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Kerry H. Cook is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work primarily addresses climate variability, meteorological phenomena, and atmospheric processes with a focus on global and regional climate dynamics.

Their research spans several subfields including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, oceanography, water science and technology, and forestry. Main topics covered in their publications include climate variability and models, meteorological phenomena and simulations, tropical and extratropical cyclones research, precipitation measurement and analysis, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, cryospheric studies, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

Notable recent papers by Kerry H. Cook include:

  • 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)
  • Monsoons Climate Change Assessment (2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • What Drives the Intensification of Mesoscale Convective Systems over the West African Sahel under Climate Change? (2020, Journal of Climate)
  • Tropical Widening: From Global Variations to Regional Impacts (2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)
  • Influence of Walker circulations on East African rainfall (2021, Climate Dynamics)

Kerry H. Cook frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Climate
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

They collaborate often with a number of researchers, including Edward K. Vizy, Siyu Zhao, Patrick C. Andrews, Weiran Liu, and Bin Wang. These coauthors have worked together on multiple publications, reflecting established research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Evaporation-Wind Feedback and Low-Frequency Variability in the Tropical Atmosphere

    J. David Neelin;Isaac M. Held;Kerry H. Cook

  • On the Origin of the Bolivian High and Related Circulation Features of the South American Climate

    J. D. Lenters;J. D. Lenters;Kerry Harrison Cook

  • Generation of the African Easterly Jet and Its Role in Determining West African Precipitation

    Kerry Harrison Cook

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

    Kerry H. Cook;Edward K. Vizy

  • Summertime Precipitation Variability over South America: Role of the Large-Scale Circulation

    J. D. Lenters;Kerry Harrison Cook

  • The South Indian Convergence Zone and Interannual Rainfall Variability over Southern Africa

    Kerry H. Cook

  • Simulation and Diagnosis of the Regional Summertime Precipitation Climatology of South America

    J. D. Lenters;K. H. Cook

  • Monsoons Climate Change Assessment

    Bin Wang;Michela Biasutti;Michael P. Byrne;Christopher Castro

  • 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

  • Dynamics of the West African Monsoon Jump

    Samson M. Hagos;Kerry H. Cook

  • Northern African climate at the end of the twenty-first century: an integrated application of regional and global climate models

    Christina M. Patricola;Kerry H. Cook

  • 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

  • Ocean Warming and Late-Twentieth-Century Sahel Drought and Recovery

    Samson M. Hagos;Kerry Harrison Cook

  • Generation of African Easterly Wave Disturbances: Relationship to the African Easterly Jet

    Jen Shan Hsieh;Kerry H. Cook

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward K. Vizy
Edward K. Vizy The University of Texas at Austin
John D. Lenters
John D. Lenters University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jinming Feng
Jinming Feng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yongkang Xue
Yongkang Xue University of California, Los Angeles
Akio Kitoh
Akio Kitoh University of Tsukuba
Paul A. Dirmeyer
Paul A. Dirmeyer George Mason University
Kyu-Myong Kim
Kyu-Myong Kim Goddard Space Flight Center
Natalie M. Mahowald
Natalie M. Mahowald Cornell University
John H. Marsham
John H. Marsham University of Leeds

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