Member Since 1993
Stephen Matthew Griffies
Physical Scientist, Princeton University Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
Professional Experience
Princeton University Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Physical Scientist
2015 - Present
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Physical Scientist
1996 - 2025
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Doctorate
1993
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2017
Citation
For exceptional and sustained contributions to the understanding of large-scale ocean circulation and physics and seminal advances in ocean modeling.
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March 18, 2025
AGU Abstracts
Sterodynamic Sea Level Uncertainty in 21st Century Climate Projections
ADVANCES IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE SEA LEVEL CHANGE I ORAL
geodesy | 13 december 2024
Jan-Erik Tesdal, John P. Krasting, Stephen M. Grif...
Characterizing the complex uncertainties surrounding future sea-level changes is crucial for coastal risk assessments and adaptation strategies. This ...
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Towards an improved understanding of the physical processes connecting coastal and offshore sea level
ADVANCING PREDICTIONS OF SEA LEVEL VARIABILITY AND ASSOCIATED HAZARDS ACROSS SUBSEASONAL TO INTERANNUAL TIMESCALES I ORAL
ocean sciences | 13 december 2024
Jacob Steinberg, Stephen M. Griffies, John P. Kras...
Global mean sea level rise shifts the baseline about which higher frequency variability contributes to increasingly adverse coastal flooding. As a res...
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Disentangling the Oceanic Circulation: toward a time-aware, region-aware, and scale-aware Lorenz Energy Cycle
GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS I ORAL
nonlinear geophysics | 12 december 2024
Hussein Aluie, Michele Buzzicotti, Matthew W. Hech...
The coupling between scales ranging from O(104) km down to O(1) mm presents a major difficulty in understanding, modeling, and predicting oceanic circ...
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Volunteer Experience
2021 - 2026
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
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