Roger Willis Daley was a British meteorologist known particularly for his work on data assimilation.
16 Facts About Roger Daley
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Roger Daley studied at the University of British Columbia as an undergraduate and completed PhD studies at McGill University in 1971 where he was the student of Phil Merilees.
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In 1977, Roger Daley accepted a position at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, where he carried out research on non-linear normal mode initialization and other outstanding problems in the dynamics of large-scale atmospheric flow particularly as they related to global numerical weather prediction.
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Roger Daley became much more interested in the science of data assimilation.
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Roger Daley was involved in implementation of non-linear normal mode initialization for baroclinic models at the Canadian Meteorological Centre in Canada and at Meteo-France in Paris; and he implemented an innovative error covariance formulation at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in the United Kingdom.
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From 1985 until 1995, Roger Daley held a position of Senior Scientist with the Meteorological Service of Canada in Toronto.
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Roger Daley was largely responsible for elevating data assimilation to be a prestigious field of scientific enquiry.
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Roger Daley held visiting appointments at ECMWF; Meteo-France; Florida State University and The Meteorological Institute of Stockholm University.
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Roger Daley was an adjunct professor at McGill University, Colorado State University and the Naval Postgraduate School and a Scientist Emeritus with the Meteorological Service of Canada.
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Roger Daley lectured extensively throughout the world including a series of lectures in Beijing, China; as a principal lecturer at the 1990 Summer Colloquium at NCAR and at the University of Toulon in France.
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Roger Daley served on many important international scientific committees, carrying out scientific reviews and serving as member of journal editorial boards of the AMS and the Swedish Geophysical Society.
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Roger Daley was Chief Editor for the CMOS journal Atmosphere-Ocean from 1989 to 1992.
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Roger Daley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1993 and a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 1997.
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In 1995, Roger Daley accepted a position as a UCAR Distinguished Scientific Visitor at the Marine Meteorology Division, Naval Research Laboratory, in Monterey, California, and moved his family to the Carmel Valley.
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Roger Daley took on a project, in close partnership with Ed Barker, to design and construct a three-dimensional variational data assimilation system specifically meant to serve the needs of the US Navy.
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Roger Daley died at his home in Carmel Valley, California on August 29,2001.