Michela Biasutti

Doherty Associate Research Scientist

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
61 Route 9W - P.O. BOX 1000
Palisades, NY 10964-8000

phone: 845.365.8512
fax: 845.365.8736

biasutti 'at' ldeo.columbia.edu

My academic history:
    I graduated with a "laurea" diploma in physics from the University of Trieste (Italy) in 1995. After short stints at COLA (Calverton, MD) and IMGA (Modena, Italy, now INVG), I went to Seattle for graduate school.
    I received my MS (2000) and PhD (2003) from the Atmospheric Sciences Department at the University of Washington. David Battisti and Ed Sarachik were my advisors.
    Since January 2004 I work as a postdoc at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.

Current research interests:
    I am interested in atmospheric and climate dynamics. So far, I have been working on what controls the location and intensity of tropical precipitation at seasonal and longer timescales. Recent projects and/or new avenues of research include:

a diagnostic study of precipitation biases in General Circulation Models (GCMs), with a focus on distinguishing between the dynamic and thermodynamic forcings of rainfall in GCMs and observations;
a study of tropical rainfall changes under global warming, with a focus on finding commonalities among models and on comparison to what is expected from (somewhat contrasting) simple theories of tropical circulation;
an interest on paleo-monsoon, and their interactions with oceanic precipitation.

CV and Journal Publications

WORKSHOP ON SAHEL CLIMATE CHANGE Columbia University, New York, March 19-21 2007

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