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Thomas Knutson's Degrees
- PhD Meteorology Princeton University
- Masters Atmospheric Science University of Washington
- Bachelors Meteorology Pennsylvania State University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas R. Knutson is a climate modeller at the US Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration . His research covers hurricane activity, the link between climate change and hurricane incidence and intensity, and climate change detection and attribution.
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Published Works
- Tropical cyclones and climate change (2010) (2084)
- GFDL's CM2 Global Coupled Climate Models. Part I: Formulation and Simulation Characteristics (2006) (1714)
- Modeled Impact of Anthropogenic Warming on the Frequency of Intense Atlantic Hurricanes (2010) (984)
- The dynamical core, physical parameterizations, and basic simulation characteristics of the atmospheric component of the GFDL global coupled model CM3 (2010) (898)
- The new GFDL global atmosphere and land model AM2-LM2: Evaluation with prescribed SST simulations (2004) (829)
- Impact of CO2-Induced Warming on Simulated Hurricane Intensity and Precipitation: Sensitivity to the Choice of Climate Model and Convective Parameterization (2004) (721)
- Regional Climate Information—Evaluation and Projections (2001) (605)
- Trends in Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Issues Related to Modeling Extremes in Projections of Future Climate Change* (2000) (586)
- An Introduction to Trends in Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Observations, Socioeconomic Impacts, Terrestrial Ecological Impacts, and Model Projections* (2000) (548)
- 30–60 Day Atmospheric Oscillations: Composite Life Cycles of Convection and Circulation Anomalies (1987) (521)
- Simulation of Sahel drought in the 20th and 21st centuries. (2005) (466)
- Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge (2013) (465)
- Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part II: Projected Response to Anthropogenic Warming (2020) (435)
- Time-Mean Response over the Tropical Pacific to Increased C02 in a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model (1995) (430)
- On the contribution of local feedback mechanisms to the range of climate sensitivity in two GCM ensembles (2006) (402)
- Simulated reduction in Atlantic hurricane frequency under twenty-first-century warming conditions (2008) (401)
- STOIC: a study of coupled model climatology and variability in tropical ocean regions (2002) (373)
- Global Projections of Intense Tropical Cyclone Activity for the Late Twenty-First Century from Dynamical Downscaling of CMIP5/RCP4.5 Scenarios (2015) (348)
- Near-term climate change:Projections and predictability (2014) (337)
- Dynamical Downscaling Projections of Twenty-First-Century Atlantic Hurricane Activity: CMIP3 and CMIP5 Model-Based Scenarios (2013) (313)
- ENSIP: the El Niño simulation intercomparison project (2001) (308)
- Ch. 2: Our Changing Climate. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment (2014) (305)
- On Estimates of Historical North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity (2008) (254)
- Assessment of Twentieth-Century Regional Surface Temperature Trends using the GFDL CM2 Coupled Models (2006) (253)
- Simulation of the Recent Multidecadal Increase of Atlantic Hurricane Activity Using an 18-km-Grid Regional Model (2007) (249)
- Precipitation change in the United States (2017) (247)
- Impact of Duration Thresholds on Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Counts (2010) (246)
- On the Verification and Comparison of Extreme Rainfall Indices from Climate Models (2008) (235)
- Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment: Part I: Detection and Attribution (2019) (233)
- Model assessment of decadal variability and trends in the tropical Pacific Ocean (1998) (227)
- Sufficient conditions for river meandering: A simulation approach (1984) (211)
- Model-based assessment of the role of human-induced climate change in the 2005 Caribbean coral bleaching event (2007) (207)
- Simulated ENSO in a Global Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Model: Multidecadal Amplitude Modulation and CO2 Sensitivity (1997) (198)
- GFDL's CM2 global coupled climate models. Part IV: Idealized climate response (2006) (152)
- Review of simulations of climate variability and change with the GFDL R30 coupled climate model (2002) (150)
- Estimating Annual Numbers of Atlantic Hurricanes Missing from the HURDAT Database (1878–1965) Using Ship Track Density (2011) (146)
- Global-Scale Intraseasonal Oscillations of Outgoing Longwave Radiation and 250 mb Zonal Wind during Northern Hemisphere Summer (1986) (145)
