CURRICULUM VITAE

Simona Bordoni

Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division /

Advanced Study Program

National Center for Atmospheric Research

P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000

 Phone: (303) 497-8993

Email: bordoni@ucar.edu

Web: http//www.gps.caltech.edu/~bordoni

Education

Ph.D:      Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2003-2007, University of California at Los Angeles, CA. Advisor: Bjorn Stevens. Dissertation: “On the role of eddies in monsoonal circulations: observations and theory”

M.Sc:        Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, 2001-2003, University of California at Los Angeles, CA. (GPA: 4.0/4.0)

Diploma: Laurea in Physics (magna cum laude), 1996. University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. Thesis: “Reflectivity measurements with Synchrotron radiation as a tool of interface characterization”. Advisors: Prof. A. Balzarotti and Prof.  S. Mobilio.

 

Professional Experience

Advanced Study Program, NCAR, CO, USA, Jan 2008 -present

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER: Monsoons in global and regional scale models.

Environmental Science & Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA, Mar -Dec 2007

MOORE POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR: Research on monsoonal dynamics with idealized GCM experiments. Advisor: Prof. Tapio Schneider.

Dept of Atmos. & Ocean. Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2002-2007

RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Research on the circulations over the northeast Pacific Ocean with a special emphasis on the North American Monsoon. Advisor: Prof. Bjorn Stevens.

Eurelettronica Icas S.r.l., Rome, Italy, 1997-2001

METEOROLOGICAL SYSTEM ENGINEER: Providing technical support to sales, project managing, testing and commissioning in the factory and on site, customer training and maintenance after installation for meteorological systems (Vaisala (Finland), Scitech-Kipp&Zonen (Canada), Raven Industries (USA)).

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France / Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics, Frascati National Labs, Rome, Italy, 1994-96

RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Research on X-Ray reflectivity, diffraction and DAFS measurements of InAsP/InP superlattices.

Teaching Experience

Caltech, Fall 2007

GUEST LECTURER: ESE/GE 173: Tropical dynamics; ESE/GE 148a: Introduction to Climate.

Dept of Atmos. & Ocean. Sciences, UCLA, Winter 2005

TEACHING ASSISTANT: AOS 103: Introduction to Physical Oceanography.

Dept of Atmos. & Ocean. Sciences, UCLA, October 2004

FIAT LUX FRESHMAN SEMINARS: Lecture on Monsoons to freshman students.

Research Interests

Monsoon circulations, tropical dynamics, the general circulation of the atmosphere, mesoscale processes and their interaction with larger-scale circulations, radar meteorology.

Professional services

Reviewer: NSF (2007), Journal of Climate(2005, 2006, 2007, 2008), Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (2008), Climate dynamics (2007).
Max Eaton committee (28th Conferences on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, AMS), 2008.
Graduate Curriculum Committee, Student representative, 2003-2005 UCLA Dept. of Atmos. & Ocean. Sci.
Co-President (2001-2002) and Treasures (2002-2003), UCLA chapter of Chi Epsilon Pi (national meteorological honor society).
AGU, AMS member since 2002

Awards and Fellowships

• Bjerknes Memorial Award “for novel insights into the structure of gulf surges and the North American Monsoon”, Dept of Atmos. & Ocean. Sci., UCLA, Fall 2005.
• 1^st Award for Student Poster Presentation, session on the Monsoon Systems, 1^st International CLIVAR Science Conference, Baltimore, June 2004.
• Bosart Award, “for unselfish service to fellow students and positive contribution to department life while demonstrating a firm commitment to academics”. Dept of Atmos. Sci., UCLA, Fall 2003.
• Best Student Poster Presentation Award, Synchrotron Radiation Italian Society Annual Conference, Rome Italy 1996.
• Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 2008 – 2009.
• Moore Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Science and Engineering, Caltech, 2007 – 2008.
• Dissertation year Fellowship, UCLA, 2006 – 2007.
• Chancellor's Fellowship, UCLA, 2001 – 2002.
• IGPP Fellowship, UCLA, 2001 – 2003.
• NASA Graduate Student Fellowship in Earth System Science, 2003 – 2006.
• Marie Curie Training and Mobility of Researchers European Grant, 1996.
• Erasmus Fellowship, 1995.
• INFN (Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics) Student Fellowship, 1994 – 95.

Summer Schools and Workshops

Workshop on Hurricanes and Climate Change Workshop, MMM, National Center for the Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, 7 – 8 November 2006.

