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Research Interests: Atmospheric, oceanic, and planteary science; geophysical fluid dynamics; computational fluid dynamics.

Professor Polvani is the Director of the IGERT Joint Program in Applied Mathematics and Earth and Environmental Science, a multidisciplinary interdepartmental graduate program sponsored by the National Science Foundation. For more information, please visit the URL http://www.apam.columbia.edu/igert.

Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
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lmp@columbia.edu

APMA E4200x Partial Differential Equations
APPH E4210y Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

L.M. Polvani and D.W. Waugh: Upward Wave Activity Flux as Precursor to Extreme Stratospheric Events and Subsequent Anomalous Surface Weather Regimes, to appear in J. Clim. (2003)

L.M. Polvani and P.J. Kushner: Tropospheric response to stratospheric perturbations in a relatively simple general circulation model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, no. 7, 10.129/2001GL014284 (2002).

L.M. Polvani and A.H. Sobel: The Hadley circulation and the weak temperature gradient approximation, J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 1744-1752 (2002).

L. Rivier, R. Loft and L.M. Polvani: An efficient spectral dynamical core for distributed memory computers, Mon. Weather Rev., 130, 1384-1396 (2002).

L.M. Polvani and R. Saravanan: The three-dimensional structure of breaking Rossby waves in the polar wintertime stratosphere, J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 3663-3685 (2000).