The Cyclones She Experienced as a Child Led to a Career in Hurricane Risk

Chia Ying-Lee is an associate research professor at Columbia Climate Schools Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

She co-authored a paper that shows a counterintuitive finding about sea surface temperature patterns in the Pacific Ocean .

The findings suggest that we can likely expect more and more intense East Coast hurricanes than our current models predict.

That’s changing with time. In the past, I wanted to know more about hurricane dynamics, to improve the science of the physics of hurricanes. Now I still want that, but I also want these models to be better so that we can convert scientific knowledge to something that can be used by stakeholders to improve our resilience in the face of hurricanes. This story originally appeared on Columbia News ..