Fred Kucharski

Permanent Scientific Staff
Senior Research Scientist/Head of External Activity Unit
Fred Kucharski
Earth System Physics
+39 040 2240 345
kucharsk@ictp.it
+39 040 2240 345
kucharsk@ictp.it
SISSA-256
http://users.ictp.it/~kucharsk/
0000-0002-8710-8051

Fred Kucharski

They received their PhD in Frankfurt/Main in Germany in 1997. The topic of their PhD was the development of a local atmospheric available potential energy concept, derived from the Exergy framework. After Research fellow periods at the GKSS in Germany, University of Reading and the Metoffice, UK, they joined the ICTP in 2001, where their main research areas are climate variability and its predictability. Special research topics include atmospheric and oceanic teleconnections, particularly El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Atlantic Nino teleconnections with monsoons and extratropical regions at all time scales; the separation of forced and internal climate variability; Sahel and Arabian Peninsula rainfall variability and its relation to sea surface temperatures; and decadal modes of variability and air-sea interactions. 

They are also editor-in-chief of the Nature Partner Journal npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, and faculty member of the Earth Science, Fluid-Dynamics, and Mathematics. Interactions and Methods (ESFM) Phd programme between University of Trieste, OGS and ICTP. They have co-organized more than 30 Scientific Activities at ICTP and elsewhere.

Since 2017 they are also head of the External Activities Unit at ICTP.


