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PhD Computer Science Stanford University
Masters Computer Science University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Computer Science University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Washington is a South African climate scientist and meteorologist. He is Professor of Climate Science at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, as well as being the Director of the Radcliffe Meteorological Station, which has the longest single-site weather records in the United Kingdom. He is a fellow of Keble College, Oxford.

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Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2014) (2342)
Dust-Storm Source Areas Determined by the Total Ozone Monitoring Spectrometer and Surface Observations (2003) (666)
North African dust emissions and transport (2006) (572)
The Bodélé depression: a single spot in the Sahara that provides most of the mineral dust to the Amazon forest (2006) (324)
African Climate Change: Taking the Shorter Route (2006) (283)
Atmospheric controls on mineral dust emission from the Bodélé Depression, Chad: The role of the low level jet (2005) (244)
Large Scale Modes of Ocean Surface Temperature Since the Late Nineteenth Century (1999) (233)
Atmospheric controls on the annual cycle of North African dust (2007) (233)
Multiple episodes of aridity in southern Africa since the last interglacial period (1997) (229)
Dust and the low‐level circulation over the Bodélé Depression, Chad: Observations from BoDEx 2005 (2006) (218)
Issues in the interpretation of climate model ensembles to inform decisions (2007) (215)
Optical properties of Saharan dust aerosol and contribution from the coarse mode as measured during the Fennec 2011 aircraft campaign (2012) (199)
Characterizing half‐a‐degree difference: a review of methods for identifying regional climate responses to global warming targets (2017) (182)
Changes in African temperature and precipitation associated with degrees of global warming (2013) (181)
Agent-based social simulation: a method for assessing the impact of seasonal climate forecast applications among smallholder farmers (2005) (180)
Congo Basin rainfall climatology: can we believe the climate models? (2013) (178)
Links between topography, wind, deflation, lakes and dust: The case of the Bodélé Depression, Chad (2006) (170)
Mineral dust emission from the Bodélé Depression, northern Chad, during BoDEx 2005 (2007) (164)
Extreme wet years over southern Africa: Role of Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures (2006) (159)
Circulation anomalies associated with tropical-temperate troughs in southern Africa and the south west Indian Ocean (1999) (147)
Quantifying uncertainty in estimates of mineral dust flux: An intercomparison of model performance over the Bodélé Depression, northern Chad (2008) (144)
Development of badlands and gullies in the Sneeuberg, Great Karoo, South Africa (2003) (141)
Meteorology and dust in the central Sahara: Observations from Fennec supersite‐1 during the June 2011 Intensive Observation Period (2013) (138)
Multi-agent modelling of climate outlooks and food security on a community garden scheme in Limpopo, South Africa (2005) (126)
Culture or climate? The relative influences of past processes on the composition of the lowland Congo rainforest (2007) (122)
Recent observed climate change over the Arabian Peninsula (2011) (106)
Chapter 1. Impacts of the oceans on climate change. (2008) (104)
Tropical-temperate links in southern african and southwest Indian Ocean satellite-derived daily rainfall (1999) (103)
Regional Model Simulations of the Bodélé Low-Level Jet of Northern Chad during the Bodélé Dust Experiment (BoDEx 2005) (2008) (99)
Atmospheric dust modeling from meso to global scales with the online NMMB/BSC-Dust model – Part 2: Experimental campaigns in Northern Africa (2011) (96)
Water vapour transport associated with tropical–temperate trough systems over southern Africa and the southwest Indian Ocean (2004) (94)
Future Climate Change of the Subtropical North Atlantic: Implications for the Cloud Forests of Tenerife (2004) (94)
Climate variability in central equatorial Africa: Influence from the Atlantic sector (2004) (87)
Temporal controls on global dust emissions: The role of surface gustiness (2007) (87)
