Kerry H. Cook

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Kerry H. Cook is affiliated with the following schools: University of Colorado Boulder, University of Texas at Austin, Cornell University

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Kerry H. Cook's Degrees

PhD Geology University of Colorado Boulder
Masters Geology University of Colorado Boulder
Bachelors Geology University of Colorado Boulder

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According to Wikipedia, Kerry Harrison Cook is an American climate scientist who is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the analysis of climate variability and change in the tropics using observational analysis and high-resolution numerical modeling. Specialties include the climate of Africa and the dynamics of intense tropical rainfall. She was elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 2009 and was awarded the Joanne Simpson Tropical Meteorology Research Award in 2021. She is the Chair of the American Meteorological Society's Climate Variability and Change Committee.

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Evaporation-Wind Feedback and Low-Frequency Variability in the Tropical Atmosphere (1987) (438)
Generation of the African Easterly Jet and Its Role in Determining West African Precipitation (1999) (400)
On the Origin of the Bolivian High and Related Circulation Features of the South American Climate (1997) (378)
Coupled Model Simulations of the West African Monsoon System: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Simulations (2006) (322)
Summertime Precipitation Variability over South America: Role of the Large-Scale Circulation (1999) (211)
The South Indian Convergence Zone and Interannual Rainfall Variability over Southern Africa (2000) (198)
Simulation and Diagnosis of the Regional Summertime Precipitation Climatology of South America. (1995) (194)
Development and application of a mesoscale climate model for the tropics: Influence of sea surface temperature anomalies on the West African monsoon (2002) (174)
Mechanisms by Which Gulf of Guinea and Eastern North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies Can Influence African Rainfall (2001) (158)
Ocean Warming and Late-Twentieth-Century Sahel Drought and Recovery (2008) (150)
Dynamics of the West African Monsoon Jump (2007) (142)
Northern African climate at the end of the twenty-first century: an integrated application of regional and global climate models (2010) (135)
Generation of African Easterly Wave Disturbances: Relationship to the African Easterly Jet (2005) (133)
Hydrodynamics of the Caribbean Low-Level Jet and Its Relationship to Precipitation (2010) (127)
Effects of Twenty-First-Century Climate Change on the Amazon Rain Forest (2008) (126)
Springtime Intensification of the Great Plains Low-Level Jet and Midwest Precipitation in GCM Simulations of the Twenty-First Century (2008) (125)
Mid-Twenty-First-Century Changes in Extreme Events over Northern and Tropical Africa (2012) (118)
PROGRESS IN PAN AMERICAN CLIVAR RESEARCH : UNDERSTANDING THE SOUTH AMERICAN MONSOON (2003) (105)
Projected changes in east african rainy seasons (2013) (104)
A Study of the Energetics of African Easterly Waves Using a Regional Climate Model (2007) (102)
Variability and predictability of West African droughts: a review on the role of sea surface temperature anomalies. (2015) (100)
The WAMME regional model intercomparison study (2010) (98)
Stationary Waves of the Ice Age Climate (1988) (98)
Late Quaternary Environmental Change (1994) (94)
Climate science: The mysteries of Sahel droughts (2008) (92)
On the Instability of the African Easterly Jet and the Generation of African Waves: Reversals of the Potential Vorticity Gradient (2008) (87)
Projections of a Wetter Sahel in the Twenty-First Century from Global and Regional Models (2013) (84)
Impact of climate change on mid-twenty-first century growing seasons in Africa (2012) (82)
Dynamics of the West African Monsoon under Mid-Holocene Precessional Forcing: Regional Climate Model Simulations (2007) (82)
A Southern Hemisphere Wave Response to ENSO with Implications for Southern Africa Precipitation (2001) (82)
Monsoons Climate Change Assessment (2020) (78)
A mechanism for African monsoon breaks: Mediterranean cold air surges (2009) (76)
South American climate during the Last Glacial Maximum: Delayed onset of the South American monsoon (2006) (76)
Dynamics of the West African Westerly Jet (2010) (73)
How well are daily intense rainfall events captured by current climate models over Africa? (2013) (73)
Role of the West African Westerly Jet in Sahel Rainfall Variations (2012) (69)
Understanding the seasonality of orographically forced stationary waves: Interaction between mechanical and thermal forcing (1999) (68)
Detection and Analysis of an Amplified Warming of the Sahara Desert (2015) (66)
Abrupt rainfall transitions over the Greater Horn of Africa: Observations and regional model simulations (2008) (65)
The Stationary Response to Large-Scale Orography in a General Circulation Model and a Linear Model (1992) (64)
Identifying hot spots of security vulnerability associated with climate change in Africa (2014) (63)
