Robert C. Balling, Jr.
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Professor
COOR 5564
(480) 522-9202
robert.balling@asu.edu
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Additional |
Associate Program Director, MAS-GIS (Masters of Advanced Study in Geographic Information Systems) |
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Education: |
1979 - Ph.D. (Geography) University of Oklahoma |
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Research Interests: |
Climatology, global climate change, GIS |
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Awards and Honors: |
2011 - Professor of the Year, Awarded by Order of Omega Greek Honorary Society |
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Selected Publications: |
2013 Mathieu Rouault, Shouraseni Sen Roy, and Robert C. Balling, Jr. “The Diurnal Cycle of Rainfall in South Africa in the Austral Summer.” International Journal of Climatology, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 770-777. 2012 Joshua R. White, Randall S. Cerveny, and Robert C. Balling, Jr. “Seasonality and Trends in European Red Dust / “Blood” Rain Events. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 93, No. 4, pp. 471-476.
2011 Robert C. Balling, Jr. and Gregory B. Goodrich. “Interannual Variations in the Local Spatial Autocorrelation of Tropospheric Temperatures.” Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Vol. 103, pp. 451-457.
2011 Robert C. Balling, Jr. and Gregory B. Goodrich. “Spatial Analysis of Variations and Trends in Precipitation Intensity in the USA.” Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Vol. 104, pp. 415-421.
2011 Robert C. Balling, Jr., Kimberly DeBiasse, Matthew B. Pace, Randall S. Cerveny and David M. Brommer. “Long-Term Precipitation Trend as a Function of Isentropic Variability.” Atmospheric Environment, Vol.,45, pp. 5822-5827.
2011 Randall S. Cerveny, Kimberly DeBiasse, Matthew B. Pace, Andrew W. Ellis, and Robert C. Balling, Jr. “Revitalization of Namias’s Climatological Isentropic Analysis: Detection and Evaluation of Monsoonal, Severe Storm, Drought, and Flood Events.” Annals, Association of American Geographers, Vol. 101, No. 6, pp. 1204-1220.
2011 Daniel S. Krahenbuhl, Matthew B. Pace, Randall S. Cerveny, and Robert C. Balling, Jr. “Monthly Lunar Declination Extremes’ Influence on Tropospheric Circulation Patterns. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 116, D23121, doi:10.1029/2011JD016598.
2010 Patricia Gober, Craig Kirkwood, Robert Balling, Andrew Ellis, and Stephanie Deitrick. “Water Planning Under Climatic Uncertainty in Phoenix: Why We Need a New Paradigm.” Annals, Association of American Geographers, Vol. 100, No. 2, pp. 356-372.
2010 Bohumil M. Svoma, Robert C. Balling, Jr. and Andrew W. Ellis. “Analysis of Soil Moisture Trends in the Salt River Watershed of Central Arizona.” Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Vol. 102, pp. 159-169.
2010 Robert C. Balling, Jr., and Gregory B. Goodrich. “Increasing Drought in the American Southwest? A Continental Perspective Using a Spatial Analytical Evaluation of Recent Trends.” Physical Geography, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 293-306.
2010 Bohumil M. Svoma and Robert C. Balling, Jr. “United States’ Interannual Precipitation Variability over the Past Century: Is Variability Increasing as Predicted by Models?” Physical Geography, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 307-318.
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