Hurricane & Tornado Climate

As part of the undergraduate course, "Chasing Storms," I took four volunteer students on an actual chase. We  embarked on a wee...

It's difficult to get a precise measurement of tornado wind speed without actually going inside one. Armed with Blender's new mot...

The strongest hurricanes are getting stronger as the oceans heat up especially over the North Atlantic. Sensitivity of hurricane intensit...

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Talks given at the 3rd International Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change are now available at http://ciquestudios.com/hurricaneclimate/ ...

Statistical models of regional and clustered tropical cyclone (TC) activity are being developed and tested. High resolution and detailed mic...

June 27-July 2, 2011, Rhodes, GREECE. It promises to be a good one. Check out the program . Props go to Ian Elsner for designing and edi...

While hot air swirls on whether climate change is affecting tornadoes, I take a break on May 24, 2011 to chase down a few storms in Oklahom...

Models that predict annual U.S. hurricane activity assume a Poisson distribution for the counts. This assumption leads to a forecast that un...

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...