Scott Robeson | Faculty
Professor & Chair, Department of Geography
Office: SB 120/212
TEL: 855-6303
Email: srobeson@indiana.edu
Education
Ph.D., 1992, Delaware
Research
- Climatic Change
- Statistical Climatology
- Applied Climatology
Current Projects
- Detecting changes in daily air-temperature probability distributions
- Influence of surface climate network distributions on estimates of global change
- Growing-season length as an indicator of climatic change
- Use of point-based semivariance models to monitor environmental disturbances
- Development and application of geographic box plots
Teaching
- G250 Computer Methods in Geography
- G304/532 Physical Meteorology and Climatology
- G488/588 Applied Spatial Statistics
- G477/577 Applied Climatology
- G489/589 Atmospheric Data Analysis
- G602 Seminar in Climate Change
Representative Publications
- Robeson, S. M. (2008) "Applied climatology: Drought," Progress in Physical Geography, 32, 303-309. PDF
- Ensor, L. A. and S. M. Robeson (2008) Statistical characteristics of daily precipitation: Comparisons of gridded and point datasets," Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 47, 2468-2476. PDF
- Willmott, C. J., S. M. Robeson, and K. Matsuura (2007) "Geographic box plots", Physical Geography, 28, 331-344.
- Schoof, J. T., S. C. Pryor, and S. M. Robeson (2007) "Downscaling daily maximum and minimum temperature in the Midwestern USA: A hybrid empirical approach", International Journal of Climatology, 27, 439-454.
- Robeson, S. M. and L. A. Ensor (2006) "Daily precipitation grids for South America (Comment)," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87, 1095-1096.
- Robeson, S. M. and J. A. Doty (2005) "Identifying rogue air-temperature stations using cluster analysis of percentile trends," Journal of Climate, 18, 1275-1287.
- Robeson, S. M. (2005) "Statistical climatology," pp. 687-694 in J. E. Oliver (ed.) Encyclopedia of World Climatology. Springer, New York.
- Janis, M. J. and S. M. Robeson (2004) "Determining the spatial representativeness of air-temperature records using variogram-nugget time series," Physical Geography, 25, 513-530.
- Robeson, S. M. (2004) "Trends in time-varying percentiles of daily minimum and maximum temperature over North America," Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L04203, doi:10.1029/2003GL019019.
- Schoof, J. T. and S. M. Robeson (2003) "Seasonal and spatial variations of serial and cross-correlation matrices used by stochastic weather generators," Climate Research, 24, 95-102.
- Robeson, S. (2002) "Relationships between mean and standard deviation of air temperature: Implications for global warming," Climate Research, 22, 205-213.
- Robeson, S. M. (2002) "Increasing growing-season length in Illinois during the 20th century," Climatic Change, 52, 219-238.
Student Theses
- James Hayes, The effects of landscape pattern on ecological process: Examining a Ponderosa Pine wildfire using discrete and continuous landscape approaches, Ph.D., in progress.
- Jared Desrochers, Snowfall variability in North America, M.S., in progress.
- Melissa Davis, A probabilistic model for Santa Ana conditions, M.S., in progress.
- Nori Sato, Impacts of climatic change and variability on winter-road maintenance in North America, Ph.D., 2008.
- Leslie Ensor, Statistical differences in gridded and point precipitation datasets in the midwestern United States, M.S., 2005
- Jeff Doty, Multisensor Analysis of Land-Surface Temperature of a Deciduous Forest Using Satellite and Tower-Based Data , M.S., 2003.
- Julie Hanson, Understanding Deforestation Processes in Northwestern Yucatan, Mexico Through Geographical Information System Analysis of Satellite Imagery, M.A., 2001
- Michael Janis, Confounding Climatic Change: The Problem of Spatially Unrepresentative Air-Temperature Records, Ph.D., 2000
- Kelley Hook, Development and Application of a Mathematical Time-Series Model to Simulate Daily Total Wind Energy, M.A., 1998
- Karsten Shein, Wind Speed Variability in the Midwestern United States 1961-1990: Implications for Wind Power Assessment, M.A., 1995