MAMAOS 2003, IPAM, University of California at Los Angeles, July 14 – August 02 2003

MODERN APPLIED MATHEMATICS FOR THE ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCES

Field Experience

Rain In Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) experiment, December 2004:

Polarimetric radar measurements (S-Pol) of precipitation in Barbuda, Carribean, December 2004.

North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME), Summer 2004:

Polarimetric radar measurements (S-Pol) of precipitation in Sinaloa, Mexico, from July 19 to August 13.

Refereed Publications

S. Bordoni and T. Schneider, 2008: “Monsoons as eddy-mediated transitions of the tropical overturning circulation”, submitted.

Schneider, T. and S. Bordoni, 2008: “Eddy-mediated regime transitions in the seasonal cycle of Hadley circulations and implications for monsoon dynamics”, J. Atmos. Sci., in press.

Rauber, R. M., B. Stevens, J. Davison, S. Goeke, O. L. Mayol-Bracero, D. Rogers, P. Zuidema, H. T. Ochs III, C. Knight, J. Jensen, S. Bereznicki, S. Bordoni, H. Caro-Gautier, M. Colon-Robles, M. Deliz, S. Donaher, A. Edwards, V. Ghate,, E. Grzeszczak, C. Henry, A. Hertel, I. Jo, M. Kruk, J. Lowenstein. J. Malley, B. Medeiros, Y. Mendez, S. Mishra, F. Morales, A. A. Nuijens, D. O’Donnell, D. Ortiz-Montalvo, K. Rasmussen, E. Riepe, S. Scalia, E. Serpetzoglou, H. Shen, M. Siedsam, J. Small, E. Snodgrass, P. Trivej, E. Zarouy, J. Zawislak, 2007: “In the Driver’s seat – RICO and Education”, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88, 1929 – 1937.

 

Stevens, B., A. Beljaars, S. Bordoni, C. Holloway, M. Koehler, S. Krueger, V. Savic-Jovcic and Y. Zhang, 2007: “On the structure of the lower troposphere in the summertime stratocumulus regime of the northeast Pacific”, Mon. Wea. Rev., 135, 985 – 1005.

Bordoni, S. and B.Stevens, 2006: “Principal component analysis of the summertime winds over the Gulf of California: a gulf surge index”, Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 3395 – 3414

Bordoni, S., P. E. Ciesielski, R. H. Johnson, B. D. McNoldy and B. Stevens, 2004: “The low-level circulation of the North American Monsoon as revealed by QuikSCAT”, Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L10109, doi:10.1029/2004GL020009

Kahn, B. H., A. Eldering, M. Ghil, S. Bordoni and S. A. Clough, 2004: “Sensitivity analysis of cirrus cloud properties from high-resolution infrared spectra. Part I: Methodology and synthetic cirrus.”, Journal of Climate., 17, 4856 – 4870.

Non Refereed Publications

B. H. Kahn, A. Eldering, S. Bordoni, “A study of the sensitivity of TOA radiances to cloud microphysical parameters”, Proceedings of the AGU Meeting, May 2002, Washington D.C., USA

A. Balerna, C. Meneghini, S. Bordoni, S. Mobilio, “X-Ray Diffraction usingSynchrotron Radiation on the GILDA beamline at the ESRF”, Proceedings of the V School on X-Ray Diffraction from Polycrystalline Materials, Frascati (Rome) October 25, 1996

Invited Talks & Seminars

“Monsoons as eddy-mediated regime transitions of a Hadley cell”. Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2007.

“The low-level flow along the Gulf of California during the North American Monsoon”. AGU Spring Meeting, Acapulco, Mexico May 2007.

“Monsoons as eddy-mediated regime transitions of a Hadley cell”. Environmental Science and Engineering, CalTech, Pasadena, CA, May 2007.

“Monsoons as regime transitions of a Hadley cell in an idealized aquaplanet GCM”. Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, April 2007.

“Tropical control on the northward extent of the North American Monsoon?”. Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, March 2007.

“Monsoons in an idealized aquaplanet GCM” Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, March 2007.

“Eddy influence on monsoon dynamics”. Environmental Science and Engineering, CalTech, Pasadena, CA, May 2006.

Other Talks & Seminars

“Monsoons as eddy-mediated regime transition of the tropical overturning circulation: I. Simulations with an aquaplanet GCM.”. AMS 28th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Orlando, FL, April 2008.

“Monsoons as eddy-mediated regime transition of the tropical overturning circulation”. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, December 2007.

“Monsoon transitions as eddy-mediated regime transition of a Hadley cell: Moist dynamics”. IUGG 2007, Perugia, Italy, July 2007.

