Abraham Solomon

8301 Ashford Blvd #919

Laurel, MD 20707

(773)-746-1011

solomon@cola.iges.org

 

Born: 03/14/1980

         Columbus, Ohio

         U.S.A.

 

Academic and Employment History:

The Center for Ocean Land and Atmosphere   2011-2013

D.O.E. Postdoctoral Fellow – Earth System Modeling

 

The University of Chicago      2005-2011

PhD Atmospheric Science –Dynamics, General Circulation

Thesis: Lagrangian-Mean Diagnostics for the Dynamics of the Atmosphere

Teaching: Climate, Atmospheric Chemistry, Planetary Sci.

 

Florida International University        2003-2005

Adjunct Faculty – Mathematics

Teaching: Discrete Math, Algebra, Game Theory

 

The Ohio State University      2001-2003

MS – Mathematics, Dynamical Systems

Thesis: Hamiltonian Dynamics and Poincare Reduction

Teaching: Calculus I,II,III and  Business Math

 

University of California, Berkeley   1998-2001

BS – Engineering Physics, Wireless/Optical Design

 

Publications:

Solomon, A. , G. Chen and J. Lu (submitted), The Role of Barotropic Shear in the LC1/LC2 transition. J. Atmos. Sci.

 

Solomon, A. and N. Nakamura (in press), An Exact Lagrangian-Mean Wave Activity for Finite Amplitude Disturbances to Barotropic Flow on the Sphere. J. Fluid Mech.

 

Nakamura, N. and A. Solomon (2011) Finite Amplitude Wave Activity and Mean Flow Adjustments in the Atmospheric General Circulation. Part 2: Analysis in the Isentropic Coordinate. J. Atmos. Sci. doi: 10.1175/2011JAS3685.1

 

Nakamura, N. and A. Solomon (2011) Finite Amplitude Wave Activity and Mean Flow Adjustments in the Atmospheric General Circulation. Part 1: Quasigeostrophic Theory and Analysis. J. Atmos. Sci. Vol. 67, No 12  pp. 3967-3983

 

Solomon, A., and N. Nakamura (2008), Large-scale eddies in the upper troposphere and stratosphere diagnosed with quasi-conservative coordinates, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L22804

 

Additional Employment:

Superconductive Components Inc.

Columbus, OH 1996-1998

Lab manager, levitator design/development

 

Palm Beach Community College

Boca Raton, FL 2004-2005

Adjunct Faculty Mathematics

 

Awards:

National Merit Scholar 1999

McCormick Fellowship 2005