Jean-Michel is interested in the role of the ocean in past climate variations using numerical models. Development and improvement of climate model components, especially Ocean General Circulation Model, with a particular interest in numerical methods.

Aaron studies global scale climate dynamics with a focus on how energy moves through the climate system via radiative and dynamical processes. His most recent work has focused on the controls of the meridional heat transport in the climate system and the seasonal cycle of atmospheric temperature. He’s also interested in mid-latitude atmospheric dynamics (storms) and paleoclimate.

Brian’s my major interests lie in ocean dynamics, their role in climate, and the use of numerical techniques to model them.

Chris is an MIT undergraduate student in Physics with an interest in its applications to the study of climate. In the summer of 2012, he began conducting UROP research in John Marshall’s group to investigate relationships between Arctic sea ice and small-scale eddies by using a numerical model. In his free time, he maintains an experimental weather Web site for MIT at forecast.mit.edu.

John is interested in climate and the general circulation of the atmosphere and oceans, which he studies through the development of mathematical and numerical models of key physical and biogeochemical processes. His research has focused on problems of ocean circulation involving interactions between motions on different scales, using theory, laboratory experiments, observations and innovative approaches to global ocean modeling pioneered by his group at MIT. He is Director of MIT’s Climate Modeling Initiative.

Large-scale physical climate dynamics and modeling