Dust as a tipping element: The Bodélé Depression, Chad (2009) (84)
Modelling soil dust aerosol in the Bodélé depression during the BoDEx campaign (2006) (84)
Seasonal Forecasting of African Rainfall: Prediction, Responses and Household Food Security (1999) (77)
Seasonal maize forecasting for South Africa and Zimbabwe derived from an agroclimatological model (2000) (75)
Changes in climate extremes in the Arabian Peninsula: analysis of daily data (2014) (75)
Brown locust outbreaks and climate variability in southern Africa (2002) (75)
Dust-raising in the dustiest place on earth (2007) (74)
The impact of convective cold pool outflows on model biases in the Sahara (2013) (71)
Dust emission and transport mechanisms in the central Sahara: Fennec ground‐based observations from Bordj Badji Mokhtar, June 2011 (2013) (68)
Implications of global warming for the climate of African rainforests (2013) (64)
United Kingdom and Ireland precipitation variability and the North Atlantic sea‐level pressure field (2001) (64)
An automated dust detection using SEVIRI: A multiyear climatology of summertime dustiness in the central and western Sahara (2012) (63)
Evaluating Climate Models with an African Lens (2017) (63)
The Impacts of the Oceans on Climate Change (2008) (62)
A new high‐resolution central and western Saharan summertime dust source map from automated satellite dust plume tracking (2013) (61)
Circulation controls on southern African precipitation in coupled models: The role of the Angola Low (2017) (59)
Estimating aerodynamic roughness over complex surface terrain (2013) (58)
Global changes in the perspective of the past: edited by J A Eddy and H Oeschger Wiley, Chichester, 1993 (1996) (57)
Meteorological and dust aerosol conditions over the western Saharan region observed at Fennec Supersite‐2 during the intensive observation period in June 2011 (2013) (56)
Seasonal Forecasting for Climate Hazards: Prospects and Responses (2001) (55)
Advances in understanding mineral dust and boundary layer processes over the Sahara from Fennec aircraft observations (2015) (55)
Detection of a lightning influence on tropical tropospheric ozone (2000) (54)
Meteorological and runoff time-series characteristics in a small, high-Arctic glaciated basin, Svalbard (1998) (52)
Process‐based assessment of an ensemble of climate projections for West Africa (2015) (48)
The low‐level jet dust emission mechanism in the central Sahara: Observations from Bordj‐Badji Mokhtar during the June 2011 Fennec Intensive Observation Period (2014) (47)
Quantifying particle size and turbulent scale dependence of dust flux in the Sahara using aircraft measurements (2014) (43)
Testing the performance of state-of-the-art dust emission schemes using DO4Models field data (2014) (38)
Characterizing the Synoptic Expression of the Angola Low (2018) (38)
Northern hemisphere teleconnection indices and the mass balance of Svalbard glaciers (2000) (37)
The spatial and temporal characteristics of TOMS AI over the Tarim Basin, China. (2009) (35)
What determines perceived value of seasonal climate forecasts? A theoretical analysis (2011) (33)
A detailed characterization of the Saharan dust collected during the Fennec campaign in 2011: in situ ground-based and laboratory measurements (2017) (29)
A Process-Based Assessment of CMIP5 Rainfall in the Congo Basin: The September–November Rainy Season (2018) (28)
Systematic Climate Model Rainfall Biases over Southern Africa: Links to Moisture Circulation and Topography (2018) (28)
EXTREME DAILY RAINFALL IN SOUTHERN AFRICAN AND SOUTHWEST INDIAN OCEAN TROPICAL-TEMPERATE LINKS (1998) (28)
Mesoscale modeling of aeolian dust emission during the BoDEx 2005 experiment (2007) (26)
African Climate Change Uncertainty in Perturbed Physics Ensembles: Implications of Global Warming to 4°C and Beyond* (2014) (26)
Climate–surface–pore‐water interactions on a salt crusted playa: implications for crust pattern and surface roughness development measured using terrestrial laser scanning (2016) (25)
Arctic oscillation and the interannual variability of dust emissions from the Tarim Basin: a TOMS AI based study (2010) (24)
Intraseasonal variability and atmospheric controls on daily dust occurrence frequency over the central and western Sahara during the boreal summer (2013) (22)
Dust detection from ground‐based observations in the summer global dust maximum: Results from Fennec 2011 and 2012 and implications for modeling and field observations (2015) (22)
