• MD 1985, with honors, "The method of averaging and the method of multiple scales", Institute for Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam. Supervisor was Prof.Dr. E.M. de Jager.

• PhD 1989, "Surface gravity waves and turbulent bottom friction", Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (IMAU) at the University of Utrecht. Promotor was Prof.Dr. J.T.F. Zimmerman. The research was carried out at the former Department of Oceanography (now part of Global Climate; KNMI) with Dr. Gerbrand Komen.
  My PhD research concerned the energy balance of gravity waves, which are generated by the wind on the ocean surface. Focus was on depth-limited situations and energy loss due to friction in the turbulent bottom boundary layer. Publications:
  
  • Weber, S.L. , 1988: The energy balance of finite-depth gravity waves.
    J. Geophys. Res. , 93 (C4) , 3601-3607.
  • Van Vledder, G.Ph. and S.L. Weber, 1988: Guide for the program EXACT-NL. Max-Planck-Instituto for Meteorology Report 20.
  • Weber, S.L. , 1989: Surface gravity waves and turbulent bottom friction.
    PhD Thesis , University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
  • Weber, S.L. , 1991a: Bottom friction for wind sea and swell in extreme depth-limited situtations.
    J. Phys. Oceanogr. , 21 , 149-172.
  • Weber, S.L. , 1991b: Eddy-viscosity and drag-law models for random wave dissipation.
    J. Fluid Mech. , 232 , 73-98.
  • Weber, S.L., 1994: Bottom friction and percolation,
    In: Komen, G.J., L. Cavalerei, M. Donelan, K. Hasselmann, S. Hasselmann and P.A.E.M. Janssen, Dynamics and Modelling of ocean waves, p156-167, Cambridge University press, UK, 560 pages.
  • Cavaleri, L. and S.L. Weber, 1994: Effects of bottom dissipation - bottom friction,
    In: Komen, G.J., L. Cavalerei, M. Donelan, K. Hasselmann, S. Hasselmann and P.A.E.M. Janssen, Dynamics and Modelling of ocean waves, p335-341, Cambridge University press, UK, 560 pages.

• Post-doctoral research 1990-1992.
  In 1990 I worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in Hamburg, Germany, with Dr. Hans von Storch. In 1991-1992 I worked at KNMI, while frequently visiting the MPI-M. This research concerned the impact of surface waves on the air-sea fluxes, A coupled wave/atmosphere model (WAM/ECHAM) was used to study the sensitivity of the large-scale atmospheric circulation to the wave effect. This was a collaboration between KNMI, MPI-M, ECMWF (Reading, UK), the University of Koln (Germany) and the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (Kuhlungsborn, Germany). Publications:
  • Ulbrich, U, G. Burger, D. Schriever, H. von Storch, S.L. Weber and G. Schmitz, 1993: The effect of a regional increase of ocean surface roughness on the tropospheric circulation: a GCM experiment.
    Climate Dyn. , 8 , 277-285.
    Also Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology Report no. 70.
  • Weber, S.L., H. von Storch, P. Viterbo and L. Zambresky, 1993:
    Coupling an ocean wave model to an atmospheric general circulation model.
    Climate Dyn. , 9 , 63-69.
    Also Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology Report no. 72.
  • Weber, S.L. , 1994: Statistics of the air-sea fluxes of momentum and mechanical energy in a coupled wave-atmosphere model.
    J. Phys. Oceanogr. , 24 , 1388-1398.

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