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126
Citations
69986
World Ranking
89
National Ranking
38

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United States Leader Award
  • 2004 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Roger A. Pielke is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research contributions focus primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant work in related subfields such as global and planetary change, atmospheric science, statistical and nonlinear physics, economics and econometrics, and computer networks and communications.

The scientist's body of work encompasses various topics, including climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation, chaos control and synchronization, and complex systems and time series analysis.

Recent publications by Roger A. Pielke include:

  • Economic 'normalisation' of disaster losses 1998-2020: a literature review and assessment, 2020, Environmental Hazards
  • Five ways to ensure that models serve society: a manifesto, 2020, Nature
  • Is Weather Chaotic?: Coexistence of Chaos and Order within a Generalized Lorenz Model, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Latent heat must be visible in climate communications, 2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change
  • The Role of Radiation in Accelerating Tropical Cyclogenesis in Idealized Simulations, 2020, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

The scientist has collaborated regularly with co-authors including Xubin Zeng, Bo-Wen Shen, U. S. Nair, Eric Rappin, and Rezaul Mahmood.

Frequent publication venues for their work include the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Encyclopedia, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Atmosphere, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Roger A. Pielke was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Mesoscale meteorological modeling

    Roger A. Pielke

  • A comprehensive meteorological modeling system?RAMS

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

  • Abrupt climate change

    RB Alley;Jochem Marotzke;WD Nordhaus;JT Overpeck

  • Normalized Hurricane Damage in the United States: 1900–2005

    Roger A. Pielke;Joel Gratz;Christopher W. Landsea;Douglas Collins

  • Climatic impact of tropical lowland deforestation on nearby montane cloud forests.

    R. O. Lawton;U. S. Nair;R. A. Pielke;R. M. Welch

  • RAMS 2001: Current status and future directions

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

  • A Parameterization of Heterogeneous Land Surfaces for Atmospheric Numerical Models and Its Impact on Regional Meteorology

    R. Avissar;R. A. Pielke

  • Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative.

    James S. Clark;Steven R. Carpenter;Mary Barber;Scott Collins

  • Influence of the spatial distribution of vegetation and soils on the prediction of cumulus Convective rainfall

    Roger A. Pielke

  • The influence of land-use change and landscape dynamics on the climate system: relevance to climate-change policy beyond the radiative effect of greenhouse gases.

    Roger A. Pielke;Gregg Marland;Richard A. Betts;Thomas N. Chase

  • A Three-Dimensional Numerical Model of the Sea Breezes Over South Florida

    Roger Alvin Pielke

  • Land use/land cover changes and climate: modeling analysis and observational evidence

    Roger A. Pielke Sr.;Andy Pitman;Dev Niyogi;Rezaul Mahmood

  • Land Use and Climate Change

    Roger A. Pielke

  • Normalized Hurricane Damages in the United States: 1925-95

    Roger A. Pielke;Christopher W. Landsea

  • Coupled Atmosphere–Biophysics–Hydrology Models for Environmental Modeling

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

  • Land cover changes and their biogeophysical effects on climate

    Rezaul Mahmood;Roger A. Pielke;Kenneth G. Hubbard;Dev Niyogi

  • An Introduction to Trends in Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Observations, Socioeconomic Impacts, Terrestrial Ecological Impacts, and Model Projections*

    Gerald A. Meehl;Thomas Karl;David R. Easterling;Stanley Changnon

  • The neglected heart of science policy: reconciling supply of and demand for science

    Daniel Sarewitz;Roger A. Pielke

  • Interactions between the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems: influence on weather and climate

    Roger A. Pielke;Roni Avissar;Michael Raupach;A. Johannes Dolman

  • Temporal Fluctuations in Weather and Climate Extremes That Cause Economic and Human Health Impacts: A Review

    Kenneth E. Kunkel;Roger A. Pielke;Stanley A. Changnon

Frequent Co-Authors

Dev Niyogi
Dev Niyogi The University of Texas at Austin
William R. Cotton
William R. Cotton Colorado State University
Timothy G. F. Kittel
Timothy G. F. Kittel University of Colorado Boulder
Richard T. McNider
Richard T. McNider University of Alabama in Huntsville
Xubin Zeng
Xubin Zeng University of Arizona
Toshihisa Matsui
Toshihisa Matsui Goddard Space Flight Center
Glen E. Liston
Glen E. Liston Colorado State University
Rezaul Mahmood
Rezaul Mahmood University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Raymond W. Arritt
Raymond W. Arritt Iowa State University
Daniel Sarewitz
Daniel Sarewitz Arizona State University

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