Robert C. Balling, Jr.

Associate Program Director, MAS-GIS (Masters of Advanced Study in Geographic Information Systems)

1979 - Ph.D. (Geography) University of Oklahoma
1975 - M.A. (Geography) Bowling Green State University
1974 - A.B. (Geography) Wittenberg University

Climatology, global climate change, GIS

Balling, R. C., and G. B. Goodrich. 2011. Spatial Analysis of Variation and Trends in Precipitation Intensity in the Conterminous United States . Annals, Association of American Geographers, 104:415-421.

Balling, R., and G. Goodrich. 2011. Interannual Variations in the Local Spatial Autocorrelation of Tropospheric Temperatures .Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 103:451-457.

Cerveny, R., K. DeBiasse, M. B. Pace, A. W. Ellis, and R. C. Balling, Jr.. 2011. Revitalization of Namias’s Climatological Isentropic Analysis: Detection and Evaluation of Monsoonal, Severe Storm, Drought, and Flood Events. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, in press.

Balling, R., and G. Goodrich. 2010. Increasing Drought in the American Southwest? A Continental Perspective Using a Spatial Analytical Evaluation of Recent Trends. Physical Geography, 31(4):293-306.

Gober, P., C. Kirkwood, R. Balling, A. Ellis, and S. Deitrick. 2010. Water Planning Under Climatic Uncertainty in Phoenix: Why We Need a New Paradigm . Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100(2):356-372.

Svoma, B., and R. C. Balling, Jr.. 2010. United States’ Interannual Precipitation Variability over the Past Century: Is Variability Increasing as Predicted by Models?. Physical Geography, 31(4):307-318.

Svoma, B., R. C. Balling, Jr., and A. Ellis. 2010. Analysis of Soil Moisture Trends in the Salt River Watershed of Central Arizona .Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 102:159-169.

See curriculum vita for additional publications.