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Richard S. Lindzen
Affiliations
EAPS
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.
Selected Publications:
Giannitsis, C. and R.S. Lindzen, 2009: Nonlinear Saturation of Vertically Propagating Rossby Waves, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 66(4): 615-34
Lindzen, R.S., 2003: The Interaction of Waves and Convection in the Tropics, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 60: 3009-20
Lindzen, R.S., M.-D. Chou and A.Y. Hou, 2013: Does the Earth Have an Adaptive Infrared Iris?, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 82(3):417-32
Contact Information
t: 617-253-2432
e: rlindzen@mit.edu
w: http://eapsweb.mit.edu/people/rlindzen
Education
PhD, Harvard, 1964