Adam Sobel
How to
contact me
I am a postdoc in the
Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University
of Washington,
supported by the
NOAA Postdoctoral Program in Climate and Global Change,
with host Prof.
Chris Bretherton.
I did my PhD with Prof. Alan
Plumb at MIT,
in what is now the Program
in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (previously the Center for
Meteorology and Physical Oceanography),
within the
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
Research Interests
Atmospheric dynamics.
Tropical meteorology, including the interaction
between convection and large-scale nonconvective
dynamics. Dynamics and tracer transport in the
stratosphere, including stratosphere-troposphere exchange.
Tracer transport and mixing in idealized flows.
Publications
(and manuscripts in review or press)
Gettelman and Sobel 1998:
Direct Diagnoses of Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange
Submitted to the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences,
7/98.
Sobel and Bretherton 1998:
Development of Synoptic-Scale Disturbances over the
Summertime Tropical Northwest Pacific
Submitted to the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences,
4/98; accepted subject to minor revision.
Sobel 1998:
Diffusion vs. Nonlocal Models of Stratospheric Mixing, in Theory
and Practice
Submitted to the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 3/98;
revised 8/98.
Sobel and Plumb 1998:
Quantitative Diagnostics of Mixing in a Shallow-Water Model of the
Stratosphere
Submitted to the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences,
1/98.
Sobel, Plumb, and Waugh 1997:
Methods of Computing Transport across the Polar Vortex Edge
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 54, 2241-2260.
Goody and Sobel 1996:
A Graduate Radiation Course Based upon Numerical Methods
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77, 2919-2924.
Listen to what the critics are saying:
"My impression is that
the author is a young and enthusiastic researcher."
---anonymous reviewer, writing about "Diffusion vs. nonlocal
models of stratospheric mixing, in theory and practice"
(didn't like the paper too much though).
Eli Charney Sobel