Doug Johnson Email & Phone Number

Exeter, United Kingdom

I have led and managed a programme of change to set up a new directorate within the Met Office (Applied Science and Scientific Consultancy). The main objectives of this are:- to maximise the application of the Met Office's world leading science to develop new products and services for customers and stakeholders that have weather and climate sensitive operations- to align the Met Office science and business strategies- to develop a new Met Office scientific consultancy business to provide cost benefit and risk mitigation advice to our customers- to enable scientists and customers to engage so that our scientific capabilities are used to maximum effect.

Exeter, United Kingdom

I have led and managed a programme of change to set up a new directorate within the Met Office (Applied Science and Scientific Consultancy). The main objectives of this are:- to maximise the application of the Met Office's world leading science to develop new products and services for customers and stakeholders that have weather and climate sensitive operations- to align the Met Office science and business strategies- to develop a new Met Office scientific consultancy business to provide cost benefit and risk mitigation advice to our customers- to enable scientists and customers to engage so that our scientific capabilities are used to maximum effect.

Exeter

I led and managed the Met Office Aviation Business Unit. I was responsible for:- running the regulated aviation business providing services to the CAA, NATS, and ICAO including: (a) World Area Forecast Centre (WAFC) (b) Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC) (c) Satellite Distribution Service (SADIS) (d) UK low level aviation service (e) specific aviation met R&D (f) contribution to SESAR met R&D- providing commercial met services to individual airlines, airports, and ATC

Exeter, United Kingdom

During this period, as well as leading the Aviation Programme, I was responsible for the Met Office's commercial transport business. This involved:- providing services to the UK road sector; mainly gritting forecast services for the road authorities and car park services - providing services to the global oil and gas exploration sector; this required managing our offices in Aberdeen.

Bracknell

I moved from the science side of the Met Office to the Business area so that I could use my scientific knowledge in aviation meteorology to develop products and services for the aviation market. I was the main point of contact for the Met Office with the CAA for all of the UK aviation regulated services; arranging for all forecasts for 108 UK airports, ATC and pilots. I was also responsible for co-ordinating the aviation specific R&D that the Met Office undertook.During this time the Met Office started to grow its commercial offerings (non-regulated) to the UK aviation community which I was heavily involved with. I was responsible for starting the development of a tier of web briefing services for the GA community, airports and commercial pilots.

Farnborough

I joined the Meteorological Research Flight (MRF) and became a flight scientist using a modified C-130 aircraft (Snoopy) for making atmospheric research mesurements. I was responsible for the Met Office cloud physic research programme and for making measurements in clouds to understand their microphysical processes. I used this to develop paramaterisations of cloud processes to better simulate them in numerical weather prediction models. These included:- the effective radius of water droplets in warm layer clouds- the ice to water ratios in mixed phase clouds- effective radius of ice particles in cold layer clouds- cloud fraction of warm and cold layer cloudsI took part in a number of large international field campaigns using multiple research aircraft where I was the Met Office or UK lead scientist. These included:- GULFEX (1991). To investigate the environemental impact of the Kuwait oil well fires following the Gulf war- ASTEX (1992). The Atlantic Stratocumulus Transition Experiment to investigate the transition from stratocumulus to trade wind cumulus in the subtropics.- MAST (1994). The Monterrey Area Ship Track experiment to investigate the impact of ship emissions on overlying stratocumulus clouds- ACE-2 (1997). The Aerosol Characterisation Experiment to see how polluted continental airmasses evolve into clean maritime airmasses over the sea. I led a Lagrangian experiment where constant level balloons released off the coast of Portugal were tracked by GPS locators and aircraft each day flew out to their location to make measurments to see how the aerosol characteristics of the airmass had changed- INTACC (1999). The Interaction of Aerosols and Cold Clouds experiment to investigate how ice nuclei in mountain wave clouds influence the freezing of super-cooled water droplets.I gained significant experience of aviation met, making measurements in the atmosphere, analysing them and using them to improve our numerical weather forecasts.

Bracknell

I joined the Met Office's Geophysical Fluid Research Laboratory that was undertaking laboratory experiments to simulate flows in planetary atmospheres. I was involved in designing and building rotating, room sized experiments. The main focus of my research there was:- to understand the impact of topography on rotating baroclinic flows- to understand heat transport in rotating baroclinic flows, in particular, with extreme topographyThis work has given me a fantastic understanding of the macroscopic drivers of motion in the Earth's and other planetary atmosphere.

Bracknell, Beaufort Park

On returning to the et Office from university I worked at the Met Office Observing and Instrumentation section. I was involved as part of a team in designing and developing:- an Arrival Time Difference (ATD) system for automated real time observations of lightning strikes over 60% of the Earth's surface- the first automayic weather station (AWS) to be deployed on an oil rig- the first AWS to be deployed in crops to forecast weather sensitive plant diseases

Stansted Airport

I was a forecaster at Stansted Airprot providing forecasts for the airport and giving briefings to pilots and ATC.

London Weather Centre

I was a forecaster at London Weather Centre providing forecasts for the public and a wide variety of markets.

Shoeburyness

I joined the Met Office as an Assistant Scientific Officer at the army P&EE ranges at Shoeburyness. The work I undertook there included- observing- radio sonde operator- assisting the forecaster- making meteorolgical measurements on the army ranges during live firing trials.This gve me a fantastic grounding in practical meteorology.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Meteorology With Subsidiary Maths And Physics, 1St

Hnc Applied Physics

5 O Levels, 3 A Levels