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I am a tenure track researcher interested in the physics of the climate system. I use different tools (from in-situ observations to high resolution numerical models) to understand how the surface heterogeneities affect the atmospheric dynamics.
I have been looking at the effects of sea surface temperature fronts on the surface winds, low level clouds and rainfall using models, reanalysis, in situ and satellite data. I am now studying how the differential surface heating in future climates may impact the large-scale atmospheric dynamics and how the sub-mesoscale air-sea interactions can impact the climate system.
With some friends and colleagues we have started doing dissemination activities in the mountains, with schools and the general public. Check our website out: CLIMALP-scienza in quota (in Italian).
I am convinced that only if we know our world better we can guess the way towards a global sustainable future.
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15 Dec 2025: The paper that describes the air-sea interactions analyzed by Borgnino et al. (2025) using coupled ocean-atmosphere simulations is published on Advances in Science and Research
19 Nov 2025: Remote Sensing publishes our paper on the environmental control on the DMM coupling as observed from satellite data
29 Sep-2 Oct 2025: I'm going to Marseilles at the 3rd CROCO User Meeting to give an invited presentation
5 Aug 2025: The paper combining geological, historical and meteorological data on flood variability in north-western Italy in the last 1000 years is published on Quaternary Science Advances
21 Apr 2025: The Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems publishes our paper on tropical cyclone intensity oscillations
26 Feb 2025: Our paper that describes the skills of HighResMIP models in reproducing DMM and PA over the Mediterranean Sea is published on the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
8 Jan 2025: Geophysical Research Letters publishes our paper on the link between SST and low-level clouds in the EUREC4A region.
5 Nov 2024: The Scientific Reports paper on the importance of eddy air-sea interactions for a heavy rainfall event in the Mediterranean is published.
15-20 Sep 2024: We go to the IDEA-S4S Summer School in Santa Giustina, near Belluno, to learn and discuss about rainfall in mountain regions.
1 Sep 2024: We organize the "Mindful Climate Communication" workshop within the EMS24 conference at the University of Barcelona.
8 Apr 2024: I'm awarded the Young Scientist Conference Award from EMS to attend the 2024 conference in Barcelona.
12 Jan 2024: The paper on aerosol-cloud interactions in the north Atlantic trades is published on Atmospheric Science Letters.
2 Jan 2024: The MAXM (Bicocca Starting Grant) project starts - Machine Learning of the statistics of Atmospheric eXtremes in Mountain regions
11 Nov 2023: A new Scientific Reports paper on the link between energy and carbonate distribution is out
30 Oct-3 Nov 2023: We run the High-Resolution Atmospheric Models for Regional Applications: a RegCM and WRF Advanced School at EAIFR, Kigali, Rwanda
25-29 Sep 2023: We are going to the Netherlands at the Lorentz Center workshop Atmosphere-ocean coupling at (sub)mesoscales.
24 Aug 2023: Published on the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society the paper that describes the main results of GLAUCO: satellite data reveal an instantaneous wind response over western boundary current SST gradients.
5-15 Jun 2023: I'm very happy to attend the SOLAS (Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study) summer school at the OSCM in Mindelo, Capo Verde! I won one of the student best presentation awards! Here is the final report where some information on GLAUCO's research is available.
14 Mar 2023: The Frontiers in Marine Science paper on the importance of the air-sea coupling in the spatial modulation of the latent heat flux is out!
9 Mar 2023: The Journal of Climate publishes our paper on the role of environmental conditions in the modulation of the wind-SST coupling
14 Feb 2023: A workshop on the Communication of Climate Change takes place at DISAT, UnimiB. Here a description of the day (in Italian), published on the blog IconaClima.
20 Oct 2022: The Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres publishes our analyses on the atmospheric response to a cold patch during EUREC4A, using in-situ observations
9 Aug 2022: The paper introducing a new metric to evaluate the pressure adjustment mechanism is published on the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.
23-27 May 2022: LPS22 takes place in Bonn, Germany. I'm presenting the work done in GLAUCO and I'm interviewed by the public German radio
17 Feb 2022: The new Biogeosciences paper on the Boron incorporation by Lithothamnion corallioides is published.
15-18 Feb 2022: We are presenting our works at the 4th AISAM congress in Milan.
13 Jan 2022: The new paper on the impacts of oceanic variables on the characterization of the rhodolith bed in Sardinia is out.
Nov 2021: I go to the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD) in Paris to visit Sabrina Speich's group for a month.
21 Sep 2021: "Climatic signature of the fast atmospheric response to sea surface thermal structures in the Mediterranean Sea" seminar within the WHOI Physical Oceanography seminar series.
26 Apr 2021: New paper published on Geophysical Research Letters! It shows the SST impacts on the atmospheric boundary layer dynamics in the Mediterranean.
7 Apr 2021: The paper validating the CIMA Research Foundation WRF configuration is published on the Bulletin of Atmospheric Science and Technology.
6 Apr 2021: We published a Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society paper on the sensitivity of some heavy rainfall simulations in Africa to PBL (planetary boundary layer) and microphysical schemes.
15 Mar 2021: The GLAUCO ESA CCI project starts.
13 Jan 2021: I am awarded the MDPI Climate 2021 Travel Award!
30 Dec 2020: My interview on climate change is available on a local website (in Italian).
10 Dec 2020: Our new paper on the Piedmont 1994 event is published on the Bulletin of Atmospheric Science and Technology.
6 Dec 2020: The commentary paper on the atmospheric response induced by the cold wakes of tropical cyclones is out on Geophysical Research Letters.
23 Nov 2020: I got selected for the ESA CCI Fellowship: in March the GLAUCO project will start!
18 Nov 2020: We published a Remote Sensing paper on the positive effect that assimilating high-resolution water vapor maps has on a heavy rainfall event forecast.
26 Oct 2020: The Frontiers in Earth Science paper, where we discuss how to obtain absolute InSAR ZTD (Zenith Total Delay) maps, is published.
20 Apr 2020: A short interview on the EUREC4A field campaign is released on the CIMA Research Foundation website.
Jan-Feb 2020: We are out at sea, in the western tropical Atlantic for the EUREC4A field campaign.
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