Timothy M. Merlis

email: tmerlis ... caltech ... edu

present: graduate student - Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology

past: undergrad - Applied Mathematics, Columbia University

Research topics: climate dynamics, general circulation and turbulence of the atmosphere, water vapor, baroclinic instability, numerical methods

AGU 2007 Idealized GCM poster session (photo: Fabien Paulot).

publications:

Merlis, T. M. and T. Schneider, 2009: Scales of linear baroclinic instability and macroturbulence in dry atmospheres. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66, 1821-1833. pdf

Merlis, T. M. and S. Khatiwala, 2008: Fast dynamical spin-up of ocean general circulation models using Newton-Krylov methods. Ocean Modelling, 21, 97-105. pdf