Robert Jacob

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997

Honorary Associate Fellow

Center for Climatic Research
1139 Atmospheric, Oceanic & Space Science Bldg.
1225 W. Dayton St.
Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1695

Assistant Computational Scientist
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Ave.
Argonne, Il 60439

Phone: 630-252-2983
Fax: 630-252-5986
Email: jacob@mcs.anl.gov


Research Interests

  • Global climate and ocean modeling
  • Applications of high-performance computing to earth science problems
  • Long-term climate variability
  • Paleoclimate
  • Software engineering issues in scientific applications

Selected Publications

L. Wu, Z. Liu, R. Gallimore, R. Jacob, D. Lee, Y. Zhoung, 2003: “A Coupled modeling study of Pacific Decadal variability: the Tropical Pacific mode and the North Pacific mode.” Journal of Climate, 16(8), 1101-1129.

R. Jacob, C. Schafer, I. Foster, M. Tobis and J. Anderson, 2001: “Computational Design and Performance of the Fast Ocean Atmosphere Model.” Proc. 2001 International Conference on Computational Science, eds. V. N. Alexandrov, J.J. Dongarra, C. J. K. Tan, Springer-Verlag.

J. Larson, R. Jacob, I. Foster, J. Guo, 2001: “The Model Coupling Toolkit.” Proc. 2001 International Conference on Computational Science, eds. V. N. Alexandrov, J.J. Dongarra, C. J. K. Tan, Springer-Verlag.

C. Poulsen, R. Pierrehumbert, R. Jacob, 2001: “Impact of ocean dynamics on the Neoproterozoic 'snowball Earth'”, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28(8), 1575