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Richard B. Rood

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Climate + Energy
rbrood@umich.edu
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Professor Rood, who is the Dow Sustainability Distinguished Faculty Fellow in the College of Engineering, teaches 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. This is a graduate class, taught in concert with the School for Environment and Sustainability. The class includes business students, policy students, as well as students from several science and engineering departments. Because of this class, more and more, his research interests are on the use of information from climate projections in adaptation to global warming. It's the future. Web link below. In 2014, Paul Edwards, of the School of Information, and Rood introduced a new course called Climate Informatics. The challenge of global climate change presents crucial issues that demand the expertise of both scientists and information professionals. Among these are: Retrieving and presenting complex climate data to non-expert users with specific needs; Building decision-support tools for planning and management; Communicating climate science to broader audiences through simulations, games, or educational software; Establishing reputation and trustworthiness for web-based information sources managing vast Earth system datasets, including curation, provenance, metadata,openness and reproducibility; Designing green IT, such as power-aware computing, smart controllers and smart grids. 

Publications

  • Evaluating the Appropriateness of Downscaled Climate Information for Projecting Risks of Salmonella (2016). 
  • A decision tree algorithm for investigation of model biases related to dynamical cores and physical parameterizations (2016).
  • Demystifying Climate Models: A Users Guide to Earth System Models (2016). 
  • Components of the Climate System (2016). 
  • Usability of Climate Model Projections by Practitioners (2016). 

Read more publications here.

Research

His current physical-climate research is focused on bridging the study of weather and climate. With my graduate student Soner Yorgun we are investigating how the dynamical core impacts topographic precipitation. We are investigating specific features, viewing them as objects, and whether they are represented in the same way in different model configurations and observations. I was also co-advisor with Derek Posselt of Erika Roesler, who studied low-level Arctic clouds and their sensitivity to environmental parameters. Erika currently has a postdoc at Sandia National Laboratory.

Education

Ph.D., Florida State University (meteorology)

M.S., Florida State University (meteorology)

B.S., University of North Carolina (physics)

In the News
COP27 climate conference in Egypt: U-M experts available to discuss
November 18, 2022

COP27 climate conference in Egypt: U-M experts available to discuss

EXPERTS ADVISORY Global climate talks in Egypt are heading into the home stretch with many issues still unresolved. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries have gathered in...

Dallas is only the latest flood disaster: How cities can learn from today’s climate crises to prepare for tomorrow
August 25, 2022

Dallas is only the latest flood disaster: How cities can learn from today’s climate crises to prepare for tomorrow

Devastating flash floods in Dallas, St. Louis and eastern Kentucky have left cities across the U.S. questioning their own security in a warming climate. Dallas was hit...

Supreme Court limits EPA’s ability to regulate carbon emissions: U-M experts available
June 30, 2022

Supreme Court limits EPA’s ability to regulate carbon emissions: U-M experts available

EXPERTS ADVISORY The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, dealing a blow...

earth
April 21, 2022

Gaining control of the challenges of climate change

SEAS professor Richard Rood gave a talk at a National Science Foundation webinar on April 18, 2022, as part of their Earth Day Celebration. In the talk, Rood discusses...

How fast can we stop Earth from warming?
March 29, 2022

How fast can we stop Earth from warming?

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Global warming doesn’t stop on a dime. If people everywhere...

More flooding reported in Detroit metro area: U-M experts available
July 16, 2021

More flooding reported in Detroit metro area: U-M experts available

EXPERTS ADVISORY University of Michigan experts are available to discuss a new round of highway flooding reported in the Detroit metro area Friday as steady rains moved...

In the Media
02/02/2023
Richard B. Rood
Pressures from climate change could challenge agreements safeguarding Great Lakes water (Michigan Radio)
02/02/2023
Richard B. Rood
Pumping Mississippi River water west: solution or dream? (The Washington Post)
01/27/2023
Richard B. Rood
It depends on the second meeting (Michigan Today)
01/25/2023
Richard B. Rood
Lack of ice on lakes takes toll on ice fishing (WoodTV)
01/18/2023
Richard B. Rood
Issues of the Environment: Michigan winters are changing and climate adaptation is key to the future (WEMU-FM)
01/09/2023
Richard B. Rood
Michigan winters are super cloudy and getting worse. Here’s how to deal. (Bridge Michigan)
12/16/2022
Richard B. Rood
Stars in our eyes (Michigan Today)
11/18/2022
Richard B. Rood
It depends on the second meeting (Michigan Today)
10/29/2022
Richard B. Rood
How Hurricane Sandy sprung weather models into the mainstream (The Washington Post)
10/19/2022
Richard B. Rood
How reliable are hurricane models? Hurricane Ian gave us some answers. (Tampa Bay Times)
10/13/2022
Richard B. Rood
You can run but you can’t hide (Michigan Today)
10/12/2022
Richard B. Rood
Rethinking barrier islands, development and Florida’s beaches after Hurricane Ian (Your Sun)
09/23/2022
Richard B. Rood
The allure of cycles (Michigan Today)
09/04/2022
Richard B. Rood
Yes, it could happen to you. Like the water crisis in Jackson, Miss., other U.S. cities are vulnerable to climate-change disaster (MarketWatch)
09/02/2022
Richard B. Rood
How climate change has affected Michigan weather conditions (The Detroit News)
08/26/2022
Richard B. Rood
The heat is on (Michigan Today)
06/24/2022
Richard B. Rood
How good are your coping skills? (Michigan Today)
06/15/2022
Richard B. Rood
HVAC Tips: Keeping Cooler in the Summer Sizzle (ACHR News)
05/20/2022
Richard B. Rood
Knowledge isn’t only power (Michigan Today)
04/22/2022
Richard B. Rood
‘Celebrating’ Earth Day (Michigan Today)
04/20/2022
Richard B. Rood
Science of Weather: Weather, Climate, Earth Day (CBS Detroit)
03/25/2022
Richard B. Rood
Feeling insecure (Michigan Today)
03/23/2022
Richard B. Rood
Climate change is causing Michigan dogsledders to shift gears from snow to dry land (The Washington Post)
10/18/2021
Richard B. Rood
Michigan’s balmy October means more mosquitos, peril for coldwater fish (Bridge)
09/14/2021
Richard B. Rood
After a summer of weather horrors, adapting to climate change is an imperative (The Washington Post)
09/07/2021
Richard B. Rood
Rising waters: Lighthouse keepers fight to preserve history in the face of climate change (Michigan Radio)
09/01/2021
Richard B. Rood
Rising Waters: Great Lakes lighthouse keepers fight to preserve history in the face of climate change (Great Lakes Now)
07/17/2021
Richard B. Rood
As floods continue to pound Detroit, the city’s most vulnerable residents face crisis (MLive)
06/29/2021
Richard B. Rood
What's to blame for the weekend flooding? Climate change and aging infrastructure (WXYZ)
01/20/2021
Richard B. Rood
Issues Of The Environment: Biden Administration to Better Address Climate Crisis (WEMU)
01/04/2021
Richard B. Rood
Michigan winters, as generations have known them, may be coming to an end (Detroit Free Press)
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