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• Pineau, E., Lique, C., Ferreira, D. , Huck, T., Ladant, J.-B., Fabre, E., Millot-Weil, J. and Donnadieu, Y. (2026) Connecting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation to the Southern Ocean following the closure of equatorial seaways during the Cenozoic. Geophysical Research Letters, 53, e2025GL119115. doi:10.1029/2025GL119115

 

• Birte Gulk, B., F. Roquet, D. Ferreira, and A. C. Naveira Garabato, 2005: On the role of barotropic versus baroclinic dynamics in generating a Taylor Cap at Maud Rise, Weddell Sea. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 55, 1375–1388. doi:10.1175/JPO-D-24-0166.1

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• Roquet, F., Bell, M. J., de Boer, A. M., Ferreira, D. , Jones, C. S., LaCasce, J. H., de Lavergne, C., Marshall, D. P., Munday, D. R., Nycander, J. and Ödalen, M., 2025: Controls of the global overturning circulation of the ocean. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 8, 304. doi:10.1038/s41612-025-01185-8

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• Petit, T., J. Robson, D. Ferreira, S. Yeager, and D. G. Evans, 2025: Coherence of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation over the subpolar North Atlantic on interannual to multiannual time scales. Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2025GL115171​​​​​​

 

• Flynn A., D. Ferreira, A. Czaja, and A. Masters, 2025: Ocean Stratification Impedes Particulate Transport to the Plumes of Enceladus. Commun Earth Environ., 6, 63. doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02036-3

 

• Aylmer, J., D. Ferreira, and D. Feltham, 2024: Impact of ocean heat transport on sea ice captured by a simple energy balance model. Commun Earth Environ., 5, 406. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01565-7

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• Patmore, R. D., D. Ferreira , D. P. Marshall , M. D. du Plessis , J. A. Brearley and S. Swart, 2023: Evaluating Ocean Glider Sampling Strategies for Submesoscale Dynamics. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology.

 

• Ayres. H, D. Ferreira, W. Park, J. Kjellsson, and M. Ödalen, 2024: A comparison of the atmospheric response to the Weddell Sea Polynya in AGCMs of varying resolutions. Weather and Climate Dynamics, doi:10.5194/wcd-5-805-2024

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• Wendt, K. A., C. Nehrbass-Ahles, K. Niezgod, D. Noone, M. Kalk, L. Menviel, J. Gottschalk, J. W.B. Rae, J. Schmitt, H. Fischer, T. F. Stocker, J. Muglia, D. Ferreira, S. A. Marcott, E. Brook, and C. Buizert, 2024: Southern Ocean drives multi-decadal atmospheric CO2 rise during Heinrich Stadials. PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2319652121 

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• Lionello, P., R. D'Agostino, D. Ferreira, H. Nguyen, M. S. Singh, 2023: The Hadley Circulation in a changing climate. Review article. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. http://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15114.

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• Craig, P., D. Ferreira, and J. Methven, 2023: A Lagrangian perspective on the Atlantic and Pacific Precipitation-Evaporation asymmetry. JGR-Atmosphere, 128, e2023JD039087. doi:10.1029/2023JD039087

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• Petit, T., J. Robson, D. Ferreira, and L. Jackson, 2023: Understanding the Sensitivity of the North Atlantic Subpolar Overturning in Different Resolution Versions of HadGEM3-GC3.1. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128, e2023JC019672. doi:10.1029/2023JC019672

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• The SO-CHIC consortium, 2023: Southern Ocean Carbon and Heat Impact on Climate. In press in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. 381: 20220056. doi:10.1098/rsta.2022.0056

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• Cai, W.,  F. Jia, S. Li, A. Purich, G. Wang, L. Wu, B. Gan, A. Santoso, T. Geng, B. Ng, Y. Yang, D. Ferreira, G. A. Meehl, and M. J. McPhaden, 2023: Antarctic shelf ocean warming and sea ice melt affected by projected El Niño changes. Nature Climate Change, doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01610-x

