K Shafer Smith

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.

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Personal Homepage:  http://math.nyu.edu/%7Eshafer/

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.