Larissa Back

NOAA Climate and Global Change Program Postdoctoral Fellow
Program in Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Sciences
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Office:
Room 1624 in Building 54 (Green Building)
Telephone: (617) 253-5938
email: lback(at)mit.edu

Mailing Address:
Building 54, Room 1624
Dept. of Earth, Atmos. and Planetary Sci.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139

Curriculum Vitae
Publications:

Back, L. E, and C. S. Bretherton (2006): Geographic variability in the export of moist static energy and vertical motion profiles in the tropical Pacific, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L17810, doi:10.1029/2006GL026672. Full text copy

Back, L. E, and C. S. Bretherton, 2005: The relationship between wind speed and precipitation in the Pacific ITCZ. J. Climate, 18, 4317-4328. Full text copy

Bretherton, C. S., M. E. Peters, and L. E. Back, 2004: Relationships between water vapor path and precipitation over the tropical oceans. J. Climate, 17, 1517-1528. Full text copy

In Review:

Back, L. E, and C. S. Bretherton, 2008: On the relationship between between SST gradients, boundary layer winds and convergence over the tropical oceans. J. Climate, submitted 12/07

Back, L. E, and C. S. Bretherton, 2008: A simple model of climatological precipitation and vertical motion patterns over the tropical oceans. J. Climate, submitted 12/07