Daniele Rosa
Research
(i) Clouds and Climate
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My primary research is about the clouds and climate. Most of the uncertainty in climatic predictions comes from unsatisfactory knowledge about cloud processes. This problem can be looked at from different prospectives. I am investigating how clouds, in particular convective clouds, mix and transport air in the atmosphere, precisely, from the surface to the upper levels. I am using the available observations and the state of the art climate simulators including an new promising approach.
Technical terms and keywords: NCAR Community Atmosphere Model, CMMAP MMF, NCAR MOZART, MOPITT, Cloud Resolving Model, passive tracers, chemical transport Images on the right: simulated radon concentrations from the Americas (Top) and rest of the world (Bottom). |
 
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(ii) Astronomical forcing and local coupling
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Technical terms and keywords: Images on the right: |
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Biography
Present:
Graduate student. PhD program in Earth and Planetary Science (EPS), University of California, Berkeley (UCB). Advisor: Prof. William (Bill) Collins. Research focus: physical processes at cloud scale that have implications on climate.
2006-2008:
MS in Environmental Systems, Mathematical Modeling, from Humboldt State University (HSU, CA, USA). Thesis on terrestrial ecosystem modeling. Use of a global dynamic global vegetation model to simulate the effect of increase CO2 on a forest ecosytem (Thesis).
2002-2005:
Software Technologies Consultant for Accenture. Bank & telecommunication's sytems; Italy, Spain, Irelan, and Germany.
2001:
MS Theoretical Physics from University of Pavia (UNIPV, PV, ITALY). Diffusion processes in financial markets (Thesis).
Daniele Rosa
University of California - Berkeley
Department of Earth and Planetary Science
307 McCone Hall # 4767 (office #455)
Berkeley CA 94720-4767
email: drosa berkeley edu