![]() Climate & Society Lecture, Guayaquil, Ecuador 2009 |
Robert J. Mera
InformationPh.D. Candidate & Research/Teaching AssistantNorth Carolina State University Dept. of Marine, Earth, & Atmospheric Sciences Climate Modeling Laboratory Purdue University Land Surface Lab Personal page
ContactNCSU Campus Box 8208Raleigh, NC 27695 E-mail: rjmera@ncsu.edu |
Research Interests
Undergraduate Research
- An Economic Perspective of 82-83 and 97-98 El Nino Impacts on Ecuador
Master's Research
- 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
Ph.D. Research
- 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
Internships, Awards, & Conferences
- 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
Publications
- 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
Teaching Experience
Instructor
- Weather and Climate Lab (MEA 135) Fall 2006
- Weather and Climate Lab (MEA 135) Spring 2007
Assistant
- Introduction to Weather and Climate (MEA 130) Fall 2007
- Introduction to Weather and Climate (MEA 130) Spring 2008
- Introduction to Weather and Climate (MEA 130) Fall 2008
- Introduction to Weather and Climate (MEA 130) Spring 2009
- Louisburg College Math Lab, Fall-Spring 07-08

