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Paolo Michele Ruti
Highlights
Experienced scientist and science manager with strong leadership and relationship-building skills.
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Chief of World Weather Research Division (WWRP) – WMO, Geneva, Switzerland (August 2014 –
present)
Head of Modeling and Impact Laboratory at ENEA (Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and
Sustainable Economic Development): managing staff; supervising young scientists, graduate
students and post-docs; designing and developing national and international research projects;
managing budget.
Strong international involvement in managing research programs (coordinator of the first EU
project on Climate Services – CLIMRUN), member of executive committees and scientific steering
groups (ECRA, GEWEX, AMMA), Italian Delegate at WMO congresses, and organizing post-graduate
schools.
International research activities since 1996 (PhD within the first European project on the
regionalization of the climate change), specifically on Atmosphere General Circulation, Regional
Climate processes, African climate, underpinning science for Climate Services. Author and coauthors of more than 50 peer reviewed papers.
Employment
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Chief of World Weather Research Division (WWRP) – WMO, Geneva, Switzerland (August 2014 - )
Head of the Climate Modeling and Impacts Laboratory (17 scientists), at Italian National Agency for
New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Rome, Italy (April 2010 – July
2014)
Senior scientist. ENEA, Environmental and Energy Research Institute, Climate Section. Modeling
group, Rome, Italy (1996-2010).
Visiting scientist. Physics Department, Rome (1999-2000).
Visiting scientist at the Regional Meteorological Service of Emilia-Romagna Region (1996), in the
context of the European Community project “Regionalization of anthropogenic climate change
simulations”.
Education
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Ph.D. in Geophysics, University of Torino, Physics Dep., 1993-1995. Dissertation: “Regional Climate
Simulation over Northern Italy and Atmosphere-Biosphere Interaction” in collaboration with the
Regional Meteorological Service of the Emilia-Romagna region.
Degree in Physics at University of Bologna (21/7/1992), working with the Atmospheric Dynamic
Group (Prof. S. Tibaldi). Dissertation on General Circulation of the Atmosphere: “Blocking
representation in General Circulation Models”.
International activities
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vice-Chair of the European Climate Research Alliance (2012-2014).
member of GEWEX Scientific Steering Group (2012-2014) – WCRP.
member of ECOMS - European initiative for climate service observation and modeling
Italian delegate at the WMO Extraordinary Congress (2012) and at the IBCS-GFCS (2013)
Contributing author Chapter 14 – AR5 IPCC
Coordinator of the CLIM-RUN EU FP7 project (2011-2013), www.climrun.eu.
Topical editor of ANGEO, http://www.annales-geophysicae.net/ (2010-2014).
Co-Leader of the Mediterranean climate modelling Task Team within Hymex International project.
Member of the International Scientific Steering Committee, AMMA international project
(http://amma.mediasfrance.org/).
Leader of the Work Package “model inter-comparison and data assimilation” of the AMMA EU
project (2005-2010), coordinating about 40 scientists.
Member of the executive committee of the AMMA-EU (2005-2009).
IPCC Italian delegate (2003).
Reviewer for Climate Dynamics, QJRMS, Journal of Geophysical Research, International Journal of
Climatology, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS), IPCC-TAR, IPCC AR4.
Memberships: American Meteorological Society (AMS), 2010-2011; American Geophysical Union
(AGU), 2007-2008-2010-2011;
EU expert for project evaluation.
European Grants
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PI in EUPORIAS-EU FP7, “European Provision Of Regional Impacts Assessments on Seasonal and
decadal timescales” (2012-2016). WP leader.
PI in IMPACT2C-EU FP7, “Impact of 2 degrees respect pre-industrial over Europe and most
Vulnerable regions of the world.” (2011-2014)
Coordinator of the EU-FP7 project “Climate Local Information over the Mediterranean to Respond
to User Needs” CLIM-RUN (2011-2013).
PI in AMMA EU-IP project (2005-2010): leader of the WorkPackage 4.1 “model intercomparison and
data assimilation”
SPECS-FP7, “Seasonal to decadal climate predictions for the improvement of European Climate
Services”. Participants.
