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Overview

Christopher S. Velden is affiliated with the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's research covers a range of main topics including:

  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics

Christopher S. Velden has contributed to various publication venues. The most frequent ones include:

  • Weather and Forecasting
  • Atmosphere
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Velden are as follows:

  • "Global increase in major tropical cyclone exceedance probability over the past four decades", 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "A Consensus Approach for Estimating Tropical Cyclone Intensity from Meteorological Satellites: SATCON", 2020, Weather and Forecasting
  • "Impact of Rapid-Scan-Based Dynamical Information From GOES-16 on HWRF Hurricane Forecasts", 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "Predicting Rapid Intensification in North Atlantic and Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclones Using a Convolutional Neural Network", 2022, Weather and Forecasting
  • "Observations of Atypical Rapid Intensification Characteristics in Hurricane Dorian (2019)", 2021, Monthly Weather Review

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Sarah M. Griffin
  • Anthony Wimmers
  • Timothy L. Olander
  • Derrick Herndon
  • Russell L. Elsberry

Best Publications

  • The Impact of the Saharan Air Layer on Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity

    Jason P. Dunion;Christopher S. Velden

  • Global increase in major tropical cyclone exceedance probability over the past four decades

    James P Kossin;Kenneth R Knapp;Timothy L Olander;Christopher S Velden

  • The Dvorak Tropical Cyclone Intensity Estimation Technique: A Satellite-Based Method that Has Endured for over 30 Years

    Christopher Velden;Bruce Harper;Frank Wells;John L. Beven

  • Upper-Tropospheric Winds Derived from Geostationary Satellite Water Vapor Observations

    Christopher S. Velden;Christopher M. Hayden;Steven J W. Nieman;W. Paul Menzel

  • The Advanced Dvorak Technique: Continued Development of an Objective Scheme to Estimate Tropical Cyclone Intensity Using Geostationary Infrared Satellite Imagery

    Timothy L. Olander;Christopher S. Velden

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • Environmental Influences on the Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Opal (1995) over the Gulf of Mexico

    Lance F. Bosart;W. Edward Bracken;John Molinari;Christopher S. Velden

  • New evidence for a relationship between Atlantic tropical cyclone activity and African dust outbreaks

    Amato T. Evan;Amato T. Evan;Jason Dunion;Jason Dunion;Jonathan A. Foley;Andrew K. Heidinger

  • Satellite Analysis of Tropical Cyclones Using the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU).

    Stanley Q. Kidder;Mitchell D. Goldberg;Raymond M. Zehr;Mark DeMaria

  • Recent Innovations in Deriving Tropospheric Winds from Meteorological Satellites

    Christopher Velden;Jaime Daniels;David Stettner;David Santek

  • Development of an Objective Scheme to Estimate Tropical Cyclone Intensity from Digital Geostationary Satellite Infrared Imagery

    Christopher S. Velden;Timothy L. Olander;Raymond M. Zehr

  • The North Pacific Experiment (NORPEX-98): Targeted Observations for Improved North American Weather Forecasts

    Rolf H. Langland;Z. Toth;R. Gelaro;I. Szunyogh

  • Fully automated cloud-drift winds in NESDIS operations

    Steven J. Nieman;W. Paul Menzel;Christopher M. Hayden;Donald Gray

  • Evaluating Environmental Impacts on Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification Predictability Utilizing Statistical Models

    John Kaplan;Christopher M. Rozoff;Mark DeMaria;Charles R. Sampson

  • The Impact of Multispectral GOES-8 Wind Information on Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Track Forecasts in 1995. Part I: Dataset Methodology, Description, and Case Analysis

    Christopher S. Velden;Timothy L. Olander;Steve Wanzong

  • Estimating Hurricane Wind Structure in the Absence of Aircraft Reconnaissance

    James P. Kossin;John A. Knaff;Howard I. Berger;Derrick C. Herndon

  • The Pre-Depression Investigation of Cloud-Systems in the Tropics (PREDICT) Experiment: Scientific Basis, New Analysis Tools, and Some First Results

    Michael T. Montgomery;Christopher Davis;Timothy Dunkerton;Zhuo Wang

  • The Basic Relationship between Tropical Cyclone Intensity and the Depth of the Environmental Steering Layer in the Australian Region

    Christopher S. Velden;Lance M. Leslie

  • Using Deep Learning to Estimate Tropical Cyclone Intensity from Satellite Passive Microwave Imagery

    Anthony Wimmers;Christopher Velden;Joshua H. Cossuth

  • The Tropical Cyclone Diurnal Cycle of Mature Hurricanes

    Jason P. Dunion;Christopher D. Thorncroft;Christopher S. Velden

  • An Overview of the TROPICS NASA Earth Venture Mission

    W. J. Blackwell;S. Braun;R. Bennartz;R. Bennartz;C. Velden

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott A. Braun
Scott A. Braun Goddard Space Flight Center
Russell L. Elsberry
Russell L. Elsberry University of Colorado Colorado Springs
James P. Kossin
James P. Kossin University of Wisconsin–Madison
W. Paul Menzel
W. Paul Menzel University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert F. Rogers
Robert F. Rogers Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Mark DeMaria
Mark DeMaria Colorado State University
William L. Smith
William L. Smith Langley Research Center
Daniel J. Cecil
Daniel J. Cecil Marshall Space Flight Center
John A. Knaff
John A. Knaff National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Edward J. Zipser
Edward J. Zipser University of Utah

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