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Overview

James L. Kinter is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, encompassing key subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, Sociology and Political Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture

James L. Kinter has published extensively in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Water Resources Research
  • Monthly Weather Review
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Recent papers authored under their guidance or with their collaboration include:

  • Potential Impacts of Future Extreme Precipitation Changes on Flood Engineering Design Across the Contiguous United States, 2022, Water Resources Research
  • Soil Moisture Influence on the Incidence of Summer Mesoscale Convective Systems in the U.S. Great Plains, 2021, Monthly Weather Review
  • Multiscale and multi event evaluation of short-range real-time flood forecasting in large metropolitan areas, 2022, Journal of Hydrology
  • Tracking of Tropical Intraseasonal Convective Anomalies: 1. Seasonality of the Tropical Intraseasonal Oscillations, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Real-time short-range flood forecasting based on a watershed scale 2-D hydrodynamic model and high-resolution precipitation forecast ensemble, 2024, Journal of Hydrology

Collaborative efforts with frequent coauthors include work with Celso M. Ferreira, Gustavo de A. Coelho, Jeremy Johnston, Ishrat Jahan Dollan, and Viviana Maggioni.

Best Publications

  • A Simplified Biosphere Model for Global Climate Studies

    Y. Xue;P. J. Sellers;J. L. Kinter;J. Shukla

  • The North American multimodel ensemble: Phase-1 seasonal-to-interannual prediction; phase-2 toward developing intraseasonal prediction

    Ben P. Kirtman;Dughong Min;Johnna M. Infanti;James L. Kinter

  • Current status of ENSO prediction skill in coupled ocean-atmosphere models

    Emilia K. Jin;James L. Kinter;B. Wang;C.-K. Park

  • Advance and prospectus of seasonal prediction: assessment of the APCC/CliPAS 14-model ensemble retrospective seasonal prediction (1980–2004)

    Bin Wang;June Yi Lee;In Sik Kang;J. Shukla

  • Effects of implementing the simple biosphere model in a general circulation model

    N. Sato;P. J. Sellers;D. A. Randall;E. K. Schneider

  • North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments: Part III: Assessment of Twenty-First-Century Projections*

    Eric D. Maloney;Suzana J. Camargo;Edmund Chang;Brian Colle

  • North American Climate in CMIP5 experiments. Part I: Evaluation of historical simulations of continental and regional climatology

    Justin Sheffield;Andrew P. Barrett;Brian Colle;D. Nelun Fernando;D. Nelun Fernando

  • Impact of ocean model resolution on CCSM climate simulations

    Ben P. Kirtman;Cecilia Bitz;Frank Bryan;William Collins

  • High-Resolution Global Climate Simulations with the ECMWF Model in Project Athena: Experimental Design, Model Climate, and Seasonal Forecast Skill

    Thomas Jung;M. J. Miller;T. N. Palmer;P. Towers

  • Simulating the diurnal cycle of rainfall in global climate models: resolution versus parameterization

    Paul A. Dirmeyer;Benjamin A. Cash;James L. Kinter;Thomas Jung

  • Interannual variability in the tropical Indian Ocean

    Bohua Huang;James L. Kinter

  • Evaluation of Temperature and Precipitation Trends and Long-Term Persistence in CMIP5 Twentieth-Century Climate Simulations

    Sanjiv Kumar;Venkatesh Merwade;James L. Kinter;Dev Niyogi

  • Recent Change in the Connection from the Asian Monsoon to ENSO

    J. L. Kinter;K. Miyakoda;S. Yang

  • Tropical Cyclone Climatology in a 10-km Global Atmospheric GCM: Toward Weather-Resolving Climate Modeling

    Julia V. Manganello;Kevin I. Hodges;James L. Kinter;Benjamin A. Cash

  • Strategies: Revolution in Climate Prediction is Both Necessary and Possible: A Declaration at the World Modelling Summit for Climate Prediction

    J. Shukla;R. Hagedorn;B. Hoskins;J. Kinter

  • North American Climate in CMIP5 Experiments. Part II: Evaluation of Historical Simulations of Intraseasonal to Decadal Variability

    Justin Sheffield;Suzana J. Camargo;Rong Fu;Qi Hu

  • Discrepancy of interdecadal changes in the Asian region among the NCEP-NCAR reanalysis, objective analyses, and observations

    Renguang Wu;J. L. Kinter;B. P. Kirtman

  • The CLIVAR C20C Project: Which components of the Asian-Australian monsoon circulation variations are forced and reproducible?

    Tianjun Zhou;Bo Wu;A. A. Scaife;S. Brönnimann

  • The simulated Indian monsoon: A GCM sensitivity study

    M.J. Fennessy;J.L. Kinter;B. Kirtman;L. Marx

  • Upstream Subtropical Signals Preceding the Asian Summer Monsoon Circulation

    Song Yang;K.-M. Lau;S.-H. Yoo;J. L. Kinter

Frequent Co-Authors

Bohua Huang
Bohua Huang George Mason University
Paul A. Dirmeyer
Paul A. Dirmeyer George Mason University
Jagadish Shukla
Jagadish Shukla George Mason University
Zeng-Zhen Hu
Zeng-Zhen Hu National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Edwin K. Schneider
Edwin K. Schneider George Mason University
Ben P. Kirtman
Ben P. Kirtman University of Miami
Thomas Jung
Thomas Jung Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Magdalena Balmaseda
Magdalena Balmaseda European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Masaki Satoh
Masaki Satoh University of Tokyo
Justin Sheffield
Justin Sheffield University of Southampton

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