Daniel Watters

Precipitation Scientist
NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Research interests: GPM, IMERG, diurnal cycle, validation

[National Space Centre @spacecentre]

🚀 What does @spacecentre mean to you? For our 21st birthday celebrations former staff have been sharing their memories of working here. #NSC21

Hear from @DanielCWatters, Asha Parmar, Kunal Vyas, @KierannShah, Jocelyn Whittaker-Smith and @SpaceCraigUK. https://t.co/1thdLpehqH

[National Space Centre @spacecentre]

🚀🎉 We're celebrating 21 years of the @spacecentre on 30 June and as part of the celebrations we invited some of our amazing alumni back to share their memories of working here, including @KierannShah, @DanielCWatters and @SpaceCraigUK. #NSC21
https://t.co/RggNafsFSj

[Daniel Watters @DanielCWatters]

@billysmitherman @fagfetchd 👀

[Daniel Watters @DanielCWatters]

@maybeitsmealine @ogkaptlil It is 😂

[National Space Centre @spacecentre]

🚀🛰️ Daniel Watters grew up in Leicester, visited @spacecentre as a child, worked in our Space Crew team whilst studying @uniofleicester and is now going to work @NASA_Marshall.

📻 He chatted with @9amben @BBCLeicester about his story (33:50). https://t.co/Ezf2SZpeHt

[Daniel Watters @DanielCWatters]

A pleasure talking to @BBCLeicester today about how @spacecentre helped to influence my studies and satellite precipitation research at @uniofleicester #NSC20 https://t.co/uJ33E0lOuJ

[Daniel Watters @DanielCWatters]

Happy 20th birthday @spacecentre! The centre helped to shape my interest in space and science over the years, and I have many happy memories working as part of the Space Crew. Here's to many more years of the centre inspiring the next generation of space scientists🚀🌌🌙#NSC20

[National Space Centre @spacecentre]

🚀 On 30 June we're celebrating our 20th birthday and we'd love to hear your memories of visiting @spacecentre.

#⃣ Please share them with us using #NSC20.

[AMS Publications @AMSPublications]

@DanielCWatters, Alessandro Battaglia, and @rpallanuk. "The Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation according to Multiple Decades of Global Satellite Observations, Three CMIP6 Models, and the ECMWF Reanalysis", #JClimate 34, 12 (2021): 5063-5080, https://t.co/zpyYUa3kt8

[Daniel Watters @DanielCWatters]

@NFauchereau @NASARain Thank you @NFauchereau

[Daniel Watters @DanielCWatters]

New @AMSJCLi paper published on the diurnal cycle of precipitation from global #GPM satellite observations, three #CMIP6 models and the ECWMF reanalysis #ERA5 - now freely available to read @ https://t.co/0LPpKZEa2F @rpallanuk @NCEOscience @doctoralcollege @CENTA_NERC

[Daniel Watters @DanielCWatters]

@rpallanuk Thanks @rpallanuk!

[Neil Humpage @DrNeilHumpage]

Big congrats to Dr @DanielCWatters, who passed his PhD viva this afternoon! 🎓🥳🍾

[Daniel Watters @DanielCWatters]

@DrNeilHumpage Cheers @DrNeilHumpage!

[AGU (American Geophysical Union) @theAGU]

How often does lightning flash globally? Researchers mapped lightning frequency around the world. This animation shows the results and shows Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo as a lightning hotspot, with an average of 389 flashes per day. See the #AGUpubs paper: https://t.co/wHtc1wQ4Br

[Daniel Watters @DanielCWatters]

@psud12 @rpallanuk @NCEOscience @AMSJCLi The literature suggests that models simulate convection over land (and consequently precipitation) too early in the afternoon. A model's early precipitation bias is significant as it could result in unrealistic representation of Earth's energetics and water cycle.

[Daniel Watters @DanielCWatters]

@psud12 @rpallanuk @NCEOscience @AMSJCLi The lastest climate models/reanalysis simulate maximum precipitation unrealistically early in the day, particularly over land. In particular, the nocturnal maximum in precipitation observed in mountainous regions is not well simulated.

[Richard Allan @rpallanuk]

The diurnal cycle of precipitation in satellite observations, CMIP6 simulations & ERA5 by @DanielCWatters @NCEOscience just published @AMSJCLi
https://t.co/WY7QHVTH0r

[Royal Meteorological Society @RMetS]

'The NASA‐JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission – part I: New frontiers in precipitation'

The GPM mission's Core Observatory, jointly operated by @NASA and @JAXA_en, was launched in February 2014

@uniofleicester #RMetSJournals #openaccess @eddy_weather @SimonLeeWx

[ARCHIVED - NASA Atmosphere @NASAAtmosphere]

Much of the U.S. saw extreme cold and winter weather this week, resulting in power outages for millions.

@NASA satellites were used to estimate the precipitation rates & totals from these storms from Feb 8 - 11 https://t.co/sUdw1Ps0g5

[Space Park Leicester @SpaceParkLeic]

Good morning Space Park fans 🏗️🔨