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How to reach me:

Kerry A. Emanuel
Room 54-1620, MIT
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

Phone: (617) 253-2462
Fax: (617) 253-6208
Email: my last name at mit.edu

Statement on the U.S Hurricane Threat (July 25th 2006)

Papers, Data, and Graphics pertaining to tropical cyclone trends and variability

Publications

Photo (click here). Please credit Donna Coveney, MIT News Office

Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes  (Oxford Univerisity Press, Sept., 2005)

Position Paper on Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change (Revised and Updated, January, 2006)

MIT OpenCourseWare Material for Graduate Course in Tropical Meteorology

Real Time Hurricane Intensity and Track Forecasts

Hurricane Potential Intensity Theory

Real Time Hurricane Potential Intensity Maps

Climatological Hurricane Potential Intensity Maps

Global Tropical Cyclone Data and Plotting Routines for MATLAB (updated through 2008)

Global Tropical Cyclone Data in NETCDF format (updated through 2008)

FORTRAN Subroutine for calculating TC maximum intensity from soundings 

Download FORTRAN codes for "Atmospheric Convection"

 

FORTRAN subroutine "convect" and documentation

Version 4.3c Available as of 15 May 2002...contains several improvements

This scheme includes options for cumulus momentum and tracer transfers

Emanuel, 1991 (pdf file)

Emanuel and Zivkovic-Rothman, 1999 (pdf file)

Condensed paper describing scheme

Click here to retrive subroutine and documents

 

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