Publications

Malloy, K., Faranda, D., and Tippett, M.K. (2025). Observations-only Event Attribution of Climate Change Influence on Recent U.S. Tornado Outbreaks. Earth’s Future, in prep.

Malloy, K., Fricker, T., Schroder, Z., and Burow, D. (2025). Exploring Recent Changes in Tornado Activity via an Environment-based Tornado Count Model for CMIP6 Applications. J. Climate, in revision.

Malloy, K. and Tippett, M.K. (2025). A Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS)-based Synthetic Event Set of US Tornado Outbreaks. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, in revision.

Kirtman, B.P., et al., (2025). A Simplified Physics Atmosphere General Circulation Model for Idealized Climate Dynamics Studies. Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0196.1.

Malloy, K. and Tippett, M.K. (2025). Forecasting U.S. Tornado Outbreak Activity and Associated Environments in the Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS). Wea. Forecasting, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-24-0138.1

Tippett, M.K., Malloy, K., and Lee, S.H. (2024). Modulation of U.S. tornado activity by year-round North American weather regimes. Mon. Wea. Review, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-24-0016.1.

Malloy, K. and Tippett, M.K. (2024). A Stochastic Statistical Model for U.S. Outbreak-level Tornado Occurrence based on the Large-scale Environment. Mon. Wea. Review, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-23-0219.1.

Malloy, K., Tippett, M.K., and Koshak, W.J. (2023). ENSO and MJO Modulation of U.S. Cloud-to-ground Lightning Activity. Mon. Wea. Review, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-23-0157.1.

Malloy, K. and Kirtman, B.P. (2023). Subseasonal Great Plains Rainfall via Remote Extratropical Teleconnections: Regional Application of Theory-guided Causal Networks. JGR: Atmospheres, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD037795

Malloy, K. and Kirtman, B.P. (2022). The Summer Asia-North America Teleconnection and its Modulation by ENSO in Community Atmosphere Model, Version 5 (CAM5). Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06205-4

Malloy, K. and Kirtman, B.P. (2020). Predictability of Midsummer Great Plains Low-Level Jet and Associated Precipitation. Wea. Forecasting, 35, 215–235, https://doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-19-0103.1.

Mahoney, K., D. Swales, M.J. Mueller, M. Alexander, M. Hughes, and K. Malloy. (2018). An Examination of an Inland-Penetrating Atmospheric River Flood Event under Potential Future Thermodynamic Conditions. J. Climate, 31, 6281–6297, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0118.1.

Education

Ph.D.: University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science | 2022
    Department of Atmospheric Sciences
    Thesis: Predictability of U.S. Great Plains Summer Hydroclimate via Extratropical Teleconnections
    Adviser: Ben P. Kirtman

B.S.: University of Maryland, College Park | 2017
    Honors College, Departmental Honors
    Atmospheric & Oceanic Science
    Minor: Geography-Remote Sensing of Environmental Change

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware

January 2025-Present

Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University

August 2022-December 2024
Supervisor: Michael K. Tippett

External Projects and Service

Member, US CLIVAR Predictability, Predictions, and Applications Interface (PPAI) Panel | Present Member, Center for Research in Wind (CReW) at Univ. Delaware | Present Co-founder, Writer, Editor, Seasoned Chaos blog about subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting | Present
Reviewer, ORCID: (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1989-7490)
Mentor, Geosciences Education & Mentorship Support (GEMS) | 2022-2024