Robert E. Dickinson

Who is Robert E. Dickinson?

Robert Earl Dickinson is an American meteorologist and geoscientist.

Dickinson studied chemistry and physics at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree completed in 1961. As a graduate student, he studied meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in 1962 and Ph.D. in 1966. After being a researcher at MIT, he joined in 1968 the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, where he became in 1975 head of the climate division and in 1981 Deputy Director of the Climate and Global Dynamics Division. In 1990 he became a professor at the University of Arizona, in 1999 professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, and since 2008 professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

He works on climate models and computer models of processes in the atmosphere including interactions with the biosphere, global climate change, the carbon cycle on land, remote sensing, and the disappearance of tropical rain forests. He received in 1996 the Vetlesen Prize and the Revelle Medal from the American Geophysical Union and in 1997 the Rossby Award from the American Meteorological Society.