Robert V. Rohli

Professor, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences

Phone: 225-578-6346

Office: 2135 Energy, Coast, & Environment Building

Bachelor’s Degree(s): B.A., University of New Orleans, 1989

Master’s Degree(s): M.S., The Ohio State University, 1991

Ph.D.(s): Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1995

Research Interests

Coastal weather and climate, atmospheric circulation variability, natural hazards and risks, tropical cyclone dynamics, surface-atmosphere interactions, synoptic meteorology and climatology, geoscience education, history of science

Courses Taught

Coastal meteorology

Surface-atmosphere interactions

Atmospheric and oceanic circulation

Recent Publications

Christiansen, K., R.B. Mostafiz, A. Al Assi, R.V. Rohli, and C.J. Friedland, 2024: Financial impacts of 2020 Labor Day wildfires to Oregon highways. PLOS Climate, 26 pp., in press, doi: 10.1371/journal.pclm.0000489.

Al Assi, A., R.B. Mostafiz, F. Orooji, A. Taghinezhad, M. Gall, R.V. Rohli, C.T. Emrich, C.J. Friedland, and E. Johnson, 2024: Wind risk and mitigation calculator framework for determining the wind annualized risk for single- and multi-family homes to support resilient community decision-making. Resilient Cities and Structures 3(4), 21–33, doi: 0.1016/j.rcns.2024.08.002.

Christiansen, K., A. Al Assi, R.B. Mostafiz, and R.V. Rohli, 2024: Charting the scorched trails: A comparative analysis of roadway damage from historical megafires to the unprecedented 2020 Labor Day wildfires on the USA west coast. Emergency Management Science and Technology 4, Art. No. e015, 10 pp., doi: 10.48130/emst-0024-0016.

Miller, P.W., C. Li, K. Xu, S.P. Caparotta, and R.V. Rohli, 2024: The evolution of the 2021 SEACOR Power tragedy. Weather and Forecasting 39(10), 1503–1512, doi: 10.1175/WAF-D-23-0179.1.

Abedin, J., L. Zou, M. Yang, R.V. Rohli, D. Mandal, Y. Qiang, H. Akter, B. Zhou, B. Lin, and H. Cai, 2024: Deciphering spatial-temporal dynamics of flood exposure in the United States. Sustainable Cities and Society 108, Art. No. 105444, doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2024.105444.

Al Assi, A., R.B. Mostafiz, C.J. Friedland, and R.V. Rohli, 2024: Theoretical boundaries of annual flood risk for single-family homes within the 100-year floodplain. International Journal of Environmental Research 18, Art. No. 29, 18 pp., doi: 10.1007/s41742-024-00577-7.

Rahim, M.A., R.V. Rohli, R.B. Mostafiz, N. Bushra, and C.J. Friedland, 2024: Historical global and regional spatiotemporal patterns in daily temperature. Frontiers in Environmental Science 11, Art. No. 1294456, 12 pp., doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1294456.

Gnan, E., R.B. Mostafiz, M.A. Rahim, C.J. Friedland, R.V. Rohli, A. Taghinezhad, and A. Al Assi, 2024: Freeboard life-cycle benefit-cost analysis of a rental single-family residence for landlord, tenant, and insurer. Frontiers in Climate, section Climate Risk Management 5, Art. No. 1295592, 12 pp., doi: 10.3389/fclim.2023.1295592.

Rahim, M.A., C.J. Friedland, R.B. Mostafiz, R.V. Rohli, and N. Bushra, 2023: Analytical advances in homeowner flood risk quantification considering insurance, building replacement value, and freeboard. Frontiers in Environmental Science, section Interdisciplinary Climate Studies 11, Art. No. 1180942, 15 pp., doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1180942.

First of four “contributing authors” to Reynolds, S.J. and J.K. Johnson, 2024: Exploring Earth Science. 2024 release (e-book). The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., New York, New York, 706 pp., 978–1–26–492041–9.

Al Assi, A., R.B. Mostafiz, C.J. Friedland, R.V. Rohli, and M.A. Rahim, 2023: Homeowner flood risk and risk reduction from home elevation between the 100- and 500-year floodplains. Frontiers in Earth Science, 11, Art. No. 1051546, 15 pp., doi: 10.3389/feart.2023.1051546.

Friedland, C.J., Y. Lee, R.B. Mostafiz, J. Lee, S. Mithila, R.V. Rohli, M.A. Rahim, E. Gnan, and M.T. Farris, 2023: FloodSafeHome: Evaluating financial benefits and savings of freeboard for improved decision-making in flood risk mitigation. Frontiers in Communication, section Disaster Communications, 8, Art No. 1060901, 17 pp., doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2023.1060901.

