RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Allen, M.J., Lee, C.C. (2013): Investigating High Mortality During the Winter Season: Mapping Patterns of Temperature and Pressure (Manuscript currently under review).

Sheridan S.C., Pirhalla, D.E., Lee, C.C., Ransibrahmanakul V. (2013): Evaluating Linkages of Weather Patterns and Water Quality Responses in South Florida Using a Synoptic Climatological Approach. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 52(2), 425-438. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0126.1.

Lee, C.C., Sheridan, S.C. and Lin, S. (2013): Relating Weather Types to Asthma-Related Hospital Admissions in New York State. EcoHealth. (In Press). DOI: 10.1007/s10393-012-0803-5.

Lee, C.C., Ballinger, T.J., Domino, N.A. (2012): Utilizing Map Pattern Classification and Surface Weather Typing to Relate Climate to the Air Quality Index in Cleveland, Ohio. Atmospheric Environment 63, 50-59. DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv2012.09.024.

Lee, C.C. (2012): Utilizing Synoptic Climatological Methods to Assess the Impacts of Climate Change on Future Tornado-Favorable Environments. Natural Hazards 62(2), 325-343. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9998-y.

Sheridan, S.C., Lee, C.C. (2012): Synoptic Climatology and the Analysis of Atmospheric Teleconnections. Progress in Physical Geography 36(4) 548-557. DOI: 10.1177/0309133312447935.

Sheridan, S.C., Allen, M.J., Lee, C.C., Kalkstein, L.S. (2012): Future heat vulnerability in California Part II: Projecting future heat related mortality. Climatic Change 115(2), 311-326. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0437-1.

Sheridan, S.C., Lee, C.C., Allen, M.J., Kalkstein, L.S. (2012): Future heat vulnerability in California Part I: Projecting future weather types and heat events. Climatic Change 115(2), 291-309. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0436-2.

Lee, C.C., Sheridan, S.C., and Lin, S. (2011): Seasonal and Lagged Effects of Synoptic Weather Types on Asthma-Related Hospital Admissions in New York State. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress on Biometeorology.

Lee, C.C. and Sheridan, S.C. (2011): A Six-Step Approach to Developing Future Synoptic Classifications Based on GCM Output. International Journal of Climatology 32, 1792-1802. DOI: 10.1002/joc.2394.

Sheridan S.C., Lee C.C., Allen M.J., Kalkstein L.S. (2011): A spatial synoptic classification approach to projected heat vulnerability in California under future climate change scenarios. Final report to California Air Resources Board, Agreement number 07-304, 153 pp.

Sheridan, S.C. and C.C. Lee (2011): The Self-Organizing Map in Synoptic Climatological Research. Progress in Physical Geography 35(1), 109-119. DOI: 10.1177/0309133310397582.

Lee, C.C. (2010): The Relationship of Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Patterns to Tornadoes and the Impacts of Climate Change. Masters Thesis, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA, 263 pp.

Sheridan, S.C. and Lee, C.C. (2010): Synoptic Climatology and the General Circulation Model. Progress in Physical Geography 34(1), 101-109. DOI: 10.1177/0309133309357012.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS:

28th Annual Kent State University Graduate Student Symposium; Kent, Ohio; April, 2013; Circulation and Weather Type Associations with the Air Quality Index in Cleveland, Ohio.

109th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Los Angeles, California; April, 2013; Relating Climate to the Air Quality Index in Cleveland, Ohio Using a Combined Synoptic Climatological Methodology.

24th Annual Conference of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology; Columbia, South Carolina; August, 2012; Projecting Future Heat-Related Mortality in California Using Synoptic Methods.

27th Annual Kent State University Graduate Student Symposium; Kent, Ohio; April, 2012; The Impacts of Short-Term Weather Variability on Chlorophyll Levels near the Florida Gulf Coast.

108th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; New York, New York; February, 2012; Relating Chlorophyll Levels near the Florida Gulf Coast to Regional Synoptic Sea Level Pressure Patterns.

International Congress on Biometeorology; Auckland, New Zealand; December, 2011; Seasonal and Lagged Effects of Synoptic Weather Types on Asthma Related Hospital Admissions in New York State.

26th Annual Kent State University Graduate Student Symposium; Kent, Ohio; April, 2011; Associating Asthma Admissions to Synoptic Weather Types in New York State.

A Spatial Synoptic Classification Approach to Projected Heat Vulnerability in California Under Future Climate Change Scenarios. Invited presentation to the California Air Resources Board, February 2011. Co-presenter with Dr. Scott Sheridan.

107th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Seattle, WA, April, 2011: Relating Weather Types to Asthma-Related Hospital Admissions in New York State.

Northeast Ohio Chapter of the American Meteorological Society, Fall 2010 Meeting; Kent, Ohio; September, 2010;  Projecting Future Tornado Days with Synoptic Methods

106th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; Washington, D.C., April, 2010: The Relationship of Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Patterns to Tornadoes and the Impacts of Climate Change.

25th Annual Kent State University Graduate Student Colloquium; Kent, Ohio, April, 2010: A Synoptic Climatology of United States Tornado Days and the Impacts of Climate Change