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Associate Professor
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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:
Phone:
212-998-3176
Office Address:
251 Mercer Street
New York, NY 10012
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. and R. Ferrari, 2009: The production and dissipation of compensated thermohaline variance by mesoscale stirring. J. Phys. Ocean., 39, 2477-2501.
Tulloch, R., J. Marshall and K. S. Smith, 2009: Interpretation of the propagation of surface altimetric observations in terms of planetary waves and geostrophic turbulence. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 114, C02005, doi:10.1029/2008JC005055.
Tulloch, R. and K. S. Smith, 2009: Quasigeostrophic turbulence with explicit surface dynamics: Application to the atmospheric energy spectrum. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 450-467.
Smith, K. S. and J. Marshall, 2009: Evidence for enhanced eddy mixing at mid-depth in the Southern Ocean. J. Phys. Ocean., 39, 50-69.
Smith, K. S., 2007: Eddy amplitudes in baroclinic turbulence driven by non-zonal mean flow: Shear dispersion of potential vorticity. J. Phys. Ocean., 37, 1037-1050.
