Maria Vittoria Guarino
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Maria Vittoria Guarino
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BIOGRAPHY
BAS Honorary Research Fellow Dr Maria Vittoria Guarino is an atmospheric scientist and numerical modeller based at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) – Earth System Physics section.
Maria Vittoria studies the atmosphere (lower- and upper- layers) and the coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean system by means of numerical models. She is particularly interested in (and has published about) atmospheric gravity waves propagation and breaking, sea ice and large-scale coupling between the atmosphere and the ocean.
After graduating with a MSc in Environmental Science from Università del Salento (Lecce, IT), Maria Vittoria was awarded in 2017 a PhD in “Atmosphere, Oceans and Climate” from the University of Reading (UK), Department of Meteorology.
During her PhD studies Maria Vittoria investigated the dynamics of a type of atmospheric gravity waves, known as “mountain waves”, combining mesoscale model simulations and linear theory.
From 2017 to 2020, Maria Vittoria worked at the British Antarctic Survey (Cambridge, UK) as Earth System Modeler. During her time at BAS, she ran global climate model simulations that contributed to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6 project). CMIP6-based research constituted the scientific bases for the 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
In 2020 Maria Vittoria joined the University of Leeds (UK), where she worked as a Research Fellow on improving the representation of atmospheric gravity waves in the whole atmosphere climate model WACCM. By using a novel published theory, she modified the WACCM gravity wave drag parameterization to explicitly account for the wave-driven vertical mixing associated with non-breaking gravity waves.
She is currently a Research Fellow at the ICTP – Earth System Physics where she works on studying the coupling between sea ice, atmosphere and ocean via orographic gravity wave drag.
Maria Vittoria’s profile page can be found here (https://maviguarino.wixsite.com/website )
Research interests
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Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2023
Chadwick, Matthew ORCID record for Matthew Chadwick, Sime, Louise ORCID record for Louise Sime, Allen, Claire ORCID record for Claire Allen, Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino. (2023) Model-data comparison of Antarctic winter sea-ice extent and Southern Ocean sea-surface temperatures during Marine Isotope Stage 5e. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38 (). 11 pp. 10.1029/2022PA004600
Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, Sime, Louise ORCID record for Louise Sime, Diamond, Rachel ORCID record for Rachel Diamond, Schroeder, David, Ridley, Jeff. (2023) The coupled system response to 250 years of freshwater forcing: Last Interglacial CMIP6–PMIP4 HadGEM3 simulations. Climate of the Past, 19 (). 17 pp. 10.5194/cp-19-865-2023
2021
Diamond, Rachel ORCID record for Rachel Diamond, Sime, Louise C. ORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Schroeder, David, Guarino, Maria-Vittoria ORCID record for Maria-Vittoria Guarino. (2021) The contribution of melt ponds to enhanced Arctic sea-ice melt during the Last Interglacial. The Cryosphere, 15 (). 16 pp. 10.5194/tc-15-5099-2021
Otto-Bliesner, Bette, Brady, Esther, Zhao, Anni, Brierley, Chris, Axford, Yarrow, Capron, Emilie, Govin, Aline, Hoffman, Jeremy, Isaacs, Elizabeth, Kageyama, Masa, Scussolini, Paolo, Tzedakis, Polychronis C., Williams, Charlie, Wolff, Eric, Abe-Ouchi, Ayako, Braconnot, Pascale, Ramos Buarque, Silvana, Cao, Jian, de Vernal, Anne, Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, Guo, Chuncheng, LeGrande, Allegra N., Lohmann, Gerrit, Meissner, Katrin, Menviel, Laurie, Nisancioglu, Kerim, O'ishi, Ryouta, Salas Y Melia, David, Shi, Xioaoxu, Sicard, Marie, Sime, Louise ORCID record for Louise Sime, Tomas, Robert, Volodin, Evgeny, Yeung, Nicolas, Zhang, Qiong, Zhang, Zhonghi, Zheng, Weipeng. (2021) Large-scale features of Last Interglacial climate: results from evaluating the lig127k simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)-Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP4).. Climate of the Past, 17 (). 32 pp. 10.5194/cp-17-63-2021
