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Overview

Kevin Hamilton is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to the subfields of Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Ecology.

The core topics addressed in their work include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
  • Nuclear Issues and Defense

Kevin Hamilton has published multiple papers in prominent venues, with a concentration in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. Other publication venues include the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Weather and Climate Dynamics, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kevin Hamilton are as follows:

  • Evaluation of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in global climate models for the SPARC QBO-initiative (2020), Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Response of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation to a warming climate in global climate models (2020), Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Teleconnections of the Quasi-Biennial Oscillation in a multi-model ensemble of QBO-resolving models (2021), Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Contestability For Content Moderation (2021), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Representation of the equatorial stratopause semiannual oscillation in global atmospheric reanalyses (2020), Atmospheric chemistry and physics

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Shingo Watanabe
  • Yoshio Kawatani
  • James Anstey
  • Scott Osprey
  • Neal Butchart

Best Publications

  • The quasi-biennial oscillation

    M. P. Baldwin;L. J. Gray;T. J. Dunkerton;K. Hamilton

  • Improved Representation of Boundary Layer Clouds over the Southeast Pacific in ARW-WRF Using a Modified Tiedtke Cumulus Parameterization Scheme*

    Chunxi Zhang;Yuqing Wang;Kevin Hamilton

  • The South Asian Summer Monsoon and Its Relationship with ENSO in the IPCC AR4 Simulations

    H. Annamalai;K. Hamilton;K. R. Sperber

  • Arctic Oscillation response to the 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption: Effects of volcanic aerosols and ozone depletion

    Georgiy Stenchikov;Alan Robock;V. Ramaswamy;M. Daniel Schwarzkopf

  • Comprehensive Model Simulation of Thermal Tides in the Martian Atmosphere

    R. J. Wilson;K. Hamilton

  • Atmospheric forcing of interannual variability in the northeast Pacific Ocean: Connections with El Niño

    William J. Emery;Kevin Hamilton

  • The SPARC Intercomparison of Middle-Atmosphere Climatologies.

    William Randel;Petra Udelhofen;Eric Fleming;Marvin Geller

  • Arctic Oscillation response to volcanic eruptions in the IPCC AR4 climate models

    Georgiy Stenchikov;Kevin Hamilton;Ronald J. Stouffer;Alan Robock

  • An unexpected disruption of the atmospheric quasi-biennial oscillation

    Scott M. Osprey;Neal Butchart;Jeff R. Knight;Adam A. Scaife;Adam A. Scaife

  • The GCM–Reality Intercomparison Project for SPARC (GRIPS): Scientific Issues and Initial Results

    Steven Pawson;Steven Pawson;Steven Pawson;K. Kodera;K. Hamilton;T. G. Shepherd

  • The Horizontal Kinetic Energy Spectrum and Spectral Budget Simulated by a High-Resolution Troposphere–Stratosphere–Mesosphere GCM

    John N. Koshyk;Kevin Hamilton

  • Climatology of the SKYHI Troposphere–Stratosphere–Mesosphere General Circulation Model

    Kevin Hamilton;R. John Wilson;J. D. Mahlman;L. J. Umscheid

  • Effect of Convective Entrainment/Detrainment on the Simulation of the Tropical Precipitation Diurnal Cycle*

    Yuqing Wang;L I Zhou;Kevin Hamilton

  • Mesoscale spectrum of atmospheric motions investigated in a very fine resolution global general circulation model

    Kevin Hamilton;Yoshiyuki O. Takahashi;Wataru Ohfuchi

  • Middle Atmosphere Simulated with High Vertical and Horizontal Resolution Versions of a GCM: Improvements in the Cold Pole Bias and Generation of a QBO-like Oscillation in the Tropics

    Kevin Hamilton;R. John Wilson;Richard S. Hemler

  • Tropical Cyclone Changes in the Western North Pacific in a Global Warming Scenario

    Markus Stowasser;Yuqing Wang;Kevin Hamilton

  • An 18-year time series of OH rotational temperatures and middle atmosphere decadal variations

    M. Bittner;D. Offermann;H.-H. Graef;M. Donner

  • Weakened stratospheric quasibiennial oscillation driven by increased tropical mean upwelling

    Yoshio Kawatani;Kevin Hamilton

  • Simulating Clouds with Global Climate Models: A Comparison of CMIP5 Results with CMIP3 and Satellite Data

    Axel Lauer;Kevin Hamilton

  • Evaluation of the Quasi‐Biennial Oscillation in global climate models for the SPARC QBO‐initiative

    A. C. Bushell;J. A. Anstey;N. Butchart;Y. Kawatani

  • Gravity Currents in the Environment and the Laboratory

    Kevin Hamilton

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuqing Wang
Yuqing Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa
Shingo Watanabe
Shingo Watanabe Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Lesley J. Gray
Lesley J. Gray University of Oxford
Adam A. Scaife
Adam A. Scaife Met Office
Axel Lauer
Axel Lauer German Aerospace Center
Rolando R. Garcia
Rolando R. Garcia National Center for Atmospheric Research
Karrie Karahalios
Karrie Karahalios University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Neal Butchart
Neal Butchart Met Office
Georgiy L. Stenchikov
Georgiy L. Stenchikov King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Alan Robock
Alan Robock Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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