Robert Field

Associate Research Scientist

Columbia University

Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics

 

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

2880 Broadway

New York, NY 10025

Tel: (212) 678-5600

robert.field ‘at’ columbia ‘dot’ edu

Twitter: @robertdfield

 

 

 

Experimental, near-real time fire weather forecasts now available via the Global Fire Weather Database.

 

Research Interests

Climate modeling, biomass burning, stable water isotopes, paleoclimatology.

 

Full CV

 

Education

PhD Atmospheric Physics, University of Toronto, 2010.

MSc Statistics, University of Alberta, 2005.

BSc Computing Science, University of Alberta, 1999.

 

Publications

Mortelmans, J., A. Felsberg, G.J.M. De Lannoy, S. Veraverbeke, R.D. Field, N. Andela, and M. Bechtold, The Fire Weather Index Improved for Boreal Peatlands Using Hydrological Modeling and Satellite-Based L-band Microwave Observations, submitted.

 

M. Luo, H.M. Worden, R.D. Field, K. Tsigaridis, G.S. Elsaesser, TROPESS CrIS CO single pixel vertical profiles: Intercomparisons with MOPITT and model comparisons for 2020 US Western wildfires, submitted.

 

Field, R.D., M. Luo, S.E. Bauer, J.E. Hickman, G.S. Elsaesser, K. Mezuman, M. van Lier-Walqui, K. Tsigaridis, J. Wu, Estimating the impact of a 2017 smoke plume on surface climate over northern Canada with a climate model, satellite retrievals, and weather forecasts, submitted.

 

Larose, J., É. Boucher, A. de Vernal, I. Hermoso de Mendoza, F. Gennaretti, A. Lavergne, L Andreu-Hayles, R.D. Field, Labrador Sea’s influence on black spruce forests: insights from tree-ring stable oxygen isotopes, submitted.

 

Tanpipat, V., K. Manomaiphiboon, R.D. Field, W.J. de Groot, P. Nhuchaiya, N. Jaroonrattanapak, C. Buaniam, J. Yodcum, An Operational Fire Danger Rating System for Thailand and Lower Mekong Region: Development, Utilization, and Experiences, eds. K. P. Vadrevu, T Ohara, C. Justice, Vegetation Fires and Pollution in Asia, Springer, submitted.

 

Borges, D., S. Ramage, D. Green, C. Justice, C. Nakalembe, A.K. Whitcraft, B. Barker, I. Becker-Reshef, C. Balagizi, S. Salvi, V.G. Ambrosia, J. San-Miguel-Ayanz, L. Boschetti, R. Field, L. Giglio, L. Kühle, F. Löw, A. Kettner, G. Schumman, G. R. Brakenridge, R. Adler, H. Kontoes, D. de Boissezon, A. Eddy, D. Kirschbaum, R. Emberson, K. Reichenbach, S. Cooley, S. Lloyd, C. Blake, Earth Observations into Action: Systemic Integration of Earth Observation Application into National Risk Reduction Decision Structures, Disaster Prevention Management, doi:10.1108/DPM-09-2022-0186, 2023.

 

Grillakis, M., A. Voulgarakis, A. Rovithakis, K. D. Seiradakis, A. Koutroulis, R. D. Field, M. Kasoar, A. Papadopoulos, M. Lazaridis, Climate drivers of global wildfire burned area, Environmental Research Letters, 17, no. 4, 045021, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac5fa1, 2022.

 

Rovithakis, A., M.G. Grillakis, K.D. Seiradakis, C. Giannakopoulos, A. Karali, R.D. Field, M. Lazaridis and A. Voulgarakis, Future Climate Change Impact on Wildfire Danger over the Mediterranean: the case of Greece, Environmental Research Letters, 17, no. 4,  045022, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac5f94, 2022.

 

Hermoso de Mendoza, I., E. Boucher, F. Gennaretti, A. Lavergne, L. Andreu-Hayles, and R.D. Field, A new snow module improves predictions of isotope-enabled MAIDENiso forest growth model, Geoscientific Model Development, doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1931-202215, 1931-1952, 2022.