The dynamism of salt crust patterns on playas (2015) (22)
2003: Global dust storm source areas determined by the total ozone monitoring spectrometer and ground observations (2003) (22)
Measurements of windblown dust characteristics and ocean fertilization potential: The ephemeral river valleys of Namibia (2017) (21)
On the likelihood of tropical-extratropical cloud bands in the South Indian Convergence Zone during ENSO events (2018) (19)
Distribution of rainfall by synoptic type over natal, South Africa (2007) (19)
The fennec automatic weather station (AWS) network: Monitoring the Saharan climate system (2013) (18)
Future southern African summer rainfall variability related to a southwest Indian Ocean dipole in HadCM3 (2008) (18)
Deep Convection over Africa: Annual Cycle, ENSO, and Trends in the Hotspots (2019) (18)
Representation of the Indian Ocean Walker circulation in climate models and links to Kenyan rainfall (2020) (18)
Stronger Local Overturning in Convective‐Permitting Regional Climate Model Improves Simulation of the Subtropical Annual Cycle (2018) (18)
Quantifying chaos in the atmosphere (2000) (18)
Sensitivity of southern African climate to soil-moisture * (2003) (17)
Contrasting controls on Congo Basin evaporation at the two rainfall peaks (2020) (17)
Impact of changes in atmospheric conditions in modulating summer dust concentration at Barbados: A back‐trajectory analysis (2009) (16)
A 14‐Year Climatology of Saharan Dust Emission Mechanisms Inferred From Automatically Tracked Plumes (2019) (16)
Climate variability affects water-energy-food infrastructure performance in East Africa (2021) (15)
Tropical Lows in Southern Africa: Tracks, Rainfall Contributions, and the Role of ENSO (2019) (15)
African Easterly Jet South: control, maintenance mechanisms and link with Southern subtropical waves (2019) (14)
Evaluation of Evaporation Climatology for the Congo Basin Wet Seasons in 11 Global Climate Models (2020) (13)
African Low‐Level Jets and Their Importance for Water Vapor Transport and Rainfall (2020) (13)
Climate change in CCAFS regions: Recent trends, current projections, crop-climate suitability, and prospects for improved climate model information (2012) (13)
Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Change Simulations for Understanding Future Climate and Informing Decision-Making in Africa (2021) (13)
Drylines in Southern Africa: Rediscovering the Congo Air Boundary (2019) (13)
Enhancing weak transient signals in SEVIRI false color imagery: Application to dust source detection in southern Africa (2013) (13)
Transport trajectories of dust originating from the Tarim Basin, China (2009) (12)
Fennec - The Saharan Climate System: Project Overview (2013) (12)
A Simple Method to Retrieve 3-Hourly Estimates of Global Tropical and Subtropical Precipitation from International Satellite Cloud Climatology Program (ISCCP) D1 Data (1999) (12)
Sensitivity of projected climate impacts to climate model weighting: multi-sector analysis in eastern Africa (2021) (11)
Sensitivity of desert dust emissions to model horizontal grid spacing during the Bodélé Dust Experiment 2005 (2012) (11)
Controls on the Diversity in Climate Model Projections of Early Summer Drying over Southern Africa (2019) (8)
Variability of the Turkana Low‐Level Jet in Reanalysis and Models: Implications for Rainfall (2021) (8)
Evaluating the CMIP5 ensemble in Ethiopia: Creating a reduced ensemble for rainfall and temperature in Northwest Ethiopia and the Awash basin (2019) (7)
On the reconstruction of seasonal oceanic precipitation in the presatellite era (2005) (7)
2003: Sea surface temperature influences on African rainfall variability (2003) (6)
Diurnal Variation of Rainfall Events by Synoptic Type in Natal (1991) (6)
Scoping, options analysis and design of a ‘Climate Information and Services Programme’ for Africa (CIASA): Final report (2015) (5)
Tracing future spring and summer drying in southern Africa to tropical lows and the Congo Air Boundary (2020) (5)
Reply to comment by E. Williams on “Atmospheric controls on the annual cycle of North African dust” (2008) (5)
Climate variability in central equatorial Africa: Evidence of extra-tropical influence (2003) (5)
Satellite‐Derived Characteristics of Saharan Cold Pool Outflows During Boreal Summer (2021) (5)
