Current research projects:
I. The interaction, and contribution to climate, of the wind-driven
and thermohaline (THC) components of oceanic circulation.
II. Abrupt climate changes.
III. Energy dissipation in the ocean and in GCMs.
IV. The response of the tropics to global warming.
V. Asymmetry between El Nino La Nina
VI. Permanent El Nino.
VII. The role of salinity in ocean circulation.
VIII. Models of ocean thermocline.
IX. Mechanisms of the Ice Ages.
X. Breaking wind waves under strong winds
Fig. 1: El Niño events of 1965/1966 and 1982/1983 shown as
warm sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies along the equator
(Philander and Fedorov 2001)
Fig. 2: Simulation of changes in the ocean meridional overturning
circulation in the Atlantic (Fedorov et al 2007). Notice the circulation
collapse in the right lower panel.
