Spinoni Jonathan
Research fellow
Spinoni Jonathan
Research fellow
Jonathan Spinoni is a research fellow at the Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan and affiliated scientist at RFF- CMCC (EIEE).
He has sixteen years of experience as climate scientist, authoring about fifty scientific publications and contributing to IPCC-AR6, World Atlas of Desertification, GAR SR-Drought 2021, and Copernicus ESoC 2022.
After the PhD in Physics (Univ. of Milan), he moved to the European Commission’s JRC as researcher on climate, drought, and desertification.
His research now deals with deep uncertainties of climate and socio-economic scenarios (EUNICE project).
He is also involved in the activities of the UNCCD
Career
PHD: Physics, University of Milan.
Research
Research interests: Climate Change, Climate Modelling, Natural Hazards, Socioeconomic Modelling, Climate Scenarios
Research projects: EUNICE - ERC Project
Selected Publications
Spinoni J Barbosa P Cherlet M Forzieri G McCormick N Naumann G Vogt JV Dosio A., "How will the progressive global increase of arid areas affect population and land-use in the 21st century? ", Global and Planetary Change, 205
Spinoni J Barbosa P Bucchignani E Cassano J Cavazos T Christensen JH Christensen OB Coppola E Evans JP Geyer B Giorgi F Hadjinicolau P Jacob D Katzfey J Koenigk T Laprise R Lennard CJ Kurnaz L Li D Llopart M McCormick N Naumann G Nikulin G Ozturk T Panitz HJ da Rocha RP Rockel B Solman SA Syktus J Tangang F Teichmann C Vautard R Vogt JV Winger K Zittis G Dosio A., "Future global meteorological drought hot spots: A study based on CORDEX data.", Journal of Climate , 33, 3635-3661
Spinoni J Vogt JV Naumann G Barbosa P Dosio A. , "Will drought events become more frequent and severe in Europe?", International Journal of Climatology, 38, 1718-1736
Spinoni J Szalai S Szentimrey T Lakatos M Bihari Z Nagy A Németh Á Kovács T Mihic D Dacic M Petrovic P Krzic A Hiebl J Auer I Milkovic J Stepanek P Zahradnicek P Kilar P Limanowka D Pyrc R Cheval S Birsan MV Dumitrescu A Deak G Matei M Antolovic I Nejedlik P Stastny P Kajaba P Bochnicek O Galo D Mikulova K Nabyvanets Y Skrynyk O Krakovska S Gnatiuk N Tolasz R Antofie T Vogt JV., "Climate of the Carpathian Region in the period 1961–2010: climatologies and trends of 10 variables.", International Journal of Climatology , 35, 1322-1341
Spinoni J Naumann G Carrao H Barbosa P Vogt JV., "World drought frequency, duration, and severity for 1951–2010.", International Journal of Climatology, 34, 2792-2804