I am working on Atmosphere-Ocean interactions and the basic physics of oceanic and atmospheric circulations.
I enjoy developing simple theoretical models and use them as guides for the analysis of observational records and outputs from coupled
climate models simulations.
CURRENT PROJECTS
My current projects focus on ocean - atmosphere interactions in midlatitudes. | Submitted papers | Link |
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| The response of the Pacific storm track to Kuroshio variability (with C. O'Reilly, submitted to Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc.). | 
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| Deconstructing the Hadley Cell heat transport (with C. Heaviside, submitted to Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., in press). |
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| Seasonal and interannual variability of convection over western boundary currents (with Luke Sheldon, submitted to Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., in press). |
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| The observed signature of mesoscale eddies on SST and its associated heat transport (with Ute Hausmann, submitted to Deep Sea Research --revised version). |
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| On the sporadic nature of poleward heat transport by transient eddies (with G. Messori, submitted to Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., in press). |
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| Recent published papers | Link |
| A consideration of the forcings of climate change using simple physics (discussion paper No2 of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change).
The slides of the talk given on this topic at the Institute of Physics on 30 May 2012 can be found here .
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| The emergence of zonal ocean jets under large scale stochastic wind forcing (with Chris O'Reilly and Joe LaCasce, Geophys. Res. Let.). |
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| A new mechanism for ocean atmosphere coupling in midlatitudes (with N. Blunt, Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc.). |
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| Global transformation rates and the dynamics of the thermohaline circulation (with Nicky Howe, J. Phys. Oce.). The WOCE constrained surface buoyancy flux dataset can be obtained from Nicky's website. |
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| Other publications | 
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Notes and Models
| Summer schools, workshops and other | Link |
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| Notes for the 2012 ECMWF workshop on seasonal prediction: does ocean-atmosphere coupling invigorate or damp the storm track? |
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| Notes on symmetric instability |
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| Notes for the 2008 Bjerknes lectures in Bergen: Ertel's PV, gyres and the thermohaline circulation. |
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| Notes on midlatitude climate variability: PNA, NAO, annular modes and their interaction with the ocean circulation (MIT fall 2004). |
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| Models | Link |
| The Environmental Physics course's Two-Box Climate Model website |
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PHD PROJECTS
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| - Coupling of oceanic and atmospheric heat transport in the Tropics, Clare Heaviside (now working at the Health Protection Agency) |
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| - Thermohaline circulation and ocean-atmosphere interactions, Nicky Howe (now post-doc at ESSC in Reading) | 
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| - Climatic impact of the stratosphere in an aquaplanet coupled model (co-supervised with Prof J. Haigh), Jacob Cheung (now postdoc at the Met Office) |
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| - Robust response of the ocean to global warming, Christopher Dancel (writing up) | 
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| - Air-sea interactions and ocean eddies, Ute Hausmann (writing up) | 
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| - Interior ocean eddies, winds and Rossby waves, Chris O'Reilly (3rd year) |
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| - Cryospheric feedbacks on the thermohaline circulation, Gabriele Messori (2nd year) |
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| - Air-sea interactions over western boundary currents, Rhys Parfitt (2nd year) |
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| - Ocean-atmosphere coupling through moist convection, Luke Sheldon (1st year) |
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LINKS
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| - Space and Atmospheric Physics Group at Imperial |
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| - Grantham Insitute for Climate Change |
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| - eWOCE |
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| - ERA40 Atlas |
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| - Physical Oceanography on-line, courtesy of Bob Stewart (TAMU) |
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| - Website designed by Laurent Mery (merci Lolo!) |
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| - Yakushima |
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