Richard S. Lindzen
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Professor
PhD
Phone: (617)253-2432
Address:
54-1720
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA
Email: rlindzen@mit.edu
Current research interests:
Atmospheric general circulation, hydrodynamic shear instability and nonlinear equilibration, climate feedbacks from clouds and water vapor, and tropical meteorology including the parameterization of cumulus convection.
Group:
Postdocs
Yong-Sang Choi
Recent graduates:
Roberto Rondanelli, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Pablo Zurita-Gotor, Princeton and Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
Publications
R.S. Lindzen, M.-D. Chou, and A.Y. Hou (2001) "Does the Earth have an adaptive infrared iris?" Bull. Amer. Met. Soc. 82, 417-432.
Lindzen, R.S. (2003) "The Interaction of Waves and Convection in the Tropics" J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 3009-3020.
Giannitsis, C. and R.S. Lindzen (2009) "Non-linear saturation of vertically propagating Rossby waves" J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 915-934.
Rondanelli, R. and R.S. Lindzen (2010) "Clouds and the Early Faint Sun Paradox" J.Geophys. Res. in press.
