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Overview

Robert L. Walko is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with notable emphasis on Atmospheric Science and related subfields.

Their scholarly work covers a range of topics including:

  • Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Soil and Unsaturated Flow
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Aeolian processes and effects

Frequent coauthors in Walko's publications include:

  • William R. Cotton
  • Simone Fatichi
  • Dani Or
  • Harry Vereecken
  • Michael H. Young

Walko's research articles are commonly published in venues such as:

  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Physical Geography

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Walko include:

  • Soil structure is an important omission in Earth System Models, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Examination of Aerosol-Induced Convective Invigoration Using Idealized Simulations, 2020, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Seasonal estimates of the impacts of aerosol and dust pollution on orographic precipitation in the Colorado River Basin, 2020, Physical Geography
  • A Modeling Investigation of the Potential Impacts of Pollution Aerosols on Hurricane Harvey, 2021, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Best Publications

  • A comprehensive meteorological modeling system?RAMS

    R. A. Pielke;W. R. Cotton;R. L. Walko;C. J. Tremback

  • RAMS 2001: Current status and future directions

    William R. Cotton;R. A. Pielke;R. L. Walko;G. E. Liston

  • New RAMS cloud microphysics parameterization part I: the single-moment scheme

    R.L. Walko;W.R. Cotton;M.P. Meyers;J.Y. Harrington

  • Coupled Atmosphere–Biophysics–Hydrology Models for Environmental Modeling

    Robert L. Walko;Larry E. Band;Jill Baron;Timothy G. F. Kittel

  • New RAMS cloud microphysics parameterization. Part II: The two-moment scheme

    Michael P. Meyers;Robert L. Walko;Jerry Y. Harrington;William R. Cotton

  • Incorporating water table dynamics in climate modeling: 1. Water table observations and equilibrium water table simulations

    Ying Fan;Gonzalo Miguez-Macho;Christopher P. Weaver;Robert Walko

  • Can large wind farms affect local meteorology

    S. Baidya Roy;Stephen Wilson Pacala;R. L. Walko

  • The Influence of Anthropogenic Landscape Changes on Weather in South Florida

    R A Pielke Sr;R L Walko;L T Steyaert;Pier Luigi Vidale

  • Incorporating water table dynamics in climate modeling: 2. Formulation, validation, and soil moisture simulation

    Gonzalo Miguez-Macho;Ying Fan;Christopher P. Weaver;Robert Walko

  • Regional dry-season climate changes due to three decades of Amazonian deforestation

    Jaya Khanna;Jaya Khanna;David Medvigy;David Medvigy;Stephan Andreas Fueglistaler;Robert Walko

  • Soil structure is an important omission in Earth System Models

    Simone Fatichi;Dani Or;Robert Walko;Harry Vereecken

  • Elements of the microphysical structure of numerically simulated nonprecipitating stratocumulus

    Bjorn Stevens;Graham Feingold;William R. Cotton;Robert L. Walko

  • Simulations of marine stratocumulus using a new microphysical parameterization scheme

    Graham Feingold;R.L. Walko;Bjorn Stevens;W.R. Cotton

  • Parameterization of ice crystal conversion processes due to vapor deposition for mesoscale models using double-moment basis functions. Part I: basic formulation and parcel model results

    Jerry Y. Harrington;Michael P. Meyers;Robert L. Walko;William R. Cotton

  • Cloud venting — A review and some new global annual estimates

    W.R. Cotton;G.D. Alexander;R. Hertenstein;R.L. Walko

  • Polynomial Fits to Saturation Vapor Pressure.

    Piotr J. Flatau;Robert L. Walko;William R. Cotton

  • Effects of canopy heterogeneity, seed abscission and inertia on wind‐driven dispersal kernels of tree seeds

    Gil Bohrer;Gabriel G. Katul;Ran Nathan;Robert L. Walko

  • Infiltration from the Pedon to Global Grid Scales: An Overview and Outlook for Land Surface Modeling

    Harry Vereecken;Lutz Weihermüller;Shmuel Assouline;Jirka Šimůnek

  • Exploring the Effects of Microscale Structural Heterogeneity of Forest Canopies Using Large-Eddy Simulations

    Gil Bohrer;Gil Bohrer;Gabriel G. Katul;Robert L. Walko;Roni Avissar

  • A Modeling Study of the Dryline

    Conrad L. Ziegler;William J. Martin;Roger A. Pielke;Robert L. Walko

  • An explicit cloud microphysics/LES model designed to simulate the Twomey effect

    G. Feingold;B. Stevens;W. R. Cotton;R. L. Walko

Frequent Co-Authors

Roni Avissar
Roni Avissar University of Miami
David Medvigy
David Medvigy University of Notre Dame
William R. Cotton
William R. Cotton Colorado State University
Roger A. Pielke
Roger A. Pielke University of Colorado Boulder
Graham Feingold
Graham Feingold National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Bjorn Stevens
Bjorn Stevens Max Planck Society
Pier Luigi Vidale
Pier Luigi Vidale University of Reading
Walter A. Lyons
Walter A. Lyons American Meteorological Society
Gil Bohrer
Gil Bohrer The Ohio State University
Gonzalo Miguez-Macho
Gonzalo Miguez-Macho University of Santiago de Compostela

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