email: tmerlis ... princeton ... edu
office: 415 Jadwin Hall / 234 GFDL
present: Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton Center for Theoretical Science and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (hosted by Isaac Held)
past: Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering, California Institute of Technology (advised by Tapio Schneider)
B.S. in Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
research topics: climate dynamics, tropical meteorology, ocean-atmosphere general circulation, atmospheric water vapor, baroclinic instability
publications:
Merlis, T. M., T. Schneider, S. Bordoni, and I. Eisenman, 2012: The tropical precipitation response to orbital precession. Journal of Climate, submitted. pdf
Merlis, T. M., T. Schneider, S. Bordoni, and I. Eisenman, 2012: Hadley circulation response to orbital precession. Part II: Subtropical continent. Journal of Climate, submitted. pdf
Merlis, T. M., T. Schneider, S. Bordoni, and I. Eisenman, 2012: Hadley circulation response to orbital precession. Part I: Aquaplanets. Journal of Climate, submitted. pdf
Merlis, T. M. and T. Schneider, 2011: Changes in zonal surface temperature gradients and Walker circulations in a wide range of climates. Journal of Climate, 24, 4757-4768. pdf Official version
Merlis, T. M. and T. Schneider, 2010:
Atmospheric dynamics of Earth-like tidally locked aquaplanets.
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2, Art. #13.
pdf
Official version
GCM code
correction
Zonal wind animations: slow rotation,
rapid rotation.
Animation webpage for tidally locked simulations using a coupled GCM (not peer-reviewed).
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 Official version
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 Official version
Ph.D. thesis: Merlis, T. M. 2012 (defended July 2011): The general circulation of the tropical atmosphere and climate changes. pdf Official version
code: here