Latest Publications by Alan Robock

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  1. Clark, Brendan, Alan Robock, Lili Xia, Sam S. Rabin, Jose R. Guarin, Gerrit Hoogenboom, and Jonas Jägermeyr, 2025: Maize yield changes under sulfate aerosol climate intervention using three global gridded crop models, Earth’s Future, 13, e2024EF005269, doi:10.1029/2024EF005269.    PDF file

  2. Grant, Nina, Alan Robock, Lili Xia, Jyoti Singh, and Brendan Clark, 2025: Impacts on Indian agriculture due to stratospheric aerosol intervention using agroclimatic indices, Earth’s Future, 13, e2024EF005262, doi:10.1029/2024EF005262.   PDF file

  3. Singh, Jyoti, Sandeep Sahany, K. K. Singh, Alan Robock, and Lili Xia, 2024: Future climate change impacts on rice in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous agrarian state. Earth’s Future, 12, e2023EF004009, doi:10.1029/2023EF004009.   PDF file

  4. Visioni, Daniele, Alan Robock, Jim Haywood, Matthew Henry, Simone Tilmes, Douglas G. MacMartin, Ben Kravitz, Sarah J. Doherty, John Moore, Chris Lennard, Shingo Watanabe, Helene Muri, Ulrike Niemeier, Olivier Boucher, Abu Syed, Temitope S. Egbebiyi, Roland Séférian, and Ilaria Quaglia, 2024: G6-1.5K-SAI: a new Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) experiment integrating recent advances in solar radiation modification studies. Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 2583-2596, doi:10.5194/gmd-17-2583-2024.    PDF file

  5. Dabberdt, Walter, Darrel Baumgardner, Robert Bornstein, Gregory Carmichael, Richard Clark, Jeffrey Collett, Harindra Fernando, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Dev Niyogi, Mohan Ramamurthy, Alan Robock, and Julie Winkler, 2024: The Global Partners Program: A new international volunteer opportunity for AMS members. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 105, 47-49, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0049.1.    PDF file  To volunteer, click here.

  6. Rabin, Sam S., William J. Sacks, Danica L. Lombardozzi, Lili Xia, and Alan Robock, 2023: Observation-based sowing dates and cultivars significantly affect yield and irrigation for some crops in the Community Land Model (CLM5). Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 7253–7273, doi:10.5194/gmd-16-7253-2023.   PDF file

  7. Clark, Brendan, Lili Xia, Alan Robock, Simone Tilmes, Jadwiga H. Richter, Daniele Visioni, and Sam S. Rabin, 2023: The optimal climate intervention scenario for crop production varies by nation. Nature Food, 4, doi:10.1038/s43016-023-00853-3.   PDF file

  8. Robock, Alan, Lili Xia, Cheryl S. Harrison, Joshua Coupe, Owen B. Toon, and Charles G. Bardeen, 2023: Opinion: How nuclear winter has saved the world, so far. Atm. Chem. Phys., 23, 6691-6701, doi:10.5194/acp-23-6691-2023.   PDF file

  9. Visioni, Daniele, Ben Kravitz, Alan Robock, Simone Tilmes, Jim M. Haywood, Olivier Boucher, Mark Lawrence, Peter Irvine, Ulrike Niemeier, Lili Xia, Gabriel Chiodo, Chris Lennard, Shingo Watanabe, John C. Moore, and Helene Muri, 2023: Opinion: The scientific and community-building roles of the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP) - Past, present, and future. Atm. Chem. Phys., 23, 5149-5176, doi:10.5194/acp-23-5149-2023.  PDF file

  10. Coupe, Joshua, Cheryl Harrison, Alan Robock, Alice DuVivier, Elizabeth Maroon, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Scott Bachman, Laura Landrum, and Charles Bardeen, 2023: Sudden reduction of Antarctic sea ice despite cooling after nuclear war. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 128, e2022JC018774, doi:10.1029/2022JC018774.  PDF file

  11. Xia, Lili, Alan Robock, Kim Scherrer, Cheryl S. Harrison, Benjamin Leon Bodirsky, Isabelle Weindl, Jonas Jägermeyr, Charles G. Bardeen, Owen B. Toon, and Ryan Heneghan, 2022: Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection. Nature Food, 3, 586-596, doi:10.1038/s43016-022-00573-0.  PDF file

  12. Harrison, Cheryl S., Tyler Rohr, Alice DuVivier, Elizabeth A. Maroon, Scott Bachman, Charles G. Bardeen, Joshua Coupe, Victoria Garza, Ryan Heneghan, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Philipp Neubauer, Victor Rangel, Alan Robock, Kim Scherrer, Samantha Stevenson, and Owen B. Toon, 2022: A new ocean state after nuclear war. AGU Advances, 3, e2021AV000610, doi:10.1029/2021AV000610.    PDF file

  13. Liu, Fei, Chaochao Gao, Jing Chai, Alan Robock, Bin Wang, Jinbao Li, Xu Zhang, Gang Huang, and Wenjie Dong, 2022: Tropical volcanism enhanced the East Asian summer monsoon during the last millennium. Nature Communications, 13, 3429, doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31108-7.    PDF file

