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 the interaction of oceanic and atmospheric heat transports and the signature of mesoscale oceanic eddies on sea surface temperature. | Recent papers | Link |
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| A relation between the T/S curve and the ratio of oceanic to atmospheric poleward heat transport in midlatitudes (with C. Dancel, submitted to J. Clim.). | 
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| The global atmospheric circulation on moist isentropes (with O. Pauluis and R. Korty, Science, 321, 1075-1078). |
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| Global transformation rates and the dynamics of the thermohaline circulation (with Nicky Howe, J. Phys. Oce., in press). 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 (writing up) | 
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| - Climatic impact of the stratosphere in an aquaplanet coupled model (co-supervised with Prof J. Haigh), Jacob Cheung (3rd year) | 
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| - Robust response of the ocean to global warming, Christopher Dancel (2nd year) | 
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| - Air-sea interactions and ocean eddies, Ute Hausmann (2nd year) |
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| - Interior ocean eddies, winds and Rossby waves, Chris O'Reilly (1st year) |
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LINKS
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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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| - Websites design by Laurent Mery (merci Lolo!) |
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| - Yakushima |
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