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• Roquet, F., D. Ferreira, R. Caneill, D. Schlesinger, and G. Madec, 2022: Unique thermal expansion properties of water key to the formation of sea ice on Earth. Science Advances, 8, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abq0793

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• Haines, K., D. Ferreira, and D. Mignac, 2022: Variability and Feedbacks in the Atlantic Freshwater budget of CMIP5 models with reference to AMOC stability. Frontiers in Marine Science. doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.830821

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• Aylmer, J. R., D. Ferreira, and D. Feltham, 2022: Different mechanisms of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice response to ocean heat transport. Climate Dynamics, 59, 315–329. doi:10.1007/s00382-021-06131-x

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• Polvani, L. M., A. Banerjee, R. Chemke, E. W. Doddridge, D. Ferreira, A. Gnanadesikan, M. A. Holland, Y. Kostov, J. Marshall, W. J. M. Seviour, S. Solomon, D.W. Waugh, 2021: Interannual SAM modulation of Antarctic sea ice extent does not account for its long-term trends: Implications for the role of ozone depletion. Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2021GL094871. doi:10.1029/2021GL094871

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• Moreton, S., D. Ferreira, M. J. Roberts, and H. T. Hewitt, 2021: Air-Sea Turbulent Heat Flux Feedback over Mesoscale Eddies. Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2021GL095407. doi:10.1029/2021GL095407

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• Hochet, A., R. Tailleux, T. Kuhlbrodt, D. Ferreira, 2020: Global heat balance and heat uptake in potential temperature coordinates. Climate Dynamics, 57, 2021–2035. doi:10.1007/s00382-021-05832-7

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• Nilsson, J., D. Ferreira, T. Schneider, and R C. J. Wills, 2020: Is the surface salinity difference between the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific a signature of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51, 769–787. doi:10.1175/JPO-D-20-0126.1

 

• Craig, P. M., D. Ferreira, and J. Methven, 2020: Monsoon-induced zonally asymmetry in moisture transport cause anomalous Pacific precipitation minus evaporation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47. doi:10.1029/2020GL088659

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• Shatwell, P., A. Czaja, and D. Ferreira, 2020: Ocean heat storage rate unaffected by MOC weakening in an idealised climate model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47. doi:10.1029/2020GL089849.

 

• Aylmer, J., D. Ferreira, and D. Feltham, 2020: Impacts of oceanic and atmospheric heat transports on sea-ice extent. J. Climate,  33, 7197–7215. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0761.1. Corrigendum

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• Moreno-Chamarro, E., D. Ferreira, and J. Marshall, 2020: Polar phasing and cross-equatorial heat transfer following a simulated abrupt NH warming of a glacial climate. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35, doi:10.1029/2019PA003810

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• Bulgin, C. E., C. J. Merchant, and D. Ferreira, 2020: Tendencies, variability and persistence of seasurface temperature anomalies. Sci. Rep., 10, 7986. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-64785-9.

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• Rheinlænder, J. W., D. Ferreira, and K. H. Nisancioglu, 2020: Topological constraints by the Greenland-Scotland Ridge on AMOC and climate. J. Climate, 33, 5393–5411. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0726.1

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• Gray, W. R., R. C. J. Wills, J. W. B. Rae, A. Burke, R. F. Ivanovic, W. H. G. Roberts, D. Ferreira, and P. Valdes, 2020: Wind-driven evolution of the North Pacific subpolar gyre over the last deglaciation. Geophys. Res. Lett., 47,​ doi:10.1029/2019GL086328

 

• Moreton, S., D. Ferreira, H. Hewitt, and M. Roberts, 2020: Evaluating surface eddy properties in climate simulations with 'eddy-present' and 'eddy-rich' ocean resolution. Ocean modelling, 147, 101567. doi: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2020.101567

