Ryan is a physical oceanographer and climate scientist interested in ocean physics, ocean modelling and climate variability. His research focuses on how processes acting on small-scales, such as turbulent mixing and mesoscale eddies, can influence the large-scale ocean circulation and climate variability. He uses theoretical techniques combined with a range of idealized and realistic ocean models and analysis of oceanographic data to better understand interactions across scales in the ocean in order to represent them properly in low-resolution models.
Specific areas of interest include:
Ocean and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Ocean and Climate Modelling
Climate Variability
Equatorial Dynamics
Turbulent Mixing
Abyssal ocean circulation
Water-mass transformation techniques