Al Assi, A., R.B. Mostafiz, C.J. Friedland, R.V. Rohli, A. Taghinezhad, and M.A. Rahim, 2023: Cost-effectiveness of federal CDBG-DR mitigation assistance in Louisiana. Natural Hazards, doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2126597/v1.

Kross, C.S., R.V. Rohli, J.A. Moon, A.M.V. Fournier, M.S. Woodrey, and J.A. Nyman, 2023: Preferred atmospheric circulation associated with favorable prescribed burns in the Gulf of Mexico coast, U.S.A. Fire Ecology 19, Art. No. 7, 12 pp., doi: 10.1186/s42408-023-00169-4.

Ponce-Garcia, E., C. McNeill, G. Whaley, R.V. Rohli, and M.E.B. Garrison, 2023: The relationship between family and community resilience during the developmental transition of emerging adulthood. Journal of Social Science Research 19, 48─58, doi: 10.24297/jssr.v19i.9395.

Al Assi, A., R.B. Mostafiz, C.J. Friedland, M.A. Rahim, and R.V. Rohli, 2023: Flood risk assessment for residences at the neighborhood scale by owner/occupant type and first-floor height. Frontiers in Big Data, section Data-driven Climate Sciences 5, Art. No. 997447, 13 pp., doi: 10.3389/fdata.2022.997447.

Bushra, N., R.V. Rohli, C. Li, P.W. Miller, and R.B. Mostafiz, 2023: Changing features of the Northern Hemisphere 500-hPa circumpolar vortex. Frontiers in Big Data, section Data-driven Climate Sciences 5, Art. No. 1009158, 11 pp., doi: 10.3389/fdata.2022. 1009158.

Al Assi, A., R.B. Mostafiz, C.J. Friedland, M.A. Rahim, and R.V. Rohli, 2022: Flood risk assessment for residences at the neighborhood scale by owner/occupant type and first-floor height. Frontiers in Big Data, section Data-driven Climate Sciences 5, Art. No. 997447, 13 pp., doi: 10.3389/fdata.2022.997447

Bushra, N., R.V. Rohli, C. Li, P.W. Miller, and R.B. Mostafiz, 2022: Changing features of the Northern Hemisphere 500-hPa circumpolar vortex. Frontiers in Big Data, section Data-driven Climate Sciences 5, Art. No. 1009158, 11 pp., doi: 10.3389/fdata.2022.1009158.

Mostafiz, R.B., C.J. Friedland, M.A. Rahim, N. Bushra, R.V. Rohli, and F. Orooji, 2022: A data-driven, spatial approach to characterize flood hazard. Frontiers in Big Data, section Data-driven Climate Sciences 5, Art. No. 1022900, 12 pp., doi: 10.3389/fdata.2022.1022900.

Rohli, R.V., G. Snedden, E. Martin, and K.L. DeLong, 2022: Impacts of atmosphere-ocean teleconnections on the south-central United States. Frontiers in Earth Science 10, Art. No. 934654, 26 pp., doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.934654.

Wang, L., R.V. Rohli, Q. Lin, S. Jin, and X. Yan, 2022: Impact of extreme heatwaves on population exposure in China due to 0.5 C˚ additional warming. Sustainability 14(18), Art. No. 11458, 13 pp., doi: 10.3390/su141811458.

Gnan, E., C.J. Friedland, R.B. Mostafiz, M.A. Rahim, T. Gentimis, R.V. Rohli, and A. Taghinezhad, 2022: Economically optimizing elevation of new, single-family residences for flood mitigation via life-cycle benefit-cost analysis. Frontiers in Environmental Science, section Water and Wastewater Management 10, Art. No. 889239, 15 pp., doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.889239.

Gnan, E., C.J. Friedland, M.A. Rahim, R.B. Mostafiz, R.V. Rohli, F. Orooji, A. Taghinezhad, and J. McElwee, 2022: Improved building-specific flood risk assessment and implications of depth-damage function selection. Frontiers in Water, section Water and Hydrocomplexity 4, Art. No. 919726, 11 pp., doi: 10.3389/frwa. 2022.919726.

Mostafiz, R.B., R.V. Rohli, C.J. Friedland, M. Gall, and N. Bushra, 2022: Future crop risk estimation due to drought, extreme temperature, hail, lightning, and tornado at the census tract level in Louisiana. Frontiers in Environmental Science, section Environmental Economics and Management 10, Art. No. 919782, 17 pp., doi: 10.3389/ fenvs.2022.919782.

