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Overview

Riccardo Farneti is affiliated with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant focus on subfields including Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics Farneti investigates include:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

Recent important papers authored or coauthored by Farneti include:

  • Improvements and persistent biases in the southeast tropical Atlantic in CMIP models, 2022, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
  • Ocean-Only FAFMIP: Understanding Regional Patterns of Ocean Heat Content and Dynamic Sea Level Change, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • The Regional Earth System Model RegCM-ES: Evaluation of the Mediterranean Climate and Marine Biogeochemistry, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Mechanisms of tropical Pacific decadal variability, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • The Southern Ocean Freshwater Input from Antarctica (SOFIA) Initiative: scientific objectives and experimental design, 2023, Geoscientific model development

Farneti collaborates frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Fred Kucharski
  • Franco Molteni
  • Alonso Hernández-Guerra
  • Arthur Prigent
  • René Gabriel Navarro-Labastida

Their research has been published in a variety of notable venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Climate Dynamics
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Journal of Climate
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • North Atlantic simulations in Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part I: Mean states

    Gokhan Danabasoglu;Steve G. Yeager;David Bailey;Erik Behrens

  • The GFDL CM3 Coupled Climate Model: Characteristics of the Ocean and Sea Ice Simulations

    Stephen M. Griffies;Michael Winton;Leo J. Donner;Larry W. Horowitz

  • The Role of Mesoscale Eddies in the Rectification of the Southern Ocean Response to Climate Change

    Riccardo Farneti;Thomas L. Delworth;Anthony J. Rosati;Stephen M. Griffies

  • North Atlantic simulations in Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments phase II (CORE-II). Part II: Inter-annual to decadal variability

    Gokhan Danabasoglu;Steve G. Yeager;Who M. Kim;Erik Behrens

  • Sensitivity of the Overturning Circulation in the Southern Ocean to Decadal Changes in Wind Forcing

    Michael P. Meredith;Alberto C. Naveira Garabato;Andrew McC. Hogg;Riccardo Farneti

  • An assessment of Antarctic Circumpolar Current and Southern Ocean meridional overturning circulation during 1958–2007 in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations

    Riccardo Farneti;Stephanie M. Downes;Stephen M. Griffies;Simon J. Marsland

  • On the Need of Intermediate Complexity General Circulation Models: A “SPEEDY” Example

    Fred Kucharski;Franco Molteni;Martin P. King;Riccardo Farneti

  • Atlantic forcing of Pacific decadal variability

    Fred Kucharski;Fred Kucharski;Farah Ikram;Franco Molteni;Riccardo Farneti

  • Tropical Pacific response to 20th century Atlantic warming

    Fred Kucharski;In-Sik Kang;Riccardo Farneti;Laura Feudale

  • An assessment of global and regional sea level for years 1993-2007 in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations

    Stephen M. Griffies;Jianjun Yin;Paul J. Durack;Paul Goddard

  • An assessment of Southern Ocean water masses and sea ice during 1988–2007 in a suite of interannual CORE-II simulations

    Stephanie M. Downes;Riccardo Farneti;Petteri Uotila;Petteri Uotila;Stephen M. Griffies

  • Impacts of wind stress on the Antarctic Circumpolar Current fronts and associated subduction

    S. M. Downes;A. S. Budnick;Jorge Louis Sarmiento;R. Farneti

  • Thermodynamic controls of the Atlantic Niño

    Hyacinth C. Nnamchi;Jianping Li;Fred Kucharski;In-Sik Kang

  • Delivering Sustained, Coordinated, and Integrated Observations of the Southern Ocean for Global Impact

    Louise Newman;Petra Heil;Petra Heil;Rowan Trebilco;Rowan Trebilco;Katsuro Katsumata

  • The Teleconnection of the Tropical Atlantic to Indo-Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures on Inter-Annual to Centennial Time Scales: A Review of Recent Findings

    Fred Kucharski;Afroja Parvin;Belen Rodriguez-Fonseca;Riccardo Farneti

  • The Role of Mesoscale Eddies in the Remote Oceanic Response to Altered Southern Hemisphere Winds

    Riccardo Farneti;Thomas L. Delworth

  • Improvements and persistent biases in the southeast tropical Atlantic in CMIP models

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  • Meridional energy transport in the coupled atmosphere-ocean system: Scaling and numerical experiments

    Geoffrey K. Vallis;Riccardo Farneti

  • The effects of the eddy-induced advection coefficient in a coarse-resolution coupled climate model

    Riccardo Farneti;Peter R. Gent

  • Ocean-Only FAFMIP: Understanding Regional Patterns of Ocean Heat Content and Dynamic Sea Level Change

    Alexander Todd;Laure Zanna;Laure Zanna;Matthew Couldrey;Jonathan Gregory;Jonathan Gregory

  • Meridional energy transport in the coupled atmosphere-ocean system: Compensation and partitioning

    Riccardo Farneti;Geoffrey K. Vallis

  • An Equatorial–Extratropical Dipole Structure of the Atlantic Niño

    Hyacinth C. Nnamchi;Jianping Li;Fred Kucharski;In-Sik Kang;In-Sik Kang

Frequent Co-Authors

Fred Kucharski
Fred Kucharski International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Stephen M. Griffies
Stephen M. Griffies National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Simona Masina
Simona Masina Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Gokhan Danabasoglu
Gokhan Danabasoglu National Center for Atmospheric Research
Antonio Navarra
Antonio Navarra National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Petteri Uotila
Petteri Uotila University of Helsinki
Eric P. Chassignet
Eric P. Chassignet Florida State University
Simon J. Marsland
Simon J. Marsland Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Franco Molteni
Franco Molteni European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Hiroyuki Tsujino
Hiroyuki Tsujino Japan Meteorological Agency

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