CV
Here is a more formal 2 page resume, and a full curriculum vitae in PDF format. They are updated less frequently than this page.
Research Interests
- Climate variability on intraseasonal to interannual time scales
- Anthropogenic impacts on climate
- Atmospheric dynamics and circulation
- Stratosphere-troposphere interactions
Education
Experience
- 2008-present: Professor of Atmospheric Ocean Science and Mathematics
2019-present: Director of Graduate Studies, PhD Program in Atmosphere Ocean Science and Mathematics
- 2011, 2014-2015: Visiting Scientist
- 2006-2008: Postdoctoral Research Scientist
- 2002-2006: Research Assistant
2001: Summer Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole MA
2000: SCAMP Summer Program in Mathematical Cryptology, Institute for Defense Analysis, CCR-P , Princeton NJ
1999: Director’s Summer Program (Mathematics), Department of Defense, Fort Meade MD
- 1998: REU Program in Chemistry, University of Vermont, Burlington VT
Professional Service
Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 2013-present
Member, Scientific Steering Group and Co-chair (2013-2019), DynVar (Dynamics and Variability) Activity of the Stratosphere-Troposphere Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC) Project, World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). 2010-present
Co-chair of the DynVar Model Intercomparison Project for the Coupled Model Intercomparision Project, Phase 6 (CMIP6). 2014-present
Member, Scientific Steering Group, VolMIP (Model Intercomparison Project on the climate response to Volcanic forcing) for the CMIP6. 2014-present
Member, International Commission on the Middle Atmosphere of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science (IAMAS). 2019-present.
Chair, Middle Atmosphere Committee, American Meteorological Society. 2012-17
Member, Scientific Steering Group, World Climate Research Programme’s Stratosphere-Troposphere Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC) Project. 2013-2015
Panel Member, National Science Foundation. 2011, 2018
Reviewer, Journals: Atmos.-Ocean, Climate Dynamics, Geophys. Res. Lett., Me- teor. Zeitschrift, Mon. Weather Rev., J. Atmos. Sci., J. Climate, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., Nature Climate Change, Nature Geoscience, Quarterly J. Royal Met. Soc. , Proposals: British Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), French National Research Agency (ANR), German-Israeli Foundation (GIF), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Science Foundation (NSF), Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF). 2004-present
Publications
Ayarzagüena, B., A. J. Charlton-Perez, A. H. Butler, P. Hitchcock, I. R. Simpson, L. M. Polvani, N. Butchart, E. P. Gerber, L. Gray, B. Hassler, P. Lin, F. Lott, E. Manzini, R. Mizuta, C. Orbe, S. Osprey, D. Saint-Martin, M. Sigmond, M. Taguchi, E. M. Volodin, S. Watanabe, 2020: Uncertainty in the response of sudden stratospheric warmings and stratosphere-troposphere coupling to quadrupled CO2 concentrations in CMIP6 models, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., in press, doi:10.1029/2019JD032345.
White, I., C. I. Garfinkel, E. P. Gerber, M. Jucker, P. Hitchcock, and J. Rao, 2020: The generic nature of the tropospheric response to sudden stratospheric warmings, J. Climate., in press, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0697.1.
Garfinkel, C. I., I. White, E. P. Gerber, M. Jucker, and M. Erez, 2020: The building blocks of Northern Hemisphere wintertime stationary waves, J. Climate., in press, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0181.1.
Gerber, E. P., K. DallaSanta, and A. Gupta, 2019: Imagining Simpler Worlds to Understand the Complexity of Our Own, J. Adv. in Model. Earth Syst., 11, 2862–2867, doi:10.1029/2019MS001753.
Maher, P., E. P. Gerber, B. Medeiros, T. Merlis, S. Sherwood, A. Sheshadri, A. Sobel, G. Vallis, A. Voigt, and P. Zurita-Gotor, 2019: Model hierarchies for understanding atmospheric circulation, Rev. Geophys., 57, 250-280, doi:10.1029/2018RG000607.
DallaSanta, K., E. P. Gerber, and M. Toohey, 2019: The Circulation Response to Volcanic Eruptions: The Key Roles of Stratospheric Warming and Eddy Interactions, J. Climate, 32, 1101-1120, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0099.1.
