Thomas R. Knutson

E-Mail: Tom.Knutson@noaa.gov
Phone: (609) 452-6509
Fax: (609) 987-5063

Research Interests

• Atlantic Hurricane Activity:

Has Global Warming Affected Atlantic Hurricane Activity?

Simulated reduction in Atlantic hurricane frequency under twenty-first-century warming conditions, Nature Geoscience, doi:10.1038/ngeo202 (Published online May 2008)

Frequency Asked Questions and Commentary on our recent Nature Geoscience study (Posted June 11, 2008)

On Estimates of Historical North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity -- J. Climate (July 15, 2008 issue)

Simulation of the recent multidecadal increase of Atlantic hurricane activity -- BAMS (October 2007 issue)

Simulated Hurricane Animations Web Page

A Review of the current debate on global warming and hurricanes (Jan. 2007)

Global Warming and Hurricanes Web Page

• Impacts of Greenhouse Gas-Induced Warming:

• Hurricane Intensities (see Global Warming and Hurricanes Web Page)

  Journal of Climate (2004) study by T. Knutson and R. Tuleya

  Reply to Comments of Michaels et al. on Knutson and Tuleya (2004) J. Climate study

• Time-Mean Tropical Climate

• El Nino/Southern Oscillation

• Sahel Drought (Held et al. PNAS paper)

• Summertime Heat Index Values

• Coral Bleaching (Donner et al. PNAS paper)

• Climate Change Detection and Attribution:

• Assessment of Twentieth Century Regional Surface Temperature Trends using the GFDL CM2 Coupled Models

• Simulation of Early 20th Century Global Warming

• Simulated vs observed regional temperature trends (1949-1997)

• Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability and Trends

• Sahel Drought in the 20th century (Held et al. PNAS paper)

• Coral Bleaching (Donner et al. PNAS paper)

• Land cover change affects on climate (Findell et al. 2006)

GFDL Climate Group Research

Climate Impact of Quadrupling CO2

Climate Impact of Quadrupling CO2

Publications

• Bibliography (including .pdf versions of articles and abstracts)

Technical Notes

A Note on 20th Century Equatorial Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures as Reconstructed in the LDEO and UKMO Data Sets

FMS Slab Ocean Model Technical Documentation