2005-2008		Postdoctoral Fellow with B. L. Hua Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, Ifremer, Brest, France
2005		Ph.D. in Atmospheric Physics University of Toronto, Canada Ph.D. Thesis: Equatorial Symmetric Stability Advisor: Prof. T. G. Shepherd
1999		M.Sc. in Atmospheric Physics University of Toronto, Canada M. Sc. Report: A Survey of Planetary Flow Models Advisor: Prof. T. G. Shepherd
1997		B.Sc. in Physics York University, Toronto, Canada

 

Publications

Fruman, M. D. and U. Achatz, 2011: Secondary instabilities in breaking inertia-gravity waves.  Accepted to J. Atmos. Sci. [local pdf ]

Fruman, M. D., B. L. Hua and R. Schopp, 2009: Equatorial zonal jet formation through the barotropic instability of low-frequency mixed Rossby-gravity waves, equilibration by inertial instability, and transition to super-rotation. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 2600-2619.
[ article at AMS Journals Online ] [ local pdf ]

Fruman, M. D., 2009: Equatorially bounded zonally propagating linear waves on a generalized β plane. J. Atmos. Sci., 66, 2937–2945. [ article at AMS Journals Online ]

Ménesguen, C., B. L. Hua, M. D. Fruman and R. Schopp, 2009: Dynamics of the combined Extra-Equatorial and Equatorial Deep Jets in the Atlantic.  J. Mar. Res., 67, 323-346. [ article at IngentaConnect ]

Ménesguen, C., B. L. Hua, M. D. Fruman and R. Schopp, 2009: Intermittent layering in the Atlantic Equatorial Deep Jets. J. Mar. Res., 67, 347-360. [ article at IngentaConnect ]

Hua, B. L., M. d’Orgeville, M. D. Fruman, C. Ménesguen, P. Klein, R. Schopp and H. Sasaki, 2008:  Destabilization of mixed Rossby-gravity waves and equatorial zonal jets formation.  J. Fluid Mech., 610, 311-341. 
 [ article at Cambridge Journals online ] [local pdf ]

Fruman, M. D. and T. G. Shepherd, 2008: Symmetric stability of compressible zonal flows on a generalized equatorial β plane. J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 1927-1940. 
[ article at AMS Journals online ]

Fruman, M. D., 2005: Equatorial Symmetric Stability.  Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, Canada, 178pp.  [pdf]

 

Research interests

•         Waves and instabilities

•         Equatorial atmosphere and ocean dynamics

•         Hamiltonian fluid mechanics