Climate Change and Impact Research: the Mediterranean Environment (CIRCE), EU-IP project
(2007-2010), involved in the development of a coupled model for the Mediterranean basin, and in
the large scale forcing acting on the regional variability.
INDOO (2005-2006). The INDOO Project aims at defining role, infrastructure and scientific/technical
expertise of an operational centre for the monitoring/assessment the state the sea in the
Indonesian archipelago and surrounding areas.
MAP (Mesoscale Alpine Project): analysis of the alpine precipitation variability (1996-1997).
DICE EU project (1997-98): Decadal and Interdecadal Climate Variability: dynamics and
predictability experiments. Involved in the analysis of atmospheric coupled modes of variability.
First Climate Regionalization Project, RACCS (1993-1995), involved in the simulations of the
European climate (present and future), and in the sensitivity to surface vegetation schemes
Teaching and Mentoring
Courses taught & educational activities
 Board member of the Doctorate School in Environmental and Industrial Fluid Mechanics,
University of Trieste (http://phdfluidmechanics.appspot.com/index.html), since 2011.
 Co-Director of ICTP 2d-CLIMRUN winter-schools, Building Two-way Communication: A Week of
Climate Services. 2-6 December, 2013
 Co-Director of ICTP summer-schools on Regional Climate Modeling and Climate Services, 15-19
October, 2012.
 Lecturer at CLIMATE CHANGE ITCP workshop: marine and mountain ecosystems in the
Mediterranean region, Losinj (Croatia), 27-30 August, 2012.
 Co-Director and lecturer at Sixth ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate
Models. 7-18 May, 2012.
 Lecturer at “Changement climatique, l’atténuation et l’adaptation: Programme de formation
Avanceée” a Norrkoping, Suede, 7-11 February 2011
 Lecturer at the International MedClivar-ICTP-ENEA Summer School on the Mediterranean Climate
System and regional Climate Change, ICTP, Trieste, 13-22 September 2010.
 Lecturer at the Fifth ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models 31 May –
10 June, 2010
 Lecturer at ICTP-Africa workshop on Developing Countries Vulnerability to Climate Change held at
the University of Botswana 19-23rd April, 2010
 Lecturer at Colloque Internationle sur “LES CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES EN AFRIQUE DE L’OUEST:
ÉLEMENTS POUR UNE STRATEGIE REGIONALE EN MATIERE DE GESTION ET D’ADAPTATION” , Abijan
9-10 february 2009.
 Lecturer at European Science Foundation - MedCLIVAR Workshop, Climate Change Modeling for
the Mediterranean region ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 13 - 15 Oct 2008
 Lecturer at ICTP Workshop on African Drought: Observations, Modeling, Predictability, Impacts. 2-6
June, 2008.
 PhD course at the University of Camerino on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
(http://www.unicam.it/matinf/gfd/default.html, 2006)
 Lecturer on Troposphere-Stratosphere interaction for the physics environment course at the
University “La Sapienza” (Roma – Physics Department)
 Lecturer on Statistical methods applied to geophysical problems for the physics environment
course at the University “La Sapienza” (Roma – Physics Department)
 High school lectures on “Climate change problems”
 Organization of training activities in West Africa within the umbrella of the CEDEAO initiative
 Desert-Art project (2006,2007), http://www.desertart.enea.it/: training and educational activities
coping with the desertification and climate change issues. High school target. Lectures and tutoring
of high school classes.
 Tutor of three journalists within the relate EU-FP7 project (Research Labs for Teaching journalists RELATE), 2009-2011.
