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IACOBELLIS, SAM

Research Specialist

Senior Lecturer

Degrees:

  • B.S., University of California, Los Angeles
  • M.S., University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Ph.D., UCSD - Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Research Interests:

  • Air-sea interactions
  • Climate modeling
  • Cloud-radiation interactions

Courses Recently Taught:

  • SIO 20: The Atmosphere
  • SIO20: The Atmosphere
  • SIO209: Special Topics

Honors and Awards:

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2006


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Home Department:
CASPO

Mailing Address:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla CA, 92093
Mail Code: 0224

Email: siacobellis@ucsd.edu


Scripps Scholars Profile: http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/siacobellis

Publications:

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Iacobellis, S. F., R. Frouin, and R. C. J. Somerville, 1999: Direct climate forcing by biomass-burning aerosols: Impact of correlations between controlling variables. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 104, 12031-12045.

Iacobellis, S. F., and R. C. J. Somerville, 2000: Implications of microphysics for cloud-radiation parameterizations: Lessons from TOGA-COARE. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 57, 161-183.

Frouin, R., S. F. Iacobellis, and P.-Y. Deschamps, 2001: Influence of oceanic whitecaps on the global radiation budget. Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 1523-1526.

Frouin, R., and S. F. Iacobellis, 2002: Influence of phytoplankton on the global radiation budget. Journal of Geophysical Research, 107, No. D19, 4377, doi:10.1029/2001JD000562.

Iacobellis, S. F., G. M. McFarqular, D. L. Mitchell, and R. C. J. Somerville, 2003: On the sensitivity of radiative fluxes to parameterized cloud microphysics. Journal of Climate, 16, 2979-2996.

Norris, J. R., and S. F. Iacobellis, 2005: North Pacific cloud feedbacks inferred from synoptic-scale dynamic and thermodynamic relationships. Journal of Climate, 18, 4862-4878.

Iacobellis, S. F., and R. C. J. Somerville, 2006: Evaluating parameterizations of the autoconversion process using a single-column model and Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, D02203, doi:10.1029/2005JD006296.

Shimpo, A., M. Kanamitsu, and S. F. Iacobellis, 2008: Comparison of four cloud schemes in simulating the seasonal mean field forced by the observed sea surface temperature. Monthly Weather Review, 136, 2557-2575.


Last Modified: Mar 11, 2009