Robert E. Dickinson

Robert E. Dickinson , full name: Robert Earl Dickinson (born March 26, 1940 in Millersburg (Ohio) ) is an American meteorologist and geoscientist.

Dickinson studied chemistry and physics at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in 1962 and a doctorate in 1966. He then carried out research at MIT and was from 1968 at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, where he became head of the Climate Department in 1975 and Deputy Director of the Climate and Global Dynamics Division in 1981. From 1990 he was professor at the University of Arizona , 1999 professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and since 2008 professor at the University of Texas at Austin .

He deals with climate models and computer models of processes in the atmosphere, including interactions with the biosphere, global climate changes, the carbon dioxide cycle on land, remote sensing, droughts and the disappearance of tropical rainforests.

In 1996 he received the Vetlesen Prize and the Roger Revelle Medal of the American Geophysical Union and in 1997 the Rossby Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1988), the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Engineering (2002). In 2006 he became an external member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2002 to 2004 he was President of the American Geophysical Union. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, whose Meisinger Award he received in 1973. He is an honorary member of the European Geophysical Society and the European Geosciences Union.

Web links

• Homepage
• Vetlesen Prize

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85377188.html
2. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
3. ^ Biography of the presidents of the AGU