JRG Dynamical Systems

KlimaCampus

Universität Hamburg

Grindelberg 5

D-20144 Hamburg

Room 311

Phone +49(0)40-42838-5068

Fax +49(0)40-42838-5066

E-mail: thomas.frisius(at)zmaw.de

Research Interests (past and present)

• Ocean circulation dynamics

• Long term variability of the climate system

• Tropical cyclone dynamics

• Baroclinic waves

• Stormtracks

Lecture notes

Lecture: Atmospheric General circulation (Theoretical Meteorology)

Metström Summer School 2008

Publications

• Frisius, T., K. Fraedrich, X. Zhu, and W. Wang. 2009: A spectral barotropic model of the wind-driven world ocean. Ocean Modelling, 30,  310-322.

• Frisius, T., and T. Hasselbeck, 2009: The effect of latent cooling processes in tropical cyclone simulations.  Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 135, in press.

• Frisius, T., and U. Wacker, 2007: Das massenkonsistente axialsymmetrische Wolkenmodell HURMOD. Wissenschaftliche Dokumentation. DWD Forschung und Entwicklung- Arbeitsergebnisse Nr. 85, Deutscher Wetterdienst, 42pp.

• Frisius, T., 2006: Surface-flux-induced tropical cyclogenesis within an axisymmetric atmospheric balanced model. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 132, 2605-2626.

• Frisius, T., Hasselbeck, T., and F. Herbert, 2006: The effect of ice-phase microphysics on tropical cyclones simulated by the Lokalmodell. COSMO Newsletter No. 6, 236-241.

• Wacker, U., Frisius, T.,  and F. Herbert, 2006: Evaporation and precipitation surface effects in local mass continuity laws of moist air,  J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 2642-2652.

• Frisius, T., 2005: A balanced model of an axisymmetric vortex with zero potential vorticity. Tellus A, 57, 55-64.

• Frisius, T., 2004: Numerical Simulation of Tropical Cyclogenesis with the Lokal-Modell. COSMO Newsletter No. 4, 189-196.

• Frisius, T., 2003: On the development of a cyclone-anticyclone asymmetry within a growing baroclinic wave. J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 2887-2906.

• Fraedrich, K. and T. Frisius, 2001: Two-level primitive equation baroclinic instability on an f-plane. Q. J. R. Meterol. Soc., 127, 2053-2068.

• Frisius, T., 1999: A simple model for the baroclinic life cycle of meridionally elongated eddies in uniform shear. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 3508-3519.
• Frisius, T., 1998: A mechanism for the barotropic equilibration of baroclinic waves. J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 2918-2936.

• Frisius, T., F. Lunkeit, K. Fraedrich, and I. N. James, 1998: Storm-track organization and variability in a simplified atmospheric global circulation model. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 124, 1019-1043.