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Olga Zolina (Russian: Ольга Геннадиевна Золина) (6 February 1975) is a climate scientist, member of the GEWEX (WCRP), responsible for GEWEX Radiation Panel (extreme climate and weather events), member of the European Geosciences Union, German Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union.
Climate change in global- and continental-scale water cycle
Extreme climate events, statistical modelling of extreme precipitation
Dynamics of midlatitude and polar cyclones in the present and future climate
Air-sea interaction at synoptic and climate time scales
Tropical meteorology, El Niño – monsoon interaction
Professional societies
European Geophysical Society (European Geosciences Union, from 2004), from 1999.
German Meteorological Society (Deutsche Meteorologische Gesellschaft e.V. (DMG)), from 2003.
American Geophysical Union, from 2012.
Professional activities
2008 Member of the GEWEX (WCRP Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment)
2009 Member of the project team for the international IMILAST (Intercomparison of midlatitude storm diagnostics) project
2009 Reporter for European Alliance of Global Change Committees, Bonn/Koenigswinter, Germany
2010 Chair, Scientific Organizing Committee "WCRP-UNESCO Workshop on metrics and methodologies of estimation of extreme climate events", UNESCO headquarters, Paris, France
2011 Co-convener of session "High-impact weather and extreme climate events" at the XXV IUGG General Assembly, 2011, Melbourne, Australia
2011 Convener of special session "Understanding and characterizing climate extremes" at the WCRP Open Science Conference, 2011, Denver, Colorado, United States
2012 Associate Editor, International Journal of Water.
Projects
2007-2010 – "Mechanisms and predictability of long-term variability of extreme precipitation over Europe from observations and models", excellence grant of the Ministry of Education and Science (Russia) (MK-345.2009.5), principal investigator.
2000-2003 – "North Atlantic Oscillation: Regional Impacts on European Climate", Volkswagen Stiftung, project scientist.
2002-2012 – "Large Scale Climate Changes and their Environmental Relevance", funded by North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, research associate.
2003-2005 – "Impact of Atlantic Cyclones on European Precipitation Extremes", granted by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (03-05-64506), principal investigator.
2008-2010 – "Mechanisms of the large-scale variability of extreme precipitation over the European continent from observational data and present climate modelling", granted by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (08-05-00878-а), principal investigator.
2009-2012 – "Spatial and Temporal Scales and Mechanisms of Extreme Precipitation Events over Central Europe (STAMMEX)", granted by German Research Foundation (DFG) (PN 50160119), principal investigator.
2010 - Organization and planning of the WCRP Workshop on metrics and methodologies for estimation of extreme climate events, granted by WCRP, Willis RE, NASA, principal investigator.
2012-2014 - Eurasian snow accumulation – implications for understanding changes in hydrological cycle, Granted by ANR and CNRS, principal investigator.
2012-2015 - Mechanisms of the moisture advection in high latitudes in the present and future climate, Granted by UJF and CNRS, principal investigator.
Awards
1999 - Young scientists award, Russian Academy of Sciences.
2004 – Award for Outstanding Environmental Research of Russian Academy of Science.
2005 – Gold medal of Russian Academy of Science for Outstanding Young Scientists.
Reviewer
Journals:
Journal of Climate, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research, International Journal of Climatology, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Climatic Change, Global and Planetary Change,
Advances in Water Resources, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.
Foundations and Agencies:
Natural Environment Research Council (United Kingdom), IPCC.
Special report on climate extremes, IPCC.
Selected publications
Peer reviewed:
2013 Changes in the duration of European wet and dry spells during the last decades.
2013 Recent trends in regional and global intense precipitation patterns.
2011 Changes in European Extreme Precipitation.
2011 Changes in synoptic structure of European precipitation and its impact on estimation of heavy rainfalls from daily rain gauges records.
2010 Improving the accuracy of estimation of climate extremes - WCRP-UNESCO Workshop on "Metrics and methodologies of estimation of extreme climate events.
2010 Changing structure of European precipitation: longer wet periods leading to more abundant rainfalls.
2009 Improving estimates of heavy and extreme precipitation using daily records from European rain gauges.
2008 Cyclone life cycle characteristics over the Northern Hemisphere in coupled GCMs.
2008 Seasonality of precipitation extremes over Central Europe during the last 50 years.
2005 On the robustness of the estimates of centennial-scale variability in heavy precipitation from station data over Europe.
2004 Analysis of extreme precipitations over Europe from different reanalyses: a comparative assessment.
2003 Characteristics of the resent eastward shift of interannual NAO variability.
2003 Synoptic variability of ocean-atmosphere turbulent fluxes associated with atmospheric cyclones.
2003 Evaluation of surface winds and waves from voluntary observing ship data.
2002 Improving the accuracy of mapping cyclone numbers and frequencies.
2001 Climate changes in the winter cyclogenesys over the Northern Hemisphere from the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis data.
2000 Innovative software facilitates cyclone tracking and analysis.
2000 Synoptic and sub-synoptic variability in the North Atlantic as revealed by the Ocean Weather Station data.
2000 Impact of the El-Nino - Southern Oscillation on the summer Indian monsoon rainfall predictability.
Other:
2013 Predicting precipitation.
2011 Workshop Is First Step in Improving Accuracy of Estimation of Extreme Climate Events.
2009 Statistical modelling of the catastrophic atmospheric precipitation. In: Dynamics and mathematical modelling of geophysical and hydrometerologycal processes.
2005 Use of indices in characterizing precipitation extremes: a European example.
1999 Seasonal and interannual variability in the cyclogenesis over the Northern Hemisphere from the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis data.
1998 Validation of the NCEP Reanalysis against instrumental measurements and VOS observations and the use of Reanalysis products for the study of weather regimes variability in the North Atlantic.
