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Prof. Raffaele M Ferrari

Cecil and Ida Green Professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences
Director, Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate (PAOC)

Primary DLC

Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

MIT Room: 54-1620
(617) 253-1291

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Temperature-Salinity Relationship of the Upper Ocean
Parameterization of Eddy Fluxes in Ocean Models
Dispersion of Tracers in Geophysical Flows
Solitary Waves in Deep and Shallow Waters
Wavelet Techniques for Data Analysis
Physical Oceanography
Climate Modeling Initiative
The Role of the Oceans in Earth's Climate
Turbulence and the Ocean Circulation
Energetics of the Ocean Circulation
Dispersion of Tracers in Geophysical Flows

Research Summary

Raffaele Ferrari is an oceanographer interested in the dynamics of the ocean and climate with active research efforts in the areas of atmospheric and oceanic turbulence, air-sea interactions, the energetics of the ocean circulation, the impact of ocean physics on biology, and questions of paleoclimate. In his research he uses a combination of theoretical fluid dynamics, numerical modeling, and analysis of observations.

Recent Work

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