Dr. Lucrezia Ricciardulli
Scientist, Remote Sensing Systems
444 Tenth Street, Suite 200
Santa Rosa, CA, 95401
voice: (707) 545-2904x23
fax: (707) 545-2906
ricciardulli@remss.com

M.S., Physics, University of L'Aquila, Italy, 1993. Graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Ph. D., Physics, University of L'Aquila, Italy, 1998.

2001-present: Scientist, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, California.

1999- 2001: Research Associate at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado and Climate Diagnostic Center, NOAA, Boulder

1998-1999: Visiting Postdoc, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado

1997-1998: Graduate Research, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado

1993-1996: Collaboration with NASA/Atmospheric Effects of Aviation Program (AEAP).

2004: Member of site visit review team for a proposed NSF Science and Technology Center, "Center for Multi-Scale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes (MMAP)", Fort Collins, Colorado.

Remote sensing of sea surface temperatures, winds, precipitation, clouds; Climate variability; Tropical convection in General Circulation Models (GCMs); Equatorial waves and tropical dynamics; Statistical, spectral, and climate analysis of large data set; Microphysics of aerosols; Numerical modeling of atmospheric chemistry and dynamics; Effects of aviation on the stratosphere.

Ricciardulli, L., and F. Wentz, 2009: SSMI wind anomalies in the Southern Pacific and their correlation with La Nina. Submitted to Geophys. Res. Lett.

McVicar, T.R., Van Niel, T.G., Li, L.T., Roderick, M.L., Rayner, D.P., Ricciardulli, L. and Donohue, R.J., 2008, Wind speed climatology and trends for Australia, 1975-2006: capturing the stilling phenomenon and comparison with near-surface reanalysis output. Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, L20403, doi:10.1029/2008GL035627.

Wentz, F.J., L. Ricciardulli, K. Hilburn, and C. Mears, 2007, How much more rain will global warming bring? Science, 317, 233-235. Published Online May 31, 2007.

Chun, H.-Y., J.-S. Goh, I.-S. Song, and L. Ricciardulli, 2007, Latitudinal variations of convective source and propagation condition of inertio-gravity waves in the Tropics. J. Atmos Sci., 64, 1603-1618.

Rasch, P. J., M. J. Stevens, L. Ricciardulli, A. Dai, A. Negri, R. Wood, B. A. Boville, B. Eaton, J. J. Hack, 2006, A characterization of tropical transient activity in the CAM3 atmospheric hydrologic cycle. J. Climate, 19, 2222-2242.

Ricciardulli, L., and F. J. Wentz, 2004, Uncertainties in sea surface retrievals from space: comparison of microwave and infrared observations from TRMM. J. Geophys. Res., 109, C12013, doi:10.1029/2003JC002247.

Ricciardulli, L. and P. D. Sardeshmukh, 2002, Local space and time scales of organized tropical convection. J. Climate, 15, 2775-2790.

Ricciardulli, L. and R.R. Garcia, 2000, The excitation of equatorial waves by deep convection in the NCAR Community Climate Model (CCM3). J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 3461-3487.

Weisenstein, D.K., M.K.W. Ko, I.G. Dyominov, G. Pitari, L. Ricciardulli, G. Visconti, S. Bekki, 1998, The effects of sulfur emissions from HSCT aircrafts: a 2-D model intercomparison. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 1527-1547.

Pitari, G., L. Ricciardulli and G. Visconti, 1996, The ozone depletion during 1992 and 1993: a three dimensional study. In "The Mount Pinatubo Eruption", NATO-ASI series, I 42, 192-210, Springer & Verlag.

Ricciardulli, L., G. Pitari and G. Visconti, 1996, 2-Dimensional modeling the time evolution of the Pinatubo aerosol cloud. In "The Mount Pinatubo Eruption", NATO-ASI series, I 42, 71-79, Springer & Verlag.

Pitari, G. and L. Ricciardulli, 1994, Stratospheric denitrification due to polar aerosol formation: implications for a future atmosphere with increased CO2. Geophys. Res. Lett., 20, 1791-1794.

Pitari, G., V. Rizi, L. Ricciardulli and G. Visconti, 1993, High-Speed Civil Transport Impact: Role of sulfate, nitric acid trihydrate and ice aerosols studied with a two-dimensional model including aerosols physics. J. Geophys. Res., 98, 23141-23164.