Scientific supervisory responsabilities
 Domenico Di Rocco, ENEA Postdoc-fellowship 2002-2004
 Alessandro Dell’Aquila, ENEA Postdoc-fellowship, 2003-2005
 Olga Cavalieri, ENEA Postdoc-fellowship 2006-2007
 Bamba Silla, ENEA International Post-doctoral Fellow, 2009
 Barouma Batoure, ENEA International Post-doctoral Fellow, 2009
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Andrea Bargagli, ENEA senior scientist, 2010 – present
Emanuela Caiaffa, ENEA, senior scientist, 2010 – present
Sandro Calmanti, ENEA scientist, 2010 – present
Adriana Carillo, ENEA senior scientist, 2010 – present
Orietta Casali, ENEA scientist, 2010 – present
Alessandro Dell’Aquila, ENEA scientist, 2010 – present
Alessandro Guerrieri, ENEA scientist, 2010 – present
Emanuele Lombardi, ENEA system manager, 2010 – present
Ernesto Napolitano, ENEA scientist, 2010 – present
Giovanna Pisacane, ENEA scientist, 2010 – present
Carlo Pona, ENEA senior scientist, 2010 – present
Gianmaria Sannino, ENEA scientist, 2010 – present
Maurizio Sciortino, ENEA senior scientist, 2010 – present
Mariavittoria Struglia, ENEA scientist, 2010 – present
Ana María Durán-Quesada, ENEA visiting scientist (PhD student, Un Vigo Spain), 2010
Jenny Nilson, ENEA post-doc fellow, 2012
Matteo De Felice, ENEA scientist, 2012 – present
Andrea Alessandri, ENEA scientist, 2012 – present
Irene Cionni, ENEA scientist, 2013 - present
Valeria Montalto, PhD student (Un. Palermo, co-tutor), 2012 - present
Irena Balog, PhD student (Un Trieste), 2012 - present
Emiliano Bozzi, PhD student (CEA, co-tutor), 2013 - present
Matteo Balzerani, Master in Mathematics, 2013 – present
Paolo Michele Ruti – Annex: Conferences and Publications
Recent International Conferences and Meetings
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Co-director Second CLIMRUN winger school on Climate Services, ICTP, December 2013
Co-director Sixth ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models (smr2337),
May 2012
Co-convener Climate Services Session, EGU 2012.
Invited lecture at Second Climate Services Partnership meeting, Bruxelles 2012.
Invited expert for PRESANORD (Seasonal forecast for North Africa), Algere January 2012.
Invited at First Climate Services Partnership meeting, New York November 2011.
Invited lecture at International Conference on the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling
Experiment –CORDEX, March 2011
Invited lecture at MISTRAL meeting: Malta March 2011
Invited expert for EU-Jordan project meeting, Amman, July 2011
Invited lecture at European Science Foundation-MedCLIVAR Workshop on Mediterranean climate
variability. Tel Aviv, September 2012.
Invited lecture at CORDEX meeting, ICTP 2011
Invited by CMA China Bejing, 5th workshop of the CLIVAR C20C project, November 2010
Invited lecture at Med-Clivar final school on Mediterranean modeling, September 2010.
Invited lecture at ICTP, June 2010, RegCM community workshop.
Invited lecture at ICTP Summer School on Climate modeling and Impacts, April 2010, University of
Botswana.
Invited lecture at ICTP, June 2009: Large scale dynamics and regional climate variability
Invited lecture at the 3rd Hymex workshop, June 2009: Regional Earth System Models.
Member of the Conference Committee of the III International AMMA Conference (Ouagadougou,
Bourkina Faso July 2009).
Invited lecture on “Regional Earth System Model: the Mediterranean climate”. The CTWF
international workshop on "Development of Regional Earth System Model and its Applications"
held in Kunming (China) on Sep 17-19, 2008, CAS-TWAS-WMO forum
Invited lecture for the Medclivar workshop on Regional Earth System Models, October 2008, ICTP
Trieste
Invited lecture at CLISAP Un of Hamburg, June 2008
Invited lecture at UCD, Dublin: Low frequency variability. May 2008.
Co-conviner at the European Meteorological Society in the Dynamics Meteorology session, Madrid
2007, Netherlands 2008, Toulouse 2009
Invited lecture on “Climate modelling for the West African
Monsoon” ENSEMBLES general assembly, Prague, November 2007.
Member of the Conference Committee of the II International AMMA Conference joint with AMMAOcean/TACE/PIRATA-meeting (Karlsruhe, Germany 2007). Chair of the “African Monsoon and
global climate” session.