- Multimodel Assessment of Regional Surface Temperature Trends: CMIP3 and CMIP5 Twentieth-Century Simulations (2013) (141)
- Recent increases in tropical cyclone intensification rates (2019) (139)
- Model assessment of regional surface temperature trends (1949–1997) (1999) (137)
- Increased hurricane intensities with CO2-induced warming as simulated using the GFDL hurricane prediction system (1999) (135)
- Impact of CO2-Induced Warming on Hurricane Intensities as Simulated in a Hurricane Model with Ocean Coupling (2001) (133)
- Climate Extremes: Challenges in Estimating and Understanding Recent Changes in the Frequency and Intensity of Extreme Climate and Weather Events (2013) (131)
- Past and Future Changes in Extreme Sea Levels and Waves (2010) (121)
- Twentieth‐century temperature and precipitation trends in ensemble climate simulations including natural and anthropogenic forcing (2003) (112)
- Tropical Cyclone Simulation and Response to CO2Doubling in the GFDL CM2.5 High-Resolution Coupled Climate Model (2014) (111)
- Sensitivity of tropical cyclone rainfall to idealized global-scale forcings (2014) (102)
- Tropical cyclone sensitivities to CO2 doubling: roles of atmospheric resolution, synoptic variability and background climate changes (2019) (89)
- Impacts of atmospheric temperature trends on tropical cyclone activity. (2013) (86)
- The Current Debate on the Linkage Between Global Warming and Hurricanes (2007) (81)
- Weak Simulated Extratropical Responses to Complete Tropical Deforestation (2006) (78)
- Causes of Observed Changes in Extreme Projections of Future Changes (2008) (78)
- Changes in Heat Index Associated with CO2-Induced Global Warming (1999) (77)
- Detection of anthropogenic influence on a summertime heat stress index (2016) (69)
- Ch. 7: Precipitation Change in the United States. Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I (2017) (69)
- Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change: A Review (2010) (65)
- Prospects for a prolonged slowdown in global warming in the early 21st century (2016) (61)
- Underestimated AMOC Variability and Implications for AMV and Predictability in CMIP Models (2018) (60)
- Simulations of the Present and Late-Twenty-First-Century Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclone Activity Using a Regional Model (2014) (59)
- Impact of increased CO2 on simulated ENSO‐like phenomena (1994) (59)
- North Atlantic tropical storm frequency response to anthropogenic forcing: Projections and sources of uncertainty (2011) (59)
- Tropical cyclone motion in a changing climate (2020) (58)
- Evaluation of a component of the cloud response to climate change in an intercomparison of climate models (2006) (57)
- Regional climate model projections of rainfall from U.S. landfalling tropical cyclones (2015) (56)
- Is the recorded increase in short-duration North Atlantic tropical storms spurious? (2011) (54)
- Causes of large projected increases in hurricane precipitation rates with global warming (2019) (53)
- The role of Atlantic overturning circulation in the recent decline of Atlantic major hurricane frequency (2017) (51)
- On the discrepancy between observed and CMIP5 multi-model simulated Barents Sea winter sea ice decline (2017) (51)
- Our globally changing climate (2016) (51)
- Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Cyclones in the Western North Pacific Basin. Part I: Past Observations (2012) (49)
- A comparison of climate change simulations produced by two GFDL coupled climate models (2003) (47)
- Machine-learning-based evidence and attribution mapping of 100,000 climate impact studies (2021) (46)
- Perspective : coordinating paleoclimate research on tropical cyclones with hurricane-climate theory and modelling (2006) (43)
- Dynamical Downscaling Projections of Late 21st Century Atlantic Hurricane Activity: CMIP3 and CMIP5 Model-based Scenarios (2013) (43)
- Simulations of Hurricane Katrina (2005) under sea level and climate conditions for 1900 (2014) (41)
- MONITORING AND UNDERSTANDING TRENDS IN EXTREME STORMS (2013) (41)
- Third assessment on impacts of climate change on tropical cyclones in the Typhoon Committee Region – Part I: Observed changes, detection and attribution (2020) (40)
- Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Cyclones in the Western North Pacific Basin. Part II: Late Twenty-First Century Projections (2012) (39)
- Perspective: coordinating paleoclimate research on tropical cyclones with hurricane-climate theory and modelling (2007) (36)
- The Roles of Wind Shear and Thermal Stratification in Past and Projected Changes of Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity (2009) (36)
- Author Correction: Recent increases in tropical cyclone intensification rates (2019) (35)
- Ch. 8: Droughts, Floods, and Wildfires. Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I (2017) (31)
