Gerard Kilroy
Department of Physics, Meteorological Institute, University of Munich (LMU), Theresienstr. 37, 80333 Munich
Email: gerard.kilroy@lmu.de
Lectures
Tropical Cyclones, summer semester 2017: Lecture page
Publications
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(1) KILROY G, and Smith RK, 2013:
A numerical study of rotating convection during tropical cyclogenesis.
Quart. J. Roy Met. Soc., 139, 1255-1269.
Tropical cyclone convection: the effects of ambient vertical and horizontal vorticity.
Quart. J. Roy Meteor. Soc., 140, 1756-1770.
(3) KILROY G, and Smith RK, 2014:
Tropical-cyclone convection: the effects of a vortex boundary layer wind profile on deep convection.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. 141, 714-726.
(4) Smith RK, KILROY G, and Montgomery MT, 2015:
Why do model tropical cyclones intensify more rapidly at low latitudes?
J. Atmos. Sci., 72, Issue 5 (May 2015) pp. 1783-1804.
(5) Smith RK, Montgomery MT, KILROY G, Tang D, and Müller S, 2015:
Tropical low formation during the Australian monsoon: the events of January 2013.
Aust. Meteor. Ocean. Journl., 65, 318-341.
(6) KILROY G, Smith RK and Montgomery MT, 2016:
Why do model tropical cyclones grow progressively in size and decay in intensity after reaching maturity?
J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 487-503.
(7) Črnivec N, Smith RK and KILROY G, 2016:
Dependence of tropical cyclone intensification rate on sea surface temperature.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 142, 1618-1627.
(8) KILROY G, Smith RK, Montgomery MT, Lynch B and Earl-Spurr C, 2016:
A case study of a monsoon low that formed over the sea and intensified over land as seen in the ECMWF analyses.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 142, 2244-2255.
(9) KILROY G and Smith RK, 2016:
A numerical study of deep convection in tropical cyclones.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 142, 3138-3151.
(10) KILROY G, Smith RK and Montgomery MT, 2017:
A unified view of tropical cyclogenesis and intensification.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 143, 450-462.
(11) KILROY G, Smith RK and Montgomery MT, 2017:
Tropical low formation and intensification over land as seen in ECMWF analyses.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 143, 772-784.
(12) KILROY G,Montgomery MT and Smith RK, 2017:
The role of boundary-layer friction on tropical cyclogenesis and intensification.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. 143, 2524-2536.
(13) KILROY G and Smith RK MT, 2017:
The effects of initial vortex size on tropical cyclogenesis and intensification.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. 143, 2832–2845.
(14) KILROY G, Smith RK and Montgomery MT, 2018:
The role of heating and cooling associated with ice processes on tropical cyclogenesis and intensification.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. 144, 99-114.
(15) Smith RK, Montgomery MT and KILROY G, 2018:
The generation of kinetic energy in tropical cyclones revisited.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. 144, 2481-2490.
(16) Steenkamp SC, KILROY G, Smith RK, 2019:
Tropical cyclogenesis at and near the Equator.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. 145, 1846-1864.
(17) Raymond D and KILROY G, 2019:
Control of Convection in High-Resolution Simulations of Tropical Cyclogenesis.
J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 11, 1582-1599.
(18) KILROY G, Smith RK and Montgomery MT, 2020:
An idealized numerical study of tropical cyclogenesis and evolution at the Equator.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. 146, 685-699 .
(19) Tang B, Fang J, Bentley A, KILROY G, Nakano M, Park MS, Rajasree VPM, Wang Z, Wing A, Wu L, 2020:
Recent Advances in Research on Tropical Cyclogenesis.
Tropical Cyclone Research and Review, Volume 9, Issue 2, 87-105. .
(20) Montgomery MT, KILROY G, Smith RK, and Črnivec N, 2020:
Contribution of mean and eddy momentum processes to tropical cyclone intensification.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. 146, 3101-3117.
(21) Smith RK, KILROY G, Montgomery MT, 2020:
Comments on: How much does the upward advection of supergradient component of boundary-layer wind contribute to tropical cyclone intensification and maximum intensity?
J. Atmos. Sci. 77(12), 4377-4378..
(22) KILROY G, 2021:
Evolution of Convective Characteristics During Tropical Cyclogenesis.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. 147, 2103-2123.
(23) Smith RK, KILROY G, and Montgomery MT, 2021:
Tropical cyclone life cycle in a three-dimensional numerical simulation.
Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. 147, 3373-3393.
(24) Gerard KILROY, Hongyan Zhu, Minhee Chang, Roger K. Smith, 2022:
Application of the rotating-convection paradigm for tropical cyclones to interpreting medicanes: an example.
Tropical Cyclone Research and Review (pre-print).
(25) Chen Chen, Jie Tang, Gerard KILROY, XiPing Zhang, Li-min Lin, Bing-ke Zhao, Shuai Zhang, 2022:
An In-Situ Observational Study on the Turbulent Characteristics in the Near-surface Layer during the Landfalling Period of Super Typhoon Maria (2008)
Geophysical Research Letters (pre-print).
Academic CV
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Postgraduate researcher at the
University of Munich, Germany.
In the working group of Tropical Meteorology, Meso- and Micrometeorology (Prof. Roger K. Smith).
Ph.D thesis: "Numerical studies of tropical convection"
CV as of Jan 2022: Gerard Kilroy CV