Dr. Natalie Douglas
Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Land Surface Data Assimilation (NCEO)
Responsibilities:
PDRA to Prof Tristan Quaife in the Meteorology Department
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion champion for the CPEO project in the NCEO International Science Programme.
Research Interests:
Land Surface Models - running the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) to obtain estimates for Gross Primary Production (GPP)
Data Assimilation – using earth observation datasets to improve estimates of modelled outputs from JULES
Research Projects:
PRIMARY – Solar Induced Fluorescence informed estimates of Gross PRIMARY Production
IMITATE – Introducing Machine-Learning Into Targeted Analysis for Terrestrial Ecosystems
SIFMIP – Solar Induced Fluorescence Model Intercomparison Project
CPEO - Constraining Coupled Carbon & Water Cycle Processes with Earth Observation
Centaur Publications
2025
Douglas, N. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3404-8761, Quaife, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6896-4613 and Bannister, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6846-8297
(2025)
Exploring a hybrid ensemble–variational data assimilation technique (4DEnVar) with a simple ecosystem carbon model.
Environmental Modelling and Software, 186.
106361.
ISSN 1873-6726
doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106361
Last update: 20th December 2024