Yao, Q., M. Cohen, K.-b. Liu, D. Fan, E. Rodrigues, K. Maiti, A.V. de Souza, A.A. Aragón-Moreno, R. Rohli, D. Yin, and L.C.R. Pessenda, 2022: Mangrove expansion at poleward range limits in North and South America: Late-Holocene climate variability or Anthropocene global warming? Catena 216(B), doi: 10.1016/j.catena.2022.106413.

Zhao, X., V.H. Rivera-Monroy, C. Li, I.V. Lopez, R.V. Rohli, Z.G. Xue, E. Castañeda-Moya, and C. Coronado-Molina, 2022: Temperature across vegetation canopy-water-soil interfaces is modulated by hydroperiod and extreme weather in coastal wetlands. Frontiers in Marine Science 9, Art. No. 852901, 21 pp., doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022. 852901.

Mostafiz, R.B., C.J. Friedland, R.V. Rohli, and N. Bushra, 2022: Estimating future residential property risk associated with wildfires in Louisiana, U.S.A. Climate 10, Art. No. 49, 39 pp., doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1171350/v1.

Mostafiz, R.B., R.V. Rohli, C.J. Friedland, and Y. Lee, 2022: Actionable information in flood risk communications and the potential for new Web-based tools for long-term planning for individuals and community. Frontiers in Earth Science, section Geohazards and Georisks 10, Art. No. 840250, 16 pp., doi: 10.3389/feart.2022.840250.

Orooji, F., C.J. Friedland, R.D. Savio, A. Taghinezhad, C. Massarra, N. Bushra, and R.V. Rohli, 2022: Generalized cost-effectiveness of residential wind mitigation strategies for wood-frame, single family house in the USA. Frontiers in Built Environment 7, Art. No. 745914, 12 pp., doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2021.745914.

Mostafiz, R.B., N. Bushra, C.J. Friedland, and R.V. Rohli, 2021: Present vs. future losses from a 100-year flood: A case study of Grand Isle, Louisiana. Frontiers in Water 3, Art. No. 763358, 14 pp., doi: 10.3389/frwa.2021.763358.

Cao, W., R.V. Rohli, F. Han, A.J. Vega, N. Bushra, and J.A. Nyman, 2021: Atmospheric circulation regimes for prescribed burns along the U.S. Gulf of Mexico coast. Applied Geography 136(2021), Art. No. 102587, 12 pp., doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2021.102587.

Mostafiz, R.B., C.J. Friedland, R.V. Rohli, N. Bushra, and C.L. Held, 2021: Property risk assessment for expansive soils in Louisiana. Frontiers in Built Environment 7, Art. No. 754761, 10 pp., doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2021.754761.

Mostafiz, R.B., C.J. Friedland, R.V. Rohli, and N. Bushra, 2021: Property risk to the sinkhole hazard in Louisiana, U.S.A. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9, Art. No. 780870, 11 pp., doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.780870.

Mostafiz, R.B., C.J. Friedland, M.A. Rahman, R.V. Rohli, E. Tate, N. Bushra, and A. Taghinezhad, 2021: Comparison of neighborhood-scale, residential property flood-loss assessment methodologies. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9, Art. No. 734294, 17 pp., doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.734294.

Bushra, N. and R.V. Rohli, 2021: Relationship between atmospheric teleconnections and the Northern Hemisphere’s circumpolar vortex. Earth and Space Science 8(9), Art. No. e2021EA001802, 16 pp., doi: 10.1029/2021EA001802.

Bushra, N., R.B. Mostafiz, R.V. Rohli, C.J. Friedland, and M.A. Rahim, 2021: Technical and social approaches to study shoreline change of Kuakata, Bangladesh. Frontiers in Marine Science 8, Art. No. 730984, 13 pp., doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.730984.

Bushra, N. and R.V. Rohli, 2021: Spatiotemporal trends and variability in the centroid of the Northern Hemisphere’s circumpolar vortex. Earth and Space Science 8, Art. No. e2020EA001594, doi: 10.1029/2020EA001594.

Rohli, R.V. and M.L. Johnson, 2021: Contribution of John Daniel Gross to American geography. Geographical Review 113(2), 215─228, doi: 10.1080/00167428. 2021.1953381.

Rohli, R.V. and C. Li, 2021: Meteorology for Coastal Scientists. Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 978─3─030─73093─2─2, 525 pp.

Bushra, N. and R.V. Rohli, 2021: Annotated Atlas of Coastal and Marine Winds. Elsevier Limited, 978─012─820061─2, 157 pp.

Reynolds, S.J., R.V. Rohli, J.K. Johnson, P.R. Waylen, and M.A. Francek, 2021: Exploring Physical Geography. Third edition. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., New York, New York, 698 pp., 978─1─260─36499─6.

