A5103058026- Climate variability and models
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Potato Plant Research
- Plant Pathogens and Resistance
- Coastal and Marine Management
Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency
2022
National Institute of Meteorology
2020
University of Miami
2010-2016
NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories
2014
East Carolina University
2010
A workshop was held at the University of West Indies, Jamaica, in May 2012 to build capacity climate data rescue and enhance knowledge about change Caribbean region. Scientists brought their daily observational surface temperature precipitation from weather stations for an assessment quality homogeneity calculation indices helpful studying This study presents trends extreme region records spanning 1961–2010 1986–2010 intervals. Overall, results show a warming air land stations. In general,...
Forty years (1980-2019) of reanalysis data were used to investigate climatology and trends heat stress in the Caribbean region. Represented via Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI), a multivariate thermophysiological-relevant parameter, highest is found be most frequent geographically widespread during rainy season (August, September, October). UTCI indicate an increase more than 0.2°C·decade
The purpose of this study is to reach a basic understanding drought and climate change in southwestern Jamaica through an integration local knowledge perception its physical characteristics manifested remotely sensed precipitation vegetation data. Local are investigated survey sixty farmers St. Elizabeth Parish examined statistical analysis satellite vigor time series. indicates that most concerned about increase occurrence. Satellite estimates rainfall for support suggest severe events...
ABSTRACT This study examines the dynamics of late spring rainfall (the Early Rainy Season, ERS ) in Caribbean region, hopes identifying mechanistic‐based predictors for low‐frequency climate modulations system. The subtropical rain‐belt develops May as seasonal warming proceeds. By July, retreats north apparently following westerlies and their vigorous synoptic disturbances. Daily climatology data suggest a physical definition mid‐May to mid‐late June. Based on an examination daily loops...
Large wintertime ocean swells in the Caribbean, known as north swells, generate high surf and expose communities, ecosystems, infrastructure to hazardous conditions. Empirical orthogonal functions cluster analyses using ERA5 reanalysis swell data are performed characterize eastern Caribbean establish a ranked list of historical events. atmospheric used create basin-scale sea-level pressure, surface wind composites for events different magnitudes. Additionally, storm identified mid-latitude...
Abstract The annual rainfall pattern of the intra-Americas sea reveals a bimodal feature with minimum during midsummer known as dry spell (MSD). A first attempt is made to examine impact MSD on vegetation through normalized difference index (NDVI) analysis in Jamaica. Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission estimates and NDVI derived from Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer highlight consistent both vegetative vigor. Spatial variation this response evident throughout Jamaica,...
Abstract Linear inverse models (LIMs) are used to explore predictability and information content of the Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO). Hindcast skill for outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) related MJO on intraseasonal timescales in tropics has been examined a variety LIMs using OLR optionally 200 850 hPa zonal wind channels. The dependence hindcast channels was evaluated by randomizing time, averaging space, or omitting data entirely. Results show positive prediction (relative climatology)...