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
Raoult, N. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2907-9456, Douglas, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3404-8761, MacBean, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6797-4836, Kolassa, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6644-8789, Quaife, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6896-4613, Roberts, A. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4274-7914, Fisher, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3260-9227, Fer, I., Bacour, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1913-3722, Dagon, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4518-8225, Hawkins, L., Carvalhais, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0465-1436, Cooper, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1575-4222, Dietze, M. C., Gentine, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0845-8345, Kaminski, T., Kennedy, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9494-3509, Liddy, H. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8666-0805, Moore, D. J. P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6462-3288, Peylin, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9335-6994, Pinnington, E., Sanderson, B., Scholze, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3474-5938, Seiler, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2092-0168, Smallman, T. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0835-1003, Vergopolan, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7298-0509, Viskari, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3357-1374, Williams, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6117-5208 and Zobitz, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1830-143X
(2025)
Parameter estimation in land surface models: challenges and opportunities with data assimilation and machine learning.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 17 (11).
e2024MS004733.
ISSN 1942-2466
doi: 10.1029/2024MS004733
Beylat, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-6315-4527, Raoult, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2907-9456, Bacour, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1913-3722, Douglas, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3404-8761, Quaife, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6896-4613, Bastrikov, V., Rayner, P. J. and Peylin, P.
(2025)
Towards the assimilation of atmospheric CO2 concentration data in a land surface model using adjoint-free variational methods.
Geoscientific Model Development, 18 (20).
pp. 7501-7527.
ISSN 1991-9603
doi: 10.5194/gmd-18-7501-2025
Bell, Q., Gerin, S., Douglas, N. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3404-8761, Quaife, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6896-4613, Liski, J. and Viskari, T.
(2025)
Calibrating primary crop parameters to capture undersown species impacts.
European Journal of Agronomy, 169.
127676.
ISSN 1873-7331
doi: 10.1016/j.eja.2025.127676
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
