Thomas R. Knutson
Research Meteorologist
Group Leader: GFDL Climate Impacts and Extremes Group
Co-Chair (with John McBride, Australia): World Meteorological Organization Expert Team on Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Cyclones
Assessment articles (hurricanes and climate):
"Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change", an assessment by a WMO Expert Team on Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Cyclones (Nature Geoscience, March 2010). For a full copy of the article, contact (email): nlomarda@wmo.int
- NOAA State of the Science Fact Sheet on "Atlantic Hurricanes, Climate Variability, and Global Warming" (May 2012)
Research Interests
- Atlantic Hurricane Activity:
- Has Global Warming Affected Atlantic Hurricane Activity? (Overview web page, Updated January 2013)
- Dynamical Downscaling Projections of 21st Century Atlantic Hurricane Activity: CMIP3 and CMIP5 Model-based Scenarios (J. Climate, in press, 2013)
- Modeled Impact of Anthropogenic Warming on the Frequency of Intense Atlantic Hurricanes. Science: Our study projecting an increase in Cat 4-5 hurricanes with 21st century climate warming (published Jan. 2010)
- FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) on our recent Science paper (updated December 2010)
- How well do we know past Atlantic hurricane activity? A web site on adjusting for "missing storms" in the past Atlantic hurricane data. Adjusted datasets are available here.
- Simulated Hurricane Animations Web Page
- Impacts of Greenhouse Gas-Induced Warming:
- Hurricane Activity
- Sahel Drought (Held et al. PNAS paper)
- Summertime Heat Index Values
- Coral Bleaching (Donner et al. PNAS paper)
- Climate Change Detection and Attribution:
- Multi-Model Assessment of Regional Surface Temperature Trends: CMIP3 and CMIP5 20th Century Simulations. (J. Climate, in press, 2013)
- Simulation of Early 20th Century Global Warming
- Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability and Trends
- Coral Bleaching (Donner et al. PNAS paper)
- Land cover change affects on climate (Findell et al. 2006)
- Multi-Model Assessment of Regional Surface Temperature Trends: CMIP3 and CMIP5 20th Century Simulations. (J. Climate, in press, 2013)
