Ed•win P. Ger•ber |ĕd’wĭn pē gûr’bûr|

noun

1. Climate scientist, currently an Assistant Professor in the Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

2. Cyclist, harmonica player, fledgling cook, outdoors enthusiast trying out the city life, adventurer, day dreamer, and concerned citizen.

3. Son, brother, husband, and father.

DERIVATIVES Ed Gerber, Eddie (dated)

ORIGIN Forename from my grandfather Edwin Rosenthaler (1921-1963), who was named after his grandfather, Edwin Howe (1868-?). P for Paul, also the middle name of my father. Surname traced as far back as my great-great-great-grandfather Abraham Gerber (?-1919), originally from Holland. His son Abel (1867-1931) had immigrated to Grand Rapids, MI by 1889.

• April 2013 Please see our paper on
  • eddy feedbacks and the time scales of jet variability in a two layer QG model, submitted to JAS.

• March 2013 Papers, revised and in print:
  • compensation between gravity waves and resolved waves, revised for JAS.
  • finally in print in the Journal of Climate: The Effect of Tropospheric Jet Latitude on Coupling between the Stratospheric Polar Vortex and the Troposphere.
  • and now in print in JGR, the representation of the stratosphere in CMIP5 models

• January 2013
  • Just accepted in JAS: the impact of high latitude waves on tropical upwelling in the stratosphere

• December 2012 Please see our paper on
  • the Hadley Cell response to ENSO vs. global warming, just accepted in J. Climate,

• October 2012
  • Our position paper on climate processes was accepted for publication as part of a monograph summarizing last fall's WCRP Open Science Conference.
  • Now in print: The role of stratosphere-troposphere coupling in the occurrence of extreme winter cold spells over Northern Europe.

• September 2012
  • In this month's issue of JAS: Stratospheric versus Tropospheric Control of the Strength and Structure of the Brewer-Dobson Circulation

• July 2012 Two manuscripts now in print! Please see our papers on
  • the stratosphere's role in weather and climate in BAMS and
  • the potential role of dynamical regimes in abrupt climate change in J. Climate.

• APOD

• The CAOS Colloquium

• a nice guide to laTex

linux and mac notes •

running your own GCM •

a talk on how to survive grad school •