Robert E. Dickinson

Professor

School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Georgia Institute of Technology

Phone: (404) 385-1509, Fax: (404) 385-1510

Email: robted@eas.gatech.edu

Educations

1966 Ph.D: Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1962 MS: Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1961 BA: Chemistry and Physics, Harvard University

Professional Positions

2000- present: Endowed Chair, Georgia Power/Georgia Research Alliance

1999- present: Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

1993-1999: Regents Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

1990-1993: Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

1968-1990: Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO

1966-1968: Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Honors and Awards

2007: As member of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

2006: Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Research Author

2006: Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2005: Honorary Professor, Beijing Normal University

2004: Einstein Lectureship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Remote Sensing

2004: Honorary Membership in European Geosciences Union (EGU)

2003: ISI Web of Knowledge Highly Cited List, ISI HighlyCited.com

2002: Honorary Membership in the European Geophysical Society (EGS)

2002: Member, National Academy of Engineering

1996: Roger Revelle Medal, American Geophysical Union

1996: Rossby Award, American Meteorological Society

1995: G. Unger Vetlesen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

1992: Physics Distinguished Achievement Award for Outstanding Publication Contribution

1988: Jule G. Charney Award, American Meteorological Society

1988: Member, National Academy of Science

1987: Fellow, American Geophysical Union

1984: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

1973: Meisinger Award, American Meteorological Society

Professional Organizations and Committees

2006-2009: Member, UCAR Board of Trustee

2006-2009: Member, UCAR Board of Trustee's Personnel Committee

2006: Member, Committee on Strategic Advice on the Climate Change Science Program, National Research Council (NRC)

2006-2008: Member, Advisory Committee on Biological and Environmental Research, Department of Energy (DOE)

2006: Member, Committee on Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Past 1,000-2,000 Years: Synthesis of Current  Understanding and Challenges for the Future, National Research Council (NRC)

2006: DOE SciDAC Review Panel Member

2005-2010: Joint Editor-in-Chief for the journal Carbon Balance and Management

2005-2009: Institutional trustee of UCAR

2004-2007: IPCC AR4 Lead Author, Chapter 7

2004-2007: American Institute of Physics (AIP) Governing Board, Member of Audit Committee

2004-2007: Member, LTER National Advisory Board

2004-present: Chair, External Advisory Committee, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)

2002-2004: President - American Geophysical Union; 2000-2002: President-elect

2002: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) - Global Change Research Advisory Panel

2001-2006: Co-Chair, The Global Carbon Project, An IGBP-IHDP- WCRP Joint Project

2001-2002: Chair, Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences Section, AAAS

2001-2002: Co-Chair, Programme on Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR)

2001-2002: Member, Committee on the Science of Climate Change, National Research Council

2000: Chair, Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate External Advisory Panel

1999: Chair, Awards Committee, American Meteorological Society

1998: Member, Awards Committee, American Meteorological Society

1998: Member, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Scientific Advisory Committee

1998: Member, Awards Committee, American Meteorological Society; 1999 - Chair

1998: Member, Roger Revelle Award Committee

1997: Member, William Bowie Award Committee

1997: External Review Team, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science

1996: Member, Center for Clouds, Chemistry and Climate External Advisory Committee

1995: Scientific Advisory Panel, NASA GSFC, Data Assimilation Office

1995: Member, Land Working Group, Climate System Modeling, NCAR

1995: Member, Scientific Steering Committee, Climate System Modeling, NCAR

1995: Member, TOGA Panel

1995-1997: Member, Climate Research Committee

1985-1990: Member, Climate Research Committee

1990-1998: CMAP Science Advisory Committee, NCAR

1988-1996: Member, International Steering Committee, WCRP, GEWEX

1994-1996: Executive Committee, Institute for the Study of Planet Earth

1992-1994: Oversite Panel Chairman, Artic Research Consortium of the United States

1990-1992: Chairman, Climate Research Committee

1988-1992: President, AGU Atmospheric Sciences Section

1987-1988: Member, Committee on Earth as a System

Recent Selected Publications

2008:

Dickinson, 2008: Determination for climate models of the multi-scattered solar radiation from a canopy with leaves modeled as a 3D distribution of homogeneous isotropic scatters, J. of Computational Physics, 227, 3367-3677.

Dickinson, R. E., Y. Tian, Q. Liu and L. Zhou, 2008: Dynamics of leaf area for climate and weather models, J. Geophys. Res., in press.

