2003 - Ph.D. (Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences), Princeton
University
1996 - M.Sc. (Physics), Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
1993 - B.Sc. (Physics), Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
Research Interests
Intraseasonal oscillation
Tropical-extratropical interaction
Summertime synoptic-scale and tropical cyclone activity
Air-sea interaction
Scientific Work Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow, International Pacific Research Center, SOEST,
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 2003–May 2006
Research Assistant, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Program, Princeton University, 1998–2003
Research Assistant, Physics Department, Chinese University of Hong
Kong, 1994–1996
Publications
Tam, C., and T. Li: The origin and dispersion characteristics of
the observed tropical summertime synoptic-scale waves over the western
Pacific. Mon. Wea. Rev., in press.
Tam, C.-Y., and N.-C. Lau, 2005: Modulation of the
Madden-Julian Oscillation by ENSO: Inferences from observations and GCM simulations. J. Met. Soc. Japan, 83,
727–743.
Tam, C.-Y., and N.-C. Lau, 2005: The Impact of ENSO on
atmospheric intraseasonal variability as inferred from observations
and GCM simulations. J. Climate, 18, 1902–1924.
Smith, K.S., G. Boccaletti, C.C. Henning, I.N. Marinov, C.Y. Tam, I.M. Held, and G.K. Vallis,
2002: Turbulent Diffusion in the Geostrophic Inverse Cascade. J. Fluid
Mech., 469, 13–48.
Physics-related:
Leung, P.T., Y.T. Liu, W.M. Suen, C.Y. Tam, and
K. Young, 1998:
Logarithmic perturbation theory for quasinormal modes. J. Phys. A.,
31 (14), 3271–3286.
Leung, P.T., Y.T. Liu, C.Y. Tam, and K. Young, 1998: Numerical
solution for quasinormal modes for potentials with exponential tails.
Phys. Lett.A.,247, 253–260.
Leung, P.T., Y.T. Liu, W.M. Suen, C.Y. Tam, and K. Young, 1997: Quasinormal modes for dirty black holes. Phys. Rev. Lett., 78
(15), 2894–2897.