Raffaele Ferrari
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Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Oceanography
PhD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Phone: (617)253-1291
Address:
54-1420
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA
Email: raffaele@MIT.EDU
Interests
Raffaele Ferrari is an oceanographer interested in the physics of the ocean and its implications for the Earth's climate. He uses a combination of thoretical fluid dynamics, numerical modeling, and analysis of observations to tackle questions that range from understanding the exchange of tracers and momentum at the air-sea interface, to developing models of upper ocean turbulence, to investigating the role of ocean heat transport in our climate.
Group
Staff
Teresa Fresina
Postdocs
John Taylor
Graduate students
Malte Jansen
Publications
Boccaletti G., R. Ferrari, and B. Fox-Kemper (2007) Mixed Layer Instabilities. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 37, 2228-2250.
Boccaletti G., R. Ferrari, D. Ferreira, A. Adcroft, and J. Marshall (2005) The vertical structure of the oceanic heat transport. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L10603, 1-4.
Wunsch, C., and R. Ferrari (2004) Vertical Mixing, Energy, and the General Circulation of the Oceans. Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech., 36, 281-314.
Ferrari, R., and Rudnick, D.L. (2000) Thermohaline structure of the upper ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 16857–16883.