Global Warming: The Importance of the Past in Understanding the Future (1993) (5)
Book Review: Water, environment and society in times of climatic change (1999) (4)
North African dust production: Source areas and variability * (2003) (4)
The precipitation patterns and atmospheric dynamics of the Serengeti National Park (2020) (4)
Future Changes in the Indian Ocean Walker Circulation and Links to Kenyan Rainfall (2021) (4)
Austral summer of 1998: Observations on El Niño and the North Patagonian Icefield (1999) (4)
Kenyan Long Rains: A Subseasonal Approach to Process-Based Diagnostics (2020) (4)
Dust and the low level circulation ov er the Bodele Depression, Northern Chad (2006) (3)
Overview and Insights gained by Airborne Observations over the Sahara during Fennec (2013) (3)
Atmospheric Controls on Mineral Dust Emission From the Etosha Pan, Namibia: Observations From the CLARIFY‐2016 Field Campaign (2021) (3)
Coupled Climate Model Simulation of Tropical–Extratropical Cloud Bands over Southern Africa (2020) (3)
Extreme Indian Ocean dipole and rainfall variability over Central Africa (2022) (3)
The Limpopo Low‐Level Jet: Mean Climatology and Role in Water Vapor Transport (2021) (3)
DO4 Models: A new generation of model dust emission schemes based on source area process data (2012) (2)
Representation of East African Rainfall in CMIP5 Models (2018) (2)
Port of Manzanillo: Climate Risk Management (Final Report) (2015) (2)
Fennec - The Saharan Climate System: an overview (2012) (2)
Analyses of a long-term data-set on the Red billed Quelea Quelea quelea lathamii in southern Africa. (2003) (2)
Observations of the Turkana Jet and the East African dry tropics: the RIFTJet field campaign (2022) (2)
Testing climate models for agricultural impacts: recent trends, current projections, crop-climate suitability, and prospects for improved climate model information (2012) (2)
Port of Manzanillo: Climate Risk Management (Executive Summary) (2015) (2)
Assessment of the unified model in reproducing West African precipitation and temperature climatology (2022) (2)
Future Climate Change and Arid Zone Geomorphology (2011) (1)
Quantifying Mechanisms of Aeolian Dust Emission: Field Measurements at Etosha Pan, Namibia (2022) (1)
Remote sensing of dust source characteristics and emission controls on a large playa (2015) (1)
Modeling Saharan dust emission and transport: sensitivity to emission parameterization schemes (2013) (1)
Book reviews : Yarnal, B. 1993: Synoptic climatology in environmental analysis. London: Belhaven Press. xvi + 200 pp. £37.50 cloth. ISBN: 1 85293 117 5 (1994) (1)
Data Mining Customer and Employee-Related Subway Incidents (2009) (1)
The evolution of the Saharan Boundary layer thermodynamics and composition in connection with intra-seasonal pulsations of the West African Heat Low (2012) (1)
A new high-resolution central Saharan dust source map from automated satellite dust plume tracking (2013) (1)
Data Mining Customer-Related Subway Incidents (2008) (1)
The Sahara Troposphere - Simultaneous Aircraft Observations from Fennec (2013) (1)
Low-level circulation over Central Equatorial Africa as simulated from CMIP5 to CMIP6 models (2022) (1)
Saharan Airborne Dust Flux Measurements from the Fennec Campaign (2013) (1)
Climate outlooks for water management adaptation to climate change in the Middle East. (2003) (1)
Rainfall in uncoupled and coupled versions of the Met Office Unified Model over Central Africa: Investigation of processes during the September–November rainy season (2022) (1)
WRF sensitivity analysis of the diurnal cycle of Saharan planetary boundary layer (2012) (0)
East African rainfall: classification of rain producing systems - a modelling and observation study (2013) (0)
Influence of Orography Upon Summertime Low‐Level Jet Dust Emission in the Central and Western Sahara (2021) (0)
Atmospheric mechanisms of central Saharan dust storm formation in boreal summer: observations from the Fennec campaign (2015) (0)
Technical Report: Observations and reanalyses data: comparison and trends in Southeast Asia (2014) (0)
Automated tracking of dust-emitting cold pool outflow boundaries in the Central and Western Sahara using MSG-SEVIRI (2019) (0)
Aeolian dust emissions in Southern Africa: field measurements of dynamics and drivers (2016) (0)
Using climate model experiments to explore difference between degrees of global warming: lessons from a study of African precipitation (2015) (0)
