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Nationality
  
Australian

Doctoral advisor
  
David Karoly

Fields
  
Atmospheric sciences

Name
  
John Allen


Residence
  
New York City, New York, U.S.

Institutions
  
International Research Institute for Climate and Society

Thesis
  
The Impacts of Climate Variability and change on Severe Thunderstorm Environments in Australia (2012)

Known for
  
Climate of severe storm and tornado environments

John Terrence Allen is an Australian atmospheric scientist and leading contributor on severe thunderstorm and tornado environments, particularly in the context of climate change, including seasonal prediction of hail and tornadoes. He is currently an assistant professor of meteorology at Central Michigan University. He was formerly a researcher at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at The Earth Institute (EI) of Columbia University.

Allen was born to Leon and Kerry Allen and grew up in suburban Sydney. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne in 2012. Other research interests include severe thunderstorm, hail, and tornado climatologies, tornadoes associated with tropical cyclones, social impacts of high-impact weather and climate, seasonal predictions, reanalysis studies, and evaluation of models and data sets. He signed, with Paul Markowski, Harold Brooks, et al., a prominent rebuttal to physicist Richard A. Muller's contention in a New York Times opinion piece that tornado activity in the U.S. had decreased and that the alleged decrease was tied to global warming.

In addition to his formal studies, Allen is a recreational storm chaser.

References

John T. Allen Wikipedia


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