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Chi-Yung Francis Tam Postdoctoral Fellow[Past Staff] International Pacific Research Center School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 Email: |
Education
- 2003 - Ph.D. (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences), Princeton University
- 1996 - M.Sc. (Physics), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- 1993 - B.Sc. (Physics), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Research Interests
- Intraseasonal oscillation
- Tropical-extratropical interaction
- Summertime synoptic-scale and tropical cyclone activity
- Air-sea interaction
Scientific Work Experience
- Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, SOEST, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2003 – May 2006
- Research Assistant, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton University, 1998 – 2003
- Research Assistant, Physics Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994 – 1996
Publications
- Tam, C., and T. Li: The origin and dispersion characteristics of the observed tropical summertime synoptic-scale waves over the western Pacific. Mon. Wea. Rev., in press.
- Tam, C.-Y., and N.-C. Lau, 2005: Modulation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation by ENSO: Inferences from observations and GCM simulations. J. Met. Soc. Japan, 83, 727 – 743.
- Tam, C.-Y., and N.-C. Lau, 2005: The Impact of ENSO on atmospheric intraseasonal variability as inferred from observations and GCM simulations. J. Climate, 18, 1902 – 1924.
- 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.
Physics-related:
- Leung, P.T., Y.T. Liu, W.M. Suen, C.Y. Tam, and K. Young, 1998: Logarithmic perturbation theory for quasinormal modes. J. Phys. A., 31 (14), 3271 – 3286.
- Leung, P.T., Y.T. Liu, C.Y. Tam, and K. Young, 1998: Numerical solution for quasinormal modes for potentials with exponential tails. Phys. Lett. A., 247, 253 – 260.
- Leung, P.T., Y.T. Liu, W.M. Suen, C.Y. Tam, and K. Young, 1997: Quasinormal modes for dirty black holes. Phys. Rev. Lett., 78 (15), 2894 – 2897.