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. | Recent papers | Link |
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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.). | 
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| A consideration of the forcings of climate change using simple physics (discussion paper No2 of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change). |
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| The observed imprint of mesoscale eddies on SST and its associated heat transport (with Ute Hausmann, submitted to Deep Sea Research). |
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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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TEACHING
I am also involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, in particular
in the new Environmental physics course offered to 2nd and 3rd year Physics students.| Label | Link |
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| I have written notes on a mini-series offered during the fall 2004 to joint-program (MIT-WHOI) students. The topic was midlatitude climate variability: PNA, NAO, annular modes and their interaction with the ocean circulation. |
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| Environmental physics: the course outline, notes and some MATLAB codes (WebCT) |
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| The EP 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 (writing up) | 
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| - Robust response of the ocean to global warming, Christopher Dancel (3rd year) | 
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| - Air-sea interactions and ocean eddies, Ute Hausmann (3rd year) |
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| - Interior ocean eddies, winds and Rossby waves, Chris O'Reilly (2nd year) |
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| - Cryospheric feedbacks on the thermohaline circulation, Gabriele Messori (1st year) |
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| - Ocean-atmosphere coupling through moist convection, Rhys Parfitt (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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