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Alessandra Giannini

Alessandra Giannini

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Environmental Sciences

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Overview

Alessandra Giannini is a researcher affiliated with Columbia University in the United States, specializing in environmental science. Their body of work encompasses several main fields of study and a diverse range of subfields.

The primary field of Alessandra Giannini's research is Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Soil Science
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health

Giannini's work mainly addresses topics such as:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Hydrology and drought analysis
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Food security and health in diverse populations
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment

Their recent publications demonstrate a strong interest in climate-related phenomena and agricultural impacts, including:

  • Food security and climate shocks in Senegal: Who and where are the most vulnerable households? (2021, Global Food Security)
  • The effects of anthropogenic and volcanic aerosols and greenhouse gases on twentieth century Sahel precipitation (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Thank You to Our 2019 Peer Reviewers (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Off-label long acting injectable antipsychotics in real-world clinical practice: a cross-sectional analysis of prescriptive patterns from the STAR Network DEPOT study (2022, BMC Psychiatry)
  • Low-cost adaptation options to support green growth in agriculture, water resources, and coastal zones (2022, Scientific Reports)

Alessandra Giannini frequently collaborates with other researchers, with notable co-authors including:

  • Suzana J. Camargo
  • Harihar Rajaram
  • Christian Huber
  • V. Y. Ivanov
  • Monika Korte

The scholar has contributed to several publication venues multiple times, reflecting areas of expertise and research focus. The most frequent venues include:

  • Geophysical Research Letters (7 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (2 publications)
  • Frontiers in Climate (2 publications)
  • Science Advances (2 publications)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Oceanic forcing of Sahel rainfall on interannual to interdecadal time scales.

    A. Giannini;R. Saravanan;P. Chang

  • Interannual Variability of Caribbean Rainfall, ENSO, and the Atlantic Ocean

    Alessandra Giannini;Yochanan Kushnir;Mark A. Cane

  • Land–atmosphere feedbacks amplify aridity increase over land under global warming

    Alexis Berg;Kirsten Findell;Benjamin Lintner;Alessandra Giannini

  • Towards predictive understanding of regional climate change

    Shang Ping Xie;Clara Deser;Gabriel Andres Vecchi;Matthew Collins

  • A global perspective on African climate

    Alessandra Giannini;Michela Biasutti;Isaac M. Held;Adam H. Sobel

  • Deconstructing Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone variability: Influence of the local cross-equatorial sea surface temperature gradient and remote forcing from the eastern equatorial Pacific

    John C. H. Chiang;John C. H. Chiang;John C. H. Chiang;Yochanan Kushnir;Alessandra Giannini;Alessandra Giannini

  • Robust Sahel drying in response to late 20th century forcings

    Michela Biasutti;Alessandra Giannini

  • The ENSO Teleconnection to the Tropical Atlantic Ocean: Contributions of the Remote and Local SSTs to Rainfall Variability in the Tropical Americas*

    Alessandra Giannini;John C. H. Chiang;Mark A. Cane;Yochanan Kushnir

  • A climate model-based review of drought in the Sahel: Desertification, the re-greening and climate change

    Alessandra Giannini;Michela Biasutti;Michel M. Verstraete

  • Interdecadal Changes in the ENSO Teleconnection to the Caribbean Region and the North Atlantic Oscillation

    Alessandra Giannini;Mark A. Cane;Yochanan Kushnir

  • SST Forcings and Sahel Rainfall Variability in Simulations of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

    Michela Biasutti;Isaac M. Held;A. H. Sobel;A. Giannini

  • A unifying view of climate change in the Sahel linking intra-seasonal, interannual and longer time scales

    A Giannini;S Salack;A Ali;A T Gaye

  • CMIP5 Projected Changes in the Annual Cycle of Precipitation in Monsoon Regions

    Anji Seth;Sara A. Rauscher;Michela Biasutti;Alessandra Giannini

  • The preconditioning role of Tropical Atlantic Variability in the development of the ENSO teleconnection: implications for the prediction of Nordeste rainfall

    A. Giannini;Ramalingam Saravanan;P. Chang

  • Enhanced spring convective barrier for monsoons in a warmer world

    Anji Seth;Sara A. Rauscher;Maisa Rojas;Alessandra Giannini

  • Revisiting the ENSO Teleconnection to the Tropical North Atlantic

    Javier García-Serrano;Christophe Cassou;Hervé Douville;Alessandra Giannini

  • The desert locust upsurge in West Africa (2003 – 2005): Information on the desert locust early warning system and the prospects for seasonal climate forecasting

    Pietro Ceccato;Keith Cressman;Alessandra Giannini;Sylwia Trzaska

  • Mechanisms of Climate Change in the Semiarid African Sahel: The Local View

    Alessandra Giannini

  • Dynamics of the boreal summer African monsoon in the NSIPP1 atmospheric model

    Alessandra Giannini;R. Saravanan;Ping Chang

  • Monsoon Responses to Climate Changes—Connecting Past, Present and Future

    Anji Seth;Alessandra Giannini;Alessandra Giannini;Maisa Rojas;Sara A. Rauscher

  • Changes in seasonal descriptors of precipitation in Burkina Faso associated with late 20th century drought and recovery in West Africa

    Tiganadaba Lodoun;Alessandra Giannini;Pierre Sibiry Traoré;Léopold Somé

Frequent Co-Authors

Yochanan Kushnir
Yochanan Kushnir Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Suzana J. Camargo
Suzana J. Camargo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Michela Biasutti
Michela Biasutti Columbia University
Ramalingam Saravanan
Ramalingam Saravanan Texas A&M University
Sara A. Rauscher
Sara A. Rauscher University of Delaware
Richard Seager
Richard Seager Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Ping Chang
Ping Chang Texas A&M University
Andrew W. Robertson
Andrew W. Robertson Columbia University
Mark A. Cane
Mark A. Cane Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Benjamin R. Lintner
Benjamin R. Lintner Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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