Synthesis of satellite measurements with earth system models
Education
Ph.D. , Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies, School of Mathematics and Physics
University of Tasmania, Australia
2005
B.Sc. (Hons. 1), Meteorology, School of Earth Sciences
University of Melbourne, Australia
1993
Positions
2018 - Present | Scientist, Theoretical Division
2018 - 2010 | Assistant/Associate Research Professor, Naval Postgraduate School
2010 - 2005 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union, 2023-Present Associate Editor, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
American Meteorological Society, 2014-2016 Chair, Polar Meteorology and Oceanography Committee
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
International Glaciological Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publications
Niklasson, S. M., Veneziani, M., Rowe, C. A., Worcester, P. F., Dzieciuch, M. A., Bilek, S. L., Price, S. F., and Roberts, A. F. (2023): Estimating Arctic Ocean acoustic travel times using an Earth System Model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2022GL102216, doi:10.1029/2022GL102216.
Pal, N., Barton, K. N., Petersen, M. R., Brus, S. R., Engwirda, D., Arbic, B. K., Roberts, A. F., Westerink, J. J., and Wirasaet, D. (2023): Barotropic tides in MPAS-Ocean (E3SM V2): impact of ice shelf cavities, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 1297–1314, doi:10.5194/gmd-16-1297-2023.
Capodaglio, G., Petersen, M. R., Turner, A. K., Roberts, A. F. (2023): An unstructured CD-grid variational formulation for sea ice dynamics, J. Comput. Phys., 473, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2022.111742.
Brus, S. R., Barton, K. N., Pal, N., Roberts, A. F., Engwirda, D., Petersen, M. R., Arbic, B. K., Wirasaet, D., Westerink, J. J., Schindelegger, M. (2023): Scalable self attraction and loading calculations for unstructured ocean tide models, Ocean Model., 182, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2023.102160.
Comeau, D., Asay-Davis, X. S., Begeman, C. B., Hoffman, M. J., Lin, W., Petersen, M. R., Price, S., Roberts, A. F., Van Roekel, L. P., Veneziani, M., Wolfe, J. D., Fyke, J. G., Ringler, T. D., Turner, A. K. (2022). The DOE E3SM v1.2 cryosphere configuration: Description and simulated Antarctic ice-shelf basal melting, J. Adv. Model. Earth Sy., 14, e2021MS002468, doi:10.1029/2021MS002468.
Barton, K. N., Pal, N., Brus, S. R., Petersen, M. R., Arbic, B. K., Engwirda, D., Roberts, A. F., Westerink, J. J., Wirasaet, D., Schindelegger, M. (2022): Global barotropic tide modeling using inline self-attraction and loading in MPAS-Ocean, J. Adv. Model. Earth Sy., 14, e2022MS003207, doi:10.1029/2022MS003207.
Metzger, A., Mahoney, A., Roberts, A. (2021): The average shape of sea ice ridge keels, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2021GL095100, doi:10.1029/2021GL095100.
Reinisch, E. C., Ren, C. X., Roberts, A., Wilson, C., Eriksson, P.B., and Ziemann, A. (2021): Remote Sensing of Polar Ice: Combining Synthetic Aperture Radar and Machine Learning for Operational Navigability, in Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery XXVIII, Zelnio E. and Garber F. D. Eds., 11728:20 – 33. SPIE doi:10.1117/12.2587518.
Hunke, E., Allard, R., Blain, P., Blockley, E., Feltham, D., Fichefet, T., Garric, G., Grumbine, R., Lemieux, J.-F., Rasmussen, T., Ribergaard, M., Roberts, A., Schweiger, A., Tietsche, S., Tremblay, B., Vancoppenolle, M., Zhang, J. (2020): Should Sea-Ice Modeling Tools Designed for Climate Research Be Used for Short-Term Forecasting? Curr. Clim. Change Rep., 6:121–136, doi:10.1007/s40641- 020-00162-y.
Blockley, E., Vancoppenolle, M., Hunke, E., Bitz, C., Feltham, D., Lemieux, J.-F., Losch, M., Maisonnave, E., Notz, D., Rampal, P., Tietsche, S., Tremblay, B., Turner, A., Massonnet, F., Slason, E., Roberts, A., Aksenov, Y., Fichefet, T., Garric, G., Iovino, D., Madec, G., Rousset, C., Salas y Melia, D., Schroeder, D. (2020): The Future of Sea Ice Modeling: Where Do We Go from Here? Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 101, 8, E1304-E1311, doi:0.1175/BAMS-D-20-0073.2.
