Robert M Rauber

About

Robert M Rauber is a professor emeritus in the Department of Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences at the Illinois School of Earth, Society & Environment. His research falls within the disciplines of physical meteorology, radar meteorology, and mesoscale meteorology. He has been actively involved in collaborative efforts with other faculty members and scientists from various institutions. Rauber has a strong passion for field research, involving the use of sophisticated state-of-the-art instruments to study weather phenomena. He has participated as an investigator in thirty major field research programs, working extensively with conventional, dual-Doppler, and airborne radars, microwave radiometers, optical array and scattering probes, as well as other aircraft, ground-based, and satellite-based instruments. His research also involves the use of cloud and mesoscale models to simulate microphysical and mesoscale phenomena. Rauber encourages his students to produce publication-quality research, participate in national and international scientific conferences, and be involved in national field research programs. He has supported student participation through grants and collaborative research efforts, emphasizing the importance of exposure and self-development in the scientific community.

Research topics

• Environmental science
• Geology
• Meteorology
• Computer Science
• Geography
• Climatology
• Physics
• Atmospheric sciences

Selected publications

• Observations of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Surface Radiation over the Southern Ocean: An Overview of CAPRICORN, MARCUS, MICRE, and SOCRATES

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2020 · 311 citations

  Abstract Weather and climate models are challenged by uncertainties and biases in simulating Southern Ocean (SO) radiative fluxes that trace to a poor understanding of cloud, aerosol, precipitation, and radiative processes, and their interactions. Projects between 2016 and 2018 used in situ probes, radar, lidar, and other instruments to make comprehensive measurements of thermodynamics, surface radiation, cloud, precipitation, aerosol, cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), and ice nucleating particle…

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• Chasing Snowstorms: The Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) Campaign

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2022 · 95 citations

  Abstract The Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) is a NASA-sponsored field campaign to study wintertime snowstorms focusing on East Coast cyclones. This large cooperative effort takes place during the winters of 2020–23 to study precipitation variability in winter cyclones to improve remote sensing and numerical forecasts of snowfall. Snowfall within these storms is frequently organized in banded structures on multiple scales. The c…

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• Quantifying snowfall from orographic cloud seeding

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 66 citations

  (275 ac ft) for 24 min of cloud seeding.

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• The Coupling Between Tropical Meteorology, Aerosol Lifecycle, Convection, and Radiation during the Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex)

  Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2023 · 65 citations

  Abstract The NASA Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP 2 Ex) employed the NASA P-3, Stratton Park Engineering Company (SPEC) Learjet 35, and a host of satellites and surface sensors to characterize the coupling of aerosol processes, cloud physics, and atmospheric radiation within the Maritime Continent’s complex southwest monsoonal environment. Conducted in the late summer of 2019 from Luzon, Philippines, in conjunction with the Office of Naval Research Propagation…

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• Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

  NOAA Institutional Repository · 56 citations

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  The bulk microphysical properties and number distribution functions (N(D)) of supercooled liquid water (SLW) and ice inside and between ubiquitous generating cells (GCs) observed over the Southern Ocean (SO) during the Southern Ocean Clouds Radiation Aerosol Transport Experimental Study (SOCRATES) measured by in situ cloud probes onboard the NCAR/NSF G-V aircraft are compared. SLW was detected inside all GCs with an average liquid water content of 0.31 ± 0.19 g m−3, 11% larger than values betwee…

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Recent grants

• Precipitation Studies in Trade Wind Clouds - The Rain In Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) Experiment

  NSF · $1.5M · 2004–2010

• Scientific Program Overview (SPO): Southern Ocean Clouds, Radiation, Aerosol, Transport Experimental Study (SOCRATES)

  NSF · $53k · 2016–2018

• Collaborative Research: Further Investigations from the Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime clouds: the Idaho Experiment (SNOWIE)

  NSF · $372k · 2020–2024

Frequent coauthors

• Brian F. Jewett

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  102 shared

• Greg M. McFarquhar

  96 shared

• Mohan K. Ramamurthy

  Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University

  95 shared

• Harry T. Ochs

  Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates (United States)

  86 shared

• Kenneth V. Beard

  Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates (United States)

  70 shared

• D. C. Rogers

  68 shared

• Donald H. Lenschow

  NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

  66 shared

• David A. R. Kristovich

  Illinois Archaeological Survey

  65 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Atmospheric Science

  Colorado State University

  1985

• M.S., Atmospheric Science

  Colorado State University

  1981

• B.S., Physics

  Pennsylvania State University

  1978

• B.A., English

  Pennsylvania State University

  1973

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