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Overview

Fabrizio Sassi is affiliated with the United States Naval Research Laboratory in the United States. The scientific work focuses primarily on physics and astronomy, with significant contributions in earth and planetary sciences. Their research interests span several subfields, including astronomy and astrophysics, atmospheric science, aerospace engineering, oceanography, and molecular biology.

The topics covered in their research include:

  • Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
  • Atmospheric ozone and climate
  • Solar and space plasma dynamics
  • GNSS positioning and interference
  • Geophysics and gravity measurements
  • Geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Fabrizio Sassi include:

  • Assessing the impact of middle atmosphere observations on day-to-day variability in lower thermospheric winds using WACCM-X, 2020, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
  • Impacts of acoustic and gravity waves on the ionosphere, 2022, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
  • Improving ionospheric predictability requires accurate simulation of the mesospheric polar vortex, 2022, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
  • Intercomparison of middle atmospheric meteorological analyses for the Northern Hemisphere winter 2009-2010, 2021, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • Day-to-day variability of the bottomside ionosphere, 2020, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Collaborations have been frequent with several researchers, including:

  • V. Lynn Harvey
  • N. M. Pedatella
  • C. E. Randall
  • S. E. McDonald
  • J. P. McCormack

Overall, Fabrizio Sassi's scientific output reflects a strong engagement with atmospheric and space physics, contributing to multiple facets of ionospheric and atmospheric research.

Best Publications

  • Simulation of secular trends in the middle atmosphere, 1950–2003

    R. R. Garcia;D. R. Marsh;D. E. Kinnison;B. A. Boville

  • Recent developments in gravity-wave effects in climate models and the global distribution of gravity-wave momentum flux from observations and models

    M. J. Alexander;M. Geller;C. McLandress;S. Polavarapu

  • Sensitivity of chemical tracers to meteorological parameters in the MOZART-3 chemical transport model

    D.E. Kinnison;Guy P. Brasseur;S. Walters;R.R. Garcia

  • Toward a Physically Based Gravity Wave Source Parameterization in a General Circulation Model

    Jadwiga H. Richter;Fabrizio Sassi;Rolando R. Garcia

  • Amplifying the Pacific Climate System Response to a Small 11-Year Solar Cycle Forcing

    Gerald A Meehl;Julie Michelle Arblaster;Julie Michelle Arblaster;Katja Matthes;Katja Matthes;Fabrizio Sassi

  • Simulations of anthropogenic change in the strength of the Brewer–Dobson circulation

    N. Butchart;A. A. Scaife;M. Bourqui;M. Bourqui;J. de Grandpre

  • Tropospheric Precursors of Anomalous Northern Hemisphere Stratospheric Polar Vortices

    Chaim I. Garfinkel;Dennis L. Hartmann;Fabrizio Sassi

  • Distribution and influence of convection in the tropical tropopause region

    A. Gettelman;M. L. Salby;F. Sassi

  • Chemistry-Climate Model Simulations of Twenty- First Century Stratospheric Climate and Circulation Changes

    Neal Butchart;I. Cionni;V. Eyring;T. G. Shepherd

  • Modeling the whole atmosphere response to solar cycle changes in radiative and geomagnetic forcing

    D. R. Marsh;R. R. Garcia;D. E. Kinnison;B. A. Boville

  • Effect of El Niño–Southern Oscillation on the dynamical, thermal, and chemical structure of the middle atmosphere

    F. Sassi;D. Kinnison;B. A. Boville;R. R. Garcia

  • Thermosphere extension of the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model

    H.-L. Liu;B. T. Foster;M. E. Hagan;J. M. McInerney

  • Assessing and understanding the impact of stratospheric dynamics and variability on the earth system

    Edwin P. Gerber;Amy Butler;Natalia Calvo;Andrew Charlton-Perez

  • A New Look at Stratospheric Sudden Warmings. Part II: Evaluation of Numerical Model Simulations

    Andrew J. Charlton;Lorenzo M. Polvani;Judith Perlwitz;Fabrizio Sassi

  • Implementation of a gravity wave source spectrum parameterization dependent on the properties of convection in the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM)

    Jadwiga H. Beres;Rolando R. Garcia;Byron A. Boville;Fabrizio Sassi

  • On temperature inversions and the mesospheric surf zone

    F. Sassi;R. R. Garcia;B. A. Boville;H. Liu

  • Role of the QBO in modulating the influence of the 11 year solar cycle on the atmosphere using constant forcings

    Katja Matthes;Daniel R. Marsh;Rolando R. Garcia;Douglas E. Kinnison

  • The neutral dynamics during the 2009 sudden stratosphere warming simulated by different whole atmosphere models

    Nicholas Pedatella;T. Fuller-Rowell;H. Wang;H. Jin

  • Tropical Cumulus Convection and Upward Propagating Waves in Middle Atmospheric Gcms

    T. Horinouchi;S. Pawson;S. Pawson;K. Shibata;U. Langematz

  • Climatology of mesopause region temperature, zonal wind, and meridional wind over Fort Collins, Colorado (41°N, 105­°W), and comparison with model simulations

    Tao Yuan;Chiao-Yao She;David A. Krueger;Fabrizio Sassi

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolando R. Garcia
Rolando R. Garcia National Center for Atmospheric Research
Byron A. Boville
Byron A. Boville National Center for Atmospheric Research
Douglas E. Kinnison
Douglas E. Kinnison National Center for Atmospheric Research
Han-Li Liu
Han-Li Liu National Center for Atmospheric Research
David E. Siskind
David E. Siskind United States Naval Research Laboratory
Daniel R. Marsh
Daniel R. Marsh National Center for Atmospheric Research
Elisa Manzini
Elisa Manzini Max Planck Society
Katja Matthes
Katja Matthes GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Mark E. Hervig
Mark E. Hervig University of Wyoming
Cora E. Randall
Cora E. Randall University of Colorado Boulder

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