Neil Tandon
Associate Professor
Department:
ESSE
Phone Number: 416-736-2100 x22076
Email: tandon@yorku.ca
Bio
Neil Tandon has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union and professional experience as a satellite systems engineer at Boeing. In 2013, Neil obtained his PhD in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics from Columbia University under the supervision of Prof. Lorenzo Polvani. Afterwards, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Paul Kushner at the University of Toronto, funded partially by the Canadian Sea Ice and Snow Evolution (CanSISE) Network. From 2016 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Climate Research Division of Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Neil’s research focuses on climate dynamics. He uses a combination of models, observations and mathematical analysis to investigate how motions in Earth’s atmosphere and ocean influence climate. His work has helped to clarify the physical processes driving long-term changes in the atmospheric circulation, with implications for desertification, cloud abundance, extreme precipitation and Arctic sea ice motion. He also investigates variability in the ocean circulation and its relationship to other aspects of climate variability.
Research Interests
- Climate dynamics
- Climate extremes
- Atmospheric dynamics
- Ocean dynamics
- Sea ice dynamics
Selected Publications
- N. F. Tandon, O. A. Saenko, M. A. Cane, and P. J. Kushner, 2019: Interannual variability of the global meridional overturning circulation dominated by Pacific variability. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 50, 559-574, doi:10.1175/JPO-D-19-0129.1.
- N. F. Tandon, P. J. Kushner, D. Docquier, J. J. Wettstein, and C. Li, 2018: Reassessing sea ice drift and its relationship to long term Arctic sea ice loss in coupled climate models. J. Geophys. Res., 123, 4338-4359, doi: 10.1029/2017JC013697.
- N. F. Tandon, X. Zhang, and A. H. Sobel, 2018: Understanding the dynamics of future changes in extreme precipitation intensity. Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, 2870-2878, doi:10.1002/2017GL076361.
- P. J. Kushner et al., 2018: Canadian snow and sea ice: assessment of snow, sea ice, and related climate processes in Canada’s earth system model and climate prediction system. Cryosphere, 12, 1137-1156, doi:10.5194/tc-12-1137-2018.
- D. Docquier, F. Massonnet, A. Barthélemy, N. F. Tandon, O. Lecomte, and T. Fichefet, 2017: Relationships between Arctic sea ice drift and strength modelled by NEMO-LIM3.6. Cryosphere, 11, 2829-2846, doi:10.5194/tc-11-2829-2017.
- N. F. Tandon and M. A. Cane, 2017: Which way will the circulation shift in a changing climate? Possible nonlinearity of extratropical cloud feedbacks. Climate Dyn., 48, 3759-3777, doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3301-6.
- N. F. Tandon and P. J. Kushner, 2015: Does external forcing interfere with the AMOC’s influence on North Atlantic sea surface temperature? J. Climate, 28, 6309-6323, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00664.1. [Handy schematic of North Atlantic variability.]
- N. F. Tandon, E. P. Gerber, A. H. Sobel, and L. M. Polvani, 2013: Understanding Hadley Cell expansion versus contraction: insights from simplified models and implications for recent observations. J. Climate, 26, 4304-4321, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00598.1.
- N. F. Tandon, L. M. Polvani, and S. M. Davis, 2011: The response of the tropospheric circulation to water vapor-like forcings in the stratosphere. J. Climate, 24, 5713-5720, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00069.1.
- S.-W. Son, N. F. Tandon, and L. M. Polvani, 2011: The fine-scale structure of the global tropopause derived from COSMIC GPS radio occultation measurements. J. Geophys. Res., 116, D20113, doi:10.1029/2011JD016030.
- S.-W. Son, N. F. Tandon, L. M. Polvani, and D. W. Waugh, 2009: Ozone hole and Southern Hemisphere climate change. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L15705, doi:10.1029/2009GL038671.