Co-chair at the 4th EU-Japan Workshop on Climate Change Research, Brussels, 12-13 March 2007,
Co-chairs Jun Matsumoto (Tokyo Univ.)-Paolo M Ruti of the “Impacts on Water Cycle and
associated hazards”
European Meteorological Society Co-Conviner in the Dynamics Meteorology session, Madrid 2007
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Invited lecture on “High impact weather prediction and predictability for the West African
Monsoon” European Meteorological Society, El Escorial, October 2007.
Publications & Communications
Peer Reviewed
h-index 21; g-index>100; i10-index 32 (scholar h-index calculator)
1. A Alessandri, M De Felice, N Zeng, A Mariotti, Y Pan, A Cherchi, J-Y Lee, B Wang, K-J Ha, P Ruti & V
Artale (2014). Robust assessment of the expansion and retreat of Mediterranean climate in the
21st century. Nature, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS | 4 : 7211 | DOI: 10.1038/srep07211
2. Isabelle Tobin, Robert Vautard, Irena Balog, François-Marie Bréon, Sonia Jerez, Paolo Ruti,
Françoise Thais, Mathieu Vrac, Pascal Yiou. (2014) Assessing climate change impacts on European
wind energy from ENSEMBLES high-resolution climate projections. Accepted for publication in
Climatic Change.
3. Luigi Ponti, Andrew Paul Gutierrez, Paolo Michele Ruti, Alessandro Dell’Aquila (2014). Fine scale
ecological and economic assessment of climate change on olive in the Mediterranean Basin reveals
winners and losers. PNAS 10.1073/pnas.1314437111.
4. V Montalto, G Sarà, PM Ruti, A Dell’Aquila and B Helmuth (2014). Testing the effects of temporal
data resolution on predictions of the effects of climate change on bivalves. Accepté sur Ecological
Modeling. Ecological Modelling 278 (2014) 1–8.
5. Valeria Di Biagio, Sandro Calmanti, Alessandro Dell'Aquila, and Paolo M Ruti (2014), "Northern
Hemisphere winter midlatitude atmospheric variability in CMIP5 models". DOI:
10.1002/2013GL058928.
6. Vautard R., F. Thais, I. Tobin, F.-M. Bréon, J.-G. Devezeaux de Lavergne, A. Colette, P. Yiou, and P.
M. Ruti, (2014). Regional climate model simulations indicate limited climatic impacts by operational
and planned European wind farms, Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4196.
7. PM Ruti, A Dell’Aquila, F Giorgi (2013). Understanding possible effects of historical anthropogenic
forcings on the Euro-Russian summer blocking signatures. Accepté sur Atmospheric Science Letter.
8. Rob Swart, Sabine Fuss, Michael Obersteiner, Paolo M Ruti, Claas Teichmann and Robert Vautard,
(2013).
Beyond vulnerability assessment. Nature Climate Change 3, 942-943
doi:10.1038/nclimate2029.
9. M. De Felice, A. Alessandri, and P. M. Ruti (2013). “Electricity Demand Forecasting over Italy:
Potential Benefits using Numerical Weather Prediction models,” Electric Power Systems Research,
vol. 104, pp. 71-79.
10. Jenny A. U. Nilsson, Kristofer Döös, Paolo M. Ruti, Vincenzo Artale, Andrew Coward, Laurent
Brodeau, (2013). Observed and Modeled Global Ocean Turbulence Regimes as Deduced from
Surface Trajectory Data. Journal of Physical Oceanography 43:11, 2249-2269
11. Ponti, L, A Gutierrez, B Basso, M Neteler, PM Ruti, A Dell’Aquila, M Iannetta, (2013). Olive
Agroecosystems in the Mediterranean Basin: Multitrophic Analysis of Climate Effects with Processbased Representation of Soil Water Balance,
