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Koh, Tieh-Yong

Assistant Professor
School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University
1 Nanyang Walk, Blk 5, Level 3, Singapore 637616
Tel: +65-6316-2966, Fax: +65-6794-1325, E-mail: kohty@ntu.edu.sg

Academic Preparation:

• Imperial College (Physics), B.Sc. (Hons I), 1994
• MIT (Atmospheric Sciences), Ph.D. 2001

Appointments:

• Assistant Professor, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (SPMS/NTU), 2004-Present
• Research Scientist, Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore (TL@NUS), 2001-2004
• Visiting Scientist, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Polytéchnique, 2001

Honors:

• SPMS, Teaching Award, 2006, 2007
• MIT, Jule Charney Prize, 1996-1999
• University of London, Granville Prize, 1994
• Imperial College, Governors' Prize, 1994

Recent Publications:

• Koh, T. Y. and R. A. Plumb (2000), "Lobe dynamics applied to barotropic Rossbywave breaking", Physics of Fluids, 12(6), pp. 1518-1528
• Koh, T. Y. and B. Legras (2002), "Hyperbolic lines and the stratospheric polar vortex", Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, 12(2), pp. 382- 394
• Koh, T. Y. and R. A. Plumb (2004), "Isentropic zonal average formalism and the near-surface circulation", Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 130(600), pp. 1631-1654

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