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Research interest:
My research is focused on understanding processes of water mass ventilation and ocean-atmosphere interactions within a very large range of temporal and spatial scales. I'm especially interested in the top layers of the ocean and their vertical structures, those under direct influence of the atmospheric forcing.
I explored the atmospheric part of air-sea interactions during my PhD (LPO, Brest and LMD, Paris, 2006). I studied coupled/forced interannual variabilities in the Southern Hemisphere with a numerical model of intermediate complexity I partially developed for this purpose.
I did a first postdoc at MIT in the Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences department (2006-2008) where I focused more on the ocean side of air-sea interactions. I studied subtropical mode waters formation processes and the impact of meso-scale turbulence on lateral heat fluxes using both observations and numerical simulations.
My second postdoc at IUEM (2009-2010) is still about mode waters dynamic, although I shifted my research area to the North Atlantic subpolar gyre. Even more interestingly, I also try to improve the use of the oxygen variable to study the dynamic of subpolar mode waters, especially their ventilation and circulation.
More specifically, I'm actively conducting or involved in the following studies:
Oxygen Minimum Layer Density and Surface Ventilation Rates. In collaboration with Lynne Talley.
Diagnosing the observed seasonal cycle of North Atlantic subtropical mode water using potential vorticity and its attendent theorems. In collaboration with: John Marshall.
Water mass local conservation principle and application to the Eighteen Degree Water layer. In collaboration with: John Marshall and Gael Forget.
The North Pacific subtropical mode water. In collaboration with John Marshall and Gael Forget.
Subantarctic Mode Water and Antarctic Intermediate Water formation. In collaboration with Ivana Cerovecki, Lynne Talley and Matthew Mazloff.
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