“Monsoon transitions as eddy-mediated regime transition of a Hadley cell: II. Moist dynamics”. ”. 16^th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, Santa Fe, NM, June 2007 .

“Tropical control on the northward extent of the North American Monsoon?”. MMM Colloquium, National Center for the Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, November 2006.

“Idealized monsoonal circulations”. MMM Dynamics Happy Hour, National Center for the Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, November 2006.

“Eddy influence on the cross-equatorial Hadley cell: implications for monsoon dynamics”. Student Summer Seminar Series, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences UCLA, CA, August 2006.

“Eddy influence on monsoon dynamics”. Department of Earth System Science, UCI, Irvine, CA, August 2006.

“Tropical control on the northward extent of the North American Monsoon?”. College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, May 2006.

“On the structure and efficacy of gulf surges”. 27^th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Monterey, CA, April 2006.

“Tropical control on the northward extent of the North American Monsoon?”. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Palisades, NY, February 2006.

“Eddies and thermally forced meridional overturning circulations”. 15^th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge, MA, 13-17 June 2005.

“North American Monsoon transients”. Graded Seminar at the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, May 2005

“On the role of transients in the North American Monsoon”. Earth Sciences Department, USC, Los Angeles, February 2005

“Low-level winds, SSTs and precipitation in the North American Monsoon region”. Yuk Yung Lunch Seminars., Caltech, Pasadena, March 2004

“Low-level winds, SSTs and precipitation in the North American Monsoon region”. Climate Diagnostic Center, NOAA-CIRES, Boulder, November 2003

“Low-level winds, SSTs and precipitation in the North American Monsoon region”. Atmospheric Dynamics Seminar, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA, November 2003

“North American Monsoon Winds as seen from QuikSCAT”, S.Bordoni, B.Stevens, T. Liu. IUGG 2003, Sapporo, Japan.

Conference Posters

S. Bordoni, and T. Schneider, “Monsoons as eddy-mediated regime transitions of the tropical overturning circulation: I. Simulations with an aquaplanet GCM”. 28th AMS Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Orlando, FL, April 2008.

S. Bordoni, T. Schneider and B. Stevens, “Understanding the summertime large-scale circulation: implications for monsoon dynamics”. The Akio Arakawa Symposium, 87th Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, January 2007.

S. Bordoni, T. Schneider and B. Stevens, “Axisymmetric and asymmetric monsoons in idealized experiments”. 27^th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Monterey, CA, April 2006.

Stevens, B., A. Beljaars, S. Bordoni, C. Holloway, M. Koehler, S. Krueger, V. Savic-Jovcic and Y. Zhang, 2005: “On the structure of the lower troposphere near 120W and 30N”. 3^rd PAN-GCSS Meeting on Clouds, Climate and Models.

S. Bordoni and B. Stevens, “Low-level winds, SSTs and precipitation in the North American Monsoon”. 1^st International CLIVAR Science Conference, Baltimore, June 2004 (awarded as best student presentation in the session “Monsoon Systems”).

S. Bordoni, C. Meneghini, A. Balerna, S. Mobilio, “Anomalous X-Ray reflectivity on InGaAs/InP superlattices”, Italian Conference of Physics of Condensed Matter, Chia, Cagliari, Italy, May 1997.

S. Bordoni, C. Meneghini, A. Balerna, S. Mobilio, “GILDA diffraction hutch: a progress report”, Synchrotron Radiation Italian Society Annual Conference, Rome, Italy, July 1996.

 

References:

Dr. Bjorn Stevens

Dept. Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA,

Box 951565, 7154 MSB

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1565, USA

Ph: (310) 206-7428

Email: bstevens@atmos.ucla.edu

 

Dr. Tapio Schneider

California Institute of Technology

1200 E. California Blvd.

Pasadena, CA 91125-2300, USA

Ph: (626) 395-6143

 Email: tapio@gps.caltech.edu

 

Dr. Roger Wakimoto

Foothills Laboratory Facilities,

NCAR/EOL 3450 Mitchell Lane, Bldg 1

Boulder, CO 80301

Ph: (303) 497-2040

Email: wakimoto@ucar.edu

 

Dr. Lance Bosart

Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

University at Albany/SUNY/ES-227

1400 Washington Avenue

Albany, NY 12222

Ph: (518) 442-4564

Email: bosart@atmos.albany.edu

 

Dr. Gudrun Magnusdottir

Department of Earth System Science

University of California at Irvine

Croul Hall 3321, Mail Code 3100

Irvine, CA 92697

Ph: (949) 824-3520

Email: gudrun@uci.edu