Jenni Evans 
EESI Associate
Jenni Evans
Ph.D., University of Monash
Contact Information:
Department of Meteorology
509 Walker Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-3240
email: jle7@psu.edu
Dept. website: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/faculty/Evans.htm
Current Research Interests:
Climate variability with particular emphasis on the tropics, tropical meteorology, numerical modeling and tropical cyclones.
Selected Publications:
Evans, J. L., and R E. Hart, 2003: Objective indicators of the onset and completion of extratropical transition for Atlantic tropical cyclones. Monthly Weather Rev., 131, 909-925.
Jones, S. C., P. Harr, J. Abraham, L. F. Bosart, P. Bowyer, J. L. Evans, D. E. Hanley, B. Hanstrum, R. E. Hart, F. Lalaurette, M. R. Sinclair, R. K. Smith, and C. Thorncroft, 2003: The extratropical transition of tropical cyclones: Forecast challenges, current understanding and future directions. Weather and Forecasting, (in press).
Tsakraklides, G., and J. L. Evans, 2003: Global and regional diurnal variations of organized convection. J. Climate, 16, 1562–1572.
Chan, S., and J. L. Evans, 2002: Comparison of the structure of the ITCZ in the West Pacific during the boreal summers of 1989-1993 using AMIP simulations and ECMWF reanalysis. J. Climate, 15, 3549-3568.
Kimball, S. K., and J. L. Evans, 2002: Idealized numerical simulations of hurricane-trough interaction. Monthly Weather Review, 130, 2210-2227.
Prater-Mayes, B., and J. L. Evans, 2002: Sensitivity of modeled tropical cyclone track and structure of Hurricane Irene (1999) to the convection parameterization scheme. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 80, 103-115.
Hart, R. E., and J. L. Evans, 2001: A climatology of extratropical transition of tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic. J. Climate , 14, 546-564.
Dutton, J. F. , C. J. Poulsen, and J. L. Evans, 2000: The effect of global climate change on the regions of tropical convection in CSM1. Geophysical Research Letters, 27, 3049.
King C., R. Harmon, T. Bullard, J. Evans, R. Johnson and M. Larsen, 1998: A technical analysis to identify ideal geographic locations for tropical testing of Army materiel and systems. Technical report, Environmental Systems Branch, U.S. Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, NC, July 1998.