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Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli is a physical oceanographer whose interests include:

i) investigation and modeling, both mathematical and numerical, of nonlinear coherent structures such as oceanic rings shed by western boundary currents and atmospheric blocking in the atmosphere;

ii) circulation and water mass formation processes of marginal, semi-enclosed seas such as the Mediterranean and Black Sea, including modeling of their shallow water ecosystems (northern Adriatic, Black Sea shelf);

iii) development of novel, theoretical methods for the assimilation of oceanic observations into general circulation ocean models (ogcm's);

iv) investigation and modeling of the processes characterizing the tropical oceans (tropical Atlantic, South China Sea and Indonesian Through-Flow) and of their ocean/atmosphere coupled modes of interaction.

Her most recent interests are focused on the development and application of a regional climate coupled ocean/atmosphere model for the South Asia Maritime Continent for the understanding of its present climate and the prediction of future climate scenarios. This project is part of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Program.

A constant interest throughout her career has been the study and prediction of the extreme floods affecting the city of Venice, Italy, and of its lagoon and the construction of the mobile barriers at the lagoon inlets for their protection.

Full CV is availible to view HERE.

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HONORS

Enrico Marchi Invited lecture, University of Catania, June 2018

Rachel Carson invited lecture, American Geophysical Union, New Orleans Dec. 2017

Singapore-MIT SMART Program Chair 2013-2014

Recipient of the Recognition Award from the Prime Minister of the Italian Government for the contribution to the IPCC report winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace

Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 2006

Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, 2002

Winner of the 1998 Masi of the Italian government for excellence in environmental sciences

Editor’s Award from the American Meteorological Society as best reviewer of the Journal of Physical Oceanography, 1992

Cecil and Ida Green Scholar, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1978-1980

PUBLICATIONS

Special issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research on “Recent Progresses in Oceanography and Air-Sea Interactions in Southeast Asian Archipelago”. L..Oey, Editor; P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, Guest Editor

Xue, P., Malanotte-Rizzoli, P., Wei, J. and Eltahir, E. “Coupled Regional Climate Modeling over the Maritime Conrinent: A review” In Press for the J. Geophys. Res., 2020

Jiang,G.Q., Wei,J., Malanotte-Rizzoli,P., Li, M. and Gordon, A.L. “Seasonal and Interannual variability of the subsurface velocity profile of the Indonesian Throughflow at Majassar Strait”, J. Geophys. Res., Oceans, 124, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014884, 2019

Li,M., Wei, J., Wang,D., Gordon A.L., Malanotte-Rizzoli P., Yang, S., and Jiang, G.Q. “Exploring the Importance of the Mindoro‐Sibutu Pathway to the Upper‐Layer Circulation of the South China Sea and the Indonesian Throughflow",  J. Geophys. Res., Oceans, 124, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014910, 2019

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Jiang, G.Q. Wei, J., Malanotte-Rizzoli P. Gordon, A.L. “An abrupt reversal of the South China Sea surface temperature sence 1998” Submitted to Nature Scientific Reports, 2019

Y. Sun, E.Eltahir and P. Malanotte-Rizzoli (2017), “The bottom water exchange between the Singapore Strait and the West Johor Strait", Cont. Shelf. Res., 145, 32-42, doi: 10.1016/ j.csr.2017.07.004

Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli ( 2017 ), invited autobiographical article for the 2017 volume of Annual Review of Maribe Science, "Venice and I : How a City Can Determine the Fate of a Career", Ann. Rev. Mar. Sci., 9: 1-29, doi: 10.1146/annurev.-marine-010816-060632

Jun Wei, Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli,  M.-T.Li & H.Wang  (2016), "Decomposition of thermal and dynamic changes in the South China Sea induced by boundary forcing and surface fluxes during 1970-2000", J. Geophys. Res. doi: 10.1002/2016JC01207

Jun Wei, Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, Arnold J.Gordon, M.-T.Li & D.X. (2016) "Opposite variability of Indonesian Throughflow and South China Sea Throughflow in the Sulawesi Sea", J. Phys. Oceanogr., doi: 10.1175/JPO-D-16-0132.1

Bjorg Thomson, Pavel Tkalich & Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli  (2016), "Regime shift of the South China Sea SST in the late 1990's", Climate Dyn., doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3178-4