Dr. Michael Douglas works as a NOAA research meteorologist for the National Severe Storms Laborary (NSSL). He has worked here since 1992. His recent work focuses on satellite cloud climatalogy and adaptive sounding systems. Also, he maintains interest in the warm season subtropical and tropical circulations in Latin America or Africa. Douglas leads a research project called the Old PAS-SONET (Pan American Climate Studies Sounding Network). This project is comprised of undergraduate and graduate students researching tropical and mesoscale meteorology/climatalogy.

Prior to his current work at NSSL, Douglas received his PhD from Florida State University in 1987 where he researched monsoon depressions. After graduating he worked at WPL in Boulder, Colorado from 1987 through 1992. Here he analyzed polor lows and oceanic winter storms.