BAS Honorary Researcher Dr Maria Vittoria Guarino is Research Scientist at ENEA (Rome, IT), Climate Modelling Division (SSPT-CLIMAR).

In 2017, Maria Vittoria was awarded a PhD in “Atmosphere, Oceans and Climate” from the University of Reading (UK), Department of Meteorology. From 2017 to 2020, she was PDRA at the British Antarctic Survey, before moving to the University of Leeds (UK) where she worked until 2022. From 2022 to 2025, she joined the Earth System Physics group at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) (Trieste, IT).

Maria Vittoria studies the atmosphere (lower- and upper- layers) and the coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean system. She is particularly interested in atmospheric gravity waves and the largescale coupling between atmosphere and ocean.

Maria Vittoria’s profile page can be found here (https://maviguarino.wixsite.com/website )

First-author and Highlighted Publications

• Guarino, M.-V., Sime, L.C., Schröeder, D. et al. Sea-ice-free Arctic during the Last Interglacial supports fast future loss. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0865-2
• Guarino, M.-V., Sime, L. C., Schroeder, D., Lister, G. M. S., and Hatcher, R., 2020: Machine dependence and reproducibility for coupled climate simulations: the HadGEM3-GC3.1 CMIP Preindustrial simulation, Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 139–154.
• Guarino, M. V., Teixeira, M. A. C., Keller,  T. L. and Sharman R. D., 2018: Mountain wave turbulence in the presence of directional wind shear over the Rocky Mountains. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. 75: 1285-1305 .
• Guarino, M. V., Teixeira, M. A. C., 2017: Non-hydrostatic effects on mountain wave breaking in directional shear flows. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 143: 3291 – 329
• Guarino, M. V., Teixeira, M. A. C. and Ambaum, M. H. P., 2016: Turbulence generation by mountain wave breaking in flows with directional wind shear . Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 142: 2715-2726.
• Guarino, M. V., Martilli A., Di Sabatino S. and Leo L. S., 2014: Modelling the Urban Boundary-Layer Over a Typical Mediterranean City Using WRF: Assessment of UHI and Thermal Comfort. Peer-reviewed Conference Proceeding, ASME 2014 – Symposium on Urban Fluid Mechanics, FEDSM2014-21572.

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

• Guarino, M., & Sime, L. (2022). Last Interglacial summer air temperature observations for the Arctic (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/9ab58d27-596a-472c-a13e-2dcd68612082

• Guarino, M., & Sime, L. (2021). HadCM3 and HadGEM3 LIG model outputs: A sea ice-free Arctic (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/9b138820-eec3-43ae-a49b-068a9f5931a4

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