Kam-biu Liu /Paleotempestology

Publications

A.  Books

Murnane, R. and Liu, K.B. (eds.), 2004. Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present, and Future. Columbia University Press, New York, 462 pages.

B.  Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Lu, H.Y. and Liu, K.B., 2005. “Phytolith indicators of coastal environmental changes and hurricane overwash deposition,” The Holocene (accepted).

Liu, K.B., 2004. “Paleotempestology: Principles, methods, and examples from Gulf coast lake-sediments.” In Murnane, R. and Liu, K.B. (eds.): Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present, and Future. Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 13-57.

Louie, K.S. and Liu, K.B., 2004. “Ancient records of typhoons in Chinese historical documents.” In Murnane, R. and Liu, K.B. (eds.): Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present, and Future. Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 222-248.

Murnane, R. and Liu, K.B., 2004. “Conclusion.” In Murnane, R. and Liu, K.B. (eds.): Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present, and Future. Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 441-446.

Liu, K.B., 2004. “Paleotempestology: Geographic solutions to hurricane hazard assessment and risk prediction.” In D. Janelle, B. Warf, and K. Hansen (Eds), WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 443-448.

Elsner, J.B. and Liu, K.B., 2003. “Examining the ENSO-Typhoon hypothesis,” Climate Research 25(1): 43-54.

Liu, K.B., 2003. “Documentary records of typhoon landfalls in China during the past 1,000 years: Historical climatology and societal implications,” pp. 43-57, in Tsukahara, T. and Mikami, T. (eds.), Encounter Between Meteorology and History of Science. Kobe University, Kobe, Japan (in Japanese, with English abstract).

Liu, K.B., Lu, H.Y., and Shen, C.M., 2003. “Assessing the vulnerability of the Alabama Gulf coast to intense hurricane strikes and forest fires in the light of long-term climatic changes.” In Ning, Z.H., Turner, R.E., Doyle, T., and Abdollahi, K. (eds), Integrated Assessment of the Climate Change Impacts on the Gulf Coast Region, Gulf Coast Regional Climate Change Council, Baton Rouge, pp. 223-230.

Lu, H.Y. and Liu, K.B., 2003. “Phytoliths of common grasses in the coastal environments of southeastern USA.” Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 58(3): 587-600.

Louie, K.S. and Liu, K.B., 2003. “Earliest historical records of typhoons in China.” Journal of Historical Geography 29 (3): 299-316.

Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L., 2002. “Lake sediment evidence of coastal geologic evolution and hurricane history from Western Lake, Florida: Reply to Otvos,” Quaternary Research 57: 429-431.

Liu, K.B., Shen, C., and Louie, K.S., 2001. “A 1000-year history of typhoon landfalls in Guangdong, southern China, reconstructed from Chinese historical documentary records,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 91: 453-464.

Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L., 2000. “Reconstruction of prehistoric landfall frequencies of catastrophic hurricanes in northwestern Florida from lake sediment records,” Quaternary Research 54: 238-245.

Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L., 2000. “Holocene history of catastrophic hurricane landfalls along the Gulf of Mexico coast reconstructed from coastal lake and marsh sediments,” In Ning, Z.H. and Abdollahi, K.K. (eds.), Current Stresses and Potential Vulnerabilities: Implications of Global Change for the Gulf Coast Region of the United States, Gulf Coast Regional Climate Change Council, Franklin Press, Baton Rouge, pp. 38-47.

Elsner, J.B., Liu, K.B., and Kocher, B.L., 2000. “Spatial variations in major U.S. hurricane activity: Statistics and a physical mechanism,” Journal of Climate 13: 2293-2305.

Murnane, R.J., Barton, C., Collins, E., Donnelly, J., Elsner, J., Emanuel, K., Ginis, I., Howard, S., Landsea, C., Liu, K.B., Malmquist, D., McKay, M., Michaels, A., Nelson, N., O’Brien, J., Scott, D., Webb III, T., 2000. “Model estimates hurricane wind speed probabilities,” EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 81(38), 433-438.

Liu, K.B., 1999. “Millennial-scale variability in catastrophic hurricane landfalls along the Gulf of Mexico coast,” Preprint Volume of the 23rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 10-15 January, 1999, Dallas, American Meteorological Society, Boston, pp. 374-377.

Elsner, J.B., Liu, K.B., and Kocher, B.L., 1999. “Trends in hurricane landfall probabilities in the U.S.,” Preprint Volume of the 23rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 10-15 January, 1999, Dallas, Texas, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, pp. 384-387.

Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L., 1997. “Lake sediment records of hurricane Opal and prehistoric hurricanes from the Florida Panhandle,” Preprint Volume of the 22nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 19-23 May, 1997, Fort Collins, Colorado, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, pp. 397-398.

Fearn, M.L. and Liu, K.B., 1995. Maize pollen of 3500 B.P. from southern Alabama, American Antiquity 60: 109-117.

Liu, K.B. and Fearn, M.L., 1993. Lake-sediment record of late Holocene hurricane activities from coastal Alabama. Geology 21: 793-796.

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