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Kerry Emanuel
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 386
Citations - 47825
Kerry Emanuel is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tropical cyclone & Storm. The author has an hindex of 99, co-authored 375 publications receiving 41026 citations. Previous affiliations of Kerry Emanuel include University of California, Los Angeles & City College of New York.
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Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years
TL;DR: An index of the potential destructiveness of hurricanes based on the total dissipation of power, integrated over the lifetime of the cyclone, is defined and shows that this index has increased markedly since the mid-1970s, due to both longer storm lifetimes and greater storm intensities.
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Tropical cyclones and climate change
Thomas R. Knutson,John L. McBride,Johnny C. L. Chan,Kerry Emanuel,Greg J. Holland,Christopher W. Landsea,Isaac M. Held,James P. Kossin,Ashok K. Srivastava,Masato Sugi +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the characteristics of tropical cyclones have changed or will change in a warming climate and if so, how, has been the subject of considerable investigation, often with conflicting results.
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An Air-Sea Interaction Theory for Tropical Cyclones. Part I: Steady-State Maintenance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the relative importance of ambient conditional instability and air-sea latent and sensible heat transfer in both the development and maintenance of tropical cyclones using highly idealized models.
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A Scheme for Representing Cumulus Convection in Large-Scale Models
TL;DR: In this paper, a representation of moist convective transports for use in large-scale models is constructed, in which the fundamental entities are these subcloud-scale drafts rather than the clouds themselves.
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The dependence of hurricane intensity on climate
TL;DR: In this article, a simple Carnot cycle model was used to estimate the maximum intensity of tropical cyclones under the somewhat warmer conditions expected to result from increased atmospheric CO2 content.