 

Field, R.D., L. Andreu-Hayles, R.D. D’Arrigo, R. Oelkers, B.H. Luckman, D. Morimoto, E. Boucher, F. Gennaretti, I. Hermoso, A. Lavergne, M. Levesque, Tree-ring cellulose δ18O records similar large-scale climate influences as precipitation δ18O in the Northwest Territories of Canada, Climate Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s00382-021-05932-4, 2022.

 

Field, R.D., J.E. Hickman, I.V. Geogdzhayev, K. Tsigaridis, S.E. Bauer, Changes in satellite retrievals of atmospheric composition over China during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21, 18333–18350, doi: 10.5194/acp-21-18333-2021, 2021.

 

Braneon, C., R.D. Field, E. Seto, L. Chen, K. McConnell, L. Robinson, S. Richardson, S., 2020, Towards disentangling lockdown-driven air quality changes in the Northeastern U.S., Journal of Extreme Events, 20, 8, doi: 10.1142/S2345737621500172, 2021.

 

Schon, J., K. Mezuman, A. Heslin, R.D. Field, M.J. Puma, How fire patterns reveal uneven stabilization at the end of conflict: Examining Syria's unusual fire year in 2019, Environmental Research Letters, 16, 044046, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/abe327, 2021.

 

Field, R.D., Evaluation of Global Fire Weather Database re-analysis and short-term forecast products, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 20, no. 4, 1123-1147, doi:10.5194/nhess-20-1123-2020, 2020.

 

Field, R.D., Using Satellite Estimates of Precipitation for Fire Danger Rating, In: Satellite Precipitation Measurement, eds. V. Levizzani, C. Kidd, D.B. Kirschbaum, C.D. Kummerow, K. Nakamura, F. J. Turk, Advances in Global Change Research, vol. 69. Springer, pp. 1131-1154, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-35798-6_33, 2020.

 

Jethva, H., O. Torres, R.D. Field, A. Lyapustin, R. Guatam, V. Kayetha, Connecting Crop Productivity, Residue Fires, and Air Quality over Northern India, Scientific Reports, 9, doi:10.1038/s41598-019-52799-x, 2019.

 

Pan, X., Chin, M., Ichoku, C., Field, R.D., Connecting Indonesian Fires and Drought With the Type of El Niño and Phase of the Indian Ocean Dipole During 1979–201, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 123, 7974-7988, doi: 10.1029/2018JD028402, 2018.

 

Heyer, J.P., M.J. Power, R.D. Field, M.J.E. van Marle, Effects of drought and forest loss in lowland Bolivia on fire and smoke emissions, Biogeosciences, 15, 4317-4331, doi:10.5194/bg-15-4317-2018.

 

Shawki, D., R.D. Field, M.K. Tippett, B.H. Saharjo, I. Albar, D. Atmoko, A. Voulgarakis, Long-lead prediction of the 2015 fire and haze episode in Indonesia, Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 9996–10,005, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL073660, 2017.

 

van Marle, M.J.E., S. Kloster, B.I. Magi., J.R. Marlon, A. Daniau, R.D. Field, A. Arneth, M. Forrest, S. Hantson, N. Kehrwald, W. Knorr, G. Lasslop, F. Li, S. Mangeon, C. Yue, J.W. Kaiser, G.R. van der Werf, Historic global biomass burning emissions based on merging satellite observations with proxies and fire models (1750-2015), Geoscientific Model Development, 10, 3329-3357, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3329-2017, 2017.

         CMIP6 biomass burning emissions estimates data

 

van Marle, M.J.E., R.D. Field, G.R. van der Werf, I.A. Estrada de Wagt, R.A. Houghton, L.V. Rizzo, P. Artaxo, K. Tsigaridis, Fire and deforestation dynamics in Amazonia (1973-2012), Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 10.1002/2016GB005445, 2017.

EOS Research Spotlight

 

Galewsky, J., H.C. Steen-Larsen, R.D. Field, C. Risi, J. Worden, Stable isotopes in atmospheric water vapor and applications to the hydrologic cycle, Reviews of Geophysics, doi:10.1002/2015RG000512, 2016.

