Brent McRoberts

Research Interests

• Climate

• Drought

• Radar meteorology

• Regional climatology

Publications

McRoberts, D. B., and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, 2012: The use of a high-resolution SPI for drought monitoring and assessment. J. Appl. Climatol. Clim., 51, 68-83, doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-10-05015.1 [PDF]

McRoberts, D. B., and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, 2011: A new homogenized United States climate division precipitation data for analysis of climate variability and change. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 50, 1187-1199, doi:10.1175/2010JAMC2626.1 [PDF]

Nielsen-Gammon, J., and D. B. McRoberts, 2009: An Assessment of the Meteorological Severity of the 2008-09 Texas Drought through July 2009. Office of the State Climatologist, Texas, Publication OSC-0901, 24 pp. Available online http://climatexas.tamu.edu.

Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., and D. B. McRoberts, 2009: March 1843: The most abnormal month ever? pp. 123-148 in Historical Climate Variability and Impacts in North America. L.-A. Dupigny-Giroux and C. Mock, ed., Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.

Selected Papers and Presentations

McRoberts, D. B., and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, 2012: Development of a High-Resolution Drought Monitoring Tool for the Eastern United States. 26th Conference on Hydrology, 92nd Annual Meeting, American Meteorological Society, New Orleans, LA.

McRoberts, D. B., and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, 2011: Modified standardized precipitation index for integrated drought comparison. 19th Conference on Applied Climatology, American Meteorological Society, Asheville, NC.

McRoberts, D. B., and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, 2011: A modified Standardized Precipitation Index for drought monitoring. Data-driven Approaches to Drought Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

McRoberts, D. B., and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, 2010: Role and Mission of state climatologists. Restoring Rivers in the Southwestern US and Northern Mexico: A Bi-national Conference. World Wildlife Fund, Tucson, AZ.

Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., and D. B. McRoberts, 2010: Analysis of Drought Stress in the West Texas Region of the Chihuahua Desert. Workshop on Climate Change and Potential Adaptation Responses to Protecting the Natural Resources of the Big Bend Region of the Chihuahuan Desert. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the World Wildlife Fund, Alpine, TX.

McRoberts, D. B., J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, and G. Story, 2010: A new tool for high-resolution drought monitoring. 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, AMS, Atlanta, GA.

McRoberts, D. B., J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, and S. M. Quiring, 2008: Eliminating station location bias: Examples of substantial impacts to the climate division record. 17th Conference on Applied Climatology, American Meteorological Society, Whistler, B.C.

McRoberts, D. B., J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, and S. M. Quiring, 2008: Spatial depiction of drought variability from merged recent and historical data. 17th Conference on Applied Climatology, American Meteorological Society, Whistler, B.C.

Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., and D. B. McRoberts, 2008: March 1843: The most abnormal month ever? Presidential History Symposium, American Meteorological Society, New Orleans, LA.