Alan Robock
 (click here for Biographical Sketch and other photos)


B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1970

Meteorology, Advisor: Lyle H. Horn

S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974

Meteorology, Advisor: Norman A. Phillips

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977

Meteorology, Advisor: Edward N. Lorenz


Distinguished Professor
Atmospheric Science Group
Department of Environmental Sciences
School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Rutgers University
14 College Farm Road
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8551

 

Phone:  +1-848-932-5751

E-mail:  robock@envsci.rutgers.edu

 

Co-Director, Rutgers Impact Studies of Climate Intervention (RISCI) lab
Member, Undergraduate Meteorology Program

Member, Graduate Program in Atmospheric Science

Member, Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute

Editor, Reviews of Geophysics (2024 Impact Factor: 25.2)

Past Chair, AGU College of Fellows

Current Research Interests:
     Nuclear Winter
     Climate Intervention (Geoengineering)  GeoMIP 
     Volcanic Eruptions and Climate

☮ The Peace Sign - Start the PowerPoint.  It will run by itself.

READ OUR NEW BOOK:  

Earth in Flames, by Toon and Robock


Latest Publications    All Publications

Future of Life Award, August 6, 2022

Robock, Alan, and Owen Brian Toon, 2016:  Let’s End the Peril of a Nuclear Winter, Op-ed, New York Times, February 11, 2016.

My Bluesky    My Tweets    My Huffington Post Blogs

Videos of talks and interviews about nuclear winter, geoengineering, global warming, and volcanic eruptions


Alan, Barne Glacier, and Mt. Erebus, Antarctica, Sept. 22, 2004   My Trip To Antarctica

PowerPoint Presentations:

     Global Famine After Nuclear War (340 Mb)
     (revised December 10, 2023)
 (has many hidden slides that you are free to use)

     Geoengineering (160 MB - for teaching)
(revised November 10, 2023)
You will also need the movie, CCM250yrWarmingOrtho_long.mpg (37 MB)

Volcanic Eruptions and Climate (242 MB - for teaching)
(revised November 18, 2023)
You will also need the movie, pin.AVI

Global Warming (196 MB - for teaching)
(revised November 4, 2023)
You will also need the movies, CCM250yrWarmingOrtho_long.mpg (37 MB) and CO2balloons.wmv (12 MB)

SkepticalScience.com (for the truth about global warming)

How To Ask a Professor for a Reference Letter

New York City Metropolitan Area Meteorology Web Sites

Atmospheric Science / Meteorology at Rutgers

Fidel Castro Ruz and Alan Robock  My September 2010 Trip To Cuba

My December 2011 Trip To Cuba 

You can travel legally to Cuba for research

Regional Nuclear War and Nuclear Winter Updated
(Climatic Consequences of Nuclear Conflict Website,
with Publications, Videos, and Powerpoints)

  Ice-core Volcanic Index 2 (IVI2) 

The Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP)  

The Volcano Model Intercomparison Project (VolMIP)

Local Radar Loop



Publications:  My Google Scholar Page

Dabberdt, Walter, Darrel Baumgardner, Robert Bornstein, Gregory Carmichael, Richard Clark, Jeffrey Collett, Harindra Fernando, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Dev Niyogi, Mohan Ramamurthy, Alan Robock, and Julie Winkler, 2024: The Global Partners Program: A new international volunteer opportunity for AMS members. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 105, 47-49, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0049.1.   To volunteer, click here.

Robock, Alan, 2022: AMS corporate funding, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 103, 88-90.
Easier to read text: How AMS supports the world’s largest arms dealer

Robock, Alan, and Stewart C. Prager, 2021: Geoscientists can help reduce the threat of nuclear weapons,
Eos, 102, doi:10.1029/2021EO210633. Published on 2 December 2021.

Robock, Alan, 2020: Making your own luck: A meaningful career from being open to opportunities.
Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, 1, e2020CN000133, doi:10.1029/2020CN000133. 

Tonight as I Stand Inside the Rain: Bob Dylan and Weather Imagery  (© Copyright 2005 AMS)

  ON NUCLEAR WINTER

  ON CLIMATE INTERVENTION (GEOENGINEERING)

ON VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS AND CLIMATE

  ON WRITING PAPERS

  ON GLOBAL AND REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE

  ON SOIL MOISTURE AND CLIMATE

  ON HUMIDITY

  ON THE DIURNAL CYCLE



Prepared by Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu) - Last updated on June 8, 2025