Procedia Environmental Sciences
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proenv.2013.06.014
12. Gualdi S., S. Somot, L. Li, V. Artale, M. Adani, A. Bellucci, A. Braun, S. Calmanti, A. Carillo, A.
Dell'Aquila, M. Déqué, C. Dubois, A. Elizalde, A. Harzallah, D. Jacob, B. L'Hévéder, W. May, P. Oddo,
P. Ruti, A. Sanna, G. Sannino, E. Scoccimarro, F. Sevault and A. Navarra, (2012) The CIRCE
simulations: a new set of regional climate change projections performed with a realistic
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representation of the Mediterranean Sea Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-1100136.1
A Carillo, G Sannino, V Artale, PM Ruti, S Calmanti and A Dell'Aquila, (2012) Steric Sea level rise over
the Mediterranean Sea: present climate and scenario simulations. Climate Dynamics 2012, DOI:
10.1007/s00382-012-1369-1
A Dell'Aquila, S Calmanti, PM Ruti, MV Struglia, G Pisacane, A Carillo, G Sannino, (2012) Effects of
seasonal cycle fluctuations in an A1B scenario over the Euro-Mediterranean region. Climate
Research. 52:135-157 - doi:10.3354/cr01037
E Mohino, B. Rodriguez-Fonseca, C.R. Mechoso, S. Gervois, PM. Ruti and F. Chauvin, (2011) Changes
in the interannual SST-forced signals on West African rainfall. AGCM intercomparison. Climate
Dynamics, 37 (9-10), pg. 1707-1725
B Sylla, S Calmanti, A Dell'Aquila, PM Ruti, F Giorgi, (2011). The impact of deep convection on the
West African summer monsoon climate: a regional climate model sensitivity study. Quarterly
Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society Volume 137, Issue 659, pages 1417–1430, July 2011
Part B
Mohino, E., B. Rodríguez-Fonseca, C. R. Mechoso, S. Gervois, PM. Ruti, F. Chauvin, (2011). Impacts
of the Tropical Pacific/Indian Oceans on the Seasonal Cycle of the West African Monsoon. J.
Climate, 24, 3878–3891.
Scarchilli C., M. Frezzotti and P. M. Ruti (2011). Snow precipitation at four ice core sites in East
Antarctica: provenance, seasonality and blocking factors. Climate Dynamics, 37 (9-10), 2107-2125
Clim. Dyn. doi: 10.1007/s00382-010-0946-4.
Polcher, J, DJ. Parker, A Gaye, A Diedhiou, L Eymard, F Fierli, L Genesio, H Höller, S Janicot, JP
Lafore, H Karambiri, T Lebel, JL Redelsperger, CE. Reeves, PM Ruti, I Sandholt, C Thorncroft (2011).
AMMA's contribution to the evolution of prediction and decision-making systems for West Africa.
ASL AMMA special issue, vol 12, issue 1.
Ruti, PM, J E Williams, F Hourdin, F Guichard, A Boone, P Van Velthoven, F Favot, I Musat, M
Rumukkainen, M Domínguez, M Á Gaertner, JP Lafore, T Losada, MB Rodriguez de Fonseca, J
Polcher, F Giorgi,Y Xue1, I Bouarar, K.Law, B. Josse, B. Barret, X. Yang,C Mari, AK Traore, (2011).
Modeling the West African climate system: systematic errors and future steps. ASL AMMA special
issue, vol 12, issue 1.
H Paeth, NM.J. Hall, M Gaertner, MD Alonso, S Moumouni, J Polcher, PM. Ruti, AH. Fink, M Gosset,
T Lebel, AT. Gaye, DP. Rowell, W Moufouma-Okia, D Jacob, B Rockell, F Giorgi, M Rummukainen,
(2011). Progress in regional downscaling of West African precipitation. ASL AMMA special issue, vol
12, issue 1.
E Mohino, S. Janicot, B. Rodriguez-Fonseca, PM Ruti, et al, (2011). Interannual and decadal SST
torced responses of the West African monsoon. ASL AMMA special issue, vol 12, issue 1.
A Ribotti, Sorgenti, Fazioli, A Olita, N Hendiarti, G Frederik, M Sadley, F Syamsudin, A Hangono, TR
Adi, AR Faharan, BA Subki, G Manzella, V Rupolo, PM Ruti, L Fusco, (2010). An operational approach
to the ocean management in the Indonesian Archipelago. Journal of Operational Oceanography, vol
3, n2.