Fang, H.L., A. L.Liang, J. R. Townsend, R. E. Dickinson, et al., 2008: Spatially and temporally continuous LAI data sets based on an integrated filtering method: Examples from North America. Remote Sens. Environ. 112, (1) 75-95.

Gao, H., R. Fu, R. E. Dickinson, R. Negrón Juárez, 2008.  A Practical Method for Retrieving Land Surface Temperature from AMSR-E over the Amazon Forest, IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, 46, No. 1,193-199.

Huang, Y., W. L. Chameides, Q. Tan and R. E. Dickinson, 2008: Characteristics of anthropogenic sulfate and carbonaceous aerosols over East Asia: regional modeling and observation, MAIRS special issue in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, in press.

Oleson, K.W., G.-Y. Niu, Z.-L. Yang, D.M. Lawrence, P.E. Thornton, P.J. Lawrence, R. Stockli, R. E. Dickinson, et al., 2008: Improvements to the Community Land Model and their impact on the hydrological cycle. J. Geophys. Res. 113, G01021, doi:10.1029/2007JG000563.

Zhou, L. R. Dickinson, P. Dirmeyer, H. Chen, Y. Dai, and Y. Tian, 2008: Asymmetric response of maximum and minimum temperatures to soil emissivity change over the Northern African Sahel in a GCM. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L05402, doi:10.1029/2007GL032953

2007:

Huang, D., Y. Knyazikhina, R. E. Dickinson, et al., 2007: Canopy spectral invariants for remote sensing and model applications, Remote Sens. Environ., 106, 106–122.

Huang, Y., W. L. Chameides, and R. E. Dickinson, 2007: The assessment of direct and indirect effect of anthropogenic aerosols on regional precipitation over East Asia, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D03212, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007114.

Li, W., R. E. Dickinson, R. Fu, G.-Y. Niu, Z.-L. Yang, and J. G. Canadell, 2007: Future precipitation changes and their implications for tropical peatlands, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L01403, doi: 10.1029/2006GL028364.

Niu, G.-Y., Z.-L. Yang, R. E. Dickinson, L. E. Gulden, and H. Su, 2007: Development of a simple groundwater model for use in climate models and evaluation with Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment data, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D07103, doi:10.1029/2006JD007522.

Tian, Y., R. E., Dickinson, L. Zhou, 2007: Four-stream isosector approximation for canopy radiative transfer, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D04107, doi: 10.1029/2006JD007545.

Wu, W.R., R.E. Dickinson, H. Wang, Y. Liu, and M. Shaikh, 2007: Covariabilities of spring soil moisture and summertime United States precipitation in a climate simulation, Int. J. Climatol., 27, 429-438, published online 25 September 2006 in Wiley InterScience, DOI: 10.1002/joc.1419.

Zhou, L., R. E. Dickinson, Y. Tian, R. Vose, and Y.-J. Dai, 2007: Impact of Vegetation Removal and Soil Aridation on Diurnal Temperature Range in a Semiarid Region - Application to the Sahel, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 104, 17937-17942, 10.1073/pnas.0700290104.

2006:

Dickinson, R.E., K.W. Oleson, G. Bonan, F. Hoffman, P. Thornton, M. Vertenstein, Z-L. Yang, and X. Zeng, 2006: The Community Land Model and Its Climate Statistics as a Component of the Community Climate System Model. J. Climate, CCSM special issue, 19, 2302-2324.

Fu, R, Y. L. Hu, J. S. Wright, J. H. Jiang, R. E. Dickinson, M. X. Chen, M. Filipiak, W. G. Read, J. W. Waters, D. L. Wu, 2006: Short circuit of water vapor and polluted air to the global stratosphere by convective transport over the Tibetan Plateau, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 103, 5664-5669, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601584103.

Huang Y., R. E. Dickinson and W. L. Chameides, 2006: Impact of aerosol indirect effect on surface temperature over East Asia, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 103, 4371-4376, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504428103.

Li, W., R. Fu, and R.E. Dickinson, 2006: Rainfall and its seasonality over the Amazon in the 21st century as assessed by the coupled models for the IPCC AR4, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, D02111, doi:10.1029/2005JD006355.

Pinty, B., T. Lavergne, R. E. Dickinson, J.-L. Widlowski, N. Gobron, and M. M. Verstraete, 2006: Simplifying the interaction of land surfaces with radiation for relating remote sensing products to climate models, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D02116, doi:10.1029/2005JD005952.

