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Assistant Professor
of
Mathematics, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science
Ph.D., 1999 (Physics), University of California, Santa Cruz; B.S., 1992 (Physics and Mathematics), Indiana University, Bloomington.
Email:
Personal Homepage:
http://math.nyu.edu/%7Eshafer/
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Areas of Research/Interest: Large-scale atmospheric and oceanic dynamics, geostrophic turbulence, waves and instabilities, eddy parameterization, balanced dynamics, and climate dynamics.
External Affiliations: American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society.
Selected Works:
Smith, K. S., 2007:
Eddy amplitudes in baroclinic turbulence driven by non-zonal mean
flow: Shear dispersion of potential vorticity. J. Phys. Ocean.,
(in press).
Tulloch, R. and K. S. Smith, 2006: A new theory for the atmospheric
energy spectrum: Depth-limited temperature anomalies at the
tropopause. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 103, 14690-14694.
Smith, K. S., 2005: Tracer transport along and across coherent jets in
two-dimensional turbulent flow. J. Fluid Mech., 544,
133-142.
Smith, K. S., 2004: A local model for planetary atmospheres forced
by small-scale convection. J. Atmos.
Sci., 61, 1420--1433.
Smith, K. S., G. Boccaletti, C. C. Henning, I. N. Marinov, C. Y. Tam,
I. M. Held and G. K. Vallis, 2002: Turbulent diffusion in the
geostrophic inverse cascade. J. Fluid Mech., 469,
13--48.
