James B. Elsner
Professor
Contact Information
| Office: | Bellamy 307 |
| Phone: | 850/644-8374 |
| Email: | jelsner@fsu.edu |
| webpage: |
http://myweb.fsu.edu/jelsner http://fsu.academia.edu/JamesElsner |
Education
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee 1988
Field
- Climate and weather
- Hurricanes and hurricane hazards
- Weather of Florida and Puerto Rico
- Chaos theory, fractals, and applications
Current Research
- Hurricane climatology
- Spatial statistics
- Applications of extreme value theory
- Bayesian modeling
- Scaling laws in the atmosphere
Selected Pulications
- Modeling tropical cyclone intensity with quantile regression, International Journal of Climatology, doi:10.1002/joc.1804, December 2008.
- The increasing intensity of the strongest tropical cyclones, Nature, v455, 92-95, September 2008.
- Elsner, J.B. 2006. Evidence in support of the climate change-Atlantic hurricane hypothesis. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L16705, doi:10.1029/2006GL026869.
- Elsner, J.B., Murnane R.J. and & Jagger, T.H. 2006. Forecasting U.S. hurricanes 6 months in advance. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L10704, doi:10.1029/2006GL025693.
- Elsner, J.B., Tsonis, A.A. and Jagger, T.H. 2006. High frequency variability in hurricane power dissipation and its relationship to global temperature, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 87, 763-768.
- Elsner, J.B., Jagger, T.H. and Tsonis, A.A. 2006. Estimated return periods for Hurricane Katrina. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L08704, doi:10.1029/2005GL025452.
- Jagger, T.H. and Elsner, J.B. 2006. Climatology models for extreme hurricane winds near the United States. Journal of Climate 19, 3220-3226.
Recent Fellowships & Achievements
- Organizing the 2nd International Summit on Hurricane and Climate Change, 2009, Corfu, Greece.
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Organizing a Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change to be held May 27- Jun 1, 2007 in Crete , Greece .