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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 New WENO‐Based Momentum Advection Scheme for Simulations of Ocean Mesoscale Turbulence
Current eddy‐permitting and eddy‐resolving ocean models require dissipation to prevent a spurious accumulation of enstrophy at the grid...
July 15, 2024
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
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 Experience
2023 - 2023
Member
Ewing Medal Committee
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