AGU Editor’s Highlight

 

Field, R.D., G.R. van der Werf, T. Fanin, E.J. Fetzer, R. Fuller, H. Jethva, R. Levy, N. J. Livesey, M. Luo, O. Torres, H.M. Worden, 2015 Indonesian fire activity and smoke pollution show persistent non-linear sensitivity to El Niño-induced drought, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi:10.1073/pnas.1524888113, 2016.

NASA Feature and PNAS news release

 

Geller, M.A., T. Zhou, D. Shindell, R. Ruedy, I. Aleinov, L. Nazarenko, N.L. Tausnev, M. Kelley, S. Sun, Y. Cheng, R.D. Field, G. Faluvegi, Modeling the QBO – Other Model Improvements Resulting from the Required Increased Vertical Resolution, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, doi:10.1002/2016MS000699, 2016.

 

Field, R.D., M. Luo, M. Fromm, A. Voulgarakis, S. Mangeon, J. Worden, Simulating the Black Saturday 2009 smoke plume with an interactive composition-climate model: sensitivity to emissions amount, timing and injection height, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 121, doi:10.1002/2015JD024343, 2016.

 

Moore, G.W.K., R.D. Field, C. Benson, Impact of source region on the δ18O signal in snow: A case study from Mount Wrangell Alaska, Journal of Hydrometeorology, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-14-0224.1, 2016.

 

Field, R.D., M. Luo, D. Kim, A. D. Del Genio, A. Voulgarakis, J. Worden, Sensitivity of simulated tropospheric CO to subgrid physics parameterization: a case study of Indonesian biomass burning emissions in 2006, Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 120, doi:10.1002/2015JD023402, 2015.

 

Field, R.D., A.C. Spessa, N.A. Aziz, A. Camia, A. Cantin, R. Carr, W.J. de Groot, A.J. Dowdy, M.D. Flannigan, K. Manomaiphiboon, F. Pappenberger, V. Tanpipat, X. Wang, Development of a Global Fire Weather Database, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 15, 1407-1423, doi:10.5194/nhess-15-1407-2015, 2015.

Data available at the NASA GISS GFWED website and the Columbia IRI Data Library

EGU highlight article

 

Voulgarakis, A. and R.D. Field, Fire influences on atmospheric composition, air quality, and climate, Current Pollution Reports, 10.1007/s40726-015-0007-z, 2015.

 

Mangeon, S., R.D. Field, M. Fromm, C. McHugh, A. Voulgarakis, A comparison between MODIS-based burned area and fire agency reports over North America in 2007, The Anthropocene Review, 1-17, DOI: 10.1177/2053019615588790, 2015.

 

Spessa, A. C., R. D. Field, F. Pappenberger, A. Langner, S. Englhart, U. Weber, T. Stockdale, F. Siegert, J. W. Kaiser, and J. Moore, Seasonal forecasting of fire in Kalimantan, Indonesia, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 15, 429-442, doi:10.5194/nhess-15-429-2015, 2015.

 

Lestari, R.K., M. Watanabe, Y. Imada, H. Shiogama, R. D. Field, T. Takemura, M. Kimoto, Increasing potential of biomass burning over Sumatra, Indonesia induced by anthropogenic tropical warming, Environmental Research Letters, 9, no. 10, 104010, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/9/10/104010, 2014.

 

Field, R.D., D. Kim, A.N. LeGrande, J. Worden, M. Kelley, G.A. Schmidt, Evaluating climate model performance in the tropics with retrievals of water isotopic composition from Aura TES, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1002/2014GL060572, 2014.

 

Porter, T.J., M.F.J. Pisaric, R.D. Field, S.V. Kokelj, T.W.D. Edwards, P. deMontigny, R. Healy, A. LeGrande, Spring-summer temperatures since AD 1780 reconstructed from stable oxygen isotope ratios in white spruce tree-rings from the Mackenzie Delta, northwestern Canada, Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-013-1674-3, 2014.