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• Seviour, W. J. M., F. Codron, E. W. Doddridge, D. Ferreira, A. Gnanadesikan, M. Kelley, Y. Kostov, J. Marshall, L. M. Polvani, J. L. Thomas, and D. W. Waugh, 2019: The Southern Ocean sea surface temperature response to ozone depletion: A multi-model comparison. J. Climate, 32, 5107-5121. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0109.1

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• Gupta, M., J. Marshall, and D. Ferreira, 2018: Triggering global climate transitions through volcanic eruptions. In press,  J. Climate, 32, 3727-3742. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0883.1

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• Forget, G. and D. Ferreira, 2019: Global ocean heat transport dominated by heat export from the tropical Pacific. Nature Geoscience, 12, 351–354. doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0333-7

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• Mignac, D., D. Ferreira, and K. Haines, 2019: Decoupled Freshwater Transport and Meridional Overturning in the South Atlantic. Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 2178-2186. doi:10.1029/2018GL081328.

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• D'Agostino, R., J. Bader, S. Bordoni, D. Ferreira, and J. Jungclaus, 2019: Northern Hemisphere monsoon response to mid-Holocene orbital forcing and greenhouse gas-induced global warming. Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 1591–1601. doi:10.1029/2018GL081589.

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• Hochet, A., T. Tailleux, D. Ferreira, and T. Kuhlbrodt, 2019: Isoneutral control of effective diapycnal mixing in numerical ocean models with neutral rotated diffusion tensors. Ocean Sci., 15, 21-32. doi:10.5194/os-15-21-2019

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• Ferreira D., J. Marshall, T. Ito, D. McGee, 2018: Linking Glacial-Interglacial states to multiple equilibria of climate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, 9160-9170. doi:10.1029/2018GL077019. Attached dataset: Ferreira, David, 2018: Multiple equilibria of climate: outputs. University of Reading. Dataset. http://dx.doi.org/10.17864/1947.156.

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• Kostov, Y., D. Ferreira, K. C. Armour and J. Marshall, 2018: Contributions of Greenhouse Gas Forcing and the Southern Annular Mode to Historical Southern Ocean Surface Temperature Trends. Geophys. Res. Lett., 45, 1086-1097. doi:10.1002/2017GL074964

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• [contributor] Karpechko, A. Yu, and A. C. Maycock: Stratospheric ozone Changes and Climate. Chapter 5 in Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018, Global Ozone Research and Monitoring
  Project–Report No. 58, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2018.

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• Mignac, D., D. Ferreira and K. Haines, 2018: South Atlantic meridional transports from NEMO-based simulations and reanalyses. Ocean Sci., 14, 53-68. doi:10.5194/os-14-53-2018

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• Ferreira, D., P. Cessi, H. Coxall, A. de Boer, H. A. Dijkstra, S. S. Drijfhout, T. Eldevik, N. Harnik, J. F. McManus, D. P. Marshall, J. Nilsson, F. Roquet, T. Schneider, R. C. Wills, 2018: Atlantic-Pacific asymmetry in deep water formation. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 46, 327-352. doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-082517-010045

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• Hewitt, H. T., M. J. Bells, E. P. Chassignet, A. Czaja, D. Ferreira, S. M. Griffies, P. Hyder, J. McClean, A. L. New, and M. J. Roberts, 2017: Will high-resolution global ocean models benefit coupled predictions on short-range to climate timescales? Ocean Modelling, 120, 120-136. doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2017.11.002.

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• Hoffman P.F ., D. S. Abbot, Y. Ashkenazy, D. I. Benn , P. A. Cohen, G. M. Cox, J. R. Creveling, Y. Donnadieu, D. H. Erwin, I. J. Fairchild, D. Ferreira, J. C. Goodman, G. P. Halverson, M. F. Jansen, G. Le Hir, G. D. Love, F. A. Macdonald, A. C. Maloof, G. Ramstein, B. E. J. Rose, C. V. Rose, E. Tziperman, A. Voigt and S. G. Warren, 2017: Climate dynamics of Snowball Earth and Cryogenian geology-geobiology. Science Advances, 3, e1600983. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1600983.

