Robert Earl Dickinson[1] (born 26 March 1940, Millersburg, Ohio)[2] is an American meteorologist and geoscientist.
Dickinson studied chemistry and physics at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree completed in 1961.
As a graduate student, he studied meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a master's degree in 1962 and Ph.D. in 1966.
[4] He works on climate models and computer models of processes in the atmosphere including interactions with the biosphere, global climate change, the carbon cycle on land, remote sensing, and the disappearance of tropical rain forests.
In 2002, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for pioneering contributions to a wide range of topics in atmospheric dynamics and earth system modeling.