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Robert
Field Associate
Research Scientist 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 |
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. Education PhD Atmospheric Physics, University of
Toronto, 2010. MSc Statistics, University of Alberta, 2005. BSc Computing Science, University of Alberta,
1999. Publications Field, R.D., Evaluation
of Global Fire Weather Database re-analysis and short-term forecast products,
submitted. Zhou, T., M. A. Geller,
D. Shindell; G. A. Schmidt, G. S. Faluvegi, M. Kelley, R. Ruedy, I. Aleinov,
L. Nazarenko, N. L. Tausnev, S. Sun, R. D. Field, Y. Cheng, Modeling the QBO
with Interactive Ozone Chemistry and Radiation, submitted. Jethva, H., O. Torres,
R.D. Field, A. Lapustin, R. Guatam, V. Kayetha, Connecting Crop Productivity,
Residue Fires, and Air Quality over Northern India, submitted. 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, Springer, in press. 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. 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. 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 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 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 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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