Research Summary
Tropical Meteorology: Come and join me and my team of graduate and undergraduate students in their studies of the tropics: tropical cyclones (hurricanes), monsoon variability and sensitivity to base climate, convective weather systems and their role in the hydrologic cycle and extratropical transition of tropical cyclones.
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Recent Publications
Statistical downscaling for precipitation projections in West Africa
Polasky, A., Evans, J. L. & Fuentes, J. D., Jan 2024, In: Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 155, 1, p. 327-347 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
CCdownscaling: A Python package for multivariable statistical climate model downscaling
Polasky, A. D., Evans, J. L. & Fuentes, J. D., Jul 2023, In: Environmental Modelling and Software. 165, 105712.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Statistical climate model downscaling for impact projections in the Midwest United States
Polasky, A. D., Evans, J. L., Fuentes, J. D. & Hamilton, H. L., Apr 2022, In: International Journal of Climatology. 42, 5, p. 3038-3055 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Favorable monsoon environment over Eastern Africa for subsequent tropical cyclogenesis of African Easterly Waves
Ocasio, K. M. N., Brammer, A., Evans, J. L., Young, G. S. & Moon, Z. L., Sep 2021, In: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 78, 9, p. 2911-2925 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Topographic Influence on the African Easterly Jet and African Easterly Wave Energetics
Hamilton, H. L., Núñez Ocasio, K. M., Evans, J. L., Young, G. S. & Fuentes, J. D., Apr 27 2020, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 125, 8, e2019JD032138.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Use of multiensemble track clustering to inform medium-range tropical cyclone forecasts
Kowaleski, A. M. & Evans, J. L., Aug 2020, In: Weather and Forecasting. 35, 4, p. 1407-1426 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A wave-relative framework analysis of AEW-MCS interactions leading to tropical cyclogenesis
Núñez Ocasio, K. M., Evans, J. L. & Young, G. S., Oct 2020, In: Monthly Weather Review. 148, 11, p. 4657-4671 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Tracking mesoscale convective systems that are potential candidates for tropical cyclogenesis
Ocasio, K. M. N., Evans, J. L. & Young, G. S., Feb 1 2020, In: Monthly Weather Review. 148, 2, p. 655-669 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A global climatology of extratropical transition. Part I: Characteristics across basins
Bieli, M., Camargo, S. J., Sobel, A. H., Evans, J. L. & Hall, T., Jun 1 2019, In: Journal of Climate. 32, 12, p. 3557-3582 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A global climatology of extratropical transition. Part II: Statistical performance of the cyclone phase space
Bieli, M., Camargo, S. J., Sobel, A. H., Evans, J. L. & Hall, T., Jun 1 2019, In: Journal of Climate. 32, 12, p. 3583-3597 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The extratropical transition of tropical cyclones. Part II: Interaction with the midlatitude flow, downstream impacts, and implications for predictability
Keller, J. H., Grams, C. M., Riemer, M., Archambault, H. M., Bosart, L., Doyle, J. D., Evans, J. L., Galarneau, T. J., Griffin, K., Harr, P. A., Kitabatake, N., McTaggart-Cowan, R., Pantillon, F., Quinting, J. F., Reynolds, C. A., Ritchie, E. A., Torn, R. D. & Zhang, F., Apr 1 2019, In: Monthly Weather Review. 147, 4, p. 1077-1106 30 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Use of ensemble forecasts to investigate synoptic influences on the structural evolution and predictability of Hurricane Alex (2016) in the midlatitudes
González-Alemán, J. J., Evans, J. L. & Kowaleski, A. M., 2018, In: Monthly Weather Review. 146, 10, p. 3143-3162 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Relationship between the track and structural evolution of Hurricane Sandy (2012) using a regional ensemble
Kowaleski, A. M. & Evans, J. L., Dec 1 2018, In: Monthly Weather Review. 146, 12, p. 4279-4302 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The relationship between the Guinea Highlands and the West African offshore rainfall maximum
Hamilton, H. L., Young, G. S., Evans, J. L., Fuentes, J. D. & Núñez Ocasio, K. M., Jan 28 2017, In: Geophysical Research Letters. 44, 2, p. 1158-1166 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Mixture-based path clustering for synthesis of ECMWF ensemble forecasts of tropical cyclone evolution
Don, P. K., Evans, J. L., Chiaromonte, F. & Kowaleski, A. M., 2016, In: Monthly Weather Review. 144, 9, p. 3301-3320 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review