Extreme Weather, Proposed Hurricane-Climate Link

Judith Curry
Georgia Institute of Technology. Expertise: Ocean and atmospheric thermodynamics; polar clouds; hurricanes. Phone:(404) 894-3955 (Secretary); (404) 803-2012 (Cell). E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio.

Kerry Emanuel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Phone: (617) 253-2462 (office) or (781) 266-8144 (cell). E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio.

Thomas R. Knutson
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. Phone: (609) 452-6509. E-mail. Web site. Publications.

James P. Kossin
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC. Lead author on all of the tropical cyclone/climate sections in the IPCC SREX, AR5, and the U.S. National Climate Assessment. Phone: (608)265 5356. Email. Publications.

Chris Landsea
NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. Phone: (305) 229-4446. E-mail. Web site. Publications. Bio (dated).

James O'Brien
Director of the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies and former Florida state climatologist. Expertise: Hurricanes. Phone: (850) 644-4581. E-mail. COAPS Web site. Bio, resume, and publications. O'Brien has argued against the idea that climate change is causing more intense hurricanes in a publication published by the industry-funded Marshall Institute.