Nielsen-Gammon, John
individual record
Regents Professor
Positions:
- Faculty Affiliate, Energy Institute, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), Division of Research
- Regents Professor, Atmospheric Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
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education and training
- Ph.D. in Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) 1990
- S.B. in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) 1984
selected publications
Academic Articles76
- Li, X., Fu, D., Nielsen-Gammon, J., Gangrade, S., Kao, S., Chang, P., ... Gao, H. (2023). Impacts of climate change on future hurricane induced rainfall and flooding in a coastal watershed: A case study on Hurricane Harvey. JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY. 616, 128774-128774.
- Bolinger, R. A., Brown, V. M., Fuhrmann, C. M., Gleason, K. L., Joyner, T. A., Keim, B. D., ... Bentley, A. M. (2022). An assessment of the extremes and impacts of the February 2021 South-Central U.S. Arctic outbreak, and how climate services can help. WEATHER AND CLIMATE EXTREMES. 36, 100461-100461.
- Hausfather, Z., Marvel, K., Schmidt, G. A., Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., & Zelinka, M. (2022). Climate simulations: recognize the 'hot model' problem.. Nature. 605(7908), 26-29.
- Vizuete, W., Nielsen-Gammon, J., Dickey, J., Couzo, E., Blanchard, C., Breitenbach, P., Rasool, Q. Z., & Byun, D. (2022). Meteorological based parameters and ozone exceedances in Houston and other cities in Texas.. J Air Waste Manag Assoc. 72(9), 969-984.
- Zhao, H., Zhang, L., Kirkham, M. B., Welch, S. M., Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., Bai, G., ... Lin, X. (2022). U.S. winter wheat yield loss attributed to compound hot-dry-windy events.. Nat Commun. 13(1), 7233.
Chapters8
- Peterson, J. L., Redmon, L. A., & McFarland, M. L. (2016). Sustainable Water Management. Chen, D. H. (Eds.), Sustainable Water Management and Technologies. 195-224. CRC Press.
- Nielsen-Gammon, J. W. (2016). Climate Change and Future Water Supply. Sustainable Water Management and Technologies. 285-305. CRC Press.
- Nielsen-Gammon, J. W. (2011). The changing climate of Texas. The Impact of Global Warming on Texas: Second Edition. 39-68.
- Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., & McRoberts, B. (2009). March 1843: The Most Abnormal Month Ever?. Dupigny-Giroux, L., & Mock, C. J. (Eds.), HISTORICAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND IMPACTS IN NORTH AMERICA. 123-145. Springer Nature.
- Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., & Gold, D. A. (2008). Dynamical Diagnosis: A Comparison of Quasigeostrophy and Ertel Potential Vorticity. Bosart, L. F., & Bluestein, H. B. (Eds.), SynopticDynamic Meteorology and Weather Analysis and Forecasting. 183-202. Springer Nature.
Conference Papers13
- Nielsen-Gammon, J. W. (2017). NONPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF CHANGES OF HEAVY PRECIPITATION IN TEXAS. Abstracts with programs (Geological Society of America), 51st Annual GSA South-Central Section Meeting - 2017.
- Banner, J. L., James, E., Pierce, S. A., Shearer, A., Schwartz, S., Uddameri, V., ... Noronha, A. (2017). THE TEXAS WATER RESEARCH NETWORK: ADDRESSING CHALLENGES FOR 21 ST CENTURY TEXAS. Abstracts with programs (Geological Society of America), 51st Annual GSA South-Central Section Meeting - 2017.
- Cairns, M., Seidel, D., Atlas, R. M., Baker, B., Barros, A. P., Changnon, D., ... Turek, S. (2007). 2007 annual meeting organizing committee. 87th AMS Annual Meeting.
- Carey, L. D., Guynes, J., McNear, V., Nielsen-Gammon, J., & Zhang, F. (2005). Multi-doppler radar observations of boundary layer winds in support of the second Texas air quality field study (TexAQS II). 11th Conference on Mesoscale Processes and the 32nd Conference on Radar Meteorology. 2265-2266.
- Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., Zhang, F. Q., Odins, A. M., & Myoung, B. (2005). Extreme rainfall in texas: Patterns and predictability. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 26(5), 340-364.
Repository Documents / Preprints16
- Nielsen-Gammon, J., Escobedo, J., Ott, C., Dedrick, J., & Van, F. A. (2020). Assessment of Historic and Future Trends of Extreme Weather in Texas, 1900-2036.
- Nielsen-Gammon, J. W. (2020). Observation-Based Estimates of Present-Day and Future Climate Change Impacts on Heavy Rainfall in Harris County.
- Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., Banner, J., Cook, B., Tremaine, D., Wong, C., Mace, R., ... Kloesel, K. (2020). Unprecedented drought challenges for Texas water resources in a changing climate: what do researchers and stakeholders need to know?.
- Nielsen-Gammon, J. W., Fipps, G., Caldwell, T., McRoberts, D. B., & Conlee, D. (2017). Feasibility Study for Development of Statewide Evapotranspiration Network.
- McRoberts, B., & Nielsen-Gammon, J. (2016). Historic and Future Droughts in the Big Bend Region of the Chihuahuan Desert.
Internet Publications1
- Nielsen-Gammon, J. (2015). In Texas floods, is there a link to climate change?. - An article submitted to The Conversation
editor of
in the news
- Historic drought in the West is forcing ranchers to take painful measures National Geographic June 29, 2021
- Exploding trees' and denying science: The truth about Trump's two days of wild climate change claims The Independent September 17, 2020
researcher on
Principal Investigator4
- RAPID: Coordinated Rainfall Analysis of Hurricane Harvey awarded by National Science Foundation 2017 - 2019
- ENSO Indices For a Changing Climate awarded by DOC-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2017 - 2020
- High-Resolution Integrated Drought Monitoring awarded by DOC-NOAA-Climate Program Office 2014 - 2017
awards and honors
recent teaching activities
- ATMO201 Weather & Climate Instructor
- ATMO321 Comp App Atmos Science Instructor
- ATMO324 Phys & Regnl Climatology Instructor
- ATMO484 Internship Instructor
- ATMO484 Internship: In-ab Instructor
chaired theses and dissertations
- McRoberts, Douglas B (2014-12). Minimizing Biases in Radar Precipitation Estimates. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- McRoberts, Douglas Brent (2008-05). Drought over the past century in Texas and New Mexico: reducing inhomogeneities in long-term climate records via statistical methods to study drought. (Master's Thesis)
- Myoung, Boksoon (2007-08). Interannual variability of summer precipitation in Texas and its implication to summer drought. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Aksoy, Altug (2005-08). Mesoscale ensemble-based data assimilation and parameter estimation. (Doctoral Dissertation)
- Odins, Andrew Michael (2004-12). Mesoscale predictability of an extreme warm-season precipitation event. (Master's Thesis)
Email
n-g@tamu.edu
First Name
John
Last Name
Nielsen-Gammon
mailing address
Texas A&M University; Meteorology; 3150 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3150
USA
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