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Member Since 2003
Antonietta Capotondi
Research Scientist, CIRES/CU Boulder and NOAA/PSL
Antonietta is a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Colorado, Cooperative institute for Research in Environmental Scientist, and at the NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, CO. Antonietta’s research aims at understanding the role of the large-scale ocean circulation in climate variability and predictability, with focus on El Niño Southern Oscillation, Pacific decadal variability, and the influence of climate variability and change on marine ecosystems.
Professional Experience
CIRES/CU Boulder and NOAA/PSL
Research Scientist
1998 - Present
Education
MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography
Doctorate
1993
University of Pisa
Bachelors
1982
Honors & Awards
Harald Sverdrup Lecture
Received December 2024
Publications
Global Marine Heatwaves Under Different Flavors of ENSO

Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have caused devasting ecological and socioeconomic impacts worldwide. Understanding the connection of regional events to la...

October 24, 2024
AGU Abstracts
Bottom marine heatwaves along the continental shelves of North America
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
climate and ocean change | 22 february 2024
Dillon J. Amaya, Michael Jacox, Michael A. Alexand...
Recently, there has been substantial effort to understand the fundamental characteristics of warm ocean temperature extremesknown as marine heatwaves ...
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Large-Scale Drivers of Northeast Pacific Marine Heatwaves and implications for their changing intensity
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
climate and ocean change | 21 february 2024
Antonietta Capotondi, Matthew Newman, Tongtong Xu,...
The Northeast Pacific Ocean has experienced episodes of intense and persistent warm conditions, also known as marine heatwaves, with devastating ecolo...
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Leading Dynamical Processes of Global Marine Heatwaves
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
climate and ocean change | 21 february 2024
Jacopo Sala, Donata Giglio, Antonietta Capotondi
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have emerged as a very active area of research due to the devastating impacts of these events on marine ecosystems across diff...
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