Brady S. Ferster

• PhD
• PostDoc Position at Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique

Documenting the uncertainty of climate change projections is a fundamental objective of the inter-comparison exercises organized to feed into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. Usually, each modeling center contributes to these exercises with one or two configurations of its climate model, corresponding to a particular ch...

A salient feature of anthropogenic climate change is the enhanced warming of the tropical Indian Ocean (TIO) relative to the tropics. Recent studies show that this warming can remotely modulate the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC). Motivated by these results, we systematically study the sensitivity of the AMOC and Atlantic climate...

We investigate the impact of Arctic sea ice loss on the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) and North Atlantic climate in a coupled general circulation model (IPSL‐CM5A2) perturbation experiment, wherein Arctic sea ice is reduced until reaching an equilibrium of an ice‐free summer. After several decades we observe AMOC weakening caus...

Plain Language Summary Understanding climate natural variability is crucial for distinguishing between changes caused by human activity and climate fluctuations that occur on their own. In this study, we investigate different timescales and patterns of variation in the Atlantic Ocean's circulation system, called the Atlantic meridional overturning...

The models that participated in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) exhibit large biases in Arctic sea ice climatology that seem related to biases in seasonal atmospheric and oceanic circulations. Using historical runs of 34 CMIP6 models from 1979 to 2014, we investigate the links between the climatological sea ice concentration (SIC)...

A notable shift in the El Niño‐Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has been observed in the early 21st century, characterized by an increased prevalence of Central Pacific (CP) events and strengthened Pacific trade winds. This shift may be attributed to the warming tropical Indian Ocean (TIO). To investigate this, we conduct perturbation experiments using...

Interconnections between ocean basins are recognized as an important driver of climate variability. Recent modeling evidence suggests that the North Atlantic climate can respond to persistent warming of the tropical Indian Ocean sea surface temperature (SST) relative to the rest of the tropics (rTIO). Here, we use observational data to demonstrate...

Poleward heat (energy) transport plays a major role in shaping the Earth’s climate. Its oceanic and atmospheric components carry heat from low to high latitudes thus reducing the equator-to-pole temperature contrast. In quasi-equilibrium climate states, changes in the top-of-the-atmosphere (TOA) energy fluxes and ocean heat content remain small. In...

The Southern Ocean (SO) is a unique and highly dynamic region with strong temperature and salinity gradients. A comparison between satellite-derived salinity and observations indicates strong differences along coastal boundaries, areas of low temperature, and regions of strong currents. Although differences throughout much of the SO are shown to be...

The Southern Ocean (SO) is essential to global ocean circulation and climate variability. The strength and position of the Southern Hemisphere (SH) westerlies are largely thought to be driving recent trends in the SO. We find increasing SH wind speeds between 45° S and 60° S by 0.0075 ± 0.00013 m·s <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML...

The Southern Ocean (SO) is capable of transporting vast amounts of salt, heat, and nutrients, which allows it to influence and regulate global climate. The variability of depth- and density-integrated volume transports in the SO is studied using the Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO), version 4, release 3 (1992-2015), ocean...

Sea surface salinity (SSS) derived from the multi-satellite missions, NASA’s Aquarius/SAC–D and Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP), and ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) are compared and used to estimate horizontal advective salt fluxes in the Southern Ocean (SO). In comparison with an Argo product, all three satellites estimate si...

The Southern Ocean is the focus of many physical, chemical, and biological analyses due to its global importance and highly variable climate. This analysis of sea surface temperatures (SST) and global teleconnections shows that SSTs are significantly spatially correlated with both the Antarctic Oscillation and the Southern Oscillation, with spatial...