Evangelos Tyrlis - The Cyprus Institute

Curriculum Vitae
Evangelos Tyrlis
Business Email:
e.tyrlis@cyi.ac.cy
Business Phone: +357 22 208628
The Cyprus Institute
EEWRC - 108
20 Konstantinou Kavafi St.
2121 Aglantzia, Nicosia
Cyprus
Education:
2006 - PhD in Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK. Thesis Title:
Aspects of Northern Hemisphere Atmospheric Blocking. NERC Studentship and Met Office CASE Award.
Supervisors: Sir Prof. Brian J. Hoskins, Dr. Adam Scaife (UK Met Office).
2001 - MSc (Distinction) in Weather, Climate and Modelling, Department of Meteorology, University of
Reading, UK. Dissertation Title: Potential Vorticity of extratropical cyclones.
2000 - BSc in Physics (8.41/10) with a final year orientation in Environmental studies and Meteorology. Division
of Physics of Environment – Meteorology, School of Physics National & Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Dissertation Title: The El-Niño phenomenon and its influence on the climate Over the North Atlantic.
Professional Experience:
11/2009 – present: Postdoc Fellow. Atmosphere and Climate Modelling Group, Energy Environment & Water
Research Center. The Cyprus Institute.
Principal accountabilities: Study of the influence of the South Asian Monsoon on the summer circulation over
the eastern Mediterranean.
11/2007 – 11/2009: Postdoc Fellow. Laboratory of Atmospheric Modelling and Weather Forecasting Group,
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Principal accountabilities: Installation and development of the Local Analysis and Prediction System (LAPS).
Process of large volume data, in formats such as netCDF and GRIB, originating from ECMWF for the
preparation of a 25-year high resolution reanalysis with the aid of LAPS. Installation and use of the Regional
Atmospheric Modelling System (RAMS).
11/2006 – 11/2007: Meteorological Observer and assistant weather forecaster, Hellenic Air Force, Greece.
Main duties: training and assistance on preparing surface and upper air weather charts at the National
Weather Centre of the Hellenic Meteorological Service; routine collection and encoding of daily surface
observations.
11/2005 - 11/2006: Post-doctoral research, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK.
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Additional research on atmospheric blocking with the aid of further data from the ERA-40 data set and
preparation of the publications listed in the separate section below.
Research Experience:
CIRCE (Budget: 10 million euros) Research Line 8 (WP 8.5)
CIRCE aims at developing for the first time an assessment of the climate change impacts in the Mediterranean
area. The primary objectives of the project are:
• To predict and to quantify physical impacts of climate change in the Mediterranean area.
• To evaluate the consequences of climate change for the society and the economy of the populations located
in the Mediterranean area.
• To develop an integrated approach to understand combined effects of climate change.
• To identify adaptation and mitigation strategies in collaboration with regional stakeholders. More
information at the website http://www.circeproject.eu/.
C8 (Budget 2.2 million euros) WP 10
The C8 project aims to improve the understanding of aerosol and cloud processes and their representation in
regional and global climate models. We have developed a new numerical method that consistently computes
atmospheric trace gas and aerosol chemistry, and can be applied to compute the initial stage of cloud
formation. It will allow for a direct coupling in climate models between aerosol chemical composition, being
influenced by pollution emissions, and the continuum between hazes and clouds. The project focuses on the
Mediterranean region because it is a hot spot in climate change exposed to drying and air pollution. By
simulating realistic meteorological conditions at high spatial resolution our method will be tested against
observations. The project is part of the Energy, Environment and Water Research Centre, in cooperation with
the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, and will help assess human impacts on air quality and climate.
Teaching Experience:
10/2003 – 3/2004: Demonstrator. Experience for over 60 hours of teaching undergraduate students at the
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
Honours and Achievements:
1997, 1998: National Scholarship Institution (ΙΚΥ) award for academic achievement. National & Kapodistrian University of
Athens.
2000 - 2001: International NATO Fellowship for the completion of postgraduate studies (MSc) at the Department of
Meteorology, University of Reading.
2001 – 2005: NERC Studentship for the completion of postgraduate Studies (PhD) at the Department of Meteorology,
University of Reading.
2006: UK Met Office CASE Award for the successful submission of the PhD thesis.
Other skills:
Operating systems: Experienced user of MS-Windows, Linux and UNIX.
Programming languages: Interactive Data Language (IDL), FORTRAN, Unix/linux scripts.
Text editors: Microsoft Word, LATEX, Emacs, VIM editor etc.
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Meteorological data visualisation software: IDV
Data formats: Extensive use of data in netCDF and GRIB formats.
Other software: Microsoft Excel,Power Point, Internet browsers. Basic knowledge of HTML, NCAR Command
Language (NCL), Matlab and the S-plus statistical package.
Languages: Greek, English and French.
Professional Service and Memberships:
Member of the Hellenic Meteorological Society
Training Attended:
UK Meteorological College, 8 – 12/5/2001:
Familiarisation with the forecasting techniques used in the Met Office. Analysis of real time meteorological
data and preparation of weather forecasts based on the Nimbus system.
GEFD Summer School, 9 – 20/10/2002, Oxford University UK:
A series of lectures and laboratory sessions with primary aim to the unified understanding of the main laws of
fluid dynamics.
