Climate & Society Lecture, Guayaquil, Ecuador 2009

Robert J. Mera

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NCSU Campus Box 8208
Raleigh, NC 27695
E-mail: rjmera@ncsu.edu

Regional Climate Modeling with RegCM3 and WRF-ARW
Development of an Extended Procedure for the Relative Operating Characteristic (EROC) Graphical Method
Ensemble-based climate model skill and economic value
Crop modeling: CERES-Maize & CSM-CROPGRO-Soybean
Dynamical Land Surface model - crop model coupling

Dynamical Downscaling of real-time forecasts for the UCAR, Google.org Africa Initiative
Regional Climate Modeling with WRF-ARW versions 2 & 3
Data Assimilation of satellite and global model patterns for regional weather/climate simulations in WRF-VAR
Predictability of moisture regime during the preonset period of Sahelian rains
Society-climate interactions
Full Implementation of the EROC graphical method
Possible simulation of Atlas-Ahaggar Mountains complex interaction with large scale flow over North Africa, tropical cyclones and pre-onset and onset of West African monsoon

Conference on Applied Climatology: June 19-23, 2005
Crop-Climate Interactions Research at the Purdue University Land Surface Laboratory, Fall 2006-present
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2007-2008 school year
Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop: March 4 - 7, 2008
USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station Report Card on Sustainability in Western North Carolina (link coming soon): June 2008-present
Research for the Development of a Master's Degree in Climate Change and Society at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, June-August 2008
WRF User's Workshop: June 23-26, 2009
Climate & Society Lecture at the Universidad Catolica de Guayaquil and the Colegio de Arquitectos, Guayaquil, Ecuador: July 8-9, 2009
NOAA Educational Partnership Program Fifth Education and Science Forum November 12-14, 2009

Mera, Roberto, D. Niyogi, G. S. Buol, G.G. Wilkerson & F.H.M. Semazzi, 2006: Potential individual versus simultaneous climate change effects on soybean (C3) and maize (C4) crops: An agrotechnology model based study. Global and Planetary Change, 54, Issues 1-2, 163-182.
F.H.M. Semazzi, Roberto Mera, 2006:An Extended Procedure for Implementing the Relative Operating Characteristic Graphical Method. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 45, 1215-1223.
Mera, Roberto, 2006: The Effect of Multiple Environmental Changes on Crop Model Response and Potential Improvements of Dynamical Land Surface Models. Master's Thesis, North Carolina State University.
Mera, Roberto, D. Niogy, F.L. Booker, G.G Wilkerson, G. S. Buol, W. Pursley, F.H.M. Semazzi, 2009: Soybean Sensitivity to Simulated Changes in Rainfall, Temperature, Radiation and Irrigation at Ambient and Elevated Carbon Dioxide Concentrations. submitted to Climate Research