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Michael K. Tippett

Michael K. Tippett

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
58
Citations
12779
World Ranking
3252
National Ranking
1258

Overview

Michael K. Tippett is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Earth and Environmental Sciences, focusing extensively on climate variability, meteorological phenomena, and tropical cyclone dynamics. Tippett's body of work includes significant publications in key subfields such as atmospheric science, global and planetary change, oceanography, and statistical methods applied to climatic data.

Their recent scholarly contributions cover a range of topics and have appeared in notable scientific outlets. Selected papers include:

  • Projected Changes in Temperature and Precipitation Over the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean in CMIP6 GCMs (2021, Earth Systems and Environment)
  • Assessment of CMIP6 Performance and Projected Temperature and Precipitation Changes Over South America (2021, Earth Systems and Environment)
  • Tropical Cyclone Frequency (2021, Earth's Future)
  • The Characteristics of United States Hail Reports: 1955-2014 (2021, E-Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology)
  • Statistical-Dynamical Downscaling Projections of Tropical Cyclone Activity in a Warming Climate: Two Diverging Genesis Scenarios (2020, Journal of Climate)

Frequent co-authors in Tippett's research network include:

  • Timothy DelSole (36 collaborations)
  • Suzana J. Camargo (18 collaborations)
  • Adam H. Sobel (11 collaborations)
  • Chia-Ying Lee (11 collaborations)
  • Michelle L'Heureux (10 collaborations)

The scientist's publications have been distributed across various prominent journals, with repeated contributions in:

  • Weather and Forecasting (9 publications)
  • Journal of Climate (8 publications)
  • Monthly Weather Review (6 publications)
  • Geophysical Research Letters (6 publications)
  • Advances in Statistical Climatology, Meteorology and Oceanography (5 publications)

Tippett has also authored books, including "Statistical Methods for Climate Scientists" published by Cambridge University Press in 2022, with a citation record indicating its integration into the scientific community.

Their research fields are centered mainly on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, closely analyzing climate-related phenomena. Key research topics addressed include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Tropical and extratropical cyclones research
  • Oceanographic and atmospheric processes
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Ocean waves and remote sensing
  • Hydrology and drought analysis

Best Publications

  • Ensemble Square Root Filters

    Michael K. Tippett;Jeffrey L. Anderson;Craig H. Bishop;Thomas M. Hamill

  • 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

  • Skill of Real-Time Seasonal ENSO Model Predictions During 2002–11: Is Our Capability Increasing?

    Anthony G. Barnston;Michael K. Tippett;Michelle L. L'Heureux;Shuhua Li

  • Human influence on tropical cyclone intensity

    Adam H. Sobel;Adam H. Sobel;Suzana J. Camargo;Timothy M. Hall;Chia Ying Lee

  • Pacific meridional mode and El Niño—Southern Oscillation

    Ping Chang;Li Zhang;R. Saravanan;Daniel J. Vimont

  • A Poisson Regression Index for Tropical Cyclone Genesis and the Role of Large-Scale Vorticity in Genesis

    Michael K. Tippett;Suzana J. Camargo;Adam H. Sobel

  • The Subseasonal Experiment (SubX): A Multimodel Subseasonal Prediction Experiment

    Kathy Pegion;Ben P. Kirtman;Emily Becker;Dan C. Collins

  • Projected Changes in Temperature and Precipitation Over the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean in CMIP6 GCMs

    Mansour Almazroui;M. Nazrul Islam;Fahad Saeed;Sajjad Saeed;Sajjad Saeed

  • Assessment of CMIP6 performance and projected temperature and precipitation changes over South America

    Mansour Almazroui;Mansour Almazroui;Moetasim Ashfaq;M. Nazrul Islam;Irfan Ur Rashid

  • A Significant Component of Unforced Multidecadal Variability in the Recent Acceleration of Global Warming

    Timothy DelSole;Michael K. Tippett;Jagadish Shukla

  • Deterministic skill of ENSO predictions from the North American Multimodel Ensemble.

    Anthony G. Barnston;Michael K. Tippett;Meghana Ranganathan;Michelle L. L’Heureux

  • Climate and Hazardous Convective Weather

    Michael K. Tippett;Michael K. Tippett;John T. Allen;Vittorio A. Gensini;Harold E. Brooks

  • Influence of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation on tornado and hail frequency in the United States

    John T. Allen;Michael K. Tippett;Michael K. Tippett;Adam H. Sobel;Adam H. Sobel

  • Predictability: Recent insights from information theory

    Timothy DelSole;Michael K. Tippett

  • The Characteristics of United States Hail Reports: 1955-2014

    John T. Allen;Michael K. Tippett

  • Tropical cyclone frequency

    Adam H. Sobel;Adam H. Sobel;Allison A. Wing;Suzana J. Camargo;Christina M. Patricola

  • Testing the Performance of Tropical Cyclone Genesis Indices in Future Climates Using the HiRAM Model

    Suzana J. Camargo;Michael K. Tippett;Adam H. Sobel;Gabriel Andres Vecchi

  • An Environmentally Forced Tropical Cyclone Hazard Model

    Chia Ying Lee;Michael K. Tippett;Adam H. Sobel;Suzana J. Camargo

  • An empirical model relating U.S. monthly hail occurrence to large‐scale meteorological environment

    John T. Allen;Michael K. Tippett;Michael K. Tippett;Adam H. Sobel

  • Rapid intensification and the bimodal distribution of tropical cyclone intensity

    Chia Ying Lee;Michael K. Tippett;Adam H. Sobel;Adam H. Sobel;Suzana J. Camargo

  • Association of U.S. tornado occurrence with monthly environmental parameters

    Michael K. Tippett;Adam H. Sobel;Adam H. Sobel;Suzana J. Camargo

  • More tornadoes in the most extreme U.S. tornado outbreaks.

    Michael K. Tippett;Michael K. Tippett;Chiara Lepore;Joel E. Cohen;Joel E. Cohen;Joel E. Cohen

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam H. Sobel
Adam H. Sobel Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Simon J. Mason
Simon J. Mason Columbia University
Suzana J. Camargo
Suzana J. Camargo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Anthony G. Barnston
Anthony G. Barnston Columbia University
Andrew W. Robertson
Andrew W. Robertson Columbia University
Fred Kucharski
Fred Kucharski International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Frederic Vitart
Frederic Vitart European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Mansour Almazroui
Mansour Almazroui King Abdulaziz University
Joel E. Cohen
Joel E. Cohen Rockefeller University
In-Sik Kang
In-Sik Kang Second Institute of Oceanography

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