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Edward K. Vizy is a researcher affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their work is primarily situated within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Water Science and Technology, and Forestry.

The main thematic focus of their research lies on Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

They have contributed extensively to peer-reviewed publications with a significant presence in notable academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Journal of Climate
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Edward K. Vizy's recent papers reflect a focus on convective systems and regional climatic variations. Selected publications include:

  • "What Drives the Intensification of Mesoscale Convective Systems over the West African Sahel under Climate Change?" (2020, Journal of Climate)
  • "Seasonal asymmetry of equatorial East African rainfall projections: understanding differences between the response of the long rains and the short rains to increased greenhouse gases" (2020, Climate Dynamics)
  • "Influence of Indian Ocean SST regionality on the East African short rains" (2020, Climate Dynamics)
  • "Hydrodynamics of regional and seasonal variations in Congo Basin precipitation" (2021, Climate Dynamics)
  • "Mesoscale convective systems in the Congo Basin: seasonality, regionality, and diurnal cycles" (2023, Climate Dynamics)

Their collaborative network features frequent co-authors:

  • Kerry H. Cook
  • Patrick C. Andrews
  • Weiran Liu
  • Siyu Zhao
  • Rory G. J. Fitzpatrick

Best Publications

  • Coupled Model Simulations of the West African Monsoon System: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Simulations

    Kerry H. Cook;Edward K. Vizy

  • Hydrodynamics of the Caribbean Low-Level Jet and Its Relationship to Precipitation

    Kerry Harrison Cook;Edward K Vizy

  • Mechanisms by Which Gulf of Guinea and Eastern North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies Can Influence African Rainfall

    Edward K. Vizy;Kerry H. Cook

  • Development and application of a mesoscale climate model for the tropics: Influence of sea surface temperature anomalies on the West African monsoon

    Edward K. Vizy;Kerry H. Cook

  • Variability and predictability of West African droughts: a review on the role of sea surface temperature anomalies.

    Belen Rodríguez-Fonseca;Elsa Mohino;Carlos R. Mechoso;Cyril Caminade

  • Springtime Intensification of the Great Plains Low-Level Jet and Midwest Precipitation in GCM Simulations of the Twenty-First Century

    Kerry Harrison Cook;Edward K Vizy;Zachary S. Launer;Christina M. Patricola

  • Effects of Twenty-First-Century Climate Change on the Amazon Rain Forest

    Kerry Harrison Cook;Edward K Vizy

  • Mid-Twenty-First-Century Changes in Extreme Events over Northern and Tropical Africa

    Edward K. Vizy;Kerry H. Cook

  • Projected Changes in East African Rainy Seasons

    Kerry Harrison Cook;Edward K Vizy

  • Impact of climate change on mid-twenty-first century growing seasons in Africa

    Kerry H. Cook;Edward K. Vizy

  • The South Atlantic Subtropical High: Climatology and Interannual Variability

    Xiaoming Sun;Kerry H. Cook;Edward K. Vizy

  • Projections of a Wetter Sahel in the Twenty-First Century from Global and Regional Models

    Edward K Vizy;Kerry Harrison Cook;Julien Crétat;Naresh Neupane

  • South American climate during the Last Glacial Maximum: Delayed onset of the South American monsoon

    Kerry Harrison Cook;Edward K Vizy

  • Detection and Analysis of an Amplified Warming of the Sahara Desert

    Kerry H. Cook;Edward K. Vizy

  • The WAMME regional model intercomparison study

    Leonard M. Druyan;Jinming Feng;Jinming Feng;Kerry H. Cook;Yongkang Xue

  • Identifying hot spots of security vulnerability associated with climate change in Africa

    Joshua W. Busby;Kerry H. Cook;Edward K. Vizy;Todd G. Smith

  • How well are daily intense rainfall events captured by current climate models over Africa

    Julien Crétat;Edward K Vizy;Kerry Harrison Cook

  • Connections between the summer east African and Indian rainfall regimes

    Edward K. Vizy;Kerry H. Cook

  • Relationship between Amazon and high Andes rainfall

    Edward K. Vizy;Kerry H. Cook

  • The Congo Basin Walker circulation: dynamics and connections to precipitation

    Kerry Harrison Cook;Edward K Vizy

  • A mechanism for African monsoon breaks: Mediterranean cold air surges

    Edward K Vizy;Edward K Vizy;Kerry Harrison Cook;Kerry Harrison Cook

Frequent Co-Authors

Kerry H. Cook
Kerry H. Cook The University of Texas at Austin
Jinming Feng
Jinming Feng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yongkang Xue
Yongkang Xue University of California, Los Angeles
Paul A. Dirmeyer
Paul A. Dirmeyer George Mason University
Kyu-Myong Kim
Kyu-Myong Kim Goddard Space Flight Center
John H. Marsham
John H. Marsham University of Leeds
Akio Kitoh
Akio Kitoh University of Tsukuba
Natalie M. Mahowald
Natalie M. Mahowald Cornell University
Fred Kucharski
Fred Kucharski International Centre for Theoretical Physics

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