Introduction
I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University, working with Dr. Gabriel Vecchi. My research focuses on how tropical cyclone frequency changes with the climate. During my PhD, I studied a range of topics using theory and modeling, including the interaction between moist convection and baroclinic cyclones, as well as the interaction between Rossby waves and midlatitude jets.
Outside of research, I enjoy water sports, even though I get seasick easily. I grew up near the ocean, but I am allergic to seafood. Tropical cyclones played a big part in my childhood. The more I learn about them, the more I am humbled by the wonder of nature, and the more I hope to contribute to a society better prepared for natural disasters.
Education
Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University (2020)
B.S. in Engineering Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2014)
Publications
- Hsieh, Tsung-Lin, Chiung-Yin Chang, Isaac Held, and Pablo Zurita-Gotor. “Nonlinear generation of long waves and the reversal of eddy momentum fluxes in a two-layer quasi-geostrophic model.” Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. (Accepted).
- . “Large-scale control on the frequency of tropical cyclones and seeds: a consistent relationship across a hierarchy of global atmospheric models.” Climate Dynamics. (2020).
- . “Hypohydrostatic simulation of a quasi-steady baroclinic cyclone.” Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 77, 4, 1415–1428. (2020).
- Mascio, Jeana, Greg McFarquhar, Tsung‐Lin Hsieh, Matt Freer, Amanda Dooley, and Andrew Heymsfield. "The use of gamma distributions to quantify the dependence of cloud particle size distributions in hurricanes on cloud and environmental conditions." Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 146, 730, 2116–2137. (2020).
- . “Controllability, not chaos, key criterion for ocean state estimation.” Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 24, 3, 351–366. (2017).
- . “Ecological collapse and the emergence of travelling waves at the onset of shear turbulence.” Nature Physics, 12, 3, 245–248. (2016).
- Tsung-Lin Hsieh, Matt Freer, Jeana Mascio, and Brian Jewett “The characterization of ice hydrometeor gamma size distributions as volumes in N0/λ/μ phase space: implications for microphysical process modeling.” Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 72, 2, 892–909. (2015).
- Brian Jewett, Matthew Gilmore, Stephen Nesbitt, and Tsung-Lin Hsieh. “Vertical Velocity and Microphysical Distributions Related to Rapid Intensification in a Simulation of Hurricane Dennis (2005).” Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 69, 12, 3515–3534. (2012).
- Carl Gable, Nataliia Makedonska, Jeffrey Hyman, Tsung-Lin Hsieh, Quan Bui, Hui-Hai Liu, and Jens Birkholzer. “Fluid Flow Model Development for Representative Geologic Media.” Technical Report for the U.S. Department of Energy Used Fuel Disposition Campaign. (2012).
Teaching
- Ocean, Atmosphere, and Climate (GEO 202), Princeton Univeristy: Lab Instructor
- Differential Equations (MATH 285), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Grader and Mathematica Tutor