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Michela Biasutti
Lamont Associate Research Professor
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Ocean and Climate Physics
206B Oceanography
61 Route 9W - PO Box 1000
Palisades
NY
10964-8000
US
Phone: 
(845) 365-8512
Fax: 
(845) 365-8157
biasutti@ldeo.columbia.edu
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Fields of interest: 
Tropical Climate: dynamics of ITCZs and monsoons. Past and future anthropogenic climate change, especially over Africa. Adaptation to climate change in developing countries.

I am interested in atmospheric and climate dynamics. My focus is on the climate of the Tropics, in particular on what controls the location and intensity of rainfall, both over the ocean and over land. A proper understanding of mechanisms is both the mean and the end in studying climate change in the past and the future.

 

Education
List of degrees from highest to lowest:
Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences
University of Washington, Seattle
2003
MS in Atmospheric Sciences
University of Washington, Seattle
2000
Laurea in Fisica (cum laude)
Universita` degli studi di Trieste, Italy
1995

Lamont/DEES Student List: 
John Dwyer

Referenced in the Following News Items:

Scientists Model More Than Earth’s Climate in 2014

Selected Publications:

Delayed seasonal cycle and African monsoon in a warmer climate Biasutti, M; Sobel, A H Geophysical Research Letters Volume: 36 p.: L23707 (2009)
SST forcings and Sahel rainfall variability in simulations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Biasutti, M.; Held, I. M.; Sobel, A. H.; Giannini, A. Journal of Climate Jul 15 Volume: 21 Issue: 14 p.: 3471-3486 (2008) Doi 10.1175/2007jcli1896.1
A climate model-based review of drought in the Sahel: Desertification, the re-greening and climate change Giannini, A.; Biasutti, M.; Verstraete, M. M. Global and Planetary Change Dec Volume: 64 Issue: 3-4 p.: 119-128 (2008) DOI 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.05.004
AGCM precipitation biases in the tropical Atlantic Biasutti, M.; Sobel, A. H.; Kushnir, Y. Journal of Climate Mar 15 Volume: 19 Issue: 6 p.: 935-958 (2006)
Robust Sahel drying in response to late 20th century forcings Biasutti, M.; Giannini, A. Geophysical Research Letters Jun 8 Volume: 33 Issue: 11 p.: - (2006) Doi 10.1029/2006gl026067