R. Alan Plumb

B.Sc. (Manchester), Ph.D. (Manchester), F.R.S.

Professor of Meteorology
Director, Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate

Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
M.I.T.


Curriculum vitae

Courses

Undergraduate

• 12.333 Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulations

Graduate

• 12.810 Dynamics of the Atmosphere
  
  
• 12.831 Dynamics and Transport in the Stratosphere

MIT online course catalog

My research group

Postdocs

• Ivana Cerovecki
  ---ocean eddy transport

Graduate students

• Michael Ring
  ---dynamics of annular modes
  
• Cegeon Chan
  ---atmospheric dynamics
  
• Angela Zalucha
  
  
• Scott Stransky
  

Publications

• Publications
• Preprints: list of submitted papers with links

Recent Research

• Dynamics of the Brewer-Dobson Circulation
• Nonlinear dynamics of divergent anticyclones and eddy shedding from the upper tropospheric Tibetan High
• The distribution of "age" in the stratosphere
• Mixing into the polar vortices
• Tracer modeling during the SOLVE campaign

MIT links

Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate Home Page
Center for Global Change Science Home Page
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Home Page
MIT Home Page

Last updated 20 Feb 2006