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• Pohl, A., Y. Donnadieu, G. Le Hir, and D. Ferreira, 2017: The climatic significance of Late Ordovician-early Silurian black shales. Paleoceanography, 32, 397-423. doi:10.1002/2016PA003064.

 

• Kostov, Y., J. Marshall, U. Hausmann, K. Armour, D. Ferreira, and M. Holland, 2017: Fast and slow responses of Southern Ocean sea surface temperature to SAM in coupled climate models. Climate Dynamics, 48, 1595-1609. doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3162-z

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• Roquet, F., R. Lindqvist, F. Pollmann, D. Ferreira, and G. Madec, 2017: Stability of the thermohaline circulation examined with a one-dimensional fluid loop. Tellus A., 69, 1380490. doi:10.1080/16000870.2017.1380490

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• Craig, P. M., D. Ferreira, and J. Methven, 2017: The contrast between Atlantic and Pacific surface water fluxes. Tellus A., 69, 1330454. doi:10.1080/16000870.2017.1330454

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• Roberts, M. J., H. T. Hewitt, P. Hyder, D. Ferreira, S. A. Josey, M. Mizielinski and A. Shelly, 2016: Impact of ocean resolution on coupled air-sea fluxes and large-scale climate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 10430-10438. doi:10.1002/2016GL07055

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• Abernathey, R., and D. Ferreira, 2015: Southern Ocean Isopycnal Mixing and Ventilation Changes Driven by Winds. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 839-853. doi:10.1002/2015gl066238

 

• Forget, G., D. Ferreira, and X. Liang, 2015: On the observability of turbulent transport rates by Argo: supporting evidence from an inversion experiment. Ocean Sciences, 11, 839-853.

 

• Ferreira, D. and J. Marshall, 2015: Freshwater transport in the coupled ocean-atmosphere system: a passive ocean. Ocean Dynamics, 65, 1029-1036. doi:10.1007/s10236-015-0846-6

 

• Huber, M., R. Tailleux, D. Ferreira, T. Kulhbrodt, J. Gregory, 2015: A traceable physical calibration of the vertical advection-diffusion equation for modelling ocean heat uptake. Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 2333-2341. doi:10.1002/2015GL063383

 

• Ferreira, D., J. Marshall, C. M. Bitz, S. Solomon, A. Plumb, 2015: Antarctic ocean and sea ice response to ozone depletion: a two timescale problem. J. Climate, 28, 1206-1226.

 

• Ferreira, D., J. Marshall, P. A. O'Gorman, and S. Seager, 2014: Climate at high obliquity. Icarus, 243, 236-248.

 

• Marshall, J., K. C. Armour, J. R. Scott, Y. Kostov, U. Hausmann, D. Ferreira, T. G. Shepherd, and C. M. Bitz, 2014: The ocean's role in polar climate change: asymmetric Arctic and Antarctic responses to greenhouse gas and ozone forcing. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A., 372, doi:10.1098/rsta.2013.0040.

 

• Donohoe, A., J. Marshall, D. Ferreira, K. Armour, D. McGee, 2014: The inter-annual variability of tropical precipitation and inter-hemispheric energy transport. J. Climate, 27, 3377-3392.

 

• McGee, D., A. Donohoe, J. Marshall, and D. Ferreira, 2014: Changes in ITCZ location and cross-equatorial heat transport at the Last Glacial Maximum, Heinrich Stadial 1, and the Mid-Holocene. EPSL, 390, 69-79.

 

• Marshall, J., A. Donohoe, D. Ferreira, and D. McGee, 2013: The ocean's role in setting the mean position of the atmosphere's ITCZ. Climate Dynamics, 42, 1967-1979. doi:10.1007/s00382-013-1767-z

 

• Abernathey, R., D. Ferreira, and A. Klocker, 2013: Diagnostics of Isopycnal Mixing in a Circumpolar Channe. Ocean Modelling, 72, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2013.07.004

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• Nilsson, J., P. Langen, D. Ferreira, and J. Marshall, 2013: Ocean-basin geometry and the salinification of the Atlantic Ocean. J. Climate, 26, 6163-6184.