- Third assessment on impacts of climate change on tropical cyclones in the Typhoon Committee Region – Part II: Future projections (2020) (29)
- Climate Extremes and Society: Tropical cyclones and climate change: revisiting recent studies at GFDL (2008) (28)
- Impact of Upper-Tropospheric Temperature Anomalies and Vertical Wind Shear on Tropical Cyclone Evolution Using an Idealized Version of the Operational GFDL Hurricane Model (2016) (28)
- Changes in Atlantic major hurricane frequency since the late-19th century (2021) (27)
- Appendix 3: Climate Science Supplement. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment (2014) (26)
- Chapter 11. Past and Future Changes in Extreme Sea Levels and Waves (2010) (26)
- Observed and Simulated Fingerprints of Multidecadal Climate Variability and Their Contributions to Periods of Global SST Stagnation (2017) (26)
- CMIP5 Model-based Assessment of Anthropogenic Influence on Record Global Warmth During 2016 (2018) (26)
- Exploring natural and anthropogenic variation of climate (2001) (25)
- A Multivariate AMV Index and Associated Discrepancies Between Observed and CMIP5 Externally Forced AMV (2019) (24)
- Model Assessment of Observed Precipitation Trends over Land Regions: Detectable Human Influences and Possible Low Bias in Model Trends (2018) (24)
- Climate change is probably increasing the intensity of tropical cyclones (2021) (24)
- Multi-Model Assessment of Regional Surface Temperature Trends: CMIP3 and CMIP5 20 th Century Simulations (2013) (22)
- Uncertainty levels in predicted patterns of anthropogenic climate change (2000) (22)
- Ch. 1: Our Globally Changing Climate. Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I (2017) (20)
- Climate Sensitivity of GFDL's CM4.0 (2020) (16)
- Dynamical Downscaling Projections of 21 st Century Atlantic Hurricane 1 Activity : CMIP 3 and CMIP 5 Model-based Scenarios (14)
- 5. THE EXTREME MARCH-MAY 2012 WARM ANOMALY OVER THE EASTERN UNITED STATES: GLOBAL CONTEXT AND MULTIMODEL TREND ANALYSIS (2013) (12)
- Ch. 9: Extreme Storms. Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I (2017) (11)
- Decadal climate variability and cross-scale interactions: ICCL 2013 expert assessment workshop (2014) (11)
- STOIC: a study of coupled model climatology and variability in tropical regions (2002) (10)
- Comparison of Mechanisms for Low-Frequency Variability of Summer Arctic Sea Ice in Three Coupled Models (2017) (10)
- Part I: Detection and Attribution (2019) (10)
- Climate Model Assessment of Changes in Winter–Spring Streamflow Timing over North America (2018) (10)
- Regional Climate Information – Evaluation and Projections Co-ordinating Lead Authors (2001) (9)
- Detection and attribution of climate change (2017) (8)
- Large-scale circulation and climate variability (2017) (8)
- Multimodel Assessment of Anthropogenic Influence on Record Global and Regional Warmth During 2015 (2016) (8)
- Erratum: Simulated reduction in Atlantic hurricane frequency under twenty-first-century warming conditions (Nature Geoscience (2008) 1 (359-364)) (2008) (7)
- Author Correction: Recent increases in tropical cyclone intensification rates (2019) (7)
- Impacts of Extratropical Weather Perturbations on Tropical Cyclone Activity: Idealized Sensitivity Experiments With a Regional Atmospheric Model (2019) (6)
- Idealized Aquaplanet Simulations of Tropical Cyclone Activity: Significance of Temperature Gradients, Hadley Circulation, and Zonal Asymmetry (2021) (5)
- North Atlantic Hurricane Activity: Past, Present and Future (2016) (5)
- A Comparison of Tropical Cyclone Projections in a High-resolution Global Climate Model and from Downscaling by Statistical and Statistical-deterministic Methods (2021) (5)
- Record annual mean warmth over Europe, the northeast Pacific, and the northwest Atlantic during 2014: Assessment of anthropogenic influence (2015) (5)
- Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change: An Indian Ocean Perspective (2010) (4)
- Droughts, floods, and hydrology (2017) (4)
- Recent Research at GFDL on Surface Temperature Trends and Simulations of Tropical Cyclone Activity in the Indian Ocean Region (2014) (3)
- Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change Assessment (2020) (3)
- Ch. 3: Detection and Attribution of Climate Change. Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I (2017) (3)
- Chapter 7: Precipitation Change in the United States (2017) (3)
- Appendix 4: Frequently Asked Questions. Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment (2014) (3)
- Appendix C: Detection and Attribution Methodologies Overview. Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I (2017) (3)
- CMIP5 Model-based Assessment of Anthropogenic Influence on Highly Anomalous Arctic Warmth During November–December 2016 (2018) (3)
- Coupled model simulations of hurricanes in a CO2-warmed climate (2001) (3)