Butler, A., A. Charlton-Perez, D. I. V. Domeisen, C. Garfinkel, E. P. Gerber, P. Hitchcock, A. Y. Karpechko, A. C. Maycock, M. Sigmond, I. Simpson, and S.-W. Son, 2019: Sub-seasonal Predictability and the Stratosphere, Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Prediction: The Gap Between Weather and Climate Forecasting, A. W. Robserton and F. Vitart, Eds., 223-241, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-811714-9.00011-5.
White, I., C. Garfinkel, E. P. Gerber, M. Jucker, V. Aquila, and L. Oman, 2019: The Downward Influence of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings: Association with Tropospheric Precursors, J. Climate, 32, 85-108 doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0053.1.
Gerber, E. P. and P. Martineau, 2018: Quantifying the variability of the annular modes: Reanalysis uncertainty vs. sampling uncertainty. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 17099-17117, doi:10.5194/acp-18-17099-2018.
Vallis, G. K., G. Colyer, R. Geen, E. P. Gerber, M. Jucker, P. Maher, A. Paterson, M. Pietschnig, J. Penn, and S. I. Thomson, 2018: Isca, v1.0: A Framework for the Global Modelling of the Atmospheres of Earth and Other Planets at Varying Levels of Complexity. Geosci. Model. Dev., 11, 843-859, doi:10.5194/gmd-11-843-2018.
Butler, A. and E. P. Gerber, 2018: Optimizing the definition of a sudden stratospheric warming. J. Climate, 31, 2337-2344, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0648.1.
Linz, M., R. A. Plumb, E. P. Gerber, F. J. Haenel, G. Stiller, D. E. Kinnison, A. Ming, and J. L. Neu, 2017: The strength of the meridional overturning circulation of the stratosphere, Nature Geo., 10, 663-667, doi:10.1038/ngeo3013.
Jucker, M. and E. P. Gerber, 2017: Untangling the annual cycle of the tropical tropopause layer with an idealized moist model, J. Climate, 30, 7339-7358, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0127.1.
Kim, J., S.-W. Son, E. P. Gerber, and H.-S. Park, 2017: Defining Sudden Stratospheric Warmings in Models: Accounting for Biases in Model Climatologies, J. Climate, 30, 5529-5546, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0465.1
Fujiwara, M., Wright, J., and 34 coauthors (including E. P. Gerber), 2017: Introduction to the SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (SRIP) and overview of the reanalysis systems, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 1417-1452, doi:10.5194/acp-17-1417-2017.
Gerber, E. P. and D. W. J. Thompson, 2017: What makes an annular mode annular? J. Atmos. Sci., 74, 317-332, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-16-0191.1.
Linz, M., R. A. Plumb, E. P. Gerber, and A. Sheshadri 2016: The relationship between age of air and the diabatic circulation of the stratosphere, J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 4507-4518, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-16-0125.1.
Gerber, E. P. and E. Manzini, 2016: The Dynamics and Variability Model Intercomparison Project (DynVarMIP) for CMIP6: Assessing the stratosphere–troposphere system, Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 3413-3425, doi:10.5194/gmd-9-3413-2016.
Pendergrass, A. and E. P. Gerber, 2016: The rain is askew: Two idealized models relating the vertical velocity and precipitation distributions in a warming world, J. Climate, 29, 6445-6462, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0097.1.
Zanchettin, D. and 23 coauthors (including E. P. Gerber), 2016: The Model Intercomparison Project on the climatic response to Volcanic forcing (VolMIP): Experimental design and forcing input data, Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 2701-2719, doi:10.5194/gmd-9-2701-2016.
Tripathi, O. P., M. Baldwin, A. Charlton-Perez, M. Charron, J. C. H. Cheung, S. D. Eckermann, E. Gerber, D. R. Jackson, Y. Kuroda, A. Lang, J. McLay, R. Mizuta, C. Reynolds, G. Roff, M. Sigmond, S.-W. Son, and T. Stockdale, 2016: Examining the Predictability of the Stratospheric Sudden Warming of January 2013 Using Multiple NWP Systems, Mon. Wea. Rev., 144, 1935-1960 doi:10.1175/MWR-D-15-0010.1.