Gutowski, W. J., Ullrich, P. A., Hall, A., Leung, L. R., O’Brien, T. A., Patricola, C. M., Arritt, R. W., Bukovsky, M. S., Calvin, K. V., Feng, Z., Jones, A. D., Kooperman, G. J., Monier, E., Pritchard, M. S., Pryor, S. C., Qian, Y., Rhoades, A. M., Roberts, A. F., Sakaguchi, K., Urban, N., Zarzycki, C. (2020): The ongoing need for high-resolution regional climate models: Process understanding and stakeholder information, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 101, 5, E664–E683, doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-19- 0113.1.
Hoch, K. E., Petersen, M. R, Brus, S. R., Engwirda, D., Roberts, A. F., Rosa, K. L., Wolfram, P. J. (2020): MPAS-Ocean Simulation Quality for Variable-Resolution North American Coastal Meshes, J. Adv. Model. Earth Sy., doi:10.1029/2019MS001848.
Caldwell, P. M., Mametjanov A., Tang, Q., Van Roekel L. P., Golaz, J.-C., Lin, W., Bader, D. C., Keen, N. D., Feng, Y., Jacob, R., Maltrud, M. E., Roberts, A. F., Taylor, M. A., Veneziani, M., Wang, H., Wolfe, J. D., Balaguru, K., Cameron-Smith, P., Dong, L., Klein, S. A., Leung, L. R., Li, H.-Y., Li, Q., Liu, X., Neale1, R. B., Pinheiro, M., Qian, Y., Ullrich, P. A., Xie, S., Yang, Y., Zhang, Y., Zhang, K., Zhou, T. (2019): The DOE E3SM coupled model version 1: Description and results at high resolution, J. Adv. Model. Earth Sy., 11, 4095-4146, doi:10.1029/2019MS001870.
Golaz, J.-C., Caldwell, P. M., Van Roekel, L. P., Petersen, M. R., Tang, Q., Wolfe, J. D., Abeshu, G., Anantharaj, V., Asay-Davis, X. S., Bader, D. C. and Baldwin, S. A., Bisht, G., Bogenschutz, P. A., Branstetter, M., Brunke, M. A. Brus, S. R. and Burrows, S. M. and Cameron-Smith, P. J. and Donahue, A. S., Deakin, M., Easter, R. C., Evans, K. J. and Feng, Y., Flanner, M., Foucar, J. G., Fyke, J. G., Griffin, B. M., Hannay, C., Harrop, B. E., Hoffman, M., Hunke, E. C., Jacob, R. L., Jacobsen, D. W., Jeffery, N., Jones, P. W., Keen, Noel D., Klein, S. A., Larson, V. E., Leung, L. R., Li, H.-Y., Lin, W., Lipscomb, W. H., Ma, P.-L., Mahajan, S., Maltrud, M. E., Mametjanov, A., McClean, J. L., McCoy, R. B., Neale, R. B., Price, S. F., Qian, Y., Rasch, P. J., Reeves E., J. E. J., Riley, W. J., Ringler, T. D., Roberts, A. F., Roesler, E. L., Salinger, A. G., Shaheen, Z., Shi, X., Singh, B., Tang, J., Taylor, M. A., Thornton, P. E., Turner, A. K., Veneziani, M., Wan, H., Wang, H., Wang, S., Williams, D. N., Wolfram, P. J., Worley, P. H., Xie, S., Yang, Y., Yoon, J.-H., Zelinka, M. D., Zender, C. S., Zeng, X., Zhang, C., Zhang, K., Zhang, Y., Zheng, X., Zhou, T., Zhu, Q. (2019): The DOE E3SM coupled model version 1: Overview and evaluation at standard resolution, J. Adv. Model. Earth Sy., 11, doi:10.1029/2018MS001603.
Roberts, A. F., E. C. Hunke, S. M. Kamal, W. H. Lipscomb, C. Horvat, W. Maslowski (2019): A Variational Method for Sea Ice Ridging in Earth System Models, J. Adv. Model. Earth Sy., 11(3).
Roberts, A. F., E. C. Hunke, R. Allard, D. A. Bailey, A. P. Craig, J-F. Lemieux, M. D. Turner (2018): Quality Control for Community Based Sea Ice Model Development, Philos. Trans. Royal Soc. A, 376 (2129).
Jin, M., C. Deal, W. Maslowski, P. Matrai, A. Roberts, R. Osinski, Y. Lee, M. Frants, S. Elliott, N. Jeffery, E. Hunke, S. Wang (2018): Effects of Model Resolution and Ocean Mixing on Forced Ice-Ocean Physical and Biogeochemical Simulations Using Global and Regional System Models, J. Geophys. Res. Ocean., 123.
Hutchings, J., A. Roberts, C. Geiger, J. Richter-Menge (2018): Corrigendum: Spatial and temporal characterisation of sea-ice deformation, Journal of Glaciology, 64(244), 343-346.
