| Roger A. Pielke, Sr. | |
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| Born | October 22, 1946 United States |
| Residence | United States |
| Citizenship | American |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Meteorology, Climatology, Earth System Science |
| Institutions | University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado State University, Duke University, University of Virginia, NOAA Experimental Meteorology Lab |
| Alma mater | Towson State College (B.A., 1968), Pennsylvania State University (M.S., 1969; Ph.D., 1973) |
| Known for | land and sea interactions with atmosphere, atmospheric dynamics, climate change |
| Notable awards | Leroy Meisinger Award (1977), Abell New Faculty Research and Graduate Program Award (1984), Abell Research Faculty Award (1987-88) |
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Son Roger A. Pielke (Jr), political scientist (public policy and science, politicization of science, environment-society interactions) |
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Roger A. Pielke, Sr. (born October 22, 1946) is an American meteorologist with interests in climate variability and climate change, environmental vulnerability, numerical modeling, atmospheric dynamics, land/ocean - atmosphere interactions, and large eddy/turbulent boundary layer modeling. He particularly focuses on mesoscale weather and climate processes but also investigates on the global, regional, and microscale. Pielke is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher.[1]
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Pielke was awarded a B.A. in mathematics at Towson State College in 1968, and then an M.S. and Ph.D. in meteorology at Pennsylvania State University in 1969 and 1973, respectively.
From 1971-1974 he worked as a research scientist at the NOAA Experimental Meteorology Lab, from 1974-1981 he was an associate professor at the University of Virginia, served the primary academic position of his career as a professor at Colorado State University from 1981–2006, was deputy of Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere at Colorado State University from 1985–1988, from 1999-2006 was Colorado State Climatologist, at Duke University was a research professor from 2003–2006, and was a visiting professor at the University of Arizona from October–December 2004. Since 2005, Pielke has served as Senior Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at UC-Boulder and an emeritus professor of the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. He retired from CSU and in post-retirement is a CIRES researcher.
Pielke has served as Chairman and Member of the American Meteorological Society Committee on Weather Forecasting and Analysis, as Chief Editor of Monthly Weather Review, was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 1982 and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2004, has served as Editor-in-Chief of the US National Science Report to the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, as Co-Chief Editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, and as Editor of Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere.[2]
Pielke has a somewhat nuanced position on climate change, which is sometimes taken for skepticism, a label that he explicitly renounces.[3][4] He has said:
However, Pielke has criticized the IPCC for its conclusions regarding CO2 and global warming and accused it of selectively choosing data to support a selective view of the science.[5]
In 2010 Pielke revisited a question provided by Andrew Revkin[5] "Is most of the observed warming over the last 50 years likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations", Pielke stated that the answer "remains No", and that "there are other equally or even more important significant human climate forcings".[6]
Professor Pielke has published more than 300 scientific papers, 50 chapters in books, and co-edited 9 books. A listing of papers can be viewed at the Pielke Research Group website.