Oberlaender-Hayn, S., E. P. Gerber, J. Abalichin, H. Akiyoshi, A. Kerschbaumer, A. Kubin, M. Kunze, U. Langematz, S. Meul, M. Michou, O. Morgenstern and L. D. Oman, 2016: Is the Brewer-Dobson circulation increasing, or moving upward? Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, doi:10.1002/2015GL067545.
Wenzel, S., V. Eyring, E. P. Gerber and A. Yu. Karpechko 2016: Constraining Future Austral Jet Stream Position and Shifts in the CMIP5 Ensemble by Process-oriented Multiple Diagnostic Regression, J. Climate, 9, 673-687, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0412.1.
Li, X., E. P. Gerber, D. H. Holland, and C. Yoo, 2015: Rossby Waves Mediate Impacts of Tropical Oceans on West Antarctic Atmospheric Circulation in Austral Winter. J. Climate, 28, 8151-8164, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0113.1.
Sheshadri, A., R. A. Plumb, and E. P. Gerber, 2015: Seasonal Variability of the Polar Stratospheric Vortex in an Idealized AGCM with Varying Tropospheric Wave Forcing. J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 2256–2273, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-14-0191.1.
Li, X., E. P. Gerber, D. H. Holland, and C. Yoo, 2015: A Rossby Wave Bridge from the Tropical Atlantic to West Antarctica. J. Climate, 28, 2256–2273, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00450.1.
Zurita-Gotor, P., J. Blanco-Fuentes, and E. P. Gerber, 2014: The impact of baroclinic eddy feedback on the persistence of jet variability in the two layer model. J. Atmos. Sci., 71, 410-429, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-13-0102.1.
Cohen, N. Y., E. P. Gerber, and O. Buhler, 2014: What drives the Brewer-Dobson Circulation? J. Atmos. Sci., 71, 3837-3855, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-14-0021.1.
Tripathi, O. and 15 Coauthors (including E. P. Gerber), 2014: Review: The Predictability of the Extra-tropical Stratosphere on monthly timescales and its Impacts on the Skill of Tropospheric Forecasts. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 141, 987-1003, doi:10.1002/qj.2432.
Gerber, E. P. and S.-W. Son, 2014: Quantifying the Summertime Response of the Austral Jet Stream and Hadley Cell to Stratospheric Ozone and Greenhouse Gases. J. Climate, 27, 5538-5559, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00539.1.
Manzini, E., A. Yu. Karpechko and 21 Coauthors (including E. P. Gerber), 2014: Northern winter climate change: Assessment of uncertainty in CMIP5 projections related to stratosphere – troposphere coupling. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 119, 7979–7998, doi:10.1002/2013JD021403.
Li, X., D. H. Holland, E. P. Gerber, and C. Yoo, 2014: Impacts of North and Tropical Atlantic Ocean on the Antarctic Peninsula and Sea Ice. Nature, 505, 538-542, doi:10.1038/nature12945.
Cohen, N. Y., E. P. Gerber, and O. Buhler, 2013: Compensation between Resolved and Unresolved Wave Driving in the Stratosphere: Implications for Downward Control . J. Atmos. Sci., 70, 3780-3798, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-12-0346.1.
Tandon, N. F., E. P. Gerber, A. H. Sobel, and L. M. Polvani, 2013: Understanding Hadley Cell Expansion vs. Contraction: Insights from Simplified Models and Implications for Recent Observations. J. Climate, 26, 4304-4321, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00598.1.
Ueyama, R., E. P. Gerber, J. M. Wallace and D. M. W. Frierson, 2013: The role of high-latitude waves in the intraseasonal to seasonal variability of tropical upwelling in the Brewer-Dobson circulation. J. Atmos. Sci., 70, 1631-1648, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-12-0174.1.
Sherwood, S. C., M. J. Alexander, A. R. Brown, N. A. McFarlane, E. P. Gerber, G. Feingold, A. A. Scaife, and W. W. Grabowski, 2013: Climate Processes: Clouds, Aerosols and Dynamics. Climate Science for Serving Society: Research, Modelling and Prediction Priorities, G. R. Asrar and J. W. Hurrell, Eds. 73-103, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6692-1_4.
