Dr Nick Dixon

Research Fellow

Telephone number: +44(0) 113 34 34931
Email address: fuensd@leeds.ac.uk
Room: 11.121

Biography

This is Nick's second stint in the School as he studied for his PhD here from 1998 to 2002 modelling the turbulent surface layer over low hills. Now he has joined the CASCADE project run by Doug Parker and Conny Schwierz investigating the simulation of weather over West Africa using high resolution runs of the Met. Office's UM model. In between, Nick worked in the Energy and Resources Research Institute in the Faculty of Engineering developing models of traffic-related pollution dispersion in urban areas.

Qualifications

BSc Maths, MSc CFD, PhD Meteorology

Publications

Marsham JH; Knippertz P; Dixon NS; Parker DJ; Lister GMS (2011) The importance of the representation of deep convection for modeled dust-generating winds over West Africa during summer, GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 38, . doi: 10.1029/2011GL048368
Stein THM; Parker DJ; Delanoe J; Dixon NS; Hogan RJ; Knippertz P; Maidment RI; Marsham JH (2011) The vertical cloud structure of the West African monsoon: A 4 year climatology using CloudSat and CALIPSO, JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES, 116, . doi: 10.1029/2011JD016029
Ziehn T; Dixon NS; Tomlin AS (2009) The effects of parametric uncertainties in simulations of a reactive plume using a Lagrangian stochastic model, ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT, 43, pp.5978-5988. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2009.07.060
Benson J; Ziehn T; Dixon NS; Tomlin AS (2008) Global sensitivity analysis of a 3-dimensional street canyon model - Part II: Application and physical insight using sensitivity analysis, ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT, 42, pp.1874-1891. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.11.021
Smalley RJ; Tomlin AS; Dixon NS; Boddy JWD (2008) The influence of background wind direction on the roadside turbulent velocity field within a complex urban street, QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY, 134, pp.1371-1384. doi: 10.1002/qj.302
Dixon NS; Tomlin AS (2007) A Lagrangian stochastic model for predicting concentration fluctuations in urban areas, ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT, 41, pp.8114-8127. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.06.033
Dixon NS; Boddy JWD; Smalley RJ; Tomlin AS (2006) Evaluation of a turbulent flow and dispersion model in a typical street canyon in York, UK, ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT, 40, pp.958-972. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.10.017
Boddy JWD; Smalley RJ; Dixon NS; Tate JE; Tomlin AS (2005) The spatial variability in concentrations of a traffic-related pollutant in two street canyons in York, UK - Part I: The influence of background winds, ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT, 39, pp.3147-3161. doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.01.043
Ross AN; Arnold S; Vosper SB; Mobbs SD; Dixon N; Robins AG (2004) A comparison of wind-tunnel experiments and numerical simulations of neutral and stratified flow over a hill, BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY, 113, pp.427-459. doi: 10.1023/B:BOUN.0000045499.18839.7d