Maria Vittoria Guarino

Postdoctoral Fellows
Postdoctoral Fellow
Maria Vittoria Guarino
+39 040 2240 133
mguarino@ictp.it
+39 040 2240 133
mguarino@ictp.it
SISSA-203
0000-0002-7531-4560
I am an Atmospheric Scientist and Numerical Modeller based at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) - Earth System Physics, and Honorary Research Fellow at the British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge, UK).

I study the atmosphere (lower- and upper- layers) and the coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean system by means of numerical models. I am particularly interested in atmospheric gravity wave propagation and breaking, and in the large-scale coupling between the atmosphere and the ocean.  

My research at the ICTP concerns the coupling between the atmosphere and the ocean at the polar regions via sea ice. In particular, I investigate how sea ice is influenced by the parameterised orographic gravity wave drag in climate models. 

On the topics of gravity wave modelling and climate at the polar regions I collaborate with researchers across various international institutions, among these: University of Leeds, UK Met Office, British Antarctic Survey. 

 

My webpages

Personal website 

British Antarctic Survey 

University of Leeds 

Twitter 

Google Scholar

 

Research Projects

2014 - 2017 GLIMFLO - Global to Local IMpacts of FLow over Orography (Phd Student) 

2017 - 2020 Retreat of Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice, 127 000 years BP (Lead Post-doc)

2017 - 2021 CMIP6 - Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (Contributing Author to PMIP) 

2020 - 2022 WAVECHASM - Wave-Induced Transport of Chemically Active Species in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (Research Fellow)

2022 - present WAVECHASM (Project Collaborator)

2022 - present  Sensitivity of Southern Hemisphere Sea Ice to Orographic Gravity Wave Drag

 

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