Sub-Saharan Northern African climate at the end of the twenty-first century: forcing factors and climate change processes (2011) (63)
The South Atlantic Subtropical High: Climatology and Interannual Variability (2017) (62)
Relationship between Amazon and high Andes rainfall (2006) (58)
Atmosphere/vegetation feedbacks: A mechanism for abrupt climate change over northern Africa (2008) (54)
Carbon and M Stars in Nearby Galaxies: A Preliminary Survey Using a Photometric Technique (1986) (53)
Connections between the summer east African and Indian rainfall regimes (2003) (52)
The Congo Basin Walker circulation: dynamics and connections to precipitation (2016) (51)
Monsoon Regimes and Processes in CCSM4. Part II: African and American Monsoon Systems (2012) (41)
Role of Continents in Driving the Hadley Cells (2003) (40)
Factors Controlling Nonlinearity in Mechanically Forced Stationary Waves over Orography (1997) (39)
Large-Scale Atmospheric Dynamics and Sahelian Precipitation (1997) (39)
Preliminary analysis of experiments on the climatic effects of increased CO2 with an atmospheric general circulation model and a climatological ocean (1981) (38)
Mid-twenty-first century warm season climate change in the Central United States. Part I: regional and global model predictions (2013) (37)
The Africa–South America Intercontinental Teleconnection (2004) (36)
The relationship between African easterly waves and daily rainfall over West Africa: observations and regional climate simulations (2014) (35)
Mesoscale convective systems and nocturnal rainfall over the West African Sahel: role of the Inter-tropical front (2017) (35)
Influence of the Amazon/Orinoco Plume on the summertime Atlantic climate (2010) (35)
Modeling and Observations of Martian Stationary Waves (1997) (33)
Development of a Coupled Regional Model and Its Application to the Study of Interactions between the West African Monsoon and the Eastern Tropical Atlantic Ocean (2009) (31)
What Drives the Intensification of Mesoscale Convective Systems over the West African Sahel under Climate Change? (2020) (30)
Mechanisms by Which Surface Drying Perturbs Tropical Precipitation Fields (1994) (30)
Projected changes in Malawi’s growing season (2015) (29)
Seasonality of the Observed Amplified Sahara Warming Trend and Implications for Sahel Rainfall (2017) (29)
Tropical Storm Development from African Easterly Waves in the Eastern Atlantic: A Comparison of Two Successive Waves Using a Regional Model as Part of NASA AMMA 2006 (2009) (28)
A Nonlinear Response of Sahel Rainfall to Atlantic Warming (2013) (26)
Understanding long-term (1982–2013) multi-decadal change in the equatorial and subtropical South Atlantic climate (2016) (26)
Hadley Circulation Dynamics (2004) (26)
The Diurnal Cycle of Warm Season Rainfall over West Africa. Part I: Observational Analysis (2016) (23)
Role of inertial instability in the West African monsoon jump (2015) (22)
Observed relationship between the Turkana low-level jet and boreal summer convection (2019) (22)
Influence of surface processes over Africa on the Atlantic marine ITCZ and South American precipitation (2005) (22)
Comments on “On the Influence of the Andes on the General Circulation of the Southern Hemisphere" (1995) (22)
A Modeling System for Studying Climate Controls on Mountain Glaciers with Application to the Patagonian Icefields (2003) (22)
South American Climate Variability and Change: Remote and Regional Forcing Processes (2009) (21)
Mid-twenty-first century climate change in the Central United States. Part II: Climate change processes (2013) (20)
Evaluation of Last Glacial Maximum sea surface temperature reconstructions through their influence on South American climate (2005) (19)
West African monsoon demise: Climatology, interannual variations, and relationship to seasonal rainfall (2014) (19)
Changes in intense rainfall events and dry periods across Africa in the twenty-first century (2019) (19)
The Diurnal Cycle of Warm Season Rainfall over West Africa. Part II: Convection-Permitting Simulations (2016) (19)
Orographically Induced Stationary Waves: Dependence on Latitude (1995) (17)
Decadal change of the south Atlantic ocean Angola–Benguela frontal zone since 1980 (2018) (16)
Impact of cold air surges on rainfall variability in the Sahel and wet African tropics: a multi-scale analysis (2013) (16)
Tropical Widening: From Global Variations to Regional Impacts (2020) (16)
Discovery of Cepheids in M101 (1986) (16)
Contemporary Climate Change of the African Monsoon Systems (2019) (16)
Effects of Saturated and Dry Land Surfaces on the Tropical Circulation and Precipitation in a General Circulation Model (1991) (15)
Congo Basin drying associated with poleward shifts of the African thermal lows (2019) (15)
Understanding the summertime diurnal cycle of precipitation over sub-Saharan West Africa: regions with daytime rainfall peaks in the absence of significant topographic features (2018) (12)
Influence of Walker circulations on East African rainfall (2021) (12)
Influence of Indian Ocean SST regionality on the East African short rains (2020) (9)
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) (9)
Role of the West African westerly jet in the seasonal and diurnal cycles of precipitation over West Africa (2019) (8)