Anav A., PM. Ruti, R. Valentini and V. Artale, (2010). Simulation of the effects of land use changes
on climate over Euro Mediterranean area. Climate Research, vol 41, 91-104.
N Philippon, F Doblas-Reyes, PM Ruti, (2010). Skill, reproducibility and potential predictability of
the West African monsoon in coupled GCMs. Climate Dynamics. Volume 35, Number 1, 53-74, DOI:
10.1007/s00382-010-0856-5.
26. B Sylla, A Dell'Aquila, PM Ruti, F Giorgi, (2010). Simulation of the Intraseasonal and the Interannual
Variability of Rainfall over West Africa with a Regional Climate Model (RegCM3) during the
Monsoon Period.
Int Jour of Clim, Volume 30, Issue 12, pages 1865–1883, October 2010
10.1002/joc.2029
27. Yongkang Xue and Paolo M. Ruti, (2010). Prelude to the issue entitled “African Monsoon Climate
Variability”. Clim. Dyn. Volume 35, Number 1, 1-2 doi:10.1007/s00382-010-0831-1
28. B T Losada, B Rodriguez-Fonseca, S Janicot, S Gervois, F Chauvin, PM Ruti, (2010). A multi-model
approach to the Atlantic Equatorial mode: impact on the West African monsoon. Climate Dynamics
35 (1), 29-43
29. B Sylla, E Coppola, A Mariotti, F Giorgi, PM Ruti, A Dell'Aquila and X.Bi, (2010). Multiyear simulation
of the African climate using a regional climate model (RegCM3) with the high resolution ERAinterim reanalysis. Climate Dynamics 35 (1), 231-247 DOI, 10.1007/s00382-009-0613-9
30. Bernard Fontaine, P. Roucou, S. Sivarajan, Sébastien Gervois, Fabrice Chauvin, Maria Belen
Rodriguez de Fonseca, Paolo M Ruti, Serge Janicot, (2010). Impacts of Warm and Cold situations in
the Mediterranean Basins on the West African monsoon: observed connection patterns (19792006) and climate simulations. Climate Dynamics 35 (1), 95-114.
31. F Hourdin, I Musat, F Guichard, PM Ruti, F Favot, MA Filiberti, M Pham, JY Gradpeix, P Marquet, H
Gallee, T Losada, A re Traore, (2010). The AMMA-Model Intercomparison Project (AMMA-MIP).
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 91 (1), 95-104
32. The Protheus Group, (2009). An Atmosphere-Ocean Regional Climate Model for the Mediterranean
area: Assessment of a Present Climate Simulation. Climate Dynamics. Volume 35, Number 5, 721740, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0691-8
33. PM Ruti, A Dell’Aquila, (2009). The African Easterly Waves in the IPCC runs. Climate Dynamics.
Volume 35, Number 6, 1099-1117, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-010-0894-z
34. B T Losada, B Rodriguez-Fonseca, S Janicot, S Gervois, F Chauvin, PM Ruti, (2009). Tropical response
to the Atlantic equatorial mode: AGCM multimodel approach . Climate Dynamics Volume 35,
Number 1, 45-52, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-009-0624-6
35. F Kucharsky, A Bracco, J Yoo, A Tompkins, L Feudale, PM Ruti, A Dell'Aquila, (2009). A simple GillMatsuno-type mechanism explains the Tropical Atlantic influence on African and Indian Monsoon
Rainfall. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 135 (640), 569-579
36. R. Vitolo, PM Ruti, A. Dell’Aquila, M. Felici, V Lucarini, A Speranza, (2009). Accessing extremes of
mid-latitudinal wave activity: methodology and application, Tellus, 61A, 35–49 C
37. P.M. Ruti, S. Marullo, F. D’Ortensio and M Tremant, (2008). `` Comparison of analyzed and
measured wind speeds in the perspective of oceanic simulations over the Mediterranean basin:
analyses, QuikSCAT and buoy data''. Journal of Marine System, 70, 33-48, DOI
10.1016/j.jmarsys.2007.02.026.
