Professor
Tel. (919) 515-7002
5142 Jordan Hall
Email: walter_robinson@ncsu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

B.A. - Physics, University of Pennsylvania, 1977

M.S. – Physics, University of Pennsylvania, 1977

M.Phil. – Geological Sciences, Columbia University, 1982

Ph.D. – Geological Sciences, Columbia University 1985

TEACHING AND RESEARCH AREAS:
Large-scale atmospheric dynamics and the dynamics of Earth's climate, including climate variability and climate change.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Sun L., W. A. Robinson, 2009: Downward influence of stratospheric final warming events in an idealized model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L03819, doi:10.1029/2008GL036624.

Chen, G., I. M. Held, and W. A. Robinson, 2007: Sensitivity of the latitude of the surface westerlies to surface friction. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 2899-2915.

Robinson, W. A., 2007: Eddy-mediated interactions between low latitudes and the extratropics. Invited chapter in Global Circulation of the Atmosphere, T. Schneider and A. Sobel, eds., Princeton University Press.

Robinson, W. A., 2006: On the self-maintenance of midlatitude jets. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 2109-2122.

Peng, S., W. A. Robinson, S. Li, M. P. Hoerling, and M. A. Alexander, 2006: Effects of Ekman transport on the NAO response to a tropical Atlantic SST forcing. J. Climate, 19, 4803-4818.

Kushnir, Y., W. A. Robinson, P. Chang, and A. W. Robertson, 2006: The physical basis for predicting Atlantic sector seasonal-to-interannual climate variability. J. Climate, 19, 5949--5970.

Song, Y., and W. A. Robinson, 2004: Dynamical mechanisms for Stratospheric influences on the troposphere. J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 1711-1725.

Robinson, W. A., S. Li, S. Peng, 2003: Dynamical nonlinearity in the atmospheric response to Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30, doi:10.1029/2003GL018416.

Robinson, W. A., 2002:  On the midlatitude thermal response to tropical warmth. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 10.1029/2001GL014158.

Robinson, W. A., R. Reudy, and J. E. Hansen, 2002: GCM simulations of recent cooling in the East-central United States. J. Geophys. Res., 107, 4748, doi:10.1029/2001JD001577.