Timothy M. Merlis

email: tmerlis ... caltech ... edu

present: California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering

past: Columbia University, Applied Mathematics

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

Left: AGU 2007 Idealized GCM poster session (photo: Fabien Paulot). Right: Global biogeochemical cycles class field trip organized by Alex Session (photo: Xinning Zhang).

Merlis, T.M. and T. Schneider: Scales of linear baroclinic instability and atmospheric macroturbulence. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, ...

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

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