38. Ribotti A., Hanggono A., Manzella G.M.R., Hendiarti N., Fusco L., Adi T.R., Djajadihardja Y.S., Farhan
A.R., Frederik M.C.G., Ma'ruf W.F., Realino B., Rupolo V., PM. Ruti, Sadly M., Syamsudin F., Sorgente
R., Subki B.A. (2008). Benefits and impact of an operational oceanography system in Indonesia, Asia
Europe Journal, 6, 2, 277-292
39. A Speranza, C Accadia, S Mariani, M Casaioli, N Tartaglione, G Monacelli, and P M Ruti, (2007).
“SIMM: an integrated forecasting approach for the Mediterranean Area”. Meteorological
Application, 14, DOI: 10.1002/met.34.
40. V. Lucarini, S. Calmanti, A. Dell’Aquila, PM Ruti, A. Speranza, (2007). “Intercomparison of the
northern hemisphere winter mid-latitude atmospheric variability of the IPCC models”. Climate
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Dynamics, 2007, . 10.1007/s00382-006-0213-x. This paper has been awarded by Alessandro Volta
Prize, Centro di Cultura Scientifica Alessandro Volta
Dell’Aquila, P.M. Ruti, A. Sutera, (2006). ``Baroclinic adjustement of the tropopause in the NCEPNCAR reanalysis ''. Climate Dynamics, 28, 325-332, DOI 10.1007/s00382-006-0199-4
Dell’Aquila, P.M. Ruti, S. Calmanti, and V. Lucarini, (2006). “Hayashi Spectra of the Southern
Hemisphere Mid-latitude Atmospheric Variability in the NCEP and ERA 40 Reanalyses”. J. Geophys.
Res., 112, D08106, doi:10.1029/2006JD007376
PM Ruti, V. Lucarini, A. Dell’Aquila, S. Calmanti, A. Speranza, (2006). “Does the sub-tropical jet
catalyze the atmospheric regimes?”, Geophysical Research Letter, VOL. 33, L06814,
doi:10.1029/2005GL024620
P.M. Ruti, D. Di Rocco and S. Gualdi, (2006). `` Vertical resolution impact on the simulation of the
Tropical Climate ''. Theor. Appl. Climatol, vol 85, 61-80, DOI 10.1007/s00704-005-0174-8
Dell’Aquila, V. Lucarini, P.M. Ruti and S. Calmanti, (2005). “Hayashi Spectra of the Northern
Hemisphere Mid-latitude Atmospheric Variability in the NCEP and ERA 40 Reanalyses”. Climate
Dynamics, 25, p 639-652, 10.1007/s00382-005-0048-x.
Speranza, C. Accadia, M. Casaioli, S. Mariani, G. Monacelli, R. Inghilesi, N. Tartaglione, P. M. Ruti, A.
Carillo, A. Bargagli, G. Pisacane, F. Valentinotti and A. Lavagnini, (2004). “POSEIDON: an integrated
system for analysis and forecast of hydrological, meteorological and surface marine fields in the
Mediterranean area”. Il Nuovo Cimento, vol. 27C, n4, p 329-345.
P.M. Ruti and A. Sutera, (2003). ``Tropospheric and Stratospheric aspects of the North Atlantic
Oscillation: an eddy perspective''. Il Nuovo Cimento, Vol. 26 C, N2, pp 133-149.
Bargagli A., A. Carillo, G. Pisacane, P. M. Ruti, M.V. Struglia, N. Tartaglione (2002). An integrated
forecast system over the Mediterranean basin: extreme surge prediction in the Northern Adriatic
Sea. Monthly. Weather. Review, 130, 1317-1332.
Carillo A., P.M. Ruti and A. Navarra, (2000). ``Storm tracks and zonal mean flow variability: a
comparison between observed and simulated data''. Climate Dynamics, 16, 219-228,
10.1007/s003820050015.
