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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
Harald Sverdrup Lecture
Received December 2022
Outstanding Reviewer Award - Geophysical Research Letters
Received December 2009
Publications
A GPU‐Based Ocean Dynamical Core for Routine Mesoscale‐Resolving Climate Simulations
We describe an ocean hydrostatic dynamical core implemented in Oceananigans optimized for Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) architectures. On 64 A100...
April 21, 2025
A Quantitative Scaling Theory for Meridional Heat Transport ...
September 10, 2021
AGU Abstracts
Tidally-Induced Turbulence over Sloping Topography
COASTAL OCEAN AND SHELF SEA DYNAMICS V ORAL
ocean sciences | 12 december 2024
Yidongfang Si, Raffaele M. Ferrari
It has been suggested that the upwelling branch of the abyssal overturning circulation is associated with strong flows driven by abyssal mixing along ...
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Accounting for Memory and Explainability in Emulating Dynamical Systems
ADVANCES IN EMULATING EARTH SYSTEM MODELS II ORAL
global environmental change | 09 december 2024
Christopher Womack, Glenn Flierl, Ruizhe Wang, And...
We incorporate memory into a climate emulator by using linear response functions represented as a combination of spatial and temporal modes. Previous ...
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Stochastic emulation of spatially-resolved climate extremes: from global mean temperature to full probability distributions
ADVANCES IN EMULATING EARTH SYSTEM MODELS I POSTER
global environmental change | 09 december 2024
Mengze Wang, Andre Souza, Raffaele M. Ferrari, The...
Estimation of the probability of extreme events under climate change is both challenging and crucial for risk management of natural disasters. Earth S...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2023
Member
Ewing Medal Committee
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