Kerry Emanuel

Kerry A. Emanuel (born April 21, 1955 ) is an American professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (Massachusetts) .

Life

Emanuel is a specialist in atmospheric convection and mechanisms of amplification of hurricanes . In 1994 he coined the term " Hyperkan ". In 2007 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , 2017 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 2019 to the American Philosophical Society and 2020 as a foreign member of the Royal Society . In 2018 he was made a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union . For 2019, Emanuel was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award .

The Time Magazine named him in 2006 to the 100 most influential people.

In 2013, Emanuel and his colleagues Ken Caldeira , James E. Hansen and Tom Wigley called for a "return to nuclear power" in an open letter , since the resistance to nuclear power plants endangers the fight against climate change. The scientists appealed to politicians and environmental organizations around the world to advocate the development of safe nuclear power plants. "There is no realistic way to stabilize the climate that does without a substantial proportion of nuclear energy," the scientists wrote in their letter. However, the risks of nuclear energy are "orders of magnitude smaller" than the dangers posed by the use of fossil fuels. In the debate about future energy policy, facts should decide, not emotions, he and his colleagues urged.

Publications (selection)

KA Emanuel: Atmospheric Convection . Oxford University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-19-506630-8 .
KA Emanuel: Divine Wind: The History And Science Of Hurricanes . 2005, ISBN 0-19-514941-6 .
KA Emanuel: Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years . In: Nature . 2005 ( texmex.mit.edu [PDF]).
KA Emanuel: Phaeton's Reins - The human hand in climate change . In: Boston Review . 2007 ( eg.bucknell.edu [PDF]).
KA Emanuel: What We Know About Climate Change . In: Boston Review . The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass 2007, ISBN 978-0-262-05089-0 .
KA Emanuel: Hurricanes and Global Warming: Results from Downscaling IPCC AR4 Simulations . In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society . 2008 ( texmex.mit.edu [PDF]).

Web links

Emanuel's website at MIT
Brian Tang, Kerry Emanuel (2010): Mid-level ventilation's constraint on tropical cyclone intensity. In: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences .

Individual evidence

↑ Elizabeth A. Thomson: Five from MIT elected to the National Academy of Sciences. MIT Press Office, May 1, 2007, accessed January 19, 2009 .
↑ 2018 Class of AGU Fellows Announced . In: Eos , August 9, 2018. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
↑ Jeffery Kluger: Kerry Emanuel. In: Time. April 30, 2006, accessed June 9, 2017 : “'I didn't expect to get people's attention with this paper,' he says, 'but the timing, so close to Katrina, may have helped wake them up some.' "
↑ Global warming: Renowned climate researchers call for a renaissance of nuclear power. In: Spiegel Online . November 4, 2013. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Emanuel, Kerry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Emanuel, Kerry A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 21, 1955

[1] Elizabeth A. Thomson: Five from MIT elected to the National Academy of Sciences. MIT Press Office, May 1, 2007, accessed January 19, 2009 .

[2] 2018 Class of AGU Fellows Announced . In: Eos , August 9, 2018. Retrieved August 10, 2018.

[3] Jeffery Kluger: Kerry Emanuel. In: Time. April 30, 2006, accessed June 9, 2017 : “'I didn't expect to get people's attention with this paper,' he says, 'but the timing, so close to Katrina, may have helped wake them up some.' "

[4] Global warming: Renowned climate researchers call for a renaissance of nuclear power. In: Spiegel Online . November 4, 2013. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .