Kerry H. Cook

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Kerry Harrison Cook is an American climate scientist who is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research considers the dynamics of tropical monsoon regimes, with a focus on climate variability and change throughout Africa. She was elected Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 2009 and awarded their Joanne Simpson Tropical Meteorology Research Award in 2021. She is the Chair of the American Meteorological Society's Climate Variability and Change Committee.

Early life and education[]

Cook was an undergraduate student in physics and astronomy at Villanova University. She moved to Rice University as a graduate student, where she worked toward a Master's degree in space physics. She was a doctoral researcher at North Carolina State University while in residence at the Institute for Energy Analysis in Oak Ridge, TN. Her thesis research in atmospheric sciences focused on how the climate responds to increasing levels of carbon dioxide.^[1] After a one-year post doctoral appointment at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cook continued her scientific career at Princeton University's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.^{[citation needed]}

Research and career[]

Cook was appointed to the faculty at Cornell University in 1991, where she worked on climate dynamics and atmospheric physics.^[2] At Cornell she was a founder of the undergraduate degree on the Science of Earth Systems.^{[citation needed]} In 2008, Cook moved to the University of Texas at Austin. She was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society in 2009.^[3] Her research considers the climate catastrophe, and how to better predict the climate change on regional space scales around the world. She uses numerical models that include atmospheric, oceanic and vegetation components to understand the physics of climate change and variability in the tropics, especially over South America and Africa.^[4] Cook was awarded the inaugural 2021 Joanne Simpson Tropical Meteorology Research Award.^[5][6]

Selected publications[]

• Neelin, J. David; Held, Isaac M.; Cook, Kerry H. (1987). <2341:ewfalf>2.0.co;2 "Evaporation-Wind Feedback and Low-Frequency Variability in the Tropical Atmosphere". Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 44 (16): 2341–2348. doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1987)044<2341:ewfalf>2.0.co;2. ISSN 0022-4928.
• Lenters, J. D.; Cook, K. H. (1997). <0656:otootb>2.0.co;2 "On the Origin of the Bolivian High and Related Circulation Features of the South American Climate". Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. 54 (5): 656–678. doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<0656:otootb>2.0.co;2. ISSN 0022-4928.
• Cook, Kerry H. (1999). "Generation of the African easterly jet and its role in determining West African precipitation". OCLC 1075469300. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
• Cook, Kerry H.; Vizy, Edward K. (2015). "Detection and analysis of an amplified warming of the Sahara Desert". Journal of Climate. 28 (16): 6560–6580. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00230.1. ISSN 0022-4928.

Books[]

• Cook, Kerry Harrison (2013). Climate dynamics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. OCLC 1232439609.

References[]

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