John Marshall

Professor
PhD, 1980, Imperial College
Phone: (617)253-9615

Address:
54-1526
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA

Email: marshall@ocean.mit.edu

Current research interests:
John Marshall is an oceanographer 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. He is Director of MIT's Climate Modeling Initiative.

Group:
Researchers
Jean-Michel Campin, David Ferreira, Helen Hill
Staff
Teresa Fresina, Beth MacEachran
Postdocs
Ross Tulloch
Graduate students
Ryan Abernathey, Martha Buckley, Brian Rose

Recent graduates:
Chris Edwards, Professor, University of Santa Cruz
Jason Goodman, Professor, Wheaton College
Takamitsu Ito, Professor, Colorado State University
Galen McKinley, Professor, University of Wisconsin
Richard Wardle, Lecturer, University of Melbourne
Rong Zhang, Research Scientist, GFDL, Princeton

Publications
Marshall, J. and T. Radko (2003) Residual mean solutions for the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and its associated overturning circulation Journal of Physical Oceanography, Vol. 33, No. 11, 2341-2354

Mashall, J., Czaja, A. (2006) The Partitioning of Poleward Heat Transport Between the Atmosphere and the Ocean. J. Atm. Sci, 63, 1498-1511

Marshall, J., E. Shuckburgh, H. Jones, and C. Hill (2006) Estimates and Implications of Surface Eddy Diffusivity in the Southern Ocean Derived From Tracer Transport J. Phys. Oceanogr., Vol. 36, No. 9 1806-1821

Marshall, J., D. Ferreira, J-M Campin and D. Enderton (2007) Mean Climate and Variability of the Atmosphere and Ocean on an Aqua-Planet J. Atmos. Sci., Vol 64, 4270-4286