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1486
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Overview

George N. Kiladis is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Kiladis's work also touches on Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Environmental Engineering.

The research topics addressed by Kiladis include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kiladis consist of:

  • Juliana Dias
  • Maria Gehne
  • Brandon Wolding
  • Stefan N. Tulich
  • Eric D. Maloney

Publication venues where Kiladis has frequently contributed include:

  • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Journal of Climate
  • Monthly Weather Review

Recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Kiladis feature:

  • The Influence of the Stratosphere on the Tropical Troposphere (2021), published in Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Ser II
  • Revisiting the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation as Seen in ERA5. Part I: Description and Momentum Budget (2020), published in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
  • An evaluation of tropical waves and wave forcing of the QBO in the QBOi models (2020), published in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • The Diurnal Cycle of Rainfall and the Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves over the Maritime Continent (2020), published in Journal of Climate
  • Interactions between Moisture and Tropical Convection. Part I: The Coevolution of Moisture and Convection (2020), published in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Best Publications

  • Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves: Analysis of Clouds and Temperature in the Wavenumber–Frequency Domain

    Matthew Wheeler;George N. Kiladis

  • Global climatic anomalies associated with extremes in the Southern Oscillation

    George N. Kiladis;Henry F. Diaz

  • Convectively-coupled equatorial waves

    George N. Kiladis;Matthew C. Wheeler;Patrick T. Haertel;Katherine H. Straub

  • Tropical Intraseasonal Variability in 14 IPCC AR4 Climate Models. Part I: Convective Signals

    Jia Lin Lin;George N. Kiladis;Brian E. Mapes;Klaus M. Weickmann

  • Zonal and Vertical Structure of the Madden–Julian Oscillation

    George N. Kiladis;Katherine H. Straub;Patrick T. Haertel

  • Large-Scale Dynamical Fields Associated with Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves

    Matthew Wheeler;George N. Kiladis;Peter J. Webster

  • A Comparison of OLR and Circulation-Based Indices for Tracking the MJO

    George N. Kiladis;Juliana Dias;Katherine H. Straub;Matthew C. Wheeler

  • Submonthly Convective Variability over South America and the South Atlantic Convergence Zone

    Brant Liebmann;George N. Kiladis;José A. Marengo;Tércio Ambrizzi

  • Circulation anomalies associated with tropical convection during northern winter

    George N. Kiladis;Klaus M. Weickmann

  • Three-Dimensional Structure and Dynamics of African Easterly Waves. Part I: Observations

    George N. Kiladis;Chris D. Thorncroft;Nicholas M. J. Hall

  • Observations of a Convectively Coupled Kelvin Wave in the Eastern Pacific ITCZ

    Katherine H. Straub;George N. Kiladis

  • A Multiscale Observational Case Study of a Pacific Atmospheric River Exhibiting Tropical–Extratropical Connections and a Mesoscale Frontal Wave

    F. Martin Ralph;Paul J. Neiman;George N. Kiladis;Klaus Weickmann

  • Subseasonal Variations of Rainfall in South America in the Vicinity of the Low-Level Jet East of the Andes and Comparison to Those in the South Atlantic Convergence Zone

    Brant Liebmann;George N. Kiladis;Carolina S. Vera;A. Celeste Saulo

  • Collaboration of the Weather and Climate Communities to Advance Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction

    Gilbert Brunet;Melvyn Shapiro;Melvyn Shapiro;Brian Hoskins;Brian Hoskins;Mitch Moncrieff

  • ENSO signal in continental temperature and precipitation records

    R. S. Bradley;H. F. Diaz;G. N. Kiladis;J. K. Eischeid

  • Seasonality of African Precipitation from 1996 to 2009

    Brant Liebmann;Ileana Bladé;George N. Kiladis;Leila M. V. Carvalho

  • Extratropical Forcing of Tropical Pacific Convection during Northern Winter

    George N. Kiladis;Klaus M. Weickmann

  • Interactions between the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation and Higher-Frequency Tropical Wave Activity

    Katherine H. Straub;George N. Kiladis

  • Observations of Rossby waves linked to convection over the eastern tropical Pacific

    George N. Kiladis

  • Dynamics of 2-Day Equatorial Waves

    Patrick T. Haertel;George N. Kiladis

  • Interannual and Intraseasonal Variability in the Southern Hemisphere

    George N. Kiladis;Kingtse C. Mo

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus M. Weickmann
Klaus M. Weickmann National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Brant Liebmann
Brant Liebmann Earth System Research Laboratory
Matthew C. Wheeler
Matthew C. Wheeler Bureau of Meteorology
Carolina Vera
Carolina Vera University of Buenos Aires
Toshiaki Shinoda
Toshiaki Shinoda Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
Chris D. Thorncroft
Chris D. Thorncroft University at Albany, State University of New York
Serge Janicot
Serge Janicot Sorbonne University
Henry F. Diaz
Henry F. Diaz University of Hawaii at Manoa
Leila M. V. Carvalho
Leila M. V. Carvalho University of California, Santa Barbara
Benjamin Sultan
Benjamin Sultan Institut de Recherche pour le Développement

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