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Prof. Kerry A Emanuel

Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Primary DLC

Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

MIT Room: 54-1814
(781) 266-8144
https://eaps.mit.edu/people/faculty/kerry-a-emanuel/

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Tropical Cyclones
Cumulus Convection
Water Vapor and Clouds
Climate Modeling Initiative (CMI)
Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (PAOC)
Climate Change in the Tropical Oceans and Its Relationship to Storms

Research Summary

Professor Emanuel is working on various aspects of moist convection in the atmosphere, and on tropical cyclones. He is interested in fundamental properties of moist convection, including the scaling of convective velocities and the nature of the diurnal cycle of convection over land. His group has developed a promising technique for inferring tropical cyclone activity from coarse-grain output of climate models or re-analyses.

Recent Work

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