Cassano, J., A. DuVivier, A. Roberts, M. Hughes, M. Seefeldt, M. Brunke, A. Craig, B. Fisel, W. Gutowski, J. Hamman, M. Higgins, W. Maslowski, B. Nijssen, R. Osinski, X. Zeng (2017): Development of the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM): Near Surface Atmospheric Climate Sensitivity, J. Climate, 30 (15).
Hamman, J., B. Nijssen, A. Roberts, A. Craig, W. Maslowski, R. Osinski (2017): The Coastal Streamflow Flux in the Regional Arctic System Model, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 122.
Hamman, J., B. Nijssen, M. Brunke, J. Cassano, A. Craig, A. DuVivier, M. Hughes, D. Lettenmaier, W. Maslowski, R. Osinski, A. Roberts, X. Zeng (2016): Land surface climate in the regional Arctic system model, J. Climate, 29 (18).
DuVivier, A., J. Cassano, A. Craig, H. Hamman, W. Maslowski, B. Nijssen, R. Osinski, A. Roberts (2016): Winter atmospheric buoyancy forcing and oceanic response during strong wind events around southeastern Greenland in the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM) for 1990-2010 J. Climate, 29 (3).
Roberts, A., A. P. Craig, W. Maslowski, R. Osinski, A. DuVivier, M. Hughes, B. Nijssen, J. Cassano, M. Brunke (2015): Simulating transient ice-ocean Ekman transport in the Regional Arctic System Model and Community Earth SystemModel, Ann. Glaciol., 56, 211-228.
Maslowski, W., J. Clement-Kinney, S. R. Okkenen, R. Osinski, A. Roberts, W. J. Williams (2014): The Large Scale Ocean Circulation and Physical Processes Controlling Pacific-Arctic Interactions, in The Pacific Arctic Region - Ecosystem Status and Trends in a Rapidly Changing Environment, pp. 101–132, Springer.
Maslowski, W., J. Clement-Kinney, M. Higgins, A. Roberts (2012): The Future of Arctic Sea Ice, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 40, 625-654, doi:10.13140/2.1.1828.9441.
Hutchings, J., A. Roberts, C. Geiger (2011): Spatial and temporal characterization of sea-ice deformation, Ann. Glaciol., 52(57), 360-368, doi:10.3189/172756411795931769.
Roberts, A., J. Cherry, R. D¨oscher, S. Elliott, L. Sushama (2011): Exploring the Potential for Arctic System Modeling, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 92, 203-206, doi:10.1175/2010bams2959.1.
Hutchings, J., C. Geiger, A. Roberts, J. Richter-Menge, B. Elder (2010): On the spatial and temporal characterization of motion induced sea ice internal stress. ICETECH 10: 9th International Conference and Exhibition on Performance of Ships and Structures in Ice, Anchorage, Alaska, 20-23 September, 2010.
Hutchings, J., C. Petrich, R. Lindsay, A. Roberts, J. Zhang (2009): The Use of Models in the Design and Interpretation of Field Measurements in Eicken, H., R. Gradinger, M. Salganek, K. Shirasawa, D. K. Perovich, and M. Lepp¨aranta (2009), Field Techniques for Sea Ice Research, pp. 467-495, University of Alaska Press.
Hibler III,W. D., A. Roberts, P. Heil, A. Y. Proshutinsky, H. L. Simmons, J. Lovick (2006), Modeling M2 tidal variability in Arctic sea-ice drift and deformation, Ann. Glaciol., 44, 418–428.
Lytle, V., A. Worby, R. Massom, M. Paget, I. Allison, X. Wu, A. Roberts: Ice formation in the Mertz Glacier polynya, East Antarctica, during winter, Ann. Glaciol. 33(1), 368-372.
Roberts, A., I. Allison, V. Lytle (2001): Sensible-and latent-heat-flux estimates over the Mertz Glacier polynya, East Antarctica, from in-flight measurements, Ann. Glaciol., 33(1), 377-384.
Davis, X. J., Stan, C., McCoy, R. B., Bader, D. C., Leung, L. R., Taylor, M. A., Zhang, G., Davis, H. C., Bond-Lamberty, B., Bosler, P. A., Burrows, S. M., Caldwell, P. M., Calvin, K., Gnanadesikan, A., Golaz, J.-C., Hoffman, M. J., Holm, J. A., Jacob, R. L., Jones, P. W., Larson, V. E., Lin, W., Liu, Z., Ma, P.-L., Petersen, M. R., Pincus, R., Price, S. F., Pritchard, M. S., Randerson, J. T., Roberts, A. F., Salinger, A. G., Sreepathi, S., Tang, Q., Thornton, P. E., Van Roekel, L. P., Wan, H., Xie, S., Reshel, T. J. (2021): DOE ESMD-E3SM 2020 Principal Investigator Meeting Report, DOE/SC-0204, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Program. Germantown, Maryland, USA. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4741392.
