Kim Wood

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OR➡AZ➡MS➡AZ. Hurricane mortician. Imperfect associate professor studying tropical cyclones. Shares code to support open science. Personal account.
research home pagehttps://kouya.has.arizona.edu
Kim WoodAug 22, 2025
It's been a while, so hi again! I'm Kim Wood, a hurricane mortician studying factors that affect tropical cyclone (TC) activity and evolution. Not only do I enjoy delving into datasets using Python to quantify hurricane behavior, I also love sharing my science whenever I can, such as by joining the amazing Alie Ward of Ologies as one of two guests on her recent two-part series covering hurricanes ("tempestology"): https://www.alieward.com/ologies/tempestology
Tempestology (HURRICANES) with Matt Lanza & Dr. Kim Wood — alie ward

Part 1: Hurricanes. Typhoons. Cyclones. Tropical storms. Tropical depressions. What does it all MEAAAN? Let’s dive in. Career meteorologists Dr. Kim Wood of the University of Arizona and Space City Weather’s Matt Lanza join for a two-guest two-parter to address the “deadlier” female-named hurricane

alie ward
Kim WoodAug 22, 2025
Ahead of the impending 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, I crafted a storm-following animation using NOAA's half-hourly, 4-km multi-satellite merged infrared dataset called Merged IR.
Kim WoodNov 29, 2022

[29 Nov 2022] The *entirety* of Mississippi is at risk of severe thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight according to last night's 11:33pm CST Public Severe Weather Outlook from SPC. 😬

For the latest information, visit the SPC website: https://www.spc.noaa.gov

NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center

Kim WoodNov 21, 2022
Hi! I'm Kim Wood, a faculty member at Mississippi State University studying hurricane behavior that ranges from individual tropical cyclones (TCs) to long-term patterns. I spend a lot of time coding in Python and strive to share examples when possible to limit how often we have to reinvent the wheel. I also craft data visualizations such as storm-following satellite imagery as in this example from Hurricane Dorian (2019):
https://vimeo.com/443358981
GOES-16 infrared imagery animation of Hurricane Dorian (2019)

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