 

A. Voulgarakis, V. Naik, J.-F. Lamarque, D. T. Shindell, P. J. Young, M. J. Prather, O. Wild, R. D. Field, D. Bergman, P. Cameron-Smith, I. Cionni, W. J. Collins, S. B. Dalsøren, R. M. Doherty, V. Eyring, G. A. Folberth, L. W. Horowitz, B. Josse, I. A. McKenzie, T. Nagashima, D. A. Plummer, M. Righi, S. T. Rumbold, D. S. Stevenson, S. A. Strode, K. Sudo, S. Szopa, and G. Zeng, Simulations of present-day and future OH and methane lifetime in the ACCMIP project, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 13, doi:10.5194/acp-13-2563-2013, 2563-2587, 2013.

 

Field, R.D., C. Risi, G.A. Schmidt, J. Worden, A. Voulgarakis, A.N. LeGrande, A.H. Sobel, R.J. Healy, A Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer HDO/H2O retrieval simulator for climate models, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 12, doi:10.5194/acp-12-10485-2012, 10485-10504, 2012. [PDF]

 

Field, R.D., D.B.A. Jones and D.P. Brown, The effects of post-condensation exchange on the isotopic composition of water in the atmosphere, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 115, D24305, doi:10.1029/2010JD014334, 2010. [PDF]

 

Field, R.D., Observed and modeled controls on precipitation δ18O over Europe: from local temperature to the Northern Annular Mode, Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 115, D12101, doi:10.1029/2009JD013370, 2010. [PDF]

 

Field, R.D., G.W.K. Moore, G. Holdsworth, and G. A. Schmidt. A GCM-based analysis of circulation controls on δ18O in the southwest Yukon, Canada: implications for climate reconstructions in the region, Geophysical Research Letters, 37 (5), doi:10.1029/2009GL041408, 2010. [PDF]

 

Hanesiak, J., R. Stewart, P. Taylor, K. Moore, D. Barber, G. McBean, W. Strapp, M. Wolde, R. Goodson, E. Hudson, D. Hudak, J. Scott, G. Liu, J. Gilligan, S. Biswas, D. Desjardins, R. Dyck, S. Fargey, R. Field, G. Gascon, M. Gordon, H. Greene, C. Hay, W. Henson, K. Hochheim, A. Laplante, R. Martin, M. Melzer, and S. Zhang, Storm Studies in the Arctic (STAR), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 91 (1), 47-68, 2010. [PDF]

 

Field, R.D., G.R. van der Werf, and S.S.P. Shen, Human amplification of drought-induced biomass burning in Indonesia since 1960, Nature Geoscience, 2 (3), 185-188, doi:10.1038/ngeo443, 2009. [PDF]

Coverage in The New York Times and New Scientist

Nature Geoscience Backstory and press release

News releases from the University of Toronto, VU Amsterdam, NWO

Data

 

Field, R. D., and S. S. P. Shen. Predictability of carbon emissions from biomass burning in Indonesia from 1997 to 2006, Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 113, G04024, doi:10.1029/2008JG000694, 2008. [PDF]

 

de Groot, W.J., R.D. Field, M.A. Brady, O. Roswintiarti, and M. Mohamad. Development of the Indonesian and Malaysian Fire Danger Rating Systems. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 12, 165-180, 2007. [PDF]

 

Dymond, C.C., R.D. Field, O. Roswintiarti, and Guswanto. Calibrating components of a fire management system using satellite fire detection. Environmental Management, 35, 426-440, 2005. [PDF]

 

Field, R.D., Y. Wang, O. Roswintiarti, and Guswanto. A drought-based predictor of recent haze events in western Indonesia. Atmospheric Environment, 38, 1869-1878, 2004. [PDF]

Excel code to Calculate Canadian Fire Weather Index values

Petawawa test data

 

Wang, Y., R.D. Field, and O. Roswintiarti. Trends in atmospheric haze induced by peat fires in Sumatra Island, Indonesia and El Nino phenomenon from 1973 to 2003. Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L04103, 2004. [PDF]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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