# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-p-turco
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:36:47.510Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-p-turco"
name: "Richard P. Turco"
slug: "richard-p-turco"
description: "Richard Peter \"Rich\" Turco is an American atmospheric scientist, and Professor at the Institute of the Environment, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles. He won an award in 1986, from MacArthur Fellows Program."
tagline: "Atmospheric scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/11-FLI-Awards-Ceremony-by-Edwina-Hay-5377.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.18
  momentum:             9.130434782608697
  historical:           5.470662666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Richard P. Turco"
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    title: "ريتشارد ب. توركو"
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    title: "ریچارد پی. تورکو"
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  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%90%86%E6%9F%A5%E5%BE%B7%C2%B7P%C2%B7%E7%89%B9%E7%A7%91"
    title: "理查德·P·特科"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_P._Turco"
    title: "Richard P. Turco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Peter_Turco"
    title: "Richard Peter Turco"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7328247"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump