Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
3433 Computer & Space Sciences Building
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD-20742
email: rjoseph at atmos.umd.edu
http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~rjoseph
W #: (301) 405-8833; F #: (301) 314-9482
Climate diagnostics, Climate change, Climate variability, Hydroclimate studies, Carbon-cycle/Vegetation growth and Climate
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Doctor of Philosophy, Physics |
Aug 1998 |
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Master of Science, Physics |
May 1989 |
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Master of Science, Physics |
May 1987 |
US
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Sep 2003 - |
Research Associate |
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD Cooperative Institute of Climate Studies (CICS), Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD |
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Sep 1998 to Sep 2003 |
Visiting Postdoctoral Research Assistant |
Department of
Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL |
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Jan 1990 to Aug 1998 |
Research Assistant |
Institute of Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY |
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Sep 1987 to May 1989 |
Teaching Assistant |
Physics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
Qian H, R. Joseph, N. Zeng, 2009: Enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake in the Northern High Latitudes in the 21st century from the C4MIP model projections, Global Change Biology, conditionally accepted
Joseph, R., T M Smith, M R P Sapiano and R R Ferraro, 2009: A New High Resolution Satellite Derived Precipitation Data Set for Climate Studies, Journal of Hydrometeorology, in press. [pdf]
Qian, H.-F., R. Joseph,
Joseph, R., and S. Nigam, 2006: ENSO Evolution and Teleconnections in IPCC’s 20th Century Climate Simulations: Realistic Representation? J. Climate, 19, 4360-4377. [pdf]
Joseph, R., M. Ting, and P. J. Kushner, 2004: Global Stationary Wave Responses to Climate Change in the GFDL coupled Ocean-Atmospheric Model. J. Climate,17, 540–556. [pdf]
Ting, M and R. Joseph, 2004: Maintenance and Seasonal Transitions of the Stationary Waves during East Asian Monsoon. East Asian Monsoon; Editor C. P. Chang, World Scientific Publishing, 545-564. [pdf]
Joseph, R., M. Ting and P. Kumar, 2000: Multiple-Scale Spatio-Temporal Variability of Precipitation over the Coterminous US. Journal of Hydrometerology, 1, 373-392. [pdf]
Joseph, R., and S. Nigam, 2009: IPCC’s 20th Century Climate Simulations: Realism of Seasonal Circulations Climate, J. Climate, in preparation.
R. Joseph, T. Smith, M. Sapiano, and R. Ferraro R., 2009: CHOMPS: A new satellite derived precipitation data set for Climate Studies. Joint Session 17, Remote Sensing Applications of GEOSS to the Hydrologic Cycle—I, 23rd conference on hydrology & 16th conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Phoenix, AZ, 11-15 January 2009.
R. Joseph, Y. Zhou, J.-H. Yoon, T. Smith, M. Sapiano, and R. Ferraro R., 2009: Characteristics of tropical cyclones in the several high resolution satellite based precipitation products. 23rd conference on hydrology, Phoenix, AZ, 11-15 January 2009.
Zeng, N., H. Qian, R. Joseph, 2008: Enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake in the Northern High Latitudes in the 21st century from the C4MIP model projections, Talk presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco.
Ferraro, R., T. Smith, M. Sapiano,
R. Joseph, and H. Meng, 2008: A New
Satellite Derived Precipitation Data Set for Studying Trends in Extreme Events.
20th AMS Conference on Climate
Variability and Change,
Joseph, R., D.B. Kirk-Davidoff, J. Anderson, Dec 2007: Sampling Errors of Climate Monitoring Constellations. Lecture presented by Kirk-Davidoff at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco
H. Qian, R. Joseph, and N. Zeng, Dec 2007:
Response of the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle to the El Niño-Southern
Oscillation, Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting,
Joseph, R., and S. Nigam, Mar 2005: Zonal-Mean Zonal Winds in Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Models: Climatology, Variability and Implications, IPCC AR4 Climate Model Simulations Analysis Workshop.
Nigam, S, and R. Joseph, Mar 2005: Teleconnection Structure and Evolution in the Coupled Model Simulations, IPCC AR4 Climate Model Simulations Analysis Workshop.
Joseph, R., M. Ting, Nov 2002: Stationary Waves in AMIP II GCMs and their Maintenance Mechanisms, Extended Abstract for the Workshop of the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project: Towards Innovative Climate Model Diagnostics.
Ting, M., R. Joseph, X. Liang, L. Li, May 2002: Seasonal Variability of the North American
Monsoon Precipitation and Its Associated Moisture Transport. Abstract for the
Joseph, R., M. Ting and H. Wang, Jan 2002: Diagnostics of the
Summer Circulation Changes over
Joseph, R., M. Ting, and P. J. Kushner, Jan 2002: Stationary Wave Responses to Climate Change in the GFDL GCM. Extended Abstract for the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, American Meteorological Society.
Joseph, R., M. Ting, and P. Kumar, Jun 2001: Study of the Multiscale Variability of Precipitation during Extreme Flood and Drought Events. 7th International Conference on Precipitation.
Joseph, R., M. Ting and H. Wang, Oct 2001: Late Summer vs. Early
Summer Changes over
Joseph, R., M. Ting, P. Kumar Aug 1999: Evaluation of Multiple Scale variability of
Precipitation over the
Joseph, R., M. A. Geller, A. Molod, M. C. Wu, L. Rukhovets Oct 1997: Estimates of Diabatic Fields in the GEOS-1 DAS: The Roles of Biases. First International Conference on Reanalyses, World Climate Research Programme.
Joseph, R., M. A. Geller, M. C. Wu Feb 1997: Possible Source of Errors in the Precipitation Fields of the GEOS-1 Assimilation. 13th Conference on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society.
Development of a Seasonal Fire Danger Potential Prediction, N. Zeng, A. Kumar, and R. Joseph CPPA, NOAA (2007-2010)
Teleconnection Structure and Evolution in the coupled Model Simulations, S. Nigam and R. Joseph proposal funded as a CMEP SGER from NSF (2005-2006).
Stationary Wave Changes and Teleconnection Dynamics in the Warmed Climate Scenarios As Represented in the CMIP II Models. M. Ting, R. Joseph and P. Kushner funded by NSF (2003-2006).
Stationary Wave Maintenance and Sensitivity to Climate Change in GCMs. M. Ting, R. Joseph and P. Kushner funded by NSF (2000-2003).
Reviewed proposals for NASA and NSF
Reviewed papers for Journal of Climate, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of Geophysical Reviews, Geophysical Review Letters, Journal of Applied Meteorology, Water Resources Research, International Journal of Climatology
Member of American Meteorological Society and American Geophysical Union