Impact of climate change on mid-21st century growing seasons in Africa (2013) (7)
Interannual variability of East African rainfall: role of seasonal transitions of the low-level cross-equatorial flow (2020) (6)
Evaluation of LGM SST Reconstructions through their Influence on South American Climate (2005) (6)
Land–atmosphere–ocean interactions in the southeastern Atlantic: interannual variability (2018) (6)
The Atmosphere’s Response to the Ice Sheets of the Last Glacial Maximum (1990) (6)
Greenhouse Gas Induced Changes in the Seasonal Cycle of the Amazon Basin in Coupled Climate-Vegetation Regional Model (2016) (6)
The West African Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation project (WAMME) and its First Model Intercomparison Experiment (2008) (5)
Warm Season Response over North America to a Shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and CO2 Increases (2012) (5)
Changes in Intense Rainfall Events and Drought across Africa in the 21st Century (2019) (5)
Understanding Perturbations of the Intertropical Convergence Zone Over Tropical Continents (1994) (5)
The role of mesoscale convective systems in the diurnal cycle of rainfall and its seasonality over sub-Saharan Northern Africa (2018) (5)
Multidecadal-scale adjustment of the ocean mixed layer heat budget in the tropics: examining ocean reanalyses (2018) (5)
Capturing the Atlantic cold tongue and coastal upwelling in an intermediate-level ocean model coupled to a regional climate model (2013) (4)
Examining multidecadal trends in the surface heat balance over the tropical and subtropical oceans in atmospheric reanalyses (2019) (3)
Radial Velocities of Stars in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies (1984) (3)
Asymptotic Giant Branch Populations in IC1613 and the Sagittarius Dwarf (1988) (3)
Greenhouse-gas induced warming amplification over the Arabian Peninsula with implications for Ethiopian rainfall (2021) (3)
Abrupt climate change: Atmospheric tipping points (2009) (2)
Hydrodynamics of regional and seasonal variations in Congo Basin precipitation (2021) (2)
Distribution of extreme rainfall events and their environmental controls in the West African Sahel and Soudan (2021) (2)
Delayed onset of the South American Summer Monsoon during the Last Glacial Maximum (2006) (2)
Opposite spatial variability of climate change‐induced surface temperature trends due to soil and atmospheric moisture in tropical/subtropical dry and wet land regions (2020) (2)
The AGB Population of Nearby Galaxies (1986) (1)
Combined effects of global warming and an Atlantic meridional overturning circulation shutdown on West African and European climate (2011) (1)
West African Monsoon Demise (2013) (1)
Cepheids and LPVs in M 101. (1989) (1)
Title of the paper : “ Climate Variability and Predictability of West African Droughts (2013) (1)
How shrinkage of Lake Chad affects the local climate (2022) (1)
Climate Change Scenarios and African Climate Change (2018) (1)
IGPP-LLNL 1998 annual report (1999) (0)
Projected and Observed Changes in East African Climate (2017) (0)
Extreme rainfall events in the West African Sahel: Understanding storm development over the Damergou gap using convection‐permitting simulations in the Weather Research and Forecasting model (2023) (0)
Theory and observations of West African monsoon onset (2010) (0)
Analyses of the first West African Monsoon Modeling and Evaluation (WAMME) experiments (2008) (0)
Delayed retreat of the summer monsoon over the Indochina Peninsula linked to surface warming trends (2020) (0)
The Ursa-Major Dwarf Galaxy (1981) (0)
Quantum Corrections to Relativistic Synchrotron Emission (1985) (0)
Desert Amplification of Greenhouse Gas Warming (2013) (0)
Causes and Impacts of Tropical Widening (2020) (0)
West African Sahel Extreme rainfall events: Understanding storm development over the Damergou Gap using WRF convection‐permitting simulations (2023) (0)
IGPP 1999-2000 Annual Report (2003) (0)
Development and Application of a Mesoscale Climate Model for the Tropics : Influence of SST Anomalies on the West African Monsoon (2006) (0)
Climate Dynamics (2013) (0)
Modelling the semi-arid Sahel Climate West African - WAMME initiative and its first set of experiments (2008) (0)
Teleconnection between Africa and South America (2002) (0)
Using Social Media to Communicate Climate Science (2020) (0)
One Drier, One Wetter: A Tale of Two Rainforests (2018) (0)
East African Climate Prediction: Shorter Long Rains and Longer Short Rains (2012) (0)
Intercontinental atmospheric processes in the tropics: African influence on South America (2004) (0)
Impacts of Variations in the Width of the Tropics (2015) (0)
The WAMME regional model intercomparison study Leonard M. DruyanJinming FengKerry H. CookYongkang Xue • Matthew FulakezaSamson M. HagosAbdourahamane Konare ´ • Wilfran Moufouma-OkiaDavid P. RowellEdward K. VizySeidou Sanda Ibrah (2010) (0)
Changes in Intense Precipitation Events in West Africa and the central U.S. under Global Warming (2016) (0)
Relationship Between Sea Surface Temperature and Surface Heat Balance Trends in the Tropical Oceans: The Crucial Role of Surface Wind Trends (2016) (0)
The onset of the West African monsoon: A numerical study (2006) (0)

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