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Kimberly Wood
Research Interests
Structural evolution of tropical cyclones Tropical-extratropical interactions Hazards associated with tropical cyclones Climate variability Remote sensing of tropical cyclones and their environments
Current Research Projects
Rapid intensity changes of tropical cyclones Structure and evolution of tropical cyclones in reanalysis data Assessing tropical cyclone intensity, structure, and genesis potential of pre-genesis cloud clusters using geostationary satellite data Impacts of climate variability on tropical cyclone behavior and tropical-extratropical interactions Socioeconomic impacts of global tropical cyclone landfalls (with M.S. student) Ability of reforecast data to predict tropical cyclone size changes (with M.S. student) Ability of reforecast data to predict downstream impacts of western North Pacific tropical cyclones (with M.S. student)
Most Current Publications:
Rodriguez-Herrera, O. G., K. M. Wood, K. P. Dolling, W. T. Black, E. A. Ritchie, and J. S. Tyo, 2015: Objective automatic storm tracking based on the deviation-angle variance method. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 12, 254-258. Wood, K. M., and E. A. Ritchie, 2014: A 40-year climatology of extra-tropical transition in the eastern North Pacific. J. Climate, 27, 5999-6015. (PDF) Ritchie, E. A., K. M. Wood, O. G. Rodriguez-Herrera, M. F. Pineros, and J. S. Tyo, 2014: Satellite-derived tropical cyclone intensity in the North Pacific Ocean using the deviation-angle variance technique. Wea. Forecasting, 29, 505-516. Wood, K. M., and E. A. Ritchie, 2013: An updated climatology of tropical cyclone impacts on the southwestern United States. Mon. Wea. Rev., 141, 4322-4336. |