Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Adam H. Sobel studies weather and climate, with a focus on extreme weather events and a particular interest in the tropics. Phenomena include tropical cyclones, intraseasonal variability, precipitation, severe convection, and climate change.
- Postdoctoral fellow, University of Washington, 1997-1999
- Professor of applied physics and applied mathematics and earth and environmental science, Columbia University, 2010-
- Associate professor of applied physics and applied mathematics and earth and environmental science, Columbia University, 2003–2010
- Assistant professor of applied physics and applied mathematics and earth and environmental science, Columbia University, 2000–2003
- American Meteorological Society
- American Geophysical Union
- AMS Louis J. Battan Author’s Award for Storm Surge, 2016
- AGU (Atmospheric Sciences Section) Ascent Award, 2014
- Atmospheric Science Librarians International Choice Award (Popular Category) for Storm Surge (see publications), 2014
- AXA Award from the AXA Research Fund, 2013
- AMS Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, 2010
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Award for Excellence in Mentoring, 2010
- AMS Editor’s award for Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2009
- NASA New Investigator Award, 2001
- Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, 2000
- Sobel, A. H., and C. S. Bretherton, 2000: Modeling tropical precipitation in a single column. J. Climate, 13, 4378-4392.
- Sobel, A. H., J. Nilsson, and L. M. Polvani, 2001: The weak temperature gradient approximation and balanced tropical moisture waves. J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 3650-3665.
- Camargo, S. J., and A. H. Sobel, 2005: Western north Pacific tropical cyclone intensity and ENSO. J. Climate, 18, 2996-3006.
- Sobel, A. H., E. D. Maloney, G. Bellon, and D. M. Frierson, 2008: The role of surface fluxes in tropical intraseasonal oscillations. Nature Geoscience, 1, 653-657.
- Tippett, M. K., S. J. Camargo and A. H. Sobel, 2012: Association of U.S. tornado occurrence with monthly environmental parameters. Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L02801, doi:10.1029/2011GL050368.
- Sobel, A. H., and E. D. Maloney, 2013: Moisture modes and the eastward propagation of the MJO. J. Atmos. Sci., 70, 187-192.
- Sobel, A. H., S. J. Camargo, T. M. Hall, C.-Y. Lee, M. K. Tippett, and A. A. Wing, 2016: Human influence on tropical cyclone intensity. Science, 353, 242- 246, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf6574.
- Lee, C.-Y., M. K. Tippett, A. H. Sobel, and S. J. Camargo, 2016a: Rapid intensification and the bimodal distribution of tropical cyclone intensity. Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10625.
- Nie, J., D. A. Shaevitz, and A. H. Sobel (2016), Forcings and feedbacks on convection in the 2010 Pakistan flood: Modeling extreme precipitation with interactive large-scale ascent, Journal of Advances in Modeling the Earth System, 8, 1055–1072, doi:10.1002/2016MS000663.
- A. H. Sobel, 2014: Storm Surge: Hurricane Sandy, Our Changing Climate, and Extreme Weather of the Past and Future, Harper-Collins, published October 2014. (Popular science.)