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Professor TANDON, AMIT (Dartmouth)
Associate Professor, Physics, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Associate Fellow, School for Marine Science and Technology

Phone: (508) 999-8357
Email: atandon@umassd.edu

**Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.**

Education:
1992 - 1996 - University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) postdoctoral fellowships in Ocean Modeling and Climate System Modeling, University of Victoria.

1992 - Ph.D., Cornell University.

1987 - B.Tech. (Mech. Eng.) Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur India.

Professional History:
1999 present - Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Associate Fellow, School for Marine Science and Technology

1997 1998 - Assistant Researcher and Adj. Asst. Professor , University of California Santa Cruz

1994 1996 - UCAR fellow in Climate System Modeling Program and Research Associate, University of Victoria

1992 1994 - UCAR Postdoctoral Fellow in Ocean Modeling, University of Victoria

Current Research Support:
Significance of time - dependence and entrainment fluxes to water mass formation, NSF - Ocean Sciences Division, $160,000, PI, Start date 03/01 - 1997 - transferred to UMass Dartmouth 06/1999, End Date 02/28/2001.

Collaborative Project: Large scale property fluxes in the North Atlantic. NSF - Ocean Sciences Division. PI, $140,000, Start Date 9/1/1999 End date 8/30/2002.

Implementing and validating a parallel global ocean model (PARGOM) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, UMD Foundation, $1500, co - PI, 01/01/00 - 06/30/2001.

A phase space representation and synthesis of satellite data for the western North Atlantic. Submitted to NASA - Oceanography, $419,521 (requested), co - I, 01/01/2001 - 12/32/2003.

Chancellors Innovative Grant in Teaching: Web - based forecasting and e - discussions for the course 'An Introduction to Weather', $3,000, 08/2000 - 12/2000, co - PI.

Selected Publications:
Tandon, Amit and Konstantin Zahariev (2000) Quantifying the role of mixed layer entrainment for water mass transformation in the North Atlantic. Accepted in Journal of Physical Oceanography.

Garrett, Chris and Amit Tandon (1997) The effects on water mass formation of surface mixed layer time - dependence and entrainment fluxes. Deep Sea Research, 44/12, 1991 - 2006.

Tandon, Amit and Chris Garrett (1996) On a recent parameterization of mesoscale eddies. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 26, 406 - 411.

Tandon, Amit and Chris Garrett (1995) Geostrophic adjustment and restratification of a mixed layer with horizontal buoyancy gradients above a stratified layer. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 25, 2229 - 2241.

Tandon, Amit and Sidney Leibovich (1995) Simulations of three - dimensional Langmuir circulation in water of constant density, Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 22,613 - 22,623.