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Philip J. Klotzbach is a researcher affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular contributions in Environmental Science. They have a substantial publication record covering several interconnected subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics of their research encompass Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones, Climate Variability and Models, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, and Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Journal of Climate
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Environmental Research Letters

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Philip J. Klotzbach are:

  • Trends in Global Tropical Cyclone Activity: 1990-2021, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Surface Pressure a More Skillful Predictor of Normalized Hurricane Damage than Maximum Sustained Wind, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Increasing trend in rapid intensification magnitude of tropical cyclones over the western North Pacific, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Revisiting the relationship between Atlantic dust and tropical cyclone activity using aerosol optical depth reanalyses: 2003-2018, 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Interannual and Interdecadal Drivers of Meridional Migration of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Lifetime Maximum Intensity Location, 2022, Journal of Climate

The scientist's frequent coauthors are:

  • Carl J. Schreck
  • Yihong Duan
  • Jinjie Song
  • Haikun Zhao
  • Michael M. Bell

Best Publications

  • Tropical cyclones and climate change

    Kevin J.E. Walsh;John L. McBride;Philip J. Klotzbach;Sethurathinam Balachandran

  • Trends in global tropical cyclone activity over the past twenty years (1986–2005)

    Philip J. Klotzbach

  • STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2017

    R. Abernethy;Steven A. Ackerman;R. Adler;Adelina Albanil Encarnación

  • State of the Climate in 2014

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • Continental U.S. Hurricane Landfall Frequency and Associated Damage: Observations and Future Risks

    Philip J. Klotzbach;Steven G. Bowen;Roger Pielke;Michael Bell

  • Declining tropical cyclone frequency under global warming

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  • Normalized hurricane damage in the continental United States 1900–2017

    Jessica Weinkle;Chris Landsea;Douglas Collins;Rade Musulin

  • State of the Climate in 2018

    M. Ades;R. Adler;Laura S. Aldeco;G. Alejandra

  • On the Madden–Julian Oscillation–Atlantic Hurricane Relationship

    Philip J. Klotzbach

  • Trends in Global Tropical Cyclone Activity: 1990–2021

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  • Multidecadal Variability in North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity

    Philip J. Klotzbach;William M. Gray

  • State of the Climate in 2016

    Arlene P. Aaron-Morrison;Steven A. Ackerman;Nicolaus G. Adams;Robert F. Adler

  • The Madden-Julian Oscillation's Impacts on Worldwide Tropical Cyclone Activity

    Philip J. Klotzbach

  • Extremely Intense Hurricanes: Revisiting Webster et al. (2005) after 10 Years

    Philip J. Klotzbach;Christopher W. Landsea

  • A review of North Atlantic modes of natural variability and their driving mechanisms

    Iris Grossmann;Philip J. Klotzbach

  • El Niño–Southern Oscillation’s Impact on Atlantic Basin Hurricanes and U.S. Landfalls

    Philip J. Klotzbach

  • State of the Climate in 2013

    Jessica Blunden;Derek S. Arndt;Kate M. Willett;A. Johannes Dolman

  • The Influence of Natural Climate Variability on Tropical Cyclones, and Seasonal Forecasts of Tropical Cyclone Activity

    Suzana J. Camargo;Adam H. Sobel;Anthony G. Barnston;Philip J. Klotzbach

  • The Influence of El Nino-Southern Oscillation and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation on Caribbean Tropical Cyclone Activity

    Philip J. Klotzbach

  • The Influence of ENSO Flavors on Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Activity

    Christina M. Patricola;Suzana J. Camargo;Philip J. Klotzbach;R. Saravanan

  • Updated 6–11-Month Prediction of Atlantic Basin Seasonal Hurricane Activity

    Philip J. Klotzbach;William M. Gray

  • [Regional Climates] Central South America 2016

    J. A. Marengo;Jhan Carlo Espinoza;L. M. Alves;J. Ronchail

Frequent Co-Authors

William M. Gray
William M. Gray Colorado State University
Eric C. J. Oliver
Eric C. J. Oliver Dalhousie University
Suzana J. Camargo
Suzana J. Camargo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Johannes W. Kaiser
Johannes W. Kaiser German Meteorological Service
Christopher W. Landsea
Christopher W. Landsea National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
John R. Christy
John R. Christy University of Alabama in Huntsville
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Owen R. Cooper
Owen R. Cooper Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Dale F. Hurst
Dale F. Hurst Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Tim R. McVicar
Tim R. McVicar Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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