- Ch. 5: Large-Scale Circulation and Climate Variability. Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume I (2017) (3)
- Dynamical downscaling projections of late twenty-first-century U.S. landfalling hurricane activity (2022) (3)
- Hurricanes and Typhoons - Will tropical cyclones become stronger and more frequent? [Present] (2012) (2)
- Sea Level Pressure Trends: Model-Based Assessment of Detection, Attribution, and Consistency with CMIP5 Historical Simulations (2021) (2)
- TROPICAL CYCLONES AND CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT Part (2019) (2)
- An Environmental Explanation for the Recent Increase in Tropical Cyclone Intensification (2020) (2)
- Droughts, floods, and wildfire (2017) (2)
- Physical Climate Forces (2012) (2)
- Twentieth-century warming of the tropical Atlantic Main Development Region: a model-based assessment (2006) (2)
- TROPICAL CYCLONES AND HURRICANES | Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change (2015) (2)
- Chapter 8: Droughts, Floods, and Wildfires (2017) (1)
- Land and Ocean Extreme Precipitation Response to Climate Change in CMIP5 and preliminary CMIP6 Model Outputs (2018) (1)
- Our Globally Changing Climate. Chapter 1 (2017) (1)
- The role of Atlantic overturning circulation in the recent decline of Atlantic major hurricane frequency (2017) (0)
- How Long Will It Take To Identify Trends In Tropical Cyclones (2018) (0)
- Detection and attribution methodologies overview (APPENDIX C) (2017) (0)
- Has Anthropogenic Forcing Caused a Discernible Change in Atlantic Hurricane Activity (2007) (0)
- Recent Detection and Attribution Work at GFDL: Record Global Temperatures in 2016, Arctic Winter Warmth in 2016, and Regional Precipitation Trends (2018) (0)
- Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria: Did Climate Change Play a Role? (Invited Presentation) (2018) (0)
- Looking back to understand the future: The impact of a century of climate change on coastal inundation in New Orleans, Louisiana (2012) (0)
- Has global warming changed timing of winter-spring streamflows over North America? (2015) (0)
- Teaching and Learning Guide for: The Current Debate on the Linkage between Global Warming and Hurricanes (2008) (0)
- Tropical Cyclones Warming World: An Assessment of Projections (2020) (0)
- HAS THERE BEEN ANY DISCERNIBLE HUMAN INFLUENCE ON ATLANTIC HURRICANE CLIMATE ? (2007) (0)
- North Atlantic tropical cyclone outer size and structure remain unchanged by the late 21st century (2022) (0)
- Large-Scale Circulation and Climate Variability. Chapter 5 (2017) (0)
- HAS THERE BEEN ANY DISCERNIBLE HUMAN INFLUENCE ON ATLANTIC HURRICANE CLIMATE ? (2007) (0)
- Assessing Extreme Events for Anthropogenic Influence: Examples of Recent Cases for Australian Temperatures, U.S. Precipitation, and Hurricane Sandy (2014) (0)
- Why do eastern North Pacific hurricanes intensify more and faster than their western-counterpart typhoons with less ocean energy? (2022) (0)
- Seamless Modeling for Research & Predictability of Severe Tropical Storms from Weather-to-Climate Timescales (2017) (0)
- Author Correction: A potential explanation for the global increase in tropical cyclone rapid intensification (2023) (0)
- A Markov Environment-dependent Hurricane Intensity Model and Its Comparison with Multiple Dynamic Models (2017) (0)
- TOWARDS ATTRIBUTION OF HURRICANE ACTIVITY CHANGES (2011) (0)
- Dynamical Downscaling Projections of Late 21st Century U.S. Landfalling Hurricane Activity (2021) (0)
- On attribution of regional decadal changes in the climate system using univariate methods (2021) (0)
- On the Role of Sea Surface Temperature in the Clustering of Global Tropical Cyclone Formation (2023) (0)
- Sixth International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones Topic 4.2 : Possible Relationships between Climate Change and Tropical Cyclone Activity (2006) (0)
- The response of tropical-cyclone permitting coupled general circulation models to CO 2 doubling: global and large-scale surface climate, and tropical cyclone activity. (2016) (0)
- Simulated impact of projected 21st century warming on Atlantic hurricane activity (2008) (0)
- Author Correction: A potential explanation for the global increase in tropical cyclone rapid intensification (2022) (0)
- The GFDL 5-10 Year Strategic Science Plan June 21 , 2011 (2014) (0)
- A potential explanation for the global increase in tropical cyclone rapid intensification (2022) (0)
- Author Correction: Recent increases in tropical cyclone intensification rates (2019) (0)
- Towards Attribution of Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Changes (2009) (0)
- An Increase in Tropical Cyclone Intensification (2018) (0)
- Warmed Climate 2 Simulated Increase of Hurricane Intensities in a (2009) (0)
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