Presentations and Outreach:
Oral presentations in conferences:
De Vries, A. J., Lelieveld, J., Tyrlis, E., Krichak, S. O. and Steil, B.:
Extreme Precipitation in the Middle East: Dynamics of the Active Red Sea
Trough, 12th EMS Annual Meeting/9th ECAC, Lodz, Poland, 10-14 September, 2012.
Tyrlis, E., Lelieveld, J. and Steil, B. : The summer Etesian circulation in the eastern Mediterranean and the
Middle East: influence of the South Asian Monsoon and mid-latitude dynamics, 1th International Conference
on Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Physics COMECAP 2012, 29 May – 1 June 2012.
Tyrlis, E., Lelieveld, J. and Steil, B. : The summer Etesian circulation in the eastern Mediterranean and the
Middle East: influence of the South Asian Monsoon and mid-latitude dynamics, 11th EMS Annual Meeting
/10th ECAM, Berlin, Germany, 12-16 September 2011.
Kallos, G., Solomos, S., Kushta, I., Spyrou, C., Mavromatidis, E., Astitha, M., Mitsakou, C., Tyrlis, E., Pytharoulis,
I., Katsafados, P. :Surface characteristics and their impacts on regional meteorological and climatological
patterns, 8th Annual Meeting of the EMS/7th ECAC, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 29 September – 3 October
2008.
Tyrlis, E. and Hoskins, B. J. : Aspects of Northern Hemisphere Atmospheric blocking. EGU General Assembly, 2-
7 April 2006, Vienna, Austria.
Tyrlis, E. and Hoskins, B. J. : The relationship between atmospheric blocking and the NAO. EGU General
Assembly, 25-30 April 2004, Nice, France.
Tyrlis, E. and Hoskins, B. J. : The relationship between atmospheric blocking and the NAO. 4th Annual COAPEC
meeting, 6-8 July 2004, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Tyrlis, E. and Hoskins, B. J. : The relationship between atmospheric blocking and the NAO. UGAMP Annual
Conference, 8-10 September 2004, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Tyrlis, E. and Hoskins, B. J. : Climate Variability in the North Atlantic/European Region. Annual COAPEC
meeting, 2-3 July 2002, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Poster presentations in conferences:
Tyrlis, E. and Lelieveld, J. : Aspects of a climatology and dynamics of the summer Etesians, EGU General
Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 22-27 April 2012.
Hadjinicolaou, P., Tyrlis, E., Zittis, E., Tanarhte, M. and Lelieveld, J.: Simulation of recent past and 21st century
climate in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East with the PRECIS regional climate model, EGU
General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 3-8 April 2011.
Zittis, G., Hadjinicolaou, P., Tyrlis, E. and Lelieveld, J. : Identifying hot-spots of climate change in the Eastern
Mediterranean and Middle East, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 3-8 April 2011.
Tyrlis, E., Lelieveld, J. and Steil, B. : The summer Etesian circulation in the eastern Mediterranean : influence of
the South Asian Monsoon and midlatitude dynamics, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 3-8 April 2011.
Tyrlis, E. and Hoskins, B. J., 2003 : NAO and Atmospheric blocking. Royal Meteorological Society conference, 1-
5 September 2003, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Workshop Lectures
First Linksceem Workshop on Climate Related Research, Lecture (3 hours) on Regional Atmospheric Dynamics,
11-13 October 2011, The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus.
Publications
Publications in peer reviewed journals:
Tyrlis E, Lelieveld J and Steil B (2013): The Summer Circulation in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle
East: Influence of the South Asian Monsoon and Mid-Latitude Dynamics. Springer Atmospheric Sciences,
Advances in Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Physics, Part 2, Pages 793-802.
Tyrlis E, Lelieveld J and Steil B (2012): The summer circulation in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle
East: influence of the South Asian Monsoon. Climate Dynamics In press. Doi 10.1007/s00382-012-1528-4.
Lelieveld J, Hadjinicolaou P, Kostopoulou E, Chenoweth J, Giannakopoulos C, Hannides C, Lange MA, El Maayar
M, Tanarthe M, Tyrlis E, Xoplaki E (2012) Climate change and impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean and the
Middle East. Climatic Change 114:667–687
Tyrlis, E and Hoskins, B J, (2008): Aspects of a Northern Hemisphere Atmospheric Blocking Climatology. J
Atmos Sci, 65 (5), 1638–1652.
Tyrlis, E, and B J Hoskins, (2008): The Morphology of Northern Hemisphere Blocking. J Atmos Sci, 65 (5), 1653–
1665.
Berrisford, P, B J Hoskins and Tyrlis E, (2007): Blocking and Rossby wave breaking on the dynamical tropopause
in the Southern Hemisphere. J Atmos Sci, 64 (8), 2881-2898.
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Recently submitted publications:
Tyrlis E and Lelieveld J (2012) Climatology and Dynamics of the Climatology and Dynamics of the summer
Etesian winds over the Eastern Mediterranean. Climate Dynamics.
Lelieveld J, Hadjinicolaou P, Kostopoulou E, Giannakopoulos C, Pozzer, A, Tanarthe M, Tyrlis E (2012): Model
projected heat extremes and air pollution in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East in the 21st century.
Regional Environmental Change.
Invited Talks:
Tyrlis, E. : Summer circulation in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East: influence from the South
Asia monsoon and midlatitude dynamics, Madrid, Spain, 26 – 28 September 2012.
Tyrlis, E. and Hoskins, B. J. : Aspects of Northern Hemisphere Atmospheric blocking, 20 June 2006, Met. Office,
Exeter, UK.
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