D’Angelo, G., Hunke, E. C., Pitts, T. R., Price, S. F., Roberts, A. F. (2021): Sea ice evolution along the Northern Sea Route and implications for trans-Arctic shipping from 2021 through 2060, Los Alamos National Laboratory Tech Rep. LA-UR-21-31464, doi:10.2172/1832347.
Roberts, A. (2021): POLeSTAr – The POLar SysTem Analysis Package, Version 1 Specifications, Los Alamos National Laboratory Tech Rep. LA-UR-21-20479, doi:10.2172/1762702.
Holland, M.M., Bushuk, M., Jahn, A., Roberts, A. (2020): Integrating Models and Observations to Better Predict a Changing Arctic Sea Ice Cover, in Arctic Report Card 2020, R.L. Thoman, J. Ricther-Menge, and M.L. Druckenmiller, Eds., doi:10.25923/bx13-ja71.
Roberts, A., Hunke, E., Brown B., and Jeffery N. (2020) Arctic Domain Awareness Center (ADAC) Marine Spill Modeling Working Group Sea Ice Model Provenance, Los Alamos National Laboratory Tech Rep. LA-UR-21-20648, doi:10.2172/1762724.
Pundsack, J., R. Bell, D. Broderson, G. Fox, J. Dozier, J. Helly, W. Li, P. Morin, M. Parsons, A. Roberts, C. Tweedie, C. Yang (2013): Report on Workshop on Cyber infrastructure for Polar Sciences, St. Paul, Minnesota. University of Minnesota Polar Geospatial Center, 17pp.
Lee, C.M., S. Cole, M. Doble, L. Freitag, P. Hwang, S. Jayne, M. Jeffries, R. Krish eld, T. Maksym, W. Maslowski, B. Owens, P. Posey, L. Rainville, A. Roberts, B. Shaw, T. Stanton, J. Thomson, M.-L. Timmermans, J. Toole, P. Wadhams, J. Wilkinson, Z. Zhang (2012): Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) Program: Science and Experiment Plan, Technical Report APL-UW 1201. Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, September 2012, 48 pp.
Roberts, A., J. Cassano, R. D¨oscher, L. Hinzman, M. Holland, H. Mitsudera, A. Sumi, J.E. Walsh, L. Alessa, V. Alexeev, A. Arendt, M. Altaweel, U. Bhatt, J. Cherry, C. Deal, S. Elliot, M. Follows, R. Hock, A. Kliskey, H. Lantuit, D. Lawrence, W. Maslowski, A.D. McGuire, P. Overduin, I. Overeem, A. Proshutinsky, V. Romanovsky, L. Sushama, M. Truffer (2010): A Science Plan for Regional Arctic System Modeling, A report to the National Science Foundation from the International Arctic Science Community. International Arctic Research Center Technical Papers 10-0001, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 47pp.
Hunke, E., Roberts, A. (2018): Sea ice: More than just frozen water, Santa Fe New Mexican, Dec 16, 2018, New Mexico, USA.
J. Hutchings, C. Geiger, A. Roberts, J. Richter-Menge, M Doble, R. Forsberg, K. Giles, C. Haas, S. Hendricks, C. Khambhamettu, S. Laxon, T. Martin, M. Pruis, M. Thomas, P. Wadhams, H. Zwally (2008): Role of Ice Dynamics in the Sea Ice Mass Balance, Eos Trans. AGU, 89 (50).
Roberts, A. F. (2018), Ridgepack: A MATLAB toolbox for analyzing and developing sea ice models, Zenodo, doi:10.5281/zenodo.1257588.
Roberts, A. F. (2018): Audiovisual Vignettes of Sea Ice Ridging in the Beaufort Sea in 2007 (Version 2), Zenodo.
Maslowski, W., A. Roberts, T. Craig, R. Osinski, J. Cassano, A. DuVivier, M. Hughes, M. Seefeldt, B. Nijssen, J. Hamman (2018): Version 1 of Regional Arctic System Model (RASM).
Hunke E., R. Allard, D. Bailey, A. Craig, A. Damsgaard, F. Dupont, A. Duvivier, M. Holland, N. Jeffery, J-F. Lemieux, C. Newman, A. Roberts, A. Turner, M. Turner, M. Winton (2018): The CICE-Consortium sea ice model: CICE version 6.0.0.alpha, Zenodo.