Taghinezhad, A., C.J. Friedland, R.V. Rohli, B.D. Marx, J. Giering, and I. Nahmens, 2021: Predictive statistical cost estimation model for existing single-family home elevation projects. Frontiers in Built Environment 7, Art. No. 646668, 13 pp., doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2021.646668.

Vega, A.J., P.M. Miller, R.V. Rohli, and J. Heavilin, 2021: Synoptic climatology of mid-Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico nuisance floods. Natural Hazards 105(2021), 1281–1297, doi: 10.1007/s11069-020-04354-5.

Taghinezhad, A., C.J. Friedland, and R.V. Rohli, 2020: Benefit-cost analysis of flood-mitigated residential buildings in Louisiana. Housing and Society 48(2), 185–202, doi: 10.1080/08882746.2020.1796120.

Mostafiz, R.B., C.J. Friedland, R.V. Rohli, M. Gall, N. Bushra, and J.M. Gilliland, 2020: Census-block-level property risk estimation due to extreme cold temperature, hail, lightning, and tornadoes in Louisiana, U.S.A. Frontiers in Earth Science 8, Art. No. 601624, doi: 10.3389/feart.2020.601624.

Jia, P., S. Dai, K.E. Rohli, R.V. Rohli, Y. Ma, C. Yu, X. Pan, and W. Zhou, 2020: Natural environment and childhood obesity: A systematic review. Obesity Reviews 22(SI), Art. No. e13097, 9 pp., doi: 10.1111/obr.13097.

Taghinezhad, A., C.J. Friedland, R.V. Rohli, and B.D. Marx, 2020: An imputation of first-floor elevation data for the avoided loss analysis of flood-mitigated single-family homes in Louisiana, United States. Frontiers in Built Environment 6, Art. No. 138, doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2020.00138.

Iles, R.L. IV, N.D. Walker, J.R. White, and R.V. Rohli, 2020: Impacts of a major Mississippi River freshwater diversion on suspended sediment plume kinematics in Lake Pontchartrain, a semi-enclosed Gulf of Mexico estuary. Estuaries and Coasts, 44(2021), 704–721, doi: 10.1007/s12237-020-00789-y.

Harris, J.B., T.A. Joyner, R.V. Rohli, C.J. Friedland, and W.C. Tollefson, 2020: It’s all downhill from here: A forecast of subsidence rates in the Lower Mississippi River industrial corridor. Applied Geography 114(2020), Art. No. 102123, doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.102123.

Vega, A.J., R.V. Rohli, and E. Wright, 2020: Changes in growing season in the northeastern United States. Physical Geography 41(4), 343–364, doi: 10.1080/02723646.2019.1672023.

“Contributing author” to Reynolds, S.J. and J.K. Johnson, 2019: Exploring Earth Science. Second edition. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., New York, New York, 696 pp., 978─1─25─963861─9. (first of four listed contributing authors).

Mihunov, V., N.S.N. Lam, R.V. Rohli and L. Zou, 2019: Emerging disparities in community resilience to drought hazard in south-central United States. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 41(2019), Art. No. 101302, doi: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101302.

Bushra, N. and R.V. Rohli, 2019: An objective procedure delineating the circumpolar vortex. Earth and Space Science 6(5), 774–783, doi: 10.1029/2019EA000590.

Rohli, R.V., S.A. Ates, V.H. Rivera-Monroy, M.J. Polito, S.R. Midway, E. Castañeda-Moya, A.J. Gold, E. Uchida, M.M. Mangora, and S. Makoto, 2019: Inter-annual hydroclimatic variability in coastal Tanzania. International Journal of Climatology 39(12), 4736–4750, doi: 10.1002/joc.6103.

Hiatt, M., G. Snedden, J.W. Day, R.V. Rohli, J.A. Nyman, R. Lane, and L.A. Sharp, 2019: Drivers and impacts of water level fluctuations in the Mississippi River delta: Implications for delta restoration. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 224(2019), 117–137, doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2019.04.020.

Bushra, N., J.C. Trepanier, and R.V. Rohli, 2019: Joint probability risk modeling of storm surge and cyclone wind along the coast of the Bay of Bengal using a statistical copula. International Journal of Climatology 39(11), 4206–4217, doi: 10.1002/ joc.6068.

Bushra, N., R.V. Rohli, N.S.N. Lam, L. Zou, R. Bin Mostafiz, and V. Mihunov, 2019: The relationship between the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index and drought indices in the south-central United States. Natural Hazards 96(2), 791–808, doi: 10.1007/s11069-019-03569-5.

Cao, W. and R.V. Rohli, 2019: Impacts of particulate matter on Gulf of Mexico tropical cyclones. Physical Geography 40(3), 294–305, doi: 10.1080/02723646.2019.1565476.