Ross Dixon

Position: Assistant Professor, Oceanography & Coastal Science
Email: Ross.Dixon@lsu.edu 
Office: 2231 ECE Building

 

Degrees

Phd, University of Wisconsi-Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2017

MS, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Atmospheric Physics, 2009

BS, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Physics, 2007

 

 

Research Interests

Atmospheric Modeling, Tropical Meteorology (Monsoons, ITCZ), Land-Atmosphere Coupling, Regional Climate Change 

Classes Taught

OCS 4113 ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS
OCS 7113 ADVANCED ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS
OCS 7016 MODELING THE MARINE ATMOSPHERE

Professional Service

Member of CLIVAR/GEWEX African Monsoon Working Group

Selected Publications

Dixon, R. D., Janzon, E. J., Roy, T., Suriano, Z. J., & Davidson, S. (2026). Numerical representation of turbulent fluxes during the March 2019 Nebraska rain-on-snow event. Environmental Research Letters, 21(4), 044023.

Sow, M., Dixon, R. D., Diakhaté, M., Guichard, F., Couvreux, F., & Gaye, A. T. (2025). Contribution from the occurrence and intensity of wet days to the West African rainfall variability in CMIP6 models. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(21), e2024GL110022.

Audu, E. O., Dixon, R. D., & Diallo, I. (2024). Understanding the zonal variability in projections of Sahel precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(20), e2024GL110177.

Galarneau Jr, T. J., Zeng, X., Dixon, R. D., Ouyed, A., Su, H., & Cui, W. (2023). Tropical mesoscale convective system formation environments. Atmospheric Science Letters, 24(5), e1152.

Shelton, S., & Dixon, R. D. (2023). Long-term seasonal drought trends in the China-Pakistan economic corridor. Climate, 11(2), 45.

Zeng, X., Reeves Eyre, J. J., Dixon, R. D., & Arevalo, J. (2021). Quantifying the occurrence of record hot years through normalized warming trends. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(10), e2020GL091626.

Dixon, R. D., Peyrillé, P., & Guichard, F. (2019). Sahelian precipitation change induced by SST increase: the contrasting roles of regional and larger‐scale drivers. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(20), 11378-11387.

Dixon, R. D., Vimont, D. J., & Daloz, A. S. (2018). The relationship between tropical precipitation biases and the Saharan heat low bias in CMIP5 models. Climate Dynamics, 50(9), 3729-3744.

Dixon, R. D., Daloz, A. S., Vimont, D. J., & Biasutti, M. (2017). Saharan heat low biases in CMIP5 models. Journal of Climate, 30(8), 2867-2884.