  14. Marshall, Lauren, Elena C. Maters, Anja Schmidt, Claudia Timmreck, Alan Robock, and Matthew Toohey, 2022: Volcanic effects on climate: recent advances and future avenues. Bull. Volcanology, 84:54, doi:10.1007/s00445-022-01559-3.    PDF file

  15. Carlson, Colin J., Rita Colwell, Mohammad Sharif Hossain, Mohammed Mofizur Rahman, Alan Robock, Sadie J. Ryan, Mohammad Shafiul Alam, and Christopher H. Trisos, 2022: Solar geoengineering could redistribute malaria risk in developing countries. Nature Communications, 13, 2150, doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29613-w.   PDF file

  16. Hochman, Gal, Hainan Zhang, Lili Xia, Alan Robock, Saketh Aleti, Dominique Y. van der Mensbrugghe, and Jonas Jägermeyr, 2022: Economic incentives modify agricultural impacts of nuclear war. Env. Res. Lett., 17, 054003, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac61c7.    PDF file

  17. Zanchettin, Davide, Claudia Timmreck, Myriam Khodri, Anja Schmidt, Matthew Toohey, Manabu Abe, Slimane Bekki, Jason Cole, Shih-Wei Fang, Wuhu Feng, Gabriele Hegerl, Ben Johnson, Nicolas Lebas, Allegra N. LeGrande, Graham W. Mann, Lauren Marshall, Landon Rieger, Alan Robock, Sara Rubinetti, Kostas Trigaridis, and Helen Weierbach, 2022: Effects of forcing differences and initial conditions on inter-model agreement in the VolMIP volc-pinatubo-full experiment. Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 2265-2292, doi: 10.5194/gmd-15-2265-2022.   PDF file

  18. Robock, Alan, and Stewart C. Prager, 2022: Geoscientists can help reduce the threat of nuclear weapons, Eos, 103, No. 11, 27-29, doi:10.1029/2021EO210633.  Link

Other Publications

  1. India and Pakistan Remind Us We Need to Stop the Risk of Nuclear War, with Lili Xia, Scientific American, May 8, 2025  PDF file

  2. Visioni, Daniele, Alan Robock, Douglas G. MacMartin, Ilaria Quaglia, Ezra Brody, and Jared Farley, 2024: The community-based road to CMIP7 in the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP), Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 105, E2324-E2329, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0274.1.    PDF file

  3. AGU Editorial Network (I am one of 67 authors), 2024: Challenges facing scientific publishing in the field of Earth & space sciences, AGU Advances, 5, e2024AV001334. doi:10.1029/2024AV001334.    PDF file

  4. Duan, Qingyun, Valerio Acocella, Ann Marie Carlton, Paolo D’Odorico, Fabio Florindo, Andrew Gettelman, Jasper Halakas, Ruth Harris, Gesine Mollenhauer, Alan Robock, Claudine Stirling, and Yusuke Yokoyama, 2024: Expressing gratitude to reviewers: A message from the editors of Reviews of Geophysics for 2023. Rev. Geophys., 62, e2024RG000844, doi:10.1029/2024RG000844.    PDF file

  5. Visioni, Daniele, Alan Robock, Jim Haywood, Matthew Henry, and Alice Wells, 2023: A new era for the Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project (GeoMIP): Meeting report for the 13th GeoMIP meeting held in Exeter, UK, 3-7 July, 2023. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 104, E1950–E1955, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0232.1.     PDF file

  6. Florindo, Fabio, Valerio Acocella, Ann Marie Carlton, Paolo D’Odorico, Qingyun Duan, Andrew Gettelman, Jasper Halekas, Ruth Harris, Gesine Mollenhauer, Alan Robock, Claudine Stirling, and Yusuke Yokoyama, 2023: 60 years and beyond of Reviews of Geophysics, Rev. Geophys., 61, e2023RG000807, doi:10.1029/2023RG000807.    PDF file

  7. Florindo, Fabio, Valerio Acocella, Robert Bingham, Ann Marie Carlton, Paolo D’Odorico, Qingyun Duan, Andrew Gettelman, Jasper S. Halekas, Ruth Harris, Gesine Mollenhauer, Alan Robock, Claudine Stirling, and Yusuke Yokoyama, 2023: Expressing gratitude to reviewers: A message from the editors of Reviews of Geophysics for 2022. Rev. Geophys., 61, e2023RG000814, doi:10.1029/2023RG000814.    PDF file

  8. Visioni, Daniele, Alan Robock, Alistair Duffey, and Ilaria Quaglia, 2023: Process-level experiments and policy-relevant scenarios in future GeoMIP iterations. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 104, E501-E503, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0281.1.   PDF file

  9. Florindo, Fabio, Annmarie G. Carlton, Paolo D’Odorico, Qingyun Duan, Jasper S. Halekas, Gesine Mollenhauer, Eelco J. Rohling, Robert G. Bingham, Emily E. Brodsky, Michel C. Crucifix, Andrew Gettelman, and Alan Robock, 2022: Thank you to our 2021 peer reviewers. Rev. Geophys., 60, e2022RG000779, doi:10.1029/2022RG000779.    PDF file

  10. Robock, Alan, 2022: AMS corporate funding, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 103, 88-90.   PDF file



Prepared by Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu) - Last updated on May 9, 2025