P.M. Ruti, A. Bargagli, C. Cacciamani, T. Paccagnella and C. Cassardo, (1998). ``LAM multi-seasonal
numerical integrations: performance analysis with different surface schemes''. Beitr. Phys.
Atmosph., 71, pp 321-346.
P.M. Ruti, C. Cassardo, C. Cacciamani, T. Paccagnella, A. Longhetto and A. Bargagli, (1997).
``Intercomparison between BATS and LSPM surface schemes, using point micrometeorological data
set''. Beitr. Phys. Atmosph., 70, pp 201-220.
Christensen, J.H., B. Machenhauer, R.G. Jones, C. Schar, P.M. Ruti, M. Castro and G. Visconti,
(1997). ``Validation of present-day regional climate simulations over Europe: LAM simulations with
observed boundary conditions''. Climate Dynamics, 13, pp 489-506, 10.1007/s003820050178. Plus
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Tibaldi, S., P.M. Ruti, E. Tosi, M. Maruca, (1995). ``Operational predictability of winter blocking at
ECMWF: an update.'' Annales Geophysicae 13, 305-317.
P.M. Ruti, (1996). Cambiamenti climatici a livello regionale: uno studio particolareggiato del bacino
padano adriatico con un modello ad area limitata con biosfera semplificata. PhD thesys in
Geophysics, Biblioteca Nazionale di Roma.
Book contributions
1. Calmanti S., Dell’Aquila A., Lucarini V., Ruti P.M., Speranza A. Statistical properties of mid-latitudes
atmospheric waves. Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences Tsonis, Anastasios A.; Elsner, James B.
(Eds.) 2007, XX, 604 p. 302 illus., 55 in color., Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-34917-6
2. Entekhabi, D. and P.M. Ruti, 1997: ``Boundary Layer Feedbacks in a Simple Atmospheric Boundary
Layer model''. P 117-127. In ``Hydrometeorology and Climatology'', edited by M. Marani e R. Rigon,
Environmental dynamics series 5, Venezia, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti Editore, pp.
162.
3. S Gualdi, A Navarra, F Giorgi, PM Ruti (reviewer): Gli scenari climatici per l'area Mediterranea. 2009
4. The Climate of the Mediterranean Region, 1st Edition, Chapter 7: Modelling of the Mediterranean
climate system Laurent Li, Alberto Casado, Clotilde Dubois, Alberto Elizalde, Blandine L’Hévéder,
Piero Lionello, Florence Sevault, Samuel Somot, Paolo Ruti, Matteo Zampieri. Elsevier, April 2012,
ISBN: 9780124160422
5. The Climate of the Mediterranean Region, 1st Edition, Chapter 8: The climate of the
Mediterranean region in future climate projections. MedClivar Book 2011. Serge Planton, Piero
Lionello,Vincenzo Artale, Roland Aznar, Adriana Carillo, Jeanne Colin, Letizia Congedi, Clotilde
Dubois, Alberto Elizalde Arellano, Silvio Gualdi, Elke Hertig, Gabriel Jordà Sanchez, Laurent Li,
Jacobeit Jucundus, Claudio Piani, Paolo Ruti, Emilia Sanchez-Gomez, Gianmaria Sannino, Florence
Sevault, Samuel Somot. Elsevier, April 2012, ISBN: 9780124160422
International and National Reports with reviewing
1. Christensen, J.H., B. Machenhauer, R.G. Jones, C. Schar, and P.M. Ruti 1996: ``Validation of present-day
regional climate simulations over Europe: LAM simulations with observed boundary conditions''. Danish
Meteorological Institute, Scientific Report, 96-10.
2. Machenhauer, M. Windelband, M. Bozzet, J.H. Chreistensen, M. Deque, R. G. Jones, P.M. Ruti, G.
Visconti, 1998: ``Validation and analysis of regional present-day climate and climate change
simulations over Europe''. MPI for Meteorology Report No. 275.
3. Bordi, I. A. Carillo, D. DiRocco, P.M. Ruti and A. Sutera, 2004: `` The XXth Century Drought fluctuations
in Euro-Mediterranean area''. ENEA Technical Report. ISSN/0393-3016.