Charlton-Perez, A. J. and 27 Coauthors (including E. P. Gerber), 2013: On the lack of stratospheric dynamical variability in low-top versions of the CMIP5 models. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 2494-2505, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50125.
Garfinkel, C. I., D. W. Waugh, and E. P. Gerber, 2013: The Effect of Tropospheric Jet Latitude on Coupling between the Stratospheric Polar Vortex and the Troposphere. J. Climate, 26, 2077-2097, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00301.1.
Tomassini, L., E. P. Gerber, M. P. Baldwin, F. Bunzel and M. Giorgetta, 2012: The role of stratosphere-troposphere coupling in the occurrence of extreme winter cold spells over Northern Europe. J. Adv. in Model. Earth Syst., 4, M00A03, doi:10.1029/2012MS000177.
Gerber, E. P., 2012: Stratospheric versus Tropospheric Control of the Strength and Structure of the Brewer-Dobson Circulation. J. Atmos. Sci., 69, 2857-2877, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-11-0341.1.
Wang, S., E. P. Gerber, and L. M. Polvani, 2012: Abrupt Circulation Responses to Upper Tropospheric Warming in a Relatively Simple Stratosphere-Resolving AGCM. J. Climate, 25, 4097-4115, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00166.1.
Gerber, E. P., A. Butler, N. Calvo, A. Charlton-Perez, M. Giorgetta, E. Manzini, J. Perlwitz, L. M. Polvani, F. Sassi, A. A. Scaife, T. A. Shaw, S.-W. Son and S. Watanabe, 2012: Assessing and Understanding the Impact of Stratospheric Dynamics and Variability on the Earth System. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93, 845-859, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00145.1.
Ndarana, T., D. W. Waugh, L. M. Polvani, G. Correa, and E. P. Gerber, 2012: Antarctic ozone depletion and trends in tropopause Rossby wave breaking. Atmosph. Sci. Lett., 13, 164-168, doi:10.1002/asl.384.
Son, S.-W., E.P. Gerber, J. Perlwitz, L.M. Polvani, N. Gillett, K.-H.Seo, and CCMVal-2 coauthors, 2010: The Impact of Stratospheric Ozone on Southern Hemisphere Circulation Changes: A Multimodel Assessment. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00M07, doi:10.1029/2010JD014271.
Gerber, E. P., M. P. Baldwin, and CCMVal-2 coauthors, 2010: Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling and Annular Mode Variability in Chemistry-Climate Models. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D00M06, doi:10.1029/2009JD013770.
Kidston, J. and E. P. Gerber, 2010: Intermodel Variability of the Poleward Shift of the Austral Jet Stream in the CMIP3 Integrations Linked to Biases in 20th Century Climatology. Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L09708, doi:10.1029/2010GL042873.
Gerber, E. P., C. Orbe, and L. M. Polvani, 2009: Stratospheric Influence on the Tropospheric Circulation Revealed by Idealized Ensemble Forecasts. Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L24801, doi:10.1029/2009GL040913.
Gerber, E. P. and L. M. Polvani, 2009: Stratosphere-troposphere Coupling in a Relatively Simple AGCM: The Importance of Stratospheric Variability. J. Climate, 22, 1920-1933, doi:10.1175/2008JCLI2548.1.
Gerber E. P. and G. K. Vallis, 2009: On the Zonal Structure of the NAO and Annular Modes. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 332-352, doi:10.1175/2008JAS2682.1.
Gerber, E. P., L. M. Polvani, and D. Ancukiewicz, 2008: Annular Mode Time Scales in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report Models. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, doi:10.1029/2008GL035712.
Gerber, E. P., S. Voronin, and L. M. Polvani, 2008: Testing the Annular Mode Autocorrelation Timescale in Simple Atmospheric General Circulation Models. Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 1523-1536, doi:10.1175/2007MWR2211.1.
Vallis G. K. and E. P. Gerber, 2008: Local and Hemispheric Dynamics of the North Atlantic Oscillation, Annular Patterns and the Zonal Index. Dyn. Atmos. and Ocean, 44, 184-212, doi:10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2007.04.003.
