- Deep Learning Earth System Modeling
- Atmospheric Predictability
- Mountain and Mesoscale Meteorology
- Numerical Methods
- ATMOS 103
- ATMOS 509
- ATMOS 536
- ATMOS 582
- Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)
- AMS Mountain Meteorology Committee’s Mountain Meteorology Award, 2014
- Naval Research Laboratory’s Alan Berman Research Publication Award 2007
- Naval Research Laboratory’s Alan Berman Research Publication Award 2002
- UW Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences Annual Teaching Award 2016
- UW Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences Annual Teaching Award 2013
- Editor Monthly Weather Review, 2012-2014
- Associate Editor Monthly Weather Review, 2001-2004
- Chair: American Meteorological Society (AMS) Committee on Mountain Meteorology
2004-2006, 2015-present - Co-Chair 12th AMS Conference on Mountain Meteorology, Santa Fe, NM, 2006
- Co-Chair 5th AMS Conference on Mesoscale Processes, Atlanta, GA, 1992
Durran, D.R., 2010: Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics: with Applications to Geophysics (2nd ed). New York: Springer, ISBN 978-1-4419-6411-3, 516 p.
Haghi, K.R., and D. R. Durran, 2021: On the dynamics of atmospheric bores. J. Atmos. Sci. 78, 313-327.
Weyn, J.A., D. R. Durran, and R. Caruana, 2020: Improving data-driven global weather prediction using deep convolutional neural networks on a cubed sphere. JAMES, 12, e2020MS002109.
Weyn, J.A., D. R. Durran, and R. Caruana, 2020: Improving data-driven global weather prediction using deep convolutional neural networks on a cubed sphere. JAMES, 12, e2020MS002109.
Durran, D. R., 2020: Can the issuance of hazardous-weather warnings inform the attribution of extreme events to climate change? Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 101 (8), E1452-E1463.
Menchaca, M. Q. and D. R. Durran, 2018: The impact of mountain waves on an idealized baroclinically unstable large-scale flow. J. Atmos. Sci., 75, 3285-3302.
Durran, D.R. and J.A. Weyn, 2016: Thunderstorms don’t get butterflies. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 97, 237-243.
Siler, N. and D. Durran, 2016: What causes weak orographic rain shadows? Insights from case studies in the Cascades and idealized simulations. J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 4077-4099.
Shi, X. and D.R. Durran, 2015: Estimating the Response of Extreme Precipitation over Mid-latitude Mountains to Global Warming. J. Climate, 28, 4246-4262.
Durran, D.R. and M.A. Gingrich, 2014: Atmospheric Predictability: Why Butterflies Are Not of Practical Importance. J. Atmos. Sci., 71, 2476-2488.