Robert X. Black Associate Professor (Atmospheric Dynamics and Climate) EAS Graduate Coordinator Editor, Journal of Climate 2008 WxChallenge National Champion School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences 311 Ferst Drive Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0340 voice: 404-894-1756; fax: 404-894-5638 e-mail: rob.black_at_eas.gatech.edu

_EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990.
• B.Sc., Meteorology, McGill University, 1984.

_{RESEARCH INTERESTS}

• Diagnostic validation of climate models
• Stratosphere-troposphere dynamic interactions
• Regional climate variability
• Dynamical diagnoses of large-scale phenomena
• Potential vorticity diagnostic analyses
• Atmospheric blocking and weather regimes
• Cyclogenesis and storm tracks
• Extreme winter weather events

  _{SELECTED PUBLICATIONS}

• Black, R.X., and B.A. McDaniel, 2008: Sub-monthly polar vortex variability and stratosphere-troposphere coupling in the Arctic. J. Climate, (submitted).
• Black, R.X., and B.A. McDaniel, 2007b: The dynamics of Northern Hemisphere stratospheric final warming events. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 2932-2946.
• Black, R.X., and B.A. McDaniel, 2007a: Interannual variability in the Southern Hemisphere circulation organized by stratospheric final warming events. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 2968-2975.
• Black, R.X., B.A. McDaniel, and W.A. Robinson, 2006: Stratosphere-Troposphere coupling during spring onset. J. Climate, 19, 4891-4901.
• Robinson, D.P., R.X. Black, and B.A. McDaniel 2006: A Siberian precursor to midwinter intraseasonal variability in the North Pacific storm track. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L15811, doi:10.1029/2006GL026458.
• Robinson, D.P., and R.X. Black, 2006: Baroclinic development in observations and NASA/GSFC general circulation models. Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 1161-1173.
• McDaniel, B.A., and R.X. Black, 2005: Intraseasonal dynamical evolution of the Northern Annular Mode. J. Climate, 18, 3820-3839.
• Robinson, D.P., and R.X. Black, 2005: The statistics and structure of subseasonal variability in NASA/GSFC GCMs. J. Climate, 18, 3294-3316.
• Black, R.X., and B.A. McDaniel, 2004: Diagnostic case studies of the Northern Annular Mode. J. Climate, 17, 3990-4004.
• Evans, K.J., and R.X. Black 2003:  Piecewise tendency diagnosis of weather regime transitions.  J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 1941-1959.
• Black, R.X., 2002: Stratospheric forcing of surface climate in the Arctic Oscillation.  J. Climate, 15, 268-277.
• Black, R.X., and R.M. Dole, 2000: Storm tracks and barotropic deformation in climate models.  J. Climate, 13, 2712-2728.
• Black, R.X., 1998: The maintenance of extratropical intraseasonal transient eddy activity in the GEOS-1 assimilated dataset. J. Atmos Sci.,55, 3159-3175.
• Black, R.X., and K.J. Evans, 1998: The statistics and horizontal structure of anomalous weather regimes in the Community Climate Model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 841-859.
• Hartley, D.E., J. Villarin, R.X. Black, and C.A. Davis, 1998: A new perspective on the dynamical link between the stratosphere and troposphere. Nature,391, 471-474.
• Black, R.X., 1997: Deducing anomalous wave source regions during the life cycles of persistent flow anomalies. J. Atmos. Sci., 54, 895-907.
• Black, R.X., D.A. Salstein, and R.D. Rosen, 1996: Interannual modes of variability in atmospheric angular momentum. J. Climate, 9, 2834-2849.
• Hartley, D.E., and R.X. Black, 1995: Mechanistic analysis of interhemispheric transport. Geophys. Res. Lett., 22, 2945-2948.
• Black, R.X., and R.M. Dole, 1993: The dynamics of large-scale cyclogenesis over the North Pacific Ocean. J. Atmos Sci., 50, 421-442.
• Dole, R.M., and R.X. Black, 1990: Life cycles of persistent anomalies. Part II: The development of persistent negative height anomalies over the North Pacific Ocean. Mon. Wea. Rev., 118, 824-846.

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