Dr. Michela Biasutti

Pronouns: she/her
Lamont Research Professor, Ocean and Climate Physics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School
Lecturer, M.A. in Climate and Society
Adjunct Professor, M.P.A. in Environmental Science and Policy School of International and Public Affairs
206C Oceanography P.O. Box 1000 61 Route 9W Palisades, NY 10964

BIOGRAPHY:

I was born and raised in Udine, Italy. I went to college in Trieste to study Physics and eventually fell in love with climate science. Thanks to good mentors at ICTP, COLA, and CMCC, I ended up getting my PhD in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. I came to Lamont in 2004 as a postdoc and never left. I live in NYC with my husband, my son, and my cat Emma.

PROJECTS

Only select projects listed below

Name	Start Date	End Date
Climatology and Variability of Tropical Rainfall in the 20th Century Reanalysis	9/1/11	8/31/13
Cooperative Institute for Climate Application and Research (CICAR)	7/1/08	6/30/14
Desertification or "re-greening": Adaptation lessons learned in coping with late 20th century drought in West Africa	7/18/16	7/17/20
Future Changes in the Seasonal Cycle: Mechanisms and Implications	1/1/10	2/28/15
Sea Surface Temperature-Forced Monsoon Evolution and Variability in West Africa	11/1/16	10/31/19
The Essential Dynamics of Tropical Rain Belts: Monsoons and Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) in a Multi-model Ensemble of Idealized Simulations	11/1/16	10/31/19
The role of greenhouse gases in the forcing of 20th century precipitation changes in the African Sahel	8/1/11	6/1/13
Travel Support for an International Meeting on Monsoons and Tropical Rain Belts: Trieste, Italy	4/1/18	3/31/19
Type 1-L02170337: Collaborative Research: Use of Climate Information in International Negotiation for Adaptation Resources	11/29/10	3/31/15
Understanding recent global hydroclimate change using multivariate detection & attribution techniques and GCM Experiments	8/1/15	7/31/19
Workshop Monsoons & ITCZ: the annual cycle in the Holocene and the future	5/1/15	4/30/16
Forced Precipitation Response in a Single Column Model with Parameterized Dynamics	3/1/20	2/28/23
Insolation Gradients and Eastern Mediterranean Aridity: Impacts on Winter Storms and Implications for Climate Projections	9/1/23	8/31/26
How do Energy Fluxes Link Precipitation Variability Across the Tropical Weather-Climate Continuum?	12/1/21	11/30/24

16 PUBLICATIONS ON COLUMBIA | ACADEMIC COMMONS

Only select publications listed below

Name	Published Date
Paleo aridity in the Levant driven by a strong North Atlantic latitudinal surface temperature gradient and present-day relevance	2024
Drivers of low-frequency Sahel precipitation variability: comparing CMIP5 and CMIP6 ensemble means with observations	2023
The effects of anthropogenic and volcanic aerosols and greenhouse gases on twentieth century Sahel precipitation	2020
Legal & Scientific Integrity in Advancing a “Land Degradation Neutral World”	2019
Simulated sensitivity of African terrestrial ecosystem photosynthesis to rainfall frequency, intensity, and rainy season length	2018
On the projected increase of Sahel rainfall during the late rainy season	2016
The tropical rain belts with an annual cycle and a continent model intercomparison project: TRACMIP	2016
Projected changes in US rainfall erosivity	2015
Projected Twenty-First-Century Changes in the Length of the Tropical Cyclone Season	2015
Variability and Predictability of West African Droughts: A Review on the Role of Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies	2015
CMIP5 Projected Changes in the Annual Cycle of Precipitation in Monsoon Regions	2013
Amplification of wet and dry month occurrence over tropical land regions in response to global warming	2012
Projected changes in the physical climate of the Gulf Coast and Caribbean	2012
Projected Changes in the Seasonal Cycle of Surface Temperature	2012
The role of the Sahara low in summertime Sahel rainfall variability and change in the CMIP3 models	2009
A global perspective on African climate	2008

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Dr. Michela Biasutti

PROJECTS

16 PUBLICATIONS ON COLUMBIA | ACADEMIC COMMONS