Faculty

Gene Takle

Professor
Boundary Layer Meteorology, Global Climate Change

3013 Agronomy
Dept. of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
515-294-9871
Email: gstakle@iastate.edu

Interim Faculty Director
University Honors Program
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2138 Jischke Honors Building
Honors Program
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
515-294-4372
Email: honors@iastate.edu

Education
BA, Luther College, Physics and Mathematics
PhD, Iowa State University, Solid State Physics

Certified Consulting Meteorology (CCM)
Certified by the American Meteorological Society in 1984 as a Consulting Meteorologist (CCM #359).

Active Research Projects

# indicates pending

# Takle, E. S., 2006-2009: Collaborative project on use of highly discretized climate scenarios to assess the impacts of climate change on forests in the MidWest. National Institute for Climate Change Research (DOE). (Collaborative project with S. Pryor, Indiana University and Scott Ollinger, University of New Hampshire)

# Pan, Z., E. S. Takle, and M. Segal, 2006-09: Response of Midwest US carbon fluxes to cropland management. NASA

Takle, E. S., 2006-2008: Development and evaluation of downscaling tools for near-surface flow (Collab Res. with S. C. Pryor, Indiana Univ.). NSF

Takle, E. S., Z. Pan, and M. Segal, 2006-09: Evaluating effects of climate changes on Midwest agroecosystems using a climate-crop coupled model. National Institute for Climate Change Research (DOE).

Gutowski, W.J. Jr., R. W. Arritt, E. S. Takle, 2001-2005: Collaborative Research: One- and two-way coupling of atmospheric and hydrologic models. NOAA Office of Global Programs.

Arritt, R. W., W. J. Gutowski, Jr., and E. S. Takle, 2001-05: Multi-model ensemble simulations of the North American Monsoon System. NOAA Office of Global Programs.

Asbjornsen, H., J. Colletti, C. Flora, T. Isenhart, F. Kirshenmann, J. Pease, J. Pesek, R. Salvador, R. Schultz, and E. S. Takle, 2003: Water quality as an indicator of landscape change. US Forest Service.

Takle, E. S., 2003-05: Online electronic portfolio for teaching global change. NASA Earth System Science Education. Subcontract from University of Northern Colorado.

Takle, E. S., 2003-2005: Forecasts and observations of frost on bridges. Minn Dept of Transportation.

Colletti, J., J. Tyndall, J. Thompson, R. Arritt, S. Hoff, and E. Takle, 2004-08: Vegetative environmental buffers to mitigate odor and aerosol pollutants emitted from poultry production sites. USDA National Research Initiative.

Hessler, K., E. S. Takle, and C. Wolf, 2004-05: Global climate change from the perspective of international and iterenerational justice. ISI Institute of Science and Society.

Takle, E. S., R. W. Arritt, and W. J. Gutowski, Jr., 2004-2005: Regional climate modeling coordination for the United States. National Science Foundation.

Mearns, L. O., and the NARCCAP team, 2005-2008: The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP): Using multiple GCMs and RCMs to simulate future climates and their uncertainty. National Science Foundation.

Kling, C., E. S. Takle, P. W. Gassman, H.-F. Hennessy, and S. Secchi, 2006-2008: Interactive drivers of land-use/land-cover change in agricultural area: climate and land-manager choices. NASA/USDA ROSES-2005.

Gleason, M. L., S. E. Taylor, M. D. Duffy, P.A. Domoto, D. Lewis, G. Nonnecke, E. S. Takle, and D. Mueller, 2005-2008: National effort to implement IPM decision support tools using site-specific weather technology. USDA National Research Initiative.

Selected Referred Publications

Takle, E., C. Anderson, M. Jha, and P.W. Gassman. 2006. Upper Mississippi River Basin modeling system part 4: Climate change impacts on flow and water quality. In: Coastal Hydrology and Processes (Eds. V.P. Singh and Y.J. Xu). Water Resources Publications, Highland Ranch, CO (In press).

Wuebbles, D. J., and E. S. Takle, 2005: Geoscience heads and chairs tackle strategies for thriving departments. EOS 80, 187, 190 (10 May).

Takle, E. S., and D. J. Wuebbles, 2005: Promoting atmospheric, Earth, and space sciences in higher education. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 86, 989-991.

Xu, D., D. Berleant, E. S. Takle, and Z. Pan, 2005: A better understanding of the effects of software defects in weather simulation. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. (proposal accepted)

Takle, E. S., and Z. Pan, 2005: Climate Change and Crop Production: Challenges to Modeling Future Scenarios. In Lal, R., N. Uphoff, B. A. Stewart, and D. O. Hansen, 2005, ed., Climate Change and Global Food Security. Taylor & Francis. 383-403.

Takle, E.S., J. Roads, B. Rockel, W.J. Gutowski, Jr.. R.W. Arritt, I. Meinke, C.G. Jones, and A. Zadra, 2006: Transferability intercomparison: An opportunity for new insight on the global water cycle and energy budget. Submitted to the Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. (October 2005).

Greenfield, T.M., and E.S. Takle, 2005: Bridge frost prediction by heat and mass transfer methods. J. Appl. Meteor. (In Press).

Zhou, X.H., J.R. Brandle, C.W. Mize, and E.S. Takle, 2005: The relationship of three-dimensional structure to shelterbelt function: A theoretical hypothesis. J. Crop Production. (In press).

Takle, E.S., M. Jha, and C.J. Anderson, 2005: Hydrological cycle in the Upper Mississippi River Basin: 20th century simulations by multiple GCMs. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L18407 10.1029/2005GL023630 (28 September).

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