Tsvetsinskaya, E. A., C. B. Schaaf, F. Gao, A. H. Strahler, and R. E. Dickinson, 2006: Spatial and temporal variability in Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer-derived surface albedo over global arid regions, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D20106, doi:10.1029/2005JD006772.

Wang, A. H., X. Zeng, S.S.P. Shen, Q-C. Zeng, R. E. Dickinson, 2006: Timescales of Land Surface Hydrology. J. Hydrometeorol. 7(5), 868-879.

Wei, J., R. E. Dickinson, and N. Zeng., 2006: Climate variability in a simple model of warm climate land-atmosphere interaction, J. Geophys. Res.- Biogeosciences, 111, G03009, doi:10.1029/2005JG000096.

Zeng, X. D., A. H. Wang, Q. C. Zeng, R.E. Dickinson, X. Zeng, and S.S.P. Shen, 2006: Intermediately complex models for the hydrological interactions in the atmosphere-vegetation-soil system. Adv. Atmos. Sci., 23, 127-140.

2005:

Gao, F., C. B. Schaaf, A. H. Strahler, A. Roesch, W. Lucht and R. Dickinson, 2005: MODIS bidirectional reflectance distribution function and albedo Climate Modeling Grid products and the variability of albedo for major global vegetation types. J. Geophys. Res, 110, D01104, doi: l0.1029/2004JD005190.

Hall, D. K., M. Kaminski, D. J. Cavalieri, R. E. Dickinson, M. Marquis, G. A. Riggs, D. A. Robinson, M. Van Woert, R. E. Wolfe (2005), Earth Observing System Snow and Ice Products for Observation and Modeling, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(7), 67, 10.1029/2005EO070004.

Jin, M, R. E. Dickinson, D-L. Zhang, 2005: the Footprint of Urban Areas on Global Climate as Characterized by MODIS. J. Clim. 18, 1551-1565.

Niu, G.-Y., Z.-L. Yang, R.E. Dickinson, and L.E. Gulden, 2005: A simple TOPMODEL-based runoff parameterization (SIMTOP) for use in global models. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D21106, doi:10.1029/2005JD006111.

Pinty, B., A. Lattanzio, J. V. Martonchik, et al., 2005: Coupling diffuse sky radiation and surface albedo, J. Atmos. Sciences, 62, (7), 2580-2591, Part 2.

Steiner, A.L., J. S. Pal, F. Giorgi, et al., 2005: The coupling of the Common Land Model (CLM0) to a regional climate model (RegCM). Theoretical and App. Clim. 82, (3-4), 225-243.

Wang, Z., M. Barlage, X. Zeng, R., Dickinson, and C. Schaaf, 2005: The solar zenith angle dependence of desert albedo. Geophys.Res. Lett., 32, L05403, doi: 10.129/2004GL021835.

Wu, W.R., and R. E. Dickinson, 2005: Warm-season rainfall variability over the U.S. Great Plains and its correlation with evapotranspiration in a climate simulation. Geophys. Res. Lett. 32(17), L17402, doi:10.1029/2005GL023422.

Zeng X. D., X. Zeng, S. S. P. Shen, R. E. Dickinson, 2005: Reply to comment by Dekker and Rietkerk on ‘Multiple equilibrium states and the abrupt transitions in a dynamical system of soil water interacting with vegetation’, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L09403, doi:10.1029/2004GL022339.

Zeng, X. D., X. Zeng, S. S. P. Shen, R. E. Dickinson, and Q.-C. Zeng, 2005: Vegetation-soil water interaction within a dynamical ecosystem model of grassland in semi-arid areas. Tellus, 57B, 189-202.

Zeng, X.B., R.E. Dickinson, M. Barlage, et al., 2005: Treatment of undercanopy turbulence in land models. J. Clim., 18 (23), 5086-5094.

Zhou, L., R. E. Dickinson and Y. Tian, 2005: Derivation of a soil albedo dataset from MODIS using principal component analysis: Northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L21407, doi: 10.1029/2005GL024448.

Zhou, M., H. Yu, R. E. Dickinson, et al., 2005: A normalized description of the direct effect of key aerosol types on solar radiation as estimated from Aerosol Robotic Network aerosols and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer albedos. J. Geophys. Res., 110 (D19), D19202, doi: 10.1029/2005JD005909.

2004:

Dai, Y., R. E. Dickinson, and Y.-P. Wang, 2004: A two-big-leaf model for canopy temperature, photosynthesis and stomatal conductance. J. Clim. 17, No. 12, 2281-2299.

