Richard B Rood

Professor

Education:

Ph.D., Meteorology, Florida State University

M.S., Meteorology, Florida State University

B.S., Physics, University of North Carolina

Research:

My current research is focused on bridging the study of weather and climate.  I am funded by NASA to study dynamical features as objects and to develop new methods for analyzing climate models.  I am funded by the Department of Energy to study sub-scale mixing processes in climate models.

I teach a class on climate change and the interface of climate change with all aspects of society.  This has evolved into a class on problem solving in climate change.  This is a graduate class, taught in concert with the School of Natural Resources and Environment.  The class includes business students, policy students, as well as students from several science departments.  It's cool, and it's the future.  Web link below.

Doctoral Students:

Erika Roesler

Specializations and Research Interests

• Climate change and business, policy, public health ....
• Climate Modeling
• Stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry modeling
• Data assimilation

Honors, Awards and Accomplishments

• World Meteorological Organization, Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award
• NASA Group Achievement Awards (SOLVE, Forecasting Group, SPADE, AASE)
• NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal
• NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal

Professional Service

• Fellow, American Meteorological Society
• Member, American Geophysical Union

Publications

climatepolicy.org Blogs (American Meteorological Society)

One of several invited participants in an AMS forum on climate change policy. 

Climate Management 101

This is a special collection on the management of the climate

Weather Underground Blogs

Wide ranging blogs that are mostly in the spirit of education.

An organized subset of the Weather Underground Blogs 

Dynamical Meteorology Lectures

Climate Change Class:  Climate Change: The Move to Action

Selection of Rood's Professional Publications: 

This selection includes links to the report that was written for the Office of Science and Technology Policy in 2000.  It's an analysis and strategy for organizing climate modeling in the U.S.  Some consider it a "computing report," but that's not all the authors intended.  There is a PDF of my 1987 advection review and some of the other papers that people seem to ask for.

A Sampling of Prof. Rood's Non-scientific writings

(minor words that give me exaggerated pleasure) 

If you need a photo, here they are.