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Overview

Thomas R. Knutson is affiliated with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

They have notable specialization in several subfields, including:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Oceanography
  • Geophysics
  • Economics and Econometrics

Main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Earthquake Detection and Analysis
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Their recent scholarly output features the following papers:

  • "Machine-learning-based evidence and attribution mapping of 100,000 climate impact studies," 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • "Tropical cyclone motion in a changing climate," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Changes in Atlantic major hurricane frequency since the late-19th century," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "A potential explanation for the global increase in tropical cyclone rapid intensification," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Climate change is probably increasing the intensity of tropical cyclones," 2021, UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia)

Frequent co-authors working alongside them include:

  • Gabriel A. Vecchi
  • James P. Kossin
  • Hiroyuki Murakami
  • Suzana J. Camargo
  • Liguang Wu

Their work is commonly published in the following venues:

  • Journal of Climate
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Tropical Cyclone Research and Review
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Best Publications

  • Tropical cyclones and climate change

    Thomas R. Knutson;John L. McBride;Johnny Chan;Kerry Emanuel

  • GFDL's CM2 global coupled climate models. Part I: Formulation and simulation characteristics

    Thomas L. Delworth;Anthony J. Broccoli;Anthony Rosati;Ronald J. Stouffer

  • Modeled Impact of Anthropogenic Warming on the Frequency of Intense Atlantic Hurricanes

    Morris A. Bender;Thomas R. Knutson;Robert E. Tuleya;Joseph J. Sirutis

  • Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part II: Projected Response to Anthropogenic Warming

    Thomas Knutson;Suzana J. Camargo;Johnny C. L. Chan;Kerry Emanuel

  • The dynamical core, physical parameterizations, and basic simulation characteristics of the atmospheric component AM3 of the GFDL global coupled model CM3

    Leo J. Donner;Bruce L. Wyman;Richard S. Hemler;Larry W. Horowitz

  • Impact of CO2-Induced Warming on Simulated Hurricane Intensity and Precipitation: Sensitivity to the Choice of Climate Model and Convective Parameterization

    Thomas R. Knutson;Robert E. Tuleya

  • Trends in Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Issues Related to Modeling Extremes in Projections of Future Climate Change

    Gerald A. Meehl;Francis Zwiers;Jenni Evans;Thomas Knutson

  • Tropical cyclones and climate change

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

  • Regional Climate Information—Evaluation and Projections

    F. Giorgi;J. Christensen;M. Hulme;H. von Storch

  • The new GFDL global atmosphere and land model AM2-LM2: Evaluation with prescribed SST simulations

    Jeffrey L. Anderson;V. B Alaji;Anthony J. Broccoli;Anthony J. Broccoli;William F. C Ooke

  • 30–60 Day Atmospheric Oscillations: Composite Life Cycles of Convection and Circulation Anomalies

    Thomas R. Knutson;Klaus M. Weickmann

  • An Introduction to Trends in Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Observations, Socioeconomic Impacts, Terrestrial Ecological Impacts, and Model Projections*

    Gerald A. Meehl;Thomas Karl;David R. Easterling;Stanley Changnon

  • Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

    Kenneth E. Kunkel;Thomas R. Karl;Harold Brooks;James Kossin

  • Tropical cyclones and climate change

    K.J.E. Walsh;S.J. Camargo;T.R. Knutson;J. Kossin

  • Simulation of Sahel drought in the 20th and 21st centuries.

    I. M. Held;T. L. Delworth;J. Lu;K. L. Findell

  • Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part I: Detection and Attribution

    Thomas R. Knutson;Suzana J. Camargo;Johnny C. L. Chan;Kerry A. Emanuel

  • Global Projections of Intense Tropical Cyclone Activity for the Late Twenty-First Century from Dynamical Downscaling of CMIP5/RCP4.5 Scenarios

    Thomas R. Knutson;Joseph J. Sirutis;Ming Zhao;Robert E. Tuleya

  • Time-Mean Response over the Tropical Pacific to Increased C02 in a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model

    Thomas R. Knutson;Syukuro Manabe

  • Simulated reduction in Atlantic hurricane frequency under twenty-first-century warming conditions

    Thomas R. Knutson;Joseph J. Sirutis;Stephen T. Garner;Gabriel Andres Vecchi

  • Ch. 2: Our Changing Climate. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment

    J. Walsh;D. Wuebbles;K. Hayhoe;J. Kossin

  • Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge

    Kenneth E. Kunkel;Thomas R. Karl;Harold Brooks;James P. Kossin

Frequent Co-Authors

James P. Kossin
James P. Kossin University of Wisconsin–Madison
Gabriel A. Vecchi
Gabriel A. Vecchi Princeton University
Thomas L. Delworth
Thomas L. Delworth Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Isaac M. Held
Isaac M. Held Princeton University
Michael F. Wehner
Michael F. Wehner Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kenneth E. Kunkel
Kenneth E. Kunkel North Carolina State University
Hiroyuki Murakami
Hiroyuki Murakami National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Fanrong Zeng
Fanrong Zeng Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Ronald J. Stouffer
Ronald J. Stouffer University of Arizona
Andrew T. Wittenberg
Andrew T. Wittenberg Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

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