Emanuel, Kerry MIT

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Emanuel

kerry Andrew Emanuel (born April 21, 1955) is an Americanprofessor of meteorology currently working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. In particular he has specialized in atmospheric convection and the mechanisms acting to intensify hurricanes.

He was named one of the *Time* 100 influential people of 2006.^[1]

He hypothesized in 1994 about a superpowerful type of hurricane which could be formed if average sea surface temperature increased another 15C more than it's ever been (see "hypercane").

In a March 2008 paper published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, he put forward the conclusion that global warming is likely to increase the intensity but decrease the frequency of hurricane and cyclone activity.^[2] Gabriel Vecchi, of NOAA said of Emanuel's announcement, "While his results don't rule out the possibility that global warming has contributed to the recent increase in activity in the Atlantic, they suggest that other factors—possibly in addition to global warming—are likely to have been substantial contributors to the observed increase in activity."^[3]

Along with Daniel H. Rothman, Emanuel co-founded the MIT Lorenz Center in 2011, named for Edward N. Lorenz.^[4][5]

In 2012, Emanuel served as keynote speaker for a conference for Republican voters concerned about climate change. Following the conference, the blog Climate Depot posted Emanuel's email address. After the conference and the exposure of Emanuel's email address on blogs, Emanuel received a large volume of emails "laced with menacing language, expletives, and personal threats of violence," according to editor James West of Mother Jones.^[6]

In 2013, with other leading experts, he was co-author of an open letter to policy makers, which stated that "continued opposition to nuclear power threatens humanity's ability to avoid dangerous climate change."^[7]

In 2007, he was elected as a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.^[8] He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 2020.^[9]

see also 

Wind-induced surface heat exchange

References

1. ^ Jeffery Kluger (30 April 2006). "Kerry Emanuel". Time. Retrieved 19 January 2009. I didn't expect to get people's attention with this paper," he says, "but the timing, so close to Katrina, may have helped wake them up some.
2. ^ Emanuel, Kerry (2008). "The Hurricane-Climate Connection" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 89 (5): ES10–ES20. Bibcode:2008BAMS...89S..10E. doi:10.1175/BAMS-89-5-Emanuel. Retrieved 2009-01-19. The weight of available evidence suggests that multidecadal variability of hurricane season tropical Atlantic SST and Northern Hemispheric surface temperature... is controlled mostly by time-varying radiative forcing owing to solar variability, major volcanic eruptions, and anthropogenic sulfate aerosols and greenhouse gases, though the response to this forcing may be modulated by natural modes of variability.
3. ^ Eric Berger (2008-04-12). "Hurricane expert reconsiders global warming's impact". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-04-21.
4. ^ "Lorenz Center | Kerry Emanuel".
5. ^ "Lorenz Center".
6. ^ West, James (13 January 2012). "US climate scientist's wife suffers email 'frenzy of hate':{:(style="padding-right:0.2em"):}:". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
7. ^ "Top climate change scientists issue open letter to policy influencers - CNN.com". CNN. 3 November 2013.
8. ^ Elizabeth A. Thomson (1 May 2007). "Five from MIT elected to National Academy of Sciences". Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office. Retrieved 19 January 2009.
9. ^ "Kerry Emanuel". Royal Society. Retrieved 19 September 2020.

Selected publications

• Emanuel, K.A.(1994): Atmospheric Convection, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-506630-8
• Emanuel, K.A.(2005): Divine Wind: The History And Science Of Hurricanes, ISBN 0-19-514941-6
• Emanuel, K.A.(2005): "Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years". Nature
• Emanuel, K.A.(2007): Phaeton’s Reins - The human hand in climate change. Boston Review.
• Emanuel, K.A.(2007): What We Know About Climate Change, The MIT Press & Boston Review. ISBN 978-0-262-05089-0
• Emanuel, K.A.(2008): "Hurricanes and Global Warming: Results from Downscaling IPCC AR4 Simulations". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

External links

• Emanuel's website
• Kerry Emanuel publications indexed by Google Scholar
• Brian Tang and Kerry Emanuel (2010): "Mid-level ventilation's constraint on tropical cyclone intensity". Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Volume 67, Issue 6 .
• Brian Tang and Kerry Emanuel (2012): "A ventilation index for tropical cyclones". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Volume 93, Issue 12.

Categories: 

• 1955 births
• Living people
• People from Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
• American meteorologists
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
• Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
• Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal recipients
• Members of the American Philosophical Society
• Fellows of the American Meteorological Society
• Foreign Members of the Royal Society

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Emanuel

Dr. Kerry Emanuel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Kerry Emanuel is the Cecil and Ida Green professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been on the faculty since 1981, after spending three years on the faculty of UCLA. Professor Emanuel's research interests focus on tropical meteorology and climate, with a specialty in hurricane physics. His interests also include cumulus convection, and advanced methods of sampling the atmosphere in aid of numerical weather prediction. He is the author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers, and three books, including Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes, published by Oxford University Press and aimed at a general audience, and What We Know about Climate Change, published by the MIT Press. He is a co-director of MIT’s Lorenz Center, a climate think tank devoted to basic, curiosity- driven climate research.

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'No dog in the fight'

Science — not politics — is what drives him, Koonin insists.

"I've got no dog in the fight about whether this is the greatest catastrophe that's facing the planet or this is a nothing burger," he said. "This is something that is a national issue, and I feel the scientific community has an obligation to see that this is accurately portrayed."

But the climate science debate has long been highly politicized, and Koonin cannot escape it.

He's gotten public blowback from prominent scientists and plenty of criticism from his former Obama administration colleagues, who say he's being used by the Trump team to further an agenda to promote uncertainty and roll back climate change regulations.

In June, scientists Benjamin Santer andKerry Emanueland science historian Naomi Oreskes penned a response in The Washington Post titled, "Attention Scott Pruitt: Red teams and blue teams are no way to conduct climate science."

They wrote that red team exercises "are dangerous attempts to elevate the status of minority opinions, and to undercut the legitimacy, objectivity and transparency of existing climate science."

Holdren wrote his own op-ed in July, in The Boston Globe. "The argument that such a process would be helpful is some combination of naive and disingenuous," he argued.