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Andrew W. Robertson

Andrew W. Robertson

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
67
Citations
22123
World Ranking
1931
National Ranking
803

Overview

Andrew W. Robertson is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on climate variability and meteorological phenomena. The core subfields include Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Oceanography, with additional work related to Virology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The scientist's work centers on topics such as climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, and tropical and extratropical cyclones research. Additional topics of study include atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, hydrology and drought analysis, and atmospheric ozone and climate.

Robertson has contributed to numerous papers, with notable publications including:

  • Windows of Opportunity for Skillful Forecasts Subseasonal to Seasonal and Beyond, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Current and Emerging Developments in Subseasonal to Decadal Prediction, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Advances in the Application and Utility of Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Predictions, 2021, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction of Weather to Climate with Application to Tropical Cyclones, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Advances in the Prediction of MJO Teleconnections in the S2S Forecast Systems, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robertson include:

  • Frédéric Vitart
  • Muhammad Azhar Ehsan
  • Caio A. S. Coelho
  • Daniela I. V. Domeisen
  • Paul A. Dirmeyer

The primary publication venues where Robertson's work appears include:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Climate Dynamics
  • npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • MAUSAM

Best Publications

  • On the use and significance of isentropic potential vorticity maps

    B. J. Hoskins;M. E. McIntyre;Andrew W. Robertson

  • Advanced spectral methods for climatic time series

    Michael Ghil;M. R. Allen;M. D. Dettinger;Kayo Ide

  • The Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Prediction Project Database

    F. Vitart;C. Ardilouze;A. Bonet;A. Brookshaw

  • The Seasonal Cycle over the Tropical Pacific in Coupled Ocean Atmosphere General Circulation Models

    C.R. Mechoso;A.W. Robertson;N. Barth;M.K. Davey

  • Potential applications of subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) predictions

    Christopher J. White;Christopher J. White;Henrik Carlsen;Andrew W. Robertson;Richard J.T. Klein

  • The sub-seasonal to seasonal prediction project (S2S) and the prediction of extreme events

    Frédéric Vitart;Andrew W. Robertson

  • Cluster Analysis of Typhoon Tracks. Part I: General Properties

    Suzana J. Camargo;Andrew W. Robertson;Scott J. Gaffney;Padhraic Smyth

  • Peruvian Stratus Clouds and the Tropical Pacific Circulation: A Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere GCM Study

    Chung-Chun Ma;Carlos R. Mechoso;Andrew W. Robertson;Akio Arakawa

  • Cluster Analysis of Typhoon Tracks. Part II: Large-Scale Circulation and ENSO

    Suzana J. Camargo;Andrew W. Robertson;Scott J. Gaffney;Padhraic Smyth

  • Interannual and Interdecadal Variability of the South Atlantic Convergence Zone

    Andrew W. Robertson;Carlos R. Mechoso

  • Interannual and Decadal Cycles in River Flows of Southeastern South America

    Andrew W. Robertson;Carlos R. Mechoso

  • Windows of opportunity for skillful forecasts subseasonal to seasonal and beyond

    Annarita Mariotti;Cory Baggett;Elizabeth A. Barnes;Emily Becker

  • The Influence of Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies on the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Andrew W. Robertson;Carlos R. Mechoso;Young-Joon Kim

  • The Subseasonal Experiment (SubX): A Multimodel Subseasonal Prediction Experiment

    Kathy Pegion;Ben P. Kirtman;Emily Becker;Dan C. Collins

  • Current and emerging developments in subseasonal to decadal prediction

    William J. Merryfield;Johanna Baehr;Lauriane Batté;Emily J. Becker

  • Downscaling of Daily Rainfall Occurrence over Northeast Brazil Using a Hidden Markov Model

    Andrew W. Robertson;Sergey Kirshner;Padhraic Smyth

  • Will climate change exacerbate water stress in Central Asia

    Tobias Siegfried;Thomas Bernauer;Renaud Guiennet;Scott Sellars

  • Comments On ‘On the Use and Significance of Isentropic Potential Vorticity Maps’ By B. J. Hoskins, M. E. Mcintyre and A. W. Robertson (October 1985, 111, 877‐946)

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  • Interactions among ENSO, the Monsoon, and Diurnal Cycle in Rainfall Variability over Java, Indonesia

    Jian-Hua Qian;Andrew W. Robertson;Vincent Moron

  • Distinguishing modulated oscillations from coloured noise in multivariate datasets

    M. R. Allen;A. W. Robertson

  • Probabilistic clustering of extratropical cyclones using regression mixture models

    Scott J. Gaffney;Andrew W. Robertson;Padhraic Smyth;Suzana J. Camargo

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Ghil
Michael Ghil École Normale Supérieure
Vincent Moron
Vincent Moron Columbia University
Michael K. Tippett
Michael K. Tippett Columbia University
Upmanu Lall
Upmanu Lall Columbia University
Padhraic Smyth
Padhraic Smyth University of California, Irvine
Carlos R. Mechoso
Carlos R. Mechoso University of California, Los Angeles
Frederic Vitart
Frederic Vitart European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Lisa M. Goddard
Lisa M. Goddard Columbia University
Yochanan Kushnir
Yochanan Kushnir Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Suzana J. Camargo
Suzana J. Camargo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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