Member Since 2006
Benjamin Kirtman
Professor, University of Miami
Member, Atmospheric Sciences Fellows Committee
Ben received his BS in Applied Mathematics from the University of California-San Diego in 1987, and his MS and Ph.D. in 1992 from the University of Maryland-College Park. From 1993-2002,
Dr. Kirtman was a research scientist with the Center for Ocean-Land- Atmosphere Studies and in 2002 joined the faculty of George Mason University as a tenured Associate Professor. In 2007, Dr. Kirtman moved to the University of Miami Rosenstiel School as a professor of atmospheric sciences.
Professional Experience
University of Miami
Professor
2007 - Present
Education
University of Maryland
Doctorate
1992
University of California San Diego
Bachelors
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2023
Citation
For fundamental work on tropical climate dynamics and climate prediction on timescales from days to decades
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Publications
North Atlantic Warming Hole Modulates Interhemispheric Asymmetry of Future Temperature and Precipita...
The observed cooling in the subpolar North Atlantic, known as the warming hole, is receiving much attention because of its relationship with the cl...
June 12, 2024
Quantifying the Contribution of Ocean Advection and Surface ...
February 05, 2024
Subseasonal Great Plains Rainfall via Remote Extratropical T...
February 23, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Using an Ocean State Estimate to Improve Attribution and Prediction of Sea Level along the U.S. Gulf Coast
ADVANCING PREDICTIONS OF SEA LEVEL VARIABILITY AND ASSOCIATED HAZARDS ACROSS SUBSEASONAL TO INTERANNUAL TIMESCALES II POSTER
ocean sciences | 13 december 2024
Andrew S. Delman, Ou Wang, Tong Lee, Thomas Freder...
Predictions of regional sea level (SL) variability on subseasonal to decadal timescales have become increasingly relevant for hazard mitigation and co...
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An Advanced Framework for Disentangling Deterministic Dynamics and Stochastic Processes in ENSO Predictability
CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND PREDICTABILITY ON SUBSEASONAL TO CENTENNIAL TIMESCALES II POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 12 december 2024
Caitlin Martinez, Benjamin Kirtman, Sarah Larson
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the dominant mode of climate variability in the tropical Pacific and plays an essential role in modula...
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Solutions for Accommodating Temporally Limited Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Data: Using Harmonics to Generate a Climatology
IMPROVEMENTS TO SUBSEASONAL TO SEASONAL AND SEASONAL TO DECADAL (S2S/S2D) PREDICTIONS USING NOVEL STATISTICAL, MACHINE, AND DEEP LEARNING METHODS II ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 12 december 2024
Tyler M. Fenske, Samantha J Kramer, Kayla Besong-C...
As part of the development of a new database of fire weather variables, a period normal is required to convert the data into an anomaly space. The mos...
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Volunteer Experience
2025 - 2026
Member
Atmospheric Sciences Fellows Committee
2012 - 2024
Associate Editor
JGR Atmospheres Section
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