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Follow this link to view pdf version of my presentation at the MARIE CURIE ROADSHOW 2012 (11 April 2012)

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Follow this link to view pdf version of my presentation at the ECRA Pilot Workshop “CHANGES IN THE HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE”

Title: “Strength of the hydrological cycle in future scenarios: tropospheric energy and water balance perspective”

Andrea Alessandri got his Ph.D. in Geophysics at University of Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum (Italy) in 2006, with a thesis titled “Effects of Land Surface and Vegetation Processes on the Climate Simulated by an Atmospheric General Circulation Model”. During his PhD he spent the spring semester 2005 as visiting research scholar at University of Maryland (Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Science; College Park, MD, USA) attending with success the spring semester PhD classes.

Professional Experience (after PhD):

April 2006 – March 2007 post-doc period at INGV working on the EU project ENSEMBLES;

April 2007 – December 2010 junior scientist at CMCC, Numerical Application and Scenarios (ANS) division, in Bologna.

Since December 2010 he is staff research scientist at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) in Rome.

His research is mainly focused on the study of the climate predictability at sub seasonal to interannual time scales and on the better understanding of the land surface/atmosphere interactions and feedbacks. Among other activities, he coordinated the development of the CMCC Seasonal Climate prediction System and is currently setting-up a new research activity at ENEA focused on global climate modeling, analysis and predictability (http://utmea.enea.it/research/GLOBCLIMPRED/#references).

In addition to the track-record of early achievements, publications peer-reviewed journals and presentations to internationally established conferences (see http://utmea.enea.it/people/alessandri for some listing and details), after his PhD he has been involved in several international initiatives focused on climate variability and predictability studies (e.g: DEMETER, Italy-USA cooperation program for climate change, ENSEMBLES, CLIPAS ISO hindcast experiment, CLIVAR-AAMP, CLIMAFRICA). Among other activities, he is currently trying to develop innovative methods in order to enhance probability forecasts over land by suitably representing the uncertainty in the poorly-constrained land and vegetation parameterizations and through the better initialization of land surface.

He won the “Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award” for 2006 conferred by WMO for thescientific paper “Development of a European Multimodel Ensemble System for Seasonal to Interannual Prediction (DEMETER)”.

He is currently Topical Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Earth System Dynamics. Since 2004 he serves as a reviewer for several peer-reviewed international journals like Climate Dynamics, Journal of Climate, Geophysical Research Letters and Climate Dynamics.Since 2008 he holds the course of “Land Biogeochemistry” for the PhD in Science andManagement of Climate Change at the University Ca’ Foscari (Venice – Italy).

“My feeling is that future climate research activity will become more and more overlapping with the other earth, life and social science disciplines and that climate scientists should try to answer in a more pertinent way to questions risen by economical, social, financial and management sectors. My intention is to do climate system research and teaching in interdisciplinary scientific frameworks.The climate and the related disciplines appear joined in the applications and the study of the Chaos Theory. How can “Chaos Theory” be profitably used as the unifying theory?”