Professional Interests

Dr. Rogers is an employee of NOAA’s Hurricane Research Division (HRD) in Miami, FL.  His main areas of research involve studying the role of convective- and vortex-scale processes in tropical cyclone (TC) structure and intensity change, using a combination of aircraft observations and numerical models.  He is an active participant in HRD's annual hurricane field campaign, and he served as Director of the field campaign in 2005 and 2010.  He has also served as Associate Editor for Monthly Weather Review and Weather and Forecasting.  He has published research in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Monthly Weather Review, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, among others.

Current Research Projects

• Advanced model diagnostics of tropical cyclone inner-core structure using aircraft observations
• Advanced prediction and modeling
• CIMAS Contributions to OAR Disaster Recovery Act Projects
• Data Rescue
• Development of Multiple Moving Nests Within a Basin-Wide HWRF Modeling
• Environmental and inner-core vertical shear TC impacts
• Environmental flow impacts on tropical cyclone inner-core structure
• Extra-tropical transition
• Hurricane Regional and Global Model Evaluation and Improvement Project
• Hurricane Surface Winds
• Inner-core structure of rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones
• Meso- and Miso-scale structures in the eye and eyewall of major hurricanes
• Model Error in HWRF Surface Layer and Boundary Layer Parameterizations
• Observations and modeling of ocean response to Hurricane Edouard (2014)
• Observing System Experiments with aircraft data
• Optimization of the NOAA G-IV Surveillance Aircraft Flight Patterns through Observing System Simulation Experiments
• Real-time Doppler winds
• Saharan Air Layer
• Services to Support the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project
• SFMR Surface Wind Improvement in Heavy Rain Conditions
• SHIPS Rapid Intensification Index
• Storm-Relative Data Assimilation
• Using NOAA UAS Assets and OSSE/DA Capabilities to Improve Sampling Strategies and Numerical Prediction of Tropical Cyclone Track, Intensity, and Structure
• Vortex-Scale Data Assimilation With HEDAS

Hightlighted Publications

1. Rogers, R.F., 2010: Convective-scale structure and evolution during a high-resolution simulation of tropical cyclone rapid intensification. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 67, 44–70.
2. Rogers, R.F., P. Reasor, and S. Lorsolo, 2013: Airborne Doppler Observations of the Inner-core Structural Differences between Intensifying and Steady-State Tropical Cyclones. Mon. Wea. Rev., 141, 2970-2991.
3. Rogers, R.F., J.A. Zhang, J. Zawislak, H. Jiang, G.R. Alvey III, E.J. Zipser, and S.N. Stevenson, 2016: Observations of the structure and evolution of Hurricane Edouard (2014) during intensity change. Part II: Kinematic structure and the distribution of deep convection. Mon. Wea. Rev., 144, 3355-3376.

Recently Published Peer-Reviewed Papers

1. Aguilar, C., I.C. Enochs, K. Cohen, L. Chomiak, G. Kolodziej, A. Baker, and D. Manzello. Understanding differential heat tolerance of the threatened mountainous star coral Orbicella faveolata from inshore and offshore reef sites in the Florida Keys using gene network analysis. PLOS Climate, 3(11):e0000403, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000403 2024
2. Aksoy, A. A Monte Carlo approach to understanding the impacts of initial-condition uncertainty, model uncertainty, and simulation variability on the predictability of chaotic systems: Perspectives from the one-dimensional logistic map. Chaos, 34(1):011102, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0181705 2024
3. Alaka, G.J. Jr., J.A. Sippel, Z. Zhang, H.-S Kim, F. Marks, V. Tallapragada, A. Mehra, X. Zhang, A. Poyer, and S.G. Gopalakrishnan. Lifetime performance of the operational Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting model (HWRF) for North Atlantic tropical cyclones. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 105(6):E932-E961, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0139.1 2024