Francesco DE ROVERE

ORCID: 0000-0002-0945-5584

Research Interests
Arctic oceanography and changes in the circulation of Arctic and Atlantic water masses in response to climate change.
Equatorial in-situ observing systems (GTMBA) and diurnal tropical cycles.

Experience and education
September 2019 - Current: PhD student in Polar Sciences
Ca' Foscari University of Venice - Venice, Italy
Project: "Transition of Kongsfjorden's climate from Arctic to Atlantic: water masses variability and atmospheric drivers"
Supervisors: Dr. Jacopo Chiggiato (CNR-ISMAR), Dr. Leonardo Langone (CNR-ISP), Prof. Carlo Barbante (UNIVE, CNR-ISP)

January 2019 - July 2019: Intern
Institute of Marine Sciences: National Research Council (CNR-ISMAR), Venice, Italy
Project: "Statistical analysis of marine heat wave events in the Mediterranean Sea in the 1982-2017 period using remote sensing observations from Copernicus programme"
Supervisor: Dr. Jacopo Chiggiato (CNR-ISMAR)

March 2018 - May 2018: Research fellow
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy
Project: "Statistical analysis of climatological data with a particular reference to surface gridded temperature datasets as HadCRUT and in-situ observing programmes as the GTMBA"
Supervisors: Prof. Angelo Rubino (UNIVE)

November 2015 - March 2018: Master Degree in Environmental Sciences
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy
Thesis: "An analysis of near surface atmospheric and oceanographic parameters over the Pacific Ocean with a special focus on the daily cycle"
Supervisors: Prof. Angelo Rubino and Prof. Davide Zanchettin (UNIVE)
Erasmus Mobility at Sheffield Hallam University (January 2017 – May 2017)

September 2013 - November 2015: Bachelor Degree in Environmental Sciences
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy
Thesis: "Analisi statistica degli inquinanti atmosferici rilevati nella città di Treviso"
Supervisors: Prof. Carlo Gaetan (UNIVE)

IT and Linguistic Skills
Excellent skills in environmental data analysis and proficiency in R, MatLab and Python. Experience in GIS software as QGIS and ArcMap.
English B2 level

Honours and awards
“Alberto Tomasin” Prize, for the best thesis in oceanography in the University of Venice (22/11/2018)


Presentations at scientific conferences/workshops

De Rovere F., Langone L., Schroeder K., Miserocchi S., Giglio F., Aliani S., Chiggiato J. Water mass variability in inner Kongsfjorden (Svalbard) during the 2010-2020 decade. PaleoArc2021, session: “Dynamics of high latitude oceans and sea ice”, 24-28 May 2021, Online Conference.  https://doi.org//10.3301/ABSGI.2021.02

De Rovere F., Langone L., Schroeder K., Miserocchi S., Giglio F., Aliani S., Chiggiato J. Water mass variability in inner Kongsfjorden (Svalbard) during the 2010-2020 decade. EGU2021, session: “Changes in the Arctic Ocean, sea ice and subarctic seas systems: Observations, Models and Perspectives”, 29 April 2021, Online Conference.

Langone L., Giordano, P., Miserocchi, S., Giglio, F., Aliani, S., Tesi, T., De Rovere, F., Schroeder, K. & Chiggiato, J. Mooring Dirigibile Italia MDI in Kongsfjorden. SIOS workshop on Marine Infrastructure in Svalbard. 19 November 2020, Online Conference.

De Rovere F., Rubino A., Zanchettin D. On the interchangeability of sea-surface and near-surface air temperature anomalies in climatologies. THEMES 2019. 27 – 29 November 2019, Venice.

Rubino A., Zanchettin D., De Rovere F. Seasonal to interannual variability of observed temperatures in the equatorial Pacific. EGU General Assembly 2019. 7 – 12 April 2019, Vienna.

De Rovere F., Rubino A., Zanchettin D. Global surface temperature datasets. Are SST and MAT anomalies excheangable for the determination of large-scale and long-term near-surface temperatures? THEMES 2018. 28 – 30 November 2018, Venice.

De Rovere F., Rubino A., Zanchettin D. What can we learn about the equatorial daily cycle from the TAO buoy data? A discussion on implications of radiative heating errors. THEMES 2017. 15 – 17 November 2017, Venice.

De Rovere F., Rubino A., Zanchettin D. What can we learn about the equatorial daily cycle from the TAO buoy data. THEMES 2016 –23 – 25. November 2016, Venice.

Posters
Langone L., Giglio F., Miserocchi S., Mazzola M., Tesi T., Giordano P., Chiggiato J., Schroeder K., De Rovere F. A decadal time series of particle fluxes in the Kongsfjorden (Svalbard). ClimRisk2020. 21 – 23 October 2020, Online Conference.

Zanchettin D., Rubino A., De Rovere F. Seasonal to interannual variability of observed temperatures in the equatorial Pacific. Ocean Obs 2019. 16 – 20 September 2019, Hawaii.

Rubino A., Zanchettin D., De Rovere F. The observed daily temperature cycle in the equatorial Pacific. Ocean Obs 2019. 16 – 20 September 2019, Hawaii.