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Richard B Rood
Professor

Email: rbrood@umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 647-3530
Fax: (734) 936-0503
Office: 2525 Space Research Building

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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 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 derpartments.  It's cool, and it's the future.

Students: Cédric Drui
Erika Roesler



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

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

 

High-End Climate Science: Development of
Modeling and Related Computing Capabilities

Thi s report 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.

 

1987 Reviews of Geophysics Advection Review

Because people still ask for it. 

 

 

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

(minor words that give me exaggerated pleasure) 

The Cape Anne Pig and Me
Bay Weekly

2007, Vol. 15

Simple Africa
The Survivor
2006, Vol. 25

My Father'sTomatoes

Bay Weekly 2006, Vol. 14
John McLean Current Magazine (online) 2006
Christmas at the 7-Eleven Bay Weekly 2005, Vol. 13
The Keeper Foreign Service Journal 2004
Relics Faultline
2003, Vol. 12


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Updated: 2008-04-09




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