Tian, Y., R.E. Dickinson, L. Zhou, X. Zeng, Y. Dai, R.B. Myneni, Y. Knyazikhin, X., Zhang, M. Friedl, H. Yu, W. Wu, and M. Shaikh, 2004: Comparison of seasonal and spatial variations of leaf area index and fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Common Land Model. J. Geophys. Res., 109, doi:10.1029/2003JD003777.

Tian, Y., R. E. Dickinson, L., Zhou, R. B. Myneni, M.. Friedl, C.B. Schaaf, M.. Carroll, and F. Gao, 2004: Land boundary conditions from MODIS data and consequences for the albedo of a climate model. Geophy. Res. Lett. 31(5), L05504, 10.1029/2003GL019104.

Tian, Y., R. E. Dickinson, L. Zhou, and M. Shaikh, 2004: Impact of new land boundary conditions from modis data on the climatology of land surface variables. J. Geophys. Res., 109, D20115, doi: 10.1029/2003JD004499.

Wang, Z., X. Zeng, M. Barlage, R.E. Dickinson, F. Gao, and C.B. Schaaf, 2004: Using MODIS BRDF and albedo data to evaluate global model land surface albedo. J. Hydrometeorol, 5, 3-14.

Wu. W., and R. E. Dickinson, 2004: Time scales of layered soil moisture memory in the context of land-atmosphere interaction. J. Clim., 17, 2752-2964.

Yu, H., R. E. Dickinson, M. Chin, M. Zhou, Y. J. Kaufman, L. Zhou, Y. Tian, O. Dubovik, and B. N. Holben, 2004: Direct radiative effect of aerosols as determined from a combination of MODIS retrievals and GOCART simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D03206, doi: 10.1029/2003JD003914.

Zeng, X.-D., S.S.P. Shen, X. Zeng, and R.E. Dickinson, 2004: Multiple equilibrium states and the abrupt transitions in a dynamical system of soil water interacting with vegetation. Geophys. Res. Lett. 31(5), L05501, doi: 10.1029/2003GL018910.

Zhou, L., R.E. Dickinson, Y. Tian, J. Fang, Q. Li, R.K. Kaufmann, C.J. Tucker, and R.B. Myneni, 2004: Evidence for a significant urbanization effect on climate in China, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 101(26), 9540-9544.

2003:

Dai, Y., X. Zeng, R.E. Dickinson, I. Baker, G.B. Bonan, M.G. Bosilovich, A.S. Denning, P.A. Dirmeyer, P.R. Houser, G-Y. Niu, K.W. Oleson, C.A. Schlosser, and Z.-L. Yang, 2003: The Common Land Model (CLM). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 84(8), 1013-1023.

Dickinson, R.E., G. Wang, X. Zeng, and Q.-C. Zeng, 2003: How does the partitioning of evapotranspiration and runoff between different processes affect the variability and predictability of soil moisture and precipitation? Adv. in Atmos. Sci., 20(3), 475-478.

Liu, Q. and R. E. Dickinson, 2003: Use of a two-mode soil pore size distribution to estimate soil water transport in a land surface model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(6), 1331, doi: 10.1029/2002GL016562.

Yu, H., R. E. Dickinson, M. Chin, Y.J.Kaufman, B. N. Holben, I.V. Geogdzhayev and M.I. Mishchenko, 2003: Annual cycle of global distributions of aerosol optical depth from integration of MODIS retrievals and GOCART model simulations. J. Geophys. Res, 108(D3), 4128, doi:1029/2002JD002717.

Zhou, L., R.E. Dickinson, Y. Tian, M. Jin, K. Ogawa, H. Yu and T. Schmugge, 2003. A sensitivity study of climate and energy balance simulations with use of satellite-derived emissivity data over Northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. J. Geophys. Res, 108(D24), 4795, doi: so.1029/2003JD004083.

Zhou, L., R.E. Dickinson, Y. Tian, X. Zeng, Y. Dai, Z.-L. Yang, C.B. Schaaf, F. Gao, Y. Jin, A. Strahler, R.B. Myneni, H. Yu, W. Wu, and M. Shaikh, 2003: Comparison of seasonal and spatial variations of albedos from Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Common Land Model. J. Geophys. Res, 108(D15), 4488, doi: 10.1029/2002JD003326.

Zhou, L., R.E. Dickinson, K. Ogawa, Y. Tian, M. Jin, T. Schmugge, and E. Tsvetsinskaya, 2003: Relations between albedos and emmivities from MODIS and ASTER data over North African Desert. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(20), 2026, doi: 10.1029/2003GL018069.

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