelerated warming in the troposphere.{{cite journal|last=Douglass|first=David H.|author2=Christy, John R. |author3=Pearson, Benjamin D. |author4= Singer, S. Fred |title=A comparison of tropical temperature trends with model predictions|journal=International Journal of Climatology|date=15 November 2008|volume=28|issue=13|pages=1693–1701|doi=10.1002/joc.1651|bibcode = 2008IJCli..28.1693D |s2cid=10364112 |doi-access=free}}{{cite book |first=Fred |last=Pearce |authorlink=Fred Pearce |title=The Climate Files: The Battle for the Truth about Global Warming |date=2010 |publisher=Guardian Books |isbn=978-0-85265-229-9 |page=XIV}} The study had originally been submitted to Geophysical Research Letters the previous year, but was rejected in September 2006 on Santer's recommendation.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/feb/09/ipcc-report-author-data-openness | title=Victory for openness as IPCC climate scientist opens up lab doors | work=The Guardian | date=9 February 2010 | accessdate=15 March 2014 | last=Pearce |first=Fred}} Santer and 17 co-authors later rebutted Douglass' paper.{{cite journal|doi=10.1002/joc.1756 | volume=28 | issue=13 | title=Consistency of modelled and observed temperature trends in the tropical troposphere | year=2008 | journal=International Journal of Climatology | pages=1703–1722 | last1 = Santer | first1 = B. D.| bibcode=2008IJCli..28.1703S | s2cid=14941858 | url=http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/6558/1/PT_consistency%202008.pdf }}{{cite journal|last=Heffernan|first=Olive|title=Riddle resolved|journal=Nature Reports Climate Change|volume=1|date=November 2008|issue=811|pages=139|doi=10.1038/climate.2008.112|doi-access=free}}
Douglass was named a fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1963{{cite web|url=http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/past-fellows/?tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows[action]=list&tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows[controller]=Fellows&cHash=8f53adde7b4458aff6de5c2679773fee|title=Past Fellows|last=Alfred P. Sloan Foundation|work=Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Official Website|publisher=Alfred P. Sloan Foundation|accessdate=21 October 2014|archive-date=23 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140923123354/http://www.sloan.org/sloan-research-fellowships/past-fellows/?tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows[action]=list&tx_sloangrants_sloanfellows[controller]=Fellows&cHash=8f53adde7b4458aff6de5c2679773fee|url-status=dead}} and elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1969.{{cite web|title=APS Fellow Archive, search on year 1969 and institution University of Chicago|website=American Physical Society|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1969&unit_id=&institution=University+of+Chicago}} He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences.
References
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External links
{{Wikiquote|David Douglass}}
- [http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~douglass/ Home page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060901091908/http://spider.pas.rochester.edu/mainFrame/people/pages/Douglass_David_H.html Home page #2] University of Rochester, Department of Physics & Astronomy
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Category:21st-century American physicists
Category:University of Maine alumni
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology staff
Category:University of Chicago faculty
Category:University of Rochester faculty
Category:Fellows of the American Physical Society
Category:MIT Lincoln Laboratory people
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