James P. Kossin, Ph.D. NOAA/NESDIS/National Climatic Data Center University of Wisconsin - Madison 1225 West Dayton Street Madison, WI, USA 53706 +1.608.265.5356 (voice) +1.608.262.5974 (fax) Publications Curriculum Vitae (updated November 2009)

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General

Jim Kossin is an atmospheric research scientist in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). He also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and as an Honorary Research Fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS).

Research Interests

Tropical meteorology with an emphasis on a broad range of hurricane and climate change studies:


• Hurricane variability and trends and their relationships with global climate change and coupled air-sea variability
• Hurricane dynamics with an emphasis on structure and intensity change, secondary eyewall formation, and variability of the hurricane inner-core
• Statistical/empirical relationships between observations and hurricane metrics such as intensity, intensity change, and surface wind structure
• Development of operational forecasting tools.