Valley formation aridifies East Africa and elevates Congo Basin rainfall (2023) (0)
Representation of Land-Atmosphere Coupling Processes Over Africa in CMIP6 Models (2022) (0)
Atmospheric dust emission mechanisms at the summer global dust maximum: observations from Bordj Mokhtar, Algeria (2012) (0)
An overview of observations from Fennec supersites: Dust uplift, transport and impacts (2013) (0)
Recent climate change over the Arabian Peninsula: trends and mechanisms (2014) (0)
East African long rains at the sub-seasonal scale: connections with regional and large-scale climate (2018) (0)
A framework for process-based assessment of regional climate model experiments: applied to projections of southern African precipitation (2015) (0)
Measurements of Saharan Dust from the Fennec Aircraft Campaign: Giant Particles, Optical Properties and Effects of Transport (2014) (0)
Patterns and causes of spatial and temporal variability of dust presence in the central and western Sahara (2013) (0)
Implications of global warming for African climate (2014) (0)
Understanding the Role of the Saharan Heat Low in Modifying Atmospheric Dust Distributions - Observations From Two Research Aircraft Flying Simultaneously Over Western Africa (2012) (0)
Aircraft measurements from Fennec: giant particles, optical properties, and effects of transport (2015) (0)
How do coupled models represent the African Easterly Jets and their associated dynamics over Central Africa during the September–November rainy season? (2022) (0)
Remote sensing of dust source heterogeneity; Case study Etosha Pan, Namibia (2016) (0)
Global environmental issues: A climatological approach: D D Kemp Routledge, London, 1994, £40.00 hardback; £12.99 paperback (1996) (0)
New Circumstellar Dust Creation in V838 Monocerotis (2008) (0)
Estimating aerodynamic roughness over complex salt pan and sandur dust emitting surfaces (2014) (0)
Prediction of African Rainfall and Household Food Security (2003) (0)
The role of moisture on controlling dust emissions from crusted supply-limited surfaces (2013) (0)
The characteristics and drivers of climatological precipitation over the Serengeti-Mara region (2020) (0)
CALCULATING CAPILLARITY IN GRANULAR SOILS AS A FUNCTION OF GRAIN-SIZE PARAMETERS AND PACKING (2020) (0)
Summer Dust Emissions From the Etosha Pan, Namibia: The Role of the Namib Anabatic‐Sea Breeze System (2023) (0)
The role of convectively-generated cold pools on model biases in the (2013) (0)
Dust emission mechanisms in the central Sahara: new insights from remote field observations (2013) (0)
Quantifying the contribution of individual dust sources to the summertime dust hotspot in the central and western Sahara (2014) (0)
ensembles to inform decisions Issues in the interpretation of climate model (2009) (0)
Seasonal forecasting potential of maize yield in southern Africa (1999) (0)
TLS in Aeolian Environments: Elucidating Process-Form Feedbacks in Dusty Deserts (2015) (0)
Variability in daily dust coverage over the central Sahara: links to the West African Monsoon system and Saharan Heat Low (2013) (0)
How can a dusty cold pool change the diurnal evolution of the Saharan Atmospheric Boundary Layer (2013) (0)
Book review: climate change: developing southern hemisphere perspectives, T. W. Giambelluca and A. Henderson‐Sellers (eds), John Wiley and Sons (Chichester), 1996. No. of pages: xii+475. Price: £65.00. ISBN 0‐471‐96214‐7 (hardback) (1997) (0)
Dust Mechanisms in the Central Sahara: An Overview from Fennec (2013) (0)
Book reviews : Barry, R.G. and Chorley, R.J. 1992: Atmosphere, weather and climate. London: Routledge. xxii + 394 pp. ISBN: 0 415 07760 5 (1994) (0)
The Influence of Dust On The Rainfall Efficiency and Its Potential For Seasonal Predictions (2002) (0)
Do4Models: Performance of current climate model dust emission schemes from a 1D box model perspective using field campaign data to constrain the simulated dust emission flux (2013) (0)
Book Review: GLOBAL PRECIPITATIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE, Michel Debois and Francoise Desalmand (eds), Springer‐Verlag (Berlin), 1994. No. of pages: xi+466. Price: DM280.00 (hardback). ISBN 3–540–58439–0. (1996) (0)
How Well Do CMIP6 Models Simulate the Influence of the West African Westerly Jet on Sahel Precipitation? (2022) (0)

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