 

• Donohoe, A., J. Marshall, D. Ferreira, and D. McGee, 2013: The relationship between ITCZ location and cross equatorial atmospheric heat transport; from the seasonal cycle to the last glacial maximum. J. Climate, 26, 3597-3618.

 

• Rose, B., D. Ferreira, and J. Marshall, 2013: The role of oceans and sea ice in abrupt transitions between multiple climate states. J. Climate, 26, 2862-2879.

 

• Rose, B., and D. Ferreira, 2013: Ocean heat transport and water vapor greenhouse in a warm equable climate: a new look at the low gradient paradox. J. Climate, 26, 2117-2136.

 

• Buckley, M. W., D. Ferreira, J.-M. Campin, J. Marshall, and R. Tulloch, 2012: Mechanisms of MOC variability idealized in coupled models. J. Climate, 25, 8009-8030.

 

• Hill, C., D. Ferreira, J.-M. Campin, J. Marshall, R. Abernathey and, N. Barrier, 2012: Controlling spurious diapycnal mixing in eddy resolving height-coordinate ocean models - insights from virtual deliberate tracer release experiments. Ocean Modelling, 45-46, 14-26.

 

• Abernathey, R., J. Marshall, and D. Ferreira, 2011: The dependence of Southern Ocean meridional overturning on wind stress. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 41, 2261-2278.

 

• Ferrari, R. and D. Ferreira, 2011: What processes drive the ocean heat transport? Ocean Modelling, 38, 171-186.

 

• Ferreira, D., J. Marshall, and B. Rose, 2011: Climate determinism revisited: multiple equilibria in a complex climate model. J. Climate, 24, 992-1012.

 

• Shuckburgh, E., G. Maze, D. Ferreira, J. Marshall, H. Jones, and C. Hill, 2011: Mixed layer lateral eddy fluxes mediated by air-sea interaction. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 41, 130-144.

 

• Ferreira, D., J. Marshall, and J.-M. Campin, 2010: Localization of deep water formation: role of atmospheric moisture transport and geometrical constraints on ocean circulation. J. Climate, 23, 1456-1476.

 

• Campin, J.-M., J. Marshall, and D. Ferreira, 2008: Sea-ice ocean coupling using a rescaled vertical coordinate z*. Ocean Modelling, 24, 1-14.

 

• Ferreira, D., and C. Frankignoul, 2008: The transient atmospheric response to interactive SST anomalies. J. Climate, 21, 576-583.

 

• Marshall, J., D. Ferreira, J-M. Campin, and D. Enderton, 2007: Mean climate and variability of the atmosphere and ocean on an Aquaplanet. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 4270-4286. BAMS note.

 

• Ferreira, D., and J. Marshall, 2006: Formulation and implementation of a residual-mean ocean circulation model. Ocean Modelling, 13, 86-107.

 

• Ferreira, D., J. Marshall, and P. Heimbach, 2005: Estimating eddy stresses by fitting dynamics to observations using a residual-mean ocean circulation model and its adjoint. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 35, 1891-1910.

 

• Boccaletti, G., R. Ferrari, A. Adcroft, D. Ferreira, and J. Marshall, 2005: The vertical structure of ocean heat transport. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L10603, doi:10.1029/2005GL022474.

 

• Ferreira, D., and C. Frankignoul, 2005: The transient atmospheric response to midlatitude SST anomalies. J. Climate, 18, 1049-1067.

 

• Ferreira, D., C. Frankignoul, and J. Marshall, 2001: Coupled ocean-atmosphere dynamics in a simple midlatitude climate model. J. Climate, 14, 3704-3723.

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