Alan Robock
 (click here for Biographical Sketch)


B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1970

Meteorology, Advisor: Lyle Horn

S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974

Meteorology, Advisor: Norman A. Phillips

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977

Meteorology, Advisor: Edward N. Lorenz
 
Professor II
Department of Environmental Sciences
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers University
14 College Farm Road
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8551

 

Phone:  +1-732-932-9800 x6222

Fax:  +1-732-932-8644

E-mail:  robock@envsci.rutgers.edu

Undergraduate Meteorology Program
Graduate Program in Atmospheric Science
Climate and Environmental Change Initiative
Center for Environmental Prediction
Atmospheric Sciences Section, American Geophysical Union
Research Interests:
     Nuclear Winter
     Volcanic Eruptions and Climate
     Soil Moisture
     Human Impacts of Climate Change
     Regional Atmosphere-Hydrology Modeling
     Geoengineering
 

  

 

 

 



Publications

PowerPoint Presentations:

     Climatic Consequences of Nuclear Conflict Website with Publications and Powerpoints:  Regional Nuclear War and Nuclear Winter Updated

     Climatic Consequences of Regional Nuclear Conflict PowerPoint (31 MB - for teaching) (October 4, 2007)
     You will also need the movies, pin.AVI and effct01a.mov

     Nuclear Winter PowerPoint (31 MB - for teaching) (revised July 4, 2005)
     You will also need the movie, pin.AVI

     Volcanic Eruptions and Climate PowerPoint (36 MB - for teaching) (revised July 30, 2005)
     You will also need the movie, pin.AVI

     Global Warming

Alan, Barne Glacier, and Mt. Erebus, Antarctica, Sept. 22, 2004  My Trip To Antarctica

For my courses, log into sakai.rutgers.edu

Global Soil Moisture Data Bank

Why I Became a Meteorologist

Atmospheric Science / Meteorology at Rutgers

Local Radar Loop

WeatherWatcher

How To Ask a Professor for a Reference Letter

New York City Metropolitan Area Meteorology Web Sites




Publications:

Nuclear power’s costs and perils (Letter to Editor),  Physics Today, vol. 60, No. 1 (January, 2007), p. 14.

Nuclear power challenges and alternatives (Reply to comments on “Nuclear power’s costs and perils. (Letter to Editor)”), Physics Today, vol. 60, No. 9 (September, 2007), p. 16.

Tonight as I Stand Inside the Rain: Bob Dylan and Weather Imagery  (© Copyright 2005 AMS)

External Funding of Atmospheric Science Programs  (© Copyright 2005 AMS)
 

  ON NUCLEAR WINTER

  ON GEOENGINEERING

ON VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS AND CLIMATE

  ON GLOBAL AND REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE

  ON SOIL MOISTURE AND CLIMATE

  ON HUMIDITY

  ON THE DIURNAL CYCLE



Prepared by Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu) - Last updated on April 5, 2008