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Peer-reviewed publications related to tropical cyclone research (since 2013)

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Villegas, J., Matyas, C.J., Srinivasan, S., *Cahyunto, I., Thapa, B., Pennington-Gray, L. 2013. Cognitive and affective responses of Florida tourists after exposure to hurricane warning messages. Natural Hazards, 66, 97-119, DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0119-3.

Matyas, C.J., Silva, J.A. 2013. Extreme weather and economic well-being in rural Mozambique. Natural Hazards, 66, 31-49, DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-0064-6.

*Matyas, C. J. 2013. Processes influencing rain field growth and decay after tropical cyclone landfall in the U.S., Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 52, 1085-1096, DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0153.1.

Silva, J. A. and Matyas, C.J. 2014. Relating rainfall patterns to agricultural income: Implications for rural development in Mozambique, Weather, Climate and Society, 6:2, 218-237. DOI:10.1175/WCAS-D-13-00012.1.

Cahyanto, I., Pennington-Gray, L., Thapa, B., Srinivasan, S., Villegas, J., Matyas, C., Kiousis, S. 2014. An empirical evaluation of the determinants of tourists hurricane evacuation decision making, Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 2, 253-265. DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2013.10.003.

*Matyas, C. J. 2014. Conditions associated with large rain-field areas for tropical cyclones landfalling over Florida, Physical Geography 32:2, 93-106. DOI: 10.1080/02723646.2014.893476.

*Matyas, C. J. 2015. Tropical cyclone formation and motion in the Mozambique Channel, International Journal of Climatology, 35, 375–390. DOI: 10.1002/joc.3985.

Silva, J. A., Matyas, C.J., Cunguara, B. 2015. Regional inequality and polarization in the context of concurrent weather and economic shocks: The case of Mozambique. Applied Geography, doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.01.015.

*Zick, S.E and Matyas, C. J. 2015. Tropical cyclones in the North American Regional Reanalysis: An assessment of spatial biases in location, intensity, and structure. Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, 120, 1651-1669. DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022417.

Cahyanto, I., Pennington-Gray, L., Thapa, B., Srinivasan, S., Villegas, J., Matyas, C., Kiousis, S. 2016. Predicting information seeking regarding hurricane evacuation in the destination. Tourism Management, 52, 264-275. DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2015.06.014.

*Zick, S.E and Matyas, C. J. 2015. Tropical cyclones in the North American Regional Reanalysis: The impact of satellite derived precipitation over-ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres, 120, 8724-8742. DOI: 10.1002/2015JD023722.

*Guo, Q. and Matyas, C. J. 2016. Comparing the spatial extent of Atlantic basin tropical cyclone wind and rain fields prior to land interaction. Physical Geography, 37, 5-25, DOI: 10.1080/02723646.2016.1142929.

*Hernandez-Ayala, J. J. and Matyas, C. J. 2016. Tropical cyclone rainfall over Puerto Rico and its relations to environmental and storm specific factors. International Journal of Climatology, 36, 2223-2237 DOI: 10.1002/joc4490.

*Tang, J. and Matyas, C. J. 2016. Fast playback framework for analysis of ground-based Doppler radar observations using Map-Reduce technology. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 33, 621-634 DOI:10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0118.1.

*Zick, S.E. and Matyas, C. J. 2016. A shape metric methodology for studying the evolving geometries of synoptic-scale precipitation patterns in tropical cyclones.  Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 106, 1217-1235.  DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2016.1206460.

*Zhou, Y. and Matyas, C. J. 2017. Spatial characteristics of storm-total rainfall swaths associated with tropical cyclones over the eastern United States. International Journal of Climatology, 37, S1, 557-569. DOI:10.1002/joc.5021.

*Hernandez Ayala, J.J., Keellings, D., Waylen, P. and Matyas, C.J. 2017. Extreme floods and their relationship with tropical cyclones in Puerto Rico. Hydrological Sciences Journal, 62:13, 2103-2119. DOI:10.1080/02626667.2017.1368521

*Matyas, C. J., 2017. Comparing the spatial patterns of rainfall and atmospheric moisture among tropical cyclones having a track similar to Hurricane Irene (2011). Atmosphere, 8, 165-185. DOI: 10.3390/atmos8090165

*Hernandez Ayala, J.J. and Matyas, C.J. 2018. Spatial distribution of tropical cyclone rainfall and its contribution to the climatology of Puerto Rico. Physical Geography, 39, 1-20. DOI: 10.1080/02723646.2017.1354416

*Tang, J. and Matyas, C.J. 2018. Arc4nix: A cross-platform geospatial analytical library for cluster and cloud computing. Computers & Geosciences, 111, 159-166. DOI:10.1016/j.cageo.2017.11.011

*Matyas, C. J., Zick. S. E. and Tang, J. 2018. Using an object-based approach to quantify the spatial structure of reflectivity regions in Hurricane Isabel (2003): Part I: Comparisons between radar observations and model simulations. Monthly Weather Review, DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-17-0077.1

*Zhou, Y. and Matyas, C. J. 2018. Spatial characteristics of rain fields associated with tropical cyclones landfalling over the western Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 57, 1711- 1727 . DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-18-0034.1.

*DesRosiers, A. and Matyas, C. J. 2018 Analysis of the relationship between flooding potential of landfalling tropical cyclones and their size and forward speed. University of Florida Journal of Undergraduate Research, 19:2, 1-5.

*Tang, J. and Matyas, C. J. 2018. A nowcasting model for tropical cyclone precipitation regions based on the TREC motion vector retrieval with a semi-Lagrangian scheme for Doppler weather radar, Atmosphere, 9, 1-18. DOI:10.3390/atmos9050200.

*Zhou, Y., Matyas, C.J., Li, H., Tang, J. 2018. Conditions associated with rain field size for tropical cyclones landfalling over the eastern United States, Atmospheric Research, 214, 375-385. DOI:10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.08.019.

*Matyas, C.J. and Tang, J. 2019. Measuring radial and tangential changes in tropical cyclone rain fields using metrics of dispersion and closure, Advances in Meteorology, 2019, 1-14. DOI: 10.1155/2019/861943

Li, X., Cummings, A.R., Alruzuq, A., Matyas, C.J., Amanambu, A.C. 2019. Combining water fraction and DEM-based methods to create a coastal flood map: A case study of Hurricane Harvey, International Journal of Geo-Information, 8, 231, 1-23. DOI: 0.3390/ijgi8050231