David Ferreira’s Homepage
 
Welcome
I am a research scientist in the Department
of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
My research interests are in the large-scale circulation of the ocean and atmosphere, air-sea interactions and climate variability on decadal times scale, dynamics of oceanic mesoscale eddies and their representation in ocean climate models.
Contact:
MIT, EAPS, Room 54-1518
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
Email: dfer at mit.edu
Ph: 617-253-7967
Snap-shots of (top) 500 mb temperature and (bottom) SST and sea-ice in an Aquaplanet simulation.
A few movies:
  1. • a nice movie showing the synoptic scale activity in the atmosphere of an Aquaplanet and its impact on the air-sea heat flux and mixed layer depth,
  2. • a similar movie for an Aquaplanet  with an obliquity of 90 degree (compare to the present-day value of 23.45 degree in the movie above).
  3. • this one shows a Ridge World driven through its 3 stable equilibria by a linearly decreasing solar constant: the ice edge “sticks” around the equilibrium positions for decades and abruptly transition between positions. More details here.