Residence England Fields Meteorology | Name Robert Davies-Jones Nationality British | |
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Citizenship British
American (1983) Institutions National Severe Storms Laboratory Thesis The Linear Theory of Thermal Convection in Horizontal Plane Couette Flow (1969) Known for Tornadic supercell dynamics and tornadogenesis Institution National Severe Storms Laboratory | ||
Alma mater University of Birmingham | ||
Robert Peter Davies-Jones is a British atmospheric scientist who substantially advanced understanding of supercell and tornado dynamics and of tornadogenesis. A theoretician, he utilized numerical simulations as well as storm chasing field investigations in his work as a longtime research meteorologist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) in Norman, Oklahoma.
Davies-Jones received a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Birmingham in 1964 and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1969. From 1969-1970 Davies-Jones did a post-doc at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) before embarking on a long career at NSSL in 1970. He retired from NSSL in 2009 where he remains an emeritus researcher and continues to publish some papers. Davies-Jones is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).