Jonathan Lin | Hurricane Physics and Risk in a Changing Climate

Bio: Jonathan Lin is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in Cornell CALS at Cornell University. His work broadly focuses on tropical meteorology, including tropical cyclones, equatorial waves, the Madden Julian Oscillation, and troposphere-stratosphere coupling. His research has spanned a variety of topics in the tropical atmosphere. For instance, he is particularly interested in tropical cyclones (colloquially known as hurricanes), dynamic weather systems that bring about heavy rain, extreme winds, and flooding to coastal areas. His past work has focused on improving forecasting of hurricanes, understanding their predictability, and projecting how weather hazards associated with hurricanes might change with warming.

This event is presented as part of the 2025 Perspectives on the Climate Change Challenge Seminar Series:

Most Mondays, Spring Semester 2025, 2:55-4:10 p.m.Zoom Link

This university-wide seminar series is open to the public (via Zoom), and provides important views on the critical issue of climate change, drawing from many perspectives and disciplines. Experts from Cornell University and beyond present an overview of the science of climate change and climate change models, the implications for agriculture, ecosystems, and food systems, and provide important economic, ethical, and policy insights on the issue. The seminar is being organized and sponsored by the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering and Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.