Thomas Spengler

Postdoctorial Research Associate Phone: (+1) 609 452 5380 Fax: (+1) 609 987 5063 Email: thomas.spengler (at) noaa.gov Research group: Weather and Atmospheric Dynamics

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

• Rossby Waves
• Tropical-Extratropical Interactions
• Teleconnections
• Baroclinic Instability
• Heat Lows
• Alpine Valley Winds
• Flow over and around Greenland

Publications

• Moore, R.W., Martius, O. and Spengler, T., 2010: The Modulation of the Subtropical and Extratropical Atmosphere in the Pacific Basin in Response to the Madden Julian Oscillation. Mon. Wea. Rev., accepted
• Våge, K., Spengler, T., Davies, H.C. and Pickart, R.S., 2009: Multi-event analysis of the westerly Greenland tip jet based upon 45 winters in ERA-40. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., OCT B,
  
• Spengler, T. and Egger, J., 2009: Comments on "Dry-Season Precipitation in Tropical West Africa and Its Relation to Forcing from the Extratropics". Mon. Wea. Rev., 137,3149-3150
• Spengler, T., Ablinger M., Schween, J. H., Zängl G. and Egger, J., 2008: Thermally driven Flows at an asymmetric valley exit: Observations and Model Studies at the Lech Valley exit. Mon. Wea. Rev., 3437-3455
• Spengler, T. and Smith, R. K., 2008: The dynamics of heat lows over flat terrain. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., Vol. 134, Oct B, 2157-2172
• Spengler, T., Reeder, M. J. and Smith, R. K., 2005: The Dynamics of Heat Lows in Simple Background Flows. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., Vol. 131, Oct B, 3147-3166
• Jackson, G. E., Smith, R. K. and Spengler, T., 2002: The Prediction of low-level convergence lines over northeastern Australia. Aust. Meteor. Mag., 51, 13-23.