Dr. Michael Alexander Taylor

Research Interests

• Understanding the mechanisms that drive climate variability within the Caribbean
• Climate Changes and long term climate variability within the Caribbean
• Vulnerability to climate Change within the Caribbean
• Climate Databases
• Seasonal Prediction of Caribbean Climate

Citations

Book, Whole

• Chen, Abraham Anthony , Roy, A., McTavish, J., Taylor, Michael A. Using sea surface temperature anomalies to predict flood and drought conditions for the Caribbean
• Taylor, Michael A, Centella, A, Charlery, J, Borrajero, I, Bezanilla, A, Campbell, J, Rivero, R, Stephenson, T S, Whyte, F, Watson, R. Glimpses of the future: A briefing from the PRECIS Caribbean Climate Change Project

Book, Chapter

• Chen, Anthony, Falloon, Trevor, Taylor, Michael. Monitoring Agricultural Drought in the West Indies
• Taylor, Michael A., Alfaro, Eric J.. Climate of Central America and the Caribbean
• Taylor, Michael A., Owino, Albert. Warm oceans and year to year variations of Caribbean rainfall

Journal, Article

• Stephenson, Tannecia S, Chen, Abrraham.A, Taylor, Michael.A. Toward the development of prediction models for the primary Caribbean dry season
• Chen, Abraham Anthony, Taylor, Michael A. Investigating the link between early season Caribbean rainfall and the El Niņo+1 year
• Ashby, Soyini A. , Taylor, M.A. , Chen, Abraham Anthony. Statistical models for predicting rainfall in the Caribbean
• Whyte, F.S, Taylor, Michael.A, Stephenson, Tannecia .S, Campbell, J.D. Features of the Caribbean Low Level Jet
• Heslop-Thomas, C, Bailey, W, Amarakoon, D, Chen, A, Rawlins, S, Chadee, D, Crosbourne, R, Owino, A, Polson, K, Rhoden, C, Stennett, R, Taylor, M.A. Vulnerability to Dengue Fever in Jamaica
• Taylor, Michael A., Chen, Abraham .A, Rawlins, S, Heslop-Thomas, C, Amarakoon, A, Bailey, W, Chadee, D, Huntley, S. Adapting to Dengue Risk: What to do?
• Spence, J. , Taylor, M.A. , Chen, Abraham Anthony. The effect of concurrent sea surface temperature anomalies in the tropical Pacific and Atlantic on Caribbean rainfall
• Taylor, Michael A., Enfield, D.B., Chen, Abraham Anthony. The influence of the tropical Atlantic vs. the tropical Pacific on Caribbean rainfall
• Peterson, T.C., Taylor, Michael A., Demeritte, R., Duncombe, D.L., Burton, S., Thompson, F., Porter, A., Mercedes, M., Villegas, E., Memexant Fils, R., Klein Tank, A., Martis, A., Warner, R., Joyette, A., Mills, W., Alexander, L., Gleason, B.. Recent changes in climate extremes in the Caribbean region
• Alexander, L.V, Zhang, X, Peterson, T.C, Caesar, J, Gleason, B, Tank, A.K, Haylock, M, Collins, D, Trewin, B, Rahimzadeh, F, Tagipour, A, Ambenje, P, Kumar, K.R, Revadekar, J, Griffiths, G, Vincent, L, Stephenson, D, Burn, J, Aguilar, E, Brunet, M, Taylor, M.A, New, M, Zhai, P, Rusticucci, M, Vazquez-Aguirre, J.L. Global observed changes in daily climate extremes of temperature and precipitation
• Stephenson,Tannecia S., Taylor, Michael A., Chen Anthony A.. Investigating the predictability of early and later season rainfall for Jamaica

Conference Proceedings

• Spence, Jacqueline M., Taylor, Michael A.. Examining the effect of concurrent sea surface temperature anomalies on Caribbean rainfall
• Crosbourne, Rainaldo F., Amarakoon, Dharmaratne M., Taylor, Michael A.. Developing a Caribbean climate interactive database [Abstract]
• Watson, Rhodene A., Taylor, Michael, Campbell, Jayaka D., Stephenson, Tannecia S.. What to expect? Jamaica's future climate deduced from climate models
• Ashby, Soyini A., Taylor, Michael A.. Developing statistical models for predicting rainfall in the Caribbean [Abstract]
• Owino, Albert, Chen, Abraham Anthony, Taylor, Michael A.. The role of southwestern Caribbean in the formation of tropical storms in the Caribbean Basin

Postgraduate Advisement:

• Spence,Jacqueline M.
• Crosbourne,R.