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Member Since 2003
Raffaele M. Ferrari
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
I am a physical oceanographer interested in the circulation of the ocean, its interaction with the atmosphere and climate. I use a combination of observations, theory and numerical models to investigate all oceanic motions from scales of centimeters to thousands of kilometers.
Professional Experience
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor
2002 - Present
Education
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Doctorate
2000
Honors & Awards
Publications
The Flux‐Differencing Discontinuous Galerkin Method Applied to an Idealized Fully Compressible Nonhy...
Dynamical cores used to study the circulation of the atmosphere employ various numerical methods ranging from finite‐volume, spectral element...
April 23, 2023
A Quantitative Scaling Theory for Meridional Heat Transport ...
September 10, 2021
Uncertainty Quantification of Ocean Parameterizations: Appli...
November 30, 2020
Basin‐Width Dependence of Northern Deep Convection
August 03, 2020
Atlantic Ocean Heat Transport Enabled by Indo-Pacific Heat U...
December 11, 2019
AGU Abstracts
A novel momentum advection scheme for mesoscale ocean large-eddy simulations with no explicit dissipation
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
digital ocean | 23 february 2024
Simone Silvestri, Siddhartha Bishnu, Jean-Michel C...
Current eddy-permitting and eddy-resolving ocean models require explicit dissipation to prevent a spurious accumulation of enstrophy at the grid scale...
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Oceananigans: Ocean modeling for the 21st century
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
digital ocean | 23 february 2024
Raffaele M. Ferrari, Siddhartha Bishnu, Lucy Brock...
Geostrophic eddies exert a strong control on the ocean uptake of heat and carbon, but they have proved hard to accurately parameterize in climate simu...
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A theory for the middepth stratification and overturning
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
physical oceanography: mesoscale and larger | 23 february 2024
Mason Rogers, Raffaele M. Ferrari, Louis-Philippe ...
The middepth ocean, spanning from 1 to 3 kilometers in depth, is characterized by a remarkably exponential stratification profile. Existing conceptual...
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Volunteer History
2023 - 2023
Member
Ewing Medal Committee
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