Senior Research
Scientist/Engineer
Department
of Atmospheric Sciences
University of Washington,
Seattle, WA
bkerns AT uw . edu
My research interest is in tropical meteorology, especially tropical cyclogenesis, air-sea exchanges, and the Madden-Julian Oscillation. I use a combination of satellite data, in-situ observations, model re-analysis, and high resolution coupled modeling in my research.
Kerns, B. W. and S. S. Chen, 2019: A 20-Year Climatology of Madden-Julian Oscillation Convection: Large-Scale Precipitation Tracking From TRMM-GPM Rainfall, Submitted to J. Climate,. (PDF, Supplement)
Kerns, B. W., and S. S. Chen, 2018a: Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation and Cloud Clusters Over the Equatorial MJO and ITCZ Regions of the Indian Ocean, J. Geophy. Res.-Atmospheres, 123, 10,14010,161. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD028589. (PDF)
Kerns, B.W., and S. S. Chen, 2018b:Evaluation of Satellite Surface Winds in Relation to Weather Regimes Over the Indian Ocean Using DYNAMO Observations. J. Geophy. Res-Atmospheres, 123, 8561-8580, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JD028292. (PDF)
Kerns, B. W., and S. S. Chen, 2016: Large-scale precipitation tracking and the MJO over the Indo-Pacific warm pool. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmospheres, 121, 8755-8776. doi:10.1002/2015JD024661. (PDF)
Kerns, B. W., and S. S. Chen, 2015: Subsidence Warming as an Underappreciated Ingredient in Tropical Cyclogenesis. Part I: Aircraft Observations, J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 4237-4260. (PDF)
Kerns, B. W., and S. S. Chen, 2014a: Equatorial dry air intrusion and related synoptic variability in MJO initiation during DYNAMO, Mon. Wea. Rev., 142, 1326-1343. (PDF)
Kerns, B. W., and S. S. Chen, 2014b: ECMWF and GFS Model Forecast Verification During DYNAMO: Multi-scale Variability in MJO Initiation over the Equatorial Indian Ocean, J. Geophys. Res. , 119, 3736-3755. (PDF)
Kerns, B. W., and S. S. Chen, 2013: Cloud clusters and tropical cyclogenesis: Morphology and large-scale environment of developing and non-developing systems, Mon. Wea. Rev., 141, 190-210. (PDF)