Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, College of Engineering, University of Michigan

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Richard B Rood

Professor

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

Ph.D., Meteorology, Florida State University
M.S., Meteorology, Florida State University
B.S., Physics, University of North Carolina

Research:

I teach a class on climate change and the interface of climate change with all aspects of society. This has evolved into a class on climate change problem solving. It has changed my life.  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 and engineering departments. Because of this class, more and more, my research interests are on the use of information from climate projections in adaptation to global warming.  It's the future. Web link below.

 

My current physical-climate 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.

 

In addition, I have funding to study urban heat waves, human heat health warning systems, and how to govern open source / open innovation communities.  I am a co-investigator on Michigan's NOAA-funded Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Center.

 

I write blogs for Wunderground.com and Climatepolicy.org.  They address climate science and strategic approaches to climate-change problem solving.

Specializations and Research Interests

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

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

BLOGS

  • climatepolicy.org Blogs

    One of several invited participants in an American Meteorological Society forum on climate change policy.

CLASSES

Selection of Rood's Professional Publications

This selection includes links to the report that 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. There is a PDF of my 1987 advection review and some of the other papers that people seem to ask for.

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

(minor words that give me exaggerated pleasure.)

If you need a photo, here they are.

Updated: 2011-05-01