James P. Kossin
United States Department of Commerce
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Climatic Data Center, Asheville, NC
Duty Station & Mailing Address:
CIMSS/University of Wisconsin-Madison
1225 West Dayton Street, Room 205
Madison, WI, USA 53706
+1.608.265.5356 (voice)
+1.608.262.5974 (fax)
Publications (updated April 2012)
Curriculum Vitae (updated May 2012)
I'm an atmospheric research scientist in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). I also serve as an Honorary Research Fellow at the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) and as Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.
My research group specializes in tropical meteorology with an emphasis on a broad range of hurricane and climate studies:
- We use a variety of empirical data (satellite, reanalysis, in situ) to construct models for improving hurricane forecasting skill, and we work closely with forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, FL. We are particularly interested in improving our understanding and ability to predict hurricane eyewall replacement cycles and intensity change.
- We are actively working towards improving the consistency of the global historical tropical cyclone records with the goal of improving the fidelity of trend analyses.
- We use data and models to study tropical variability with an emphasis on understanding air-sea coupled modes and effects of aerosol forcing on ocean temperature variability.
I'm presently serving as a Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), the Special Report on "Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation" (SREX), and the Extremes and Coastal Extremes chapters of the U.S. National Climate Assessment. I'm a Member of the United Nations World Meteorological Organization Expert Team on Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Cyclones, and the United States Climate Variability and Predictability (U.S. CLIVAR) Working Group on Hurricanes and Climate.