Kageyama, Masa, Sime, Louise C. ORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Sicard, Marie, Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, de Vernal, Anne, Schroeder, David, Stein, Ruediger, Malmierca Vallet, Irene ORCID record for Irene Malmierca Vallet, Abe-Ouchi, Ayako, Bitz, Cecilia, Braconnot, Pascale, Brady, Esther, Chamberlain, Matthew A., Feltham, Danny, Guo, Chuncheng, Lohmann, Gerrit, Meissner, Katrin, Menviel, Laurie, Morozova, Polina, Nisancioglu, Kerim H., Otto-Bliesner, Bette, O'ishi, Ryouta, Sherriff-Tadano, Sam, Stroeve, Julienne, Shi, Xiaoxu, Sun, Bo, Volodin, Evgeny, Yeung, Nicholas, Zhang, Qiong, Zhang, Zhongshi, Ziehn, Tilo. (2021) A multi-model CMIP6-PMIP4 study of Arctic sea ice at 127ka: Sea ice data compilation and model differences. Climate of the Past, 17 (). 26 pp. 10.5194/cp-17-37-2021
2020
Brown, Josephine R., Brierley, Chris M., An, Soon-Il, Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, Stevenson, Samantha, Williams, Charles J.R., Zhang, Qiong, Zhao, Anni, Braconnot, Pascale, Brady, Esther C., Chandan, Deepak, D'Agostino, Roberta, Guo, Chuncheng, LeGrande, Allegra N., Lohmann, Gerrit, Morozova, Polina A., Ohgaito, Rumi, O'ishi, Ryouta, Otto-Bliesner, Bette, Peltier, Richard W., Shi, Xiaoxu, Sime, Louise ORCID record for Louise Sime, Volodin, Evgeny M., Zhang, Zhongshi, Weipeng, Zheng. (2020) Comparison of past and future simulations of ENSO in CMIP5/PMIP3 and CMIP6/PMIP4 models. Climate of the Past, 16 (). 29 pp. 10.5194/cp-2019-155
Scussolini, Paolo, Eilander, Dirk, Sutanudjaja, Edwin H., Ikeuchi, Hiroaki, Hoch, Jannis M., Ward, Philip J., Bakker, Pepijn, Otto‐Bliesner, Bette L., Guo, Chuncheng, Stepanek, Christian, Zhang, Qiong, Braconnot, Pascale, Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, Muis, Sanne, Yamazaki, Dai, Veldkamp, Ted I.E., Aerts, Jeroen C.J.H.. (2020) Global River Discharge and Floods in the Warmer Climate of the Last Interglacial. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (). pp. 10.1029/2020GL089375
Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, Sime, Louise C. ORCID record for Louise C. Sime, Schröeder, David, Malmierca Vallet, Irene ORCID record for Irene Malmierca Vallet, Rosenblum, Erica, Ringer, Mark, Ridley, Jeff, Feltham, Danny, Bitz, Cecilia, Steig, Eric J., Wolff, Eric, Stroeve, Julienne, Sellar, Alistair. (2020) Sea-ice-free Arctic during the Last Interglacial supports fast future loss. Nature Climate Change, 10 (). pp. 10.1038/s41558-020-0865-2
Williams, Charles J.R., Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, Capron, Emilie, Malmierca Vallet, Irene ORCID record for Irene Malmierca Vallet, Singarayer, Joy S., Sime, Louise ORCID record for Louise Sime, Lunt, Daniel J., Valdes, Paul J.. (2020) CMIP6/PMIP4 simulations of the mid-Holocene and Last Interglacial using HadGEM3: comparison to the pre-industrial era, previous model versions and proxy data. Climate of the Past, 16 (). 22 pp. 10.5194/cp-16-1429-2020
Turner, John ORCID record for John Turner, Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, Arnatt, Jack, Jena, Babula, Marshall, Gareth J. ORCID record for Gareth J. Marshall, Phillips, Tony ORCID record for Tony Phillips, Bajish, C.C., Clem, Kyle, Wang, Zhaomin, Andersson, Tom ORCID record for Tom Andersson, Murphy, Eugene J. ORCID record for Eugene J. Murphy, Cavanagh, Rachel ORCID record for Rachel Cavanagh. (2020) Recent decrease of summer sea ice in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Geophysical Research Letters, 47 (). pp. 10.1029/2020GL087127
Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, Sime, Louise ORCID record for Louise Sime, Schroeder, David, Lister, Grenville M.S., Hatcher, Rosalyn. (2020) Machine dependence and reproducibility for coupled climate simulations: the HadGEM3-GC3.1 CMIP Preindustrial simulation. Geoscientific Model Development, 13 (). pp. 10.5194/gmd-13-139-2020
2019
Scussolini, Paolo, Bakker, Pepijn, Guo, Chuncheng, Stepanek, Christian, Zhang, Qiong, Braconnot, Pascale, Cao, Jian, Guarino, Maria Vittoria ORCID record for Maria Vittoria Guarino, Coumou, Dim, Prange, Matthias, Ward, Philip J., Renssen, Hans, Kageyama, Masa, Otto-Bliesner, Bette, Aerts, Jeroen C.J.H.. (2019) Agreement between reconstructed and modeled boreal precipitation of the Last Interglacial. Science Advances, 5 (). pp. 10.1126/sciadv.aax7047
2020
Past evidence supports complete loss of Arctic sea-ice by 2035
News 10 August, 2020