Location: Bowdoin / Bradley A. Hartlaub

Mathematics

Raj Saha

Ed Lorenz Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mathematics of Climate Change

Contact Information

rsaha@bowdoin.edu
207-725-3719
Mathematics
Searles Science Building


Spring 2013

  • Differential Calculus (MATH 161A)
  • Differential Calculus (MATH )


Education

  • Ph.D., Physics University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011
  • M.S., Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.
  • B.S., Physics, Bates College, 2003.

Research Interests

  • Response of the global oceanic circulation system to long-term variations in the distribution of incoming solar radiation.
  • What caused the Mid-Pleistocene transition in global climate?
  • The co-evolution of climate and bio-ecological systems.

Personal Website: http://bowdoin.edu/~rsaha


Rial, J and Saha, R. Modeling abrupt climate change as the interaction between sea ice extent and mean ocean temperature under orbital insolation forcing. AGU Geophysical Monograph Series, "Understanding the Causes, Mechanisms and Extent of Abrupt Climate Change". (In Press)

Saha, R. (In preparation). The Role of Sea-Ice in Dansgaard-Oeschger events.

Saha, R. (In preparation). Modulation of Thermohaline-Sea-Ice Relaxation Oscillations by Ice Sheet Growth/Decay Phases.

Rial, J and Saha, R. Understanding Abrupt Climate Change: The Importance of Orbital Insolation. Climate Change Congress Meeting, Copenhagen. March 2009.

Rial, J and Saha, R. Stochastic Resonance, Frequency Modulation and Mechanisms of Abrupt Climate Change in the Arctic. First Symposium on Arctic Research, Drastic Change Under Global Warming (extended abstract). Vol. 1, pp 94-97. 2008.