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Short Biography

Gerard Roe

Gerard Roe
  Professor
  Office: JHN-361
     ESS Mailing Address
  Phone: 206-697-3298
  Fax: 206-543-0489 (shared)
  Email: roe @ ess.washington.edu
  Homepage: http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/roe

  Research Groups: Climate and Paleoclimate, Glaciology, Geomorphology, Quaternary Research, Structural Geology, Tectonics and Geodynamics

Areas of Interest:
Atmospheric Dynamics, Surface Processes, Modern climate and Paleoclimate

Education:
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999

Selected Publications:

Roe, G.H., and Y. Bauman, 2013: Should the climate tail wag the policy dog? Climatic Change, doi:10.1007/s10584-012-0582-6.

Roe, G.H., and K.C. Armour, 2011: How sensitive is climate sensitivity? Geophys. Res. Lett., 38, doi:10.1029/2011GL047913 

Roe, G.H., 2011: What do glaciers tell us about climate variability and climate change? J Glaciology, 57, 567-578.
 
Roe, G.H., 2009: Feedbacks, timescales, and seeing red. Annual Reviews of
Earth and Planetary Sciences, 37, 93-115.

Roe, G.H., and M.B. Baker, 2007: Why is climate sensitivity so unpredictable? Science, 318, 629-632.

Roe, G.H., 2005: Orographic precipitation. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 33: 645-671.