Publications

Journal article
2013
On the need of intermediate complexity general circulation models: A "sPEEDY'' example
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2013)
Kucharski, F. | Molteni, F. | King, M.P. | Farneti, R. | Kang, I.-S. | Feudale, L.
Journal article
2013
Simulated impacts of the South Atlantic Ocean Dipole on summer precipitation at the Guinea Coast
Climate Dynamics (2013)
Nnamchi, H.C. | Li, J. | Kang, I.-S. | Kucharski, F.
Journal article
2013
A common mode of variability of African and Indian monsoon rainfall at decadal timescale
Climate Dynamics (2013)
Feudale, L. | Kucharski, F.
Journal article
2013
A further assessment of vegetation feedback on decadal Sahel rainfall variability
Climate Dynamics (2013)
Kucharski, F. | Zeng, N. | Kalnay, E.
Journal article
2013
A quantitative assessment of changes in seasonal potential predictability for the twentieth century
Climate Dynamics (2013)
Ehsan, M.A. | Kang, I.-S. | Almazroui, M. | Abid, M.A. | Kucharski, F.
Journal article
2012
Extratropical influences on the inter-annual variability of South-Asian monsoon
Climate Dynamics (2012)
Syed, F.S. | Yoo, J.H. | Körnich, H. | Kucharski, F.
Journal article
2012
Seasonal variations of the links between the interannual variability of South America and the South Pacific
Climate Dynamics (2012)
Zamboni, L. | Kucharski, F. | Mechoso, C.R.
Journal article
2012
The representation of the South Tropical Atlantic teleconnection to the Indian Ocean in the AR4 coupled models
Climate Dynamics (2012)
Barimalala, R. | Bracco, A. | Kucharski, F.
Journal article
2012
Tropical influence on the summer Mediterranean climate
Atmospheric Science Letters (2012)
Losada, T. | Rodríguez-Fonseca, B. | Kucharski, F.
Journal article
2012
Changes in the interannual variability of the tropical Pacific as a response to an equatorial Atlantic forcing,Cambios en la Variabilidad Interanual del Pacífico Tropical Como Respuesta a un Forzamiento del Atlántico Ecuatorial
Scientia Marina (2012)
Martín-Rey, M. | Polo, I. | Rodríguez-Fonseca, B. | Kucharski, F.
Journal article
2012
Winter ENSO teleconnections in a warmer climate
Climate Dynamics (2012)
Bulić, I.H. | Branković, C. | Kucharski, F.
Journal article
2012
Delayed ENSO impact on spring precipitation over North/Atlantic European region
Climate Dynamics (2012)
Bulić, I.H. | Kucharski, F.
Journal article
2011
Contribution of the east-west thermal heating contrast to the South Asian Monsoon and consequences for its variability
Climate Dynamics (2011)
Kucharski, F. | Bracco, A. | Barimalala, R. | Yoo, J.H.
Journal article
2011
Planetary-scale variability in the northern winter and the impact of land-sea thermal contrast
Climate Dynamics (2011)
Molteni, F. | King, M.P. | Kucharski, F. | Straus, D.M.
Journal article
2011
Sensitivity of ENSO characteristics to a new interactive flux correction scheme in a coupled GCM
Climate Dynamics (2011)
Kröger, J. | Kucharski, F.
Journal article
2011
The role of regional SST warming variations in the drying of Meso-America in future climate projections
Journal of Climate (2011)
Rauscher, S.A. | Kucharski, F. | Enfield, D.B.
Journal article
2011
Tropical Pacific response to 20th century Atlantic warming
Geophysical Research Letters (2011)
Kucharski, F. | Kang, I.-S. | Farneti, R. | Feudale, L.
Journal article
2010
Teleconnections in the atmosphere and oceans
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (2010)
Kucharski, F. | Kang, I.-S. | Straus, D. | King, M.P.
Journal article
2010
The roles of external forcings and internal variabilities in the Northern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation change from the 1960s to the 1990s
Journal of Climate (2010)
King, M.P. | Kucharski, F. | Molteni, F.
Journal article
2010
Why is ENSO influencing northwest India winter precipitation in recent decades?
Journal of Climate (2010)
Yadav, R.K. | Yoo, J.H. | Kucharski, F. | Abid, M.A.
Journal article
2010
Are intraseasonal summer rainfall events micro monsoon onsets over the western edge of the South-Asian monsoon?
Atmospheric Research (2010)
Syed, F.S. | Yoo, J.H. | Körnich, H. | Kucharski, F.
Journal article
2010
Relationships between upper-level circulation over South America and rainfall over southeastern South America: A physical base for seasonal predictions
Journal of Climate (2010)
Zamboni, L. | Mechoso, C.R. | Kucharski, F.
Journal article
2009
The CLIVAR C20C project: Selected twentieth century climate events
Climate Dynamics (2009)
Scaife, A.A. | Kucharski, F. | Folland, C.K. | Kinter, J. | Brönnimann, S. | Fereday, D. | Fischer, A.M. | Grainger, S. | Jin, E.K. | Kang, I.S. | Knight, J.R. | Kusunoki, S. | Lau, N.C. | Nath, M.J. | Nakaegawa, T. ...
Journal article
2009
The CLIVAR C20C project: Skill of simulating Indian monsoon rainfall on interannual to decadal timescales. Does GHG forcing play a role?
Climate Dynamics (2009)
Kucharski, F. | Scaife, A.A. | Yoo, J.H. | Folland, C K. | Kinter, J. | Knight, J. | Fereday, D. | Fischer, A.M. | Jin, E.K. | Kröger, J. | Lau, N.-C. | Nakaegawa, T. | Nath, M.J. | Pegion, P. | Rozanov, E. | Schubert, S. ...
Journal article
2009
The CLIVAR C20C project: Which components of the Asian-Australian monsoon circulation variations are forced and reproducible?
Climate Dynamics (2009)
Zhou, T. | Wu, B. | Scaife, A.A. | Brönnimann, S. | Cherchi, A. | Fereday, D. | Fischer, A.M. | Folland, C.K. | Jin, K.E. | Kinter, J. | Knight, J.R. | Kucharski, F. | Kusunoki, S. | Lau, N.-C. | Li, L. | Nath, M.J. ...
Journal article
2009
Are Atlantic Niños enhancing Pacific ENSO events in recent decades?
Geophysical Research Letters (2009)
Rodríguez-Fonseca, B. | Polo, I. | García-Serrano, J. | Losada, T. | Mohino, E. | Mechoso, C.R. | Kucharski, F.
Journal article
2009
Teleconnections of the tropical Atlantic to the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans: A review of recent findings
Meteorologische Zeitschrift (2009)
Wang, C. | Kucharski, F. | Barimalala, R. | Bracco, A.
Journal article
2009
A Gill-Matsuno-type mechanism explains the tropical Atlantic influence on African and Indian monsoon rainfall
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2009)
Kucharski, F. | Bracco, A. | Yoo, J.H. | Tompkins, A.M. | Feudale, L. | Ruti, P. | Dell'Aquila, A.
Journal article
2008
Atlantic forced component of the Indian monsoon interannual variability
Geophysical Research Letters (2008)
Kucharski, F. | Bracco, A. | Yoo, J.H. | Molteni, F.
Journal article
2007
Low-frequency variability of the Indian monsoon-ENSO relationship and the tropical Atlantic: The "weakening" of the 1980s and 1990s
Journal of Climate (2007)
Kucharski, F. | Bracco, A. | Yoo, J.H. | Molteni, F.

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