Valerio Lembo

Valerio Lembo

v.lembo@isac.cnr.it

QUALIFICATIONS

• Ph. D. in Climate Sciences July 2016
  • University of Salento Lecce, Italy: Doctoral thesis "Evolution of the Energy Budget in the 20th Century and its Role in the Inter-Hemispheric Temperature Contrast"
  • Academic Guest (Jan 2015 - Apr 2015) at "Climate and Water Cycle" group of the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Sciences of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
• M. Sc. in Physics of the Atmosphere and Meteorology October 2012
  • University of Bologna Bologna, Italy
  • M. Sc. thesis "Surface Temperature as a Climate Index: Relations with Mid-latitude Tropospheric Baroclinicity"
• B. Sc. in Physics and Astrophysics December 2009
  • University of Rome La Sapienza Rome, Italy
  • B. Sc. thesis on "Influence of Atmospheric Gravity Waves on ground-based Solar Irradiance Measures"

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

• ISAC-CNR October 2020 - Present
  • Permanent Researcher Bologna, Italy
  • Member of the "Global Change" unit of the Earth system science and environmental technologies Department at CNR, within the Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• CEN, University of Hamburg November 2016 - August 2020
  • Postdoctoral Researcher Hamburg, Germany
  • Project "Energy Transfers in the Atmosphere and Ocean": Research on diagnostics and metrics for the assessment of climate models.
  • Participation to ESMValTool community diagnostics for the analysis of IPCC model ensembles.
• CINFAI, March 2016 - September 2016
  • Research Associate Lecce, Italy
  • Research on the seasonal cycle of atmospheric baroclinic activity in mid-latitudes

AWARDS AND CERTIFICATES

• Seal of Excellence for MSCA-IF proposal March 2020, European Research Council
• Meteorologist Certificate (WMO Qualification) July 2018, University of Bologna
• Ph.D. Grant on "Ecology and Climate Change" January 2013, University of Salento - CMCC

MISCELLANEOUS

• Editor:
  • Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics
• Reviewer:
  • Earth System Dynamics,
  • Geophysical Research Letters,
  • Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
  • Journal of Climate
  • Weather and Climate Dynamics
• Memberships:
  • European Geosciences Union (2013-2022)
  • Associazione Italiana per le Scienze dell'Atmosfera e Meteorologia (2016-2018)
  • Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici (2013-2016)

PUBLICATION LIST

• Lembo, V., Fabiano, F., Galfi, V.M., Graversen, R., Lucarini, V., and G. Messori, 2022, Meridional energy transport extremes and the general circulation of NH mid-latitudes: dominant weather regimes and preferred zonal wavenumbers, Weather Clim. Dyn., 3(3), 1037-1062
• Franzke, Christian LE, Franzke, C. L., Blender, R., O'Kane, T. J., and V. Lembo, 2022, Stochastic Methods and Complexity Science in Climate Research and Modeling, Frontiers in Physics, 521
• Ragone, C., Lembo, V., Lucarini, V., V?erard, C., Kasparian, J., and M. Brunetti, 2022, Robustness of competing climatic states, J Atm Sciences, 35(9), 2769-2784
• Faranda, D., Alberti, T., Arutkin, M., Lembo, V., and V. Lucarini, 2021, Interrupting vaccination policies can greatly spread SARS-CoV-2 and enhance mortality from COVID-19 disease: The AstraZeneca case for France and Italy, Chaos, 31(4), 041105
• Qiyun, M., Lembo, V., and C.L.E. Franzke, 2021, The Lorenz energy cycle: trends and the impact of modes of climate variability, Tellus A: Dyn Met and Oc, 73:1, 1-15
• Vissio, G., Lembo, V., Lucarini V., and M. Ghil, 2020, Evaluating the Performance of Climate Models Based on Wasserstein Distance, Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, e2020GL089385.
• Lembo, V., Ragone F., and V. Lucarini, 2020, Beyond Forcing Scenarios: Predicting Climate Change through Response Operators in a Coupled General Circulation Model, Sci Rep 10, 8668.
• Eyring, V. et al., 2020, Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) v2.0 - an extended set of large-scale diagnostics for quasi-operational and comprehensive evaluation of Earth system models in CMIP, Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 3383-3438.
• Lembo V., Lunkeit F., and V. Lucarini, 2019, TheDiaTo (v1.0) - A new diagnostic tool for diagnosing water, energy and entropy budgets in climate models, Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 3805-3834
• Lembo V., Messori G., Graversen R., and V. Lucarini, 2019, Spectral decomposition and extremes of atmospheric meridional energy transport in the Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 7602-7613
• Lembo V., Folini D., Wild M., and P. Lionello, 2019, Inter-hemispheric differences in energy budgets and cross-equatorial transport anomalies during the 20th Century, Clim. Dyn., 53: 115
• Faranda D., Lembo V., Kuzzay D., Daviaud F. and B. Dubrulle, 2017, Computation and characterization of local energy transfers in atmospheric flows, J. Atm. Sciences, 75, 2175-2186
• Lembo V., Bordi I., and A. Speranza, 2017, Annual and semiannual cycles of midlatitude surface temperature and baroclinicity: reanalysis data and AOGCMs simulations, Earth Sys. Dyn., 8, 295-312
• Lembo V., Folini D., Wild M. and P. Lionello, 2016, Energy budgets and transports: global evolution and spatial patterns during the 20th Century in two AMIP-like experiments, Clim. Dyn., 48, 1793-1812