Hurricane & Tornado Climate

In collaboration with Gabriele Villarini and as part of the U.S. CLIVAR working group on hurricanes, I've written a short summary paper...

Over the past several years the topic of hurricanes and climate change has received considerable attention by scientists, the insurance in...

We demonstrate a new framework for studying hurricane climatology. The framework consists of a spatial tessellation of the hurricane basin ...

In my talk this week to the West Florida chapter of the American Meteorological Society I make a case that geographers are well positioned t...

Tiny threatened shorebirds on Florida’s west coast not only survive hurricanes, they seem to benefit from the storms’ aftereffects, accordin...

Two professors from Louisiana State University, each having had personal experiences with hurricanes and extreme weather and each with a dee...

Applied spatial data analysis using R. Thomas Jagger will discuss packages used by Roger Bivand et al. in his book Applied Spatial Data Ana...

An inverse relationship between hurricane activity over the Caribbean and the number of sunspots has recently been identified. Here we inves...

The oil slick over the northern Gulf of Mexico will reflect more incoming sunlight so will warm slower than the surrounding ocean. If th...

Today 20% of the strongest cyclones exceed 49 m/s on average globally. With a 1C rise in SST, 20% of the strongest cyclones could exceed 5...

The 3rd International Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change will be held next summer in Rhodes, Greece. The dates are set for June 27-Ju...

The strongest Atlantic hurricanes are getting stronger as ocean temperatures warm (Elsner et al. 2008) and the strengthening is expected to ...

The record of past tropical cyclones provides an important means to evaluate the hurricane hazard. Historical chronologies are a source of i...

A month after hackers broke into the CRU email server and released to the web email (it could have been a leak) correspondences between top ...

Foundational pillars of science include transparency and reproducibility. Unfortunately too few climatologists take advantage of the powerf...

Imagine an insurer of coastal properties concerned about the next hurricane season. A severe storm happens once every few decades; if the se...

Back in the middle 1990's I had the great fortune to work with and help mentor A. Birol Kara. Birol was a graduate student in meteorolo...

The recent and on-going events in the world's financial markets demonstrate that finance theory remains far from perfected. Meanwhile, ...