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Overview

Richard B. Rood is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry, and Oceanography.

The main topics addressed in Rood's work include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Rood has contributed to several publications across a range of scientific journals. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Journal of Climate
  • Earth and Space Science

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Rood include:

  • Large lakes in climate models: A Great Lakes case study on the usability of CMIP5 (2021), Journal of Great Lakes Research
  • Increasing the Usability of Climate Models through the Use of Consumer-Report-Style Resources for Decision-Making (2020), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • A Northern Hemispheric Wave Train Associated with Interannual Variations in the Bermuda High during Boreal Summer (2021), Journal of Climate
  • Barotropic and Moisture-Vortex Growth of Monsoon Low Pressure Systems (2023), Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Moist Static Potential Vorticity Budget in Tropical Motion Systems (2021), Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Frequent collaborators in Rood's research include Laura Briley, Haochang Luo, Ángel F. Adames, Michael Notaro, and Emily D. Blackmer. These partnerships have contributed to multiple papers and reflect an interdisciplinary approach to environmental and atmospheric topics.

Best Publications

  • Stratosphere‐troposphere exchange

    James R. Holton;Peter H. Haynes;Michael E. McIntyre;Anne R. Douglass

  • Multidimensional Flux-Form Semi-Lagrangian Transport Schemes

    Shian-Jiann Lin;Richard B. Rood

  • Atmospheric Sulfur Cycle Simulated in the Global Model Gocart: Model Description and Global Properties

    Mian Chin;Mian Chin;Richard B. Rood;Shian Jiann Lin;Jean Francois Müller

  • An assimilated dataset for Earth science applications

    Siegfried D. Schubert;Richard B. Rood;James Pfaendtner

  • An explicit flux-form semi-lagrangian shallow-water model on the sphere

    Shian Jiann Lin;Richard B. Rood

  • Numerical advection algorithms and their role in atmospheric transport and chemistry models

    Richard B. Rood

  • Climate projections and their impact on policy and practice

    Maria Carmen Lemos;Richard B. Rood

  • The GCM–Reality Intercomparison Project for SPARC (GRIPS): Scientific Issues and Initial Results

    Steven Pawson;Steven Pawson;Steven Pawson;K. Kodera;K. Hamilton;T. G. Shepherd

  • Effect of solar proton events on the middle atmosphere during the past two solar cycles as computed using a two‐dimensional model

    Charles H. Jackman;Anne R. Douglass;Richard B. Rood;Richard D. McPeters

  • Revisiting projected shifts in the climate envelopes of North American trees using updated general circulation models

    Daniel W. McKENNEY;John H. Pedlar;Richard B. Rood;David Price

  • Moving Climate Information off the Shelf: Boundary Chains and the Role of RISAs as Adaptive Organizations

    Maria Carmen Lemos;Christine J. Kirchhoff;Scott E. Kalafatis;Donald Scavia

  • Three-dimensional radon 222 calculations using assimilated meteorological data and a convective mixing algorithm

    Dale J. Allen;Richard B. Rood;Anne M. Thompson;Robert D. Hudson

  • The Practitioner's Dilemma: How to Assess the Credibility of Downscaled Climate Projections

    Joseph J. Barsugli;Galina Guentchev;Radley M. Horton;Andrew Wood

  • Transport-induced interannual variability of carbon monoxide determined using a chemistry and transport model

    Dale J. Allen;Prasad Kasibhatla;Anne M. Thompson;Anne M. Thompson;Richard B. Rood

  • Impacts of Climate Change on Public Health in India: Future Research Directions

    Kathleen F. Bush;George Luber;S. Rani Kotha;R. S. Dhaliwal

  • Two‐dimensional and three‐dimensional model simulations, measurements, and interpretation of the influence of the October 1989 solar proton events on the middle atmosphere

    Charles H. Jackman;Marck C. Cerniglia;J. Eric Nielsen;Dale J. Allen

  • Application of a Monotonic Upstream-biased Transport Scheme to Three-Dimensional Constituent Transport Calculations

    Dale J. Allen;Anne R. Douglass;Richard B. Rood;Paul D. Guthrie

  • Interpretation of ozone temperature correlations: 1. Theory

    Richard B. Rood;Anne R. Douglass

  • Global Modeling Initiative assessment model: Model description, integration, and testing of the transport shell

    D. A. Rotman;J. R. Tannahill;D. E. Kinnison;D. E. Kinnison;P. S. Connell

  • Recent water level changes across Earth's largest lake system and implications for future variability

    Andrew D. Gronewold;Andrew D. Gronewold;Richard B. Rood;Richard B. Rood

  • The Geos Ozone Data Assimilation System: Specification of Error Statistics

    Ivanka Štajner;Lars Peter Riishøjgaard;Lars Peter Riishøjgaard;Richard B. Rood

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne R. Douglass
Anne R. Douglass Goddard Space Flight Center
Shian-Jiann Lin
Shian-Jiann Lin Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Richard S. Stolarski
Richard S. Stolarski Johns Hopkins University
Steven Pawson
Steven Pawson Goddard Space Flight Center
Mark R. Schoeberl
Mark R. Schoeberl Science and Technology Corporation (United States)
Charles H. Jackman
Charles H. Jackman Goddard Space Flight Center
Anne M. Thompson
Anne M. Thompson Goddard Space Flight Center
Marie S. O'Neill
Marie S. O'Neill University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Daniel G. Brown
Daniel G. Brown University of Washington
Mian Chin
Mian Chin Goddard Space Flight Center

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