Gerber E. P. and G. K. Vallis, 2007: Eddy–Zonal Flow Interactions and the Persistence of the Zonal Index. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 3296-3311, doi:10.1175/JAS4006.1.
Gerber E. P. and G. K. Vallis, 2005: A Stochastic Model for the Spatial Structure of Annular Patterns of Variability and the NAO. J. Climate, 18, 2101-2118, doi:10.1175/JCLI3337.1.
Vallis, G. K., E. P. Gerber, P. J. Kushner and B. A. Cash, 2004: A Mechanism and Simple Dynamical Model of the North Atlantic Oscillation and Annular Modes. J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 264-280, doi:10.1175/1520-0469(2004)061<0264:AMASDM>2.0.CO;2.
Talks
April 06, 2020
Seminar at Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge MA
January 31, 2020
Seminar at University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Science, Seattle WA
December 11, 2019
Invited Talk at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco California
November 19, 2019
Invited Talk at ECMWF Workshop on Stratospheric predictability and Impact on the Troposphere, Reading, UK
October 22, 2019
Contributed Presentation at DynVarMIP Workshop, Madrid, Spain
September 23, 2019
Invited Talk at Climate and Wave Dynamics Workshop, Eilat, Israel
June 27, 2019
Contributed Talk at 22nd AMS Conference on Atmosphere and Ocean Fluid Dynamics, Portland Maine
June 10, 2019
Invited Talk at Alan Plumb Retirement Celebration, Cambridge MA
April 17, 2019
Seminar at NASA GISS, New York NY
April 05, 2019
Seminar at Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Colloquium, Palisades NY
March 01, 2019
Seminar at Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Ocean and Climate Physics Seminar, Palisades NY
February 27, 2019
Seminar at Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Palo Alto CA
February 26, 2019
Seminar at Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science (Dynamics Group), Palo Alto CA
January 10, 2019
Invited Talk at AMS Annual Meeting, 20th Conference on the Middle Atmosphere, Phoenix AZ
October 02, 2018
Contributed Talk at SPARC General Assembly, Kyoto, Japan
September 14, 2018
Seminar at Courant Graduate Student and Postdoc Seminar, New York NY
August 31, 2018
Contributed Talk at Storm Tracks 2018: Coming to grips with alternative perspectives on storm tracks in a changing climate, Uto, Stockholm, Sweden
July 18, 2018
Seminar at Institute for Atmosphere and Climate, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
June 28, 2018
Seminar at NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory, Boulder CO
December 12, 2016
Invited Talk at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco California
May 16, 2016
Invited Talk at SPARC Symposium on Gravity waves, State College PA
February 16, 2016
Invited Talk at AGU Fall Meeting, Berlin, Germany
August 25, 2015
Invited Talk at WCRP Workshop on Storm Tracks, Grindelwald, Switzerland
January 12, 2014
Invited Talk at SPARC General Assembly, Queenstown, New Zealand
February 25, 2013
Keynote Talk at WCRP Special Workshop on Climatic Effects of Ozone Depletion in the Southern Hemisphere, Buenos Aires, Argentina
June 25, 2012
Invited Talk at SPARC Workshop on the Brewer-Dobson Circulation, Grindelwald, Switzerland
October 24, 2011
Invited Talk at WCRP Open Science Conference, Denver CO
October 19, 2011
Invited Talk at 7th CLIVAR Southern Ocean Panel Workshop, Boulder CO
September 28, 2011
Invited Talk at International Max Planck Research School on Earth Systems Modeling, Annual Retreat, Reinstorf, Germany
August 08, 2010
Invited Talk at MFO workshop on Mathematical Theory and Modeling in Atmosphere- Ocean-Science, Oberwolfach, Germany
March 22, 2010
Invited Talk at IPAM Workshop on Equation Hierarchies for Climate Modeling, Los Angeles CA
July 19, 2009
Invited Talk at MOCA Joint Assembly, Montreal, Canada
May 24, 2009
Invited Talk at AGU Joint Assembly, Toronto, Canada
May 04, 2009
Invited Talk at Fundemental Problems in Climate Dynamics, Princeton NJ
April 13, 2008
Invited Talk at EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
Teaching
