Robert Balling
Professor
Sustainability, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of (GIOS)
Arizona State University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Balling has a long history of conducting research on the climate change issue with a special interest in blending in applications involving Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Many of Dr. Balling's research projects look at output from numerical climate models that simulate the effects of altering atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. In his work, Balling compares historical climate observations with results predicted by the models for the same time periods. At times, the observations are consistent with expectations from the models, but at other times, they are not. Other recent projects use satellite-based observations to investigate hourly patterns of precipitation. Dr. Balling has written four books on the climate change issue, he has served as a science consultant to the United Nations, and he was the 2011 ASU Professor of the Year awarded by Order of Omega Greek Honorary Society.
Research Interest
Climatology, global climate change, GIS
Publications
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Santoro, M. M., Hassan, F. A., Wahab, M. M. A., Cerveny, R. S., & Balling, R. C. (2015). An aggregated climate teleconnection index linked to historical Egyptian famines of the last thousand years. Holocene, 25(5), 872-879. DOI: 10.1177/0959683614567880
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Balling, R. C., Keikhosravi Kiany, M. S., Sen Roy, S., & Khoshhal, J. (2016). Trends in Extreme Precipitation Indices in Iran: 1951-2007. Advances in Meteorology, 2016, [2456809]. DOI: 10.1155/2016/2456809
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Balling, R. C., Kiany, M. S. K., & Roy, S. S. (2016). Anthropogenic signals in Iranian extreme temperature indices. Atmospheric Research, 169, 96-101. DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2015.09.030
