Elisa Palazzi

Dr. Palazzi’s main current activity is the study of the climate system and Earth-System processes and interactions, with a specific focus on 1) the current and future evolution of the hydrological cycle, in particular precipitation and snow, in mountain regions, and 2) the Elevation-Dependent Warming, the mechanism by which high-altitude regions are experiencing more rapid and intense warming rates than the surrounding areas or compared the global mean. Recent studies have been mainly focused on the Italian Alps and the Tibetan Plateau-Himalayas in Asian, and involve the analysis of both observations (in-situ, gridded datasets, satellite data) and data from global and regional climate model simulations (e.g., from CMIP and CORDEX archives). Another research branch is related to the use of climate downscaling methods that are suitable for precipitation in orographically-complex regions.