Thomas R. Knutson is a climate modeller at the US

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, a division of the

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(NOAA). His research covers hurricane activity, the link between climate change and hurricane incidence and intensity, and climate change detection and attribution.

Biography

He served as a contributing author on working group 1 of the

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Fourth Assessment Report. He is a
Associate Editor
of the

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's Journal of Climate. He has published in

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, Journal of Climate, Tropical Cyclone Research and Review,

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and the

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. In 2004, Knutson published a paper suggesting that increases in atmospheric

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would lead to more intense

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. This finding was subsequently supported by independent research. Knutson was invited to discuss his thesis on

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, but the invitation was withdrawn after the

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intervened.''New Scientist'' Magazine 2007-02-03, p. 5

Selected works

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References

External links

GFDL home page
* biographical sketc

* Donaghy, T., ''et al.'' (2007
"Atmosphere of Pressure"
a report of the

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