Richard S. Lindzen

Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology
PhD, 1964, Harvard University
Phone: (617)253-2432

Address:
54-1720
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA

Email: rlindzen@mit.edu

Interests

Atmospheric general circulation, hydrodynamic shear instability and nonlinear equilibration, climate feedbacks from clouds and water vapor, and tropical meteorology including the parameterization of cumulus convection.

Group

Graduate students

Mauro Braunstein

Publications

(Downloadable Publications)

R.S. Lindzen, M.-D. Chou, and A.Y. Hou (2001) "Does the Earth have an adaptive infrared iris?" Bull. Amer. Met. Soc. 82, 417-432.

G. Roe and R.S. Lindzen (2001) "The mutual interaction between continental-scale ice sheets and atmospheric stationary waves" J. Climate, 14, 1450-1465.

Lindzen, R.S. and C. Giannitsis (2002) "Reconciling observations of global temperature change" Geophys. Res. Ltrs. 29, (26 June) 10.1029/2001GL014074