Tapio Schneider

Theodore Y. Wu Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering
California Institute of Technology

Senior Research Scientist
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

1200 E. California Blvd.
MC 131-24
Pasadena, CA 91125

Office: 238 Linde (map)
Phone: +1 (626) 395-6143
tapio@caltech.edu

Biography

1995-2000: Princeton University
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program (M.Sc. 1997, Ph.D. 2001)
1994-1995: University of Washington, Seattle
Visiting Graduate Student (Physics)
1991-1994: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Studies of Mathematics and Physics (Vordiplom 1993)

2016-present: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Senior Research Scientist
2002-present: California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering
Theodore Y. Wu Professor (2018-present)
Frank J. Gilloon Professor (2010-2018)
Director, Linde Center for Global Environmental Science (2011-2012)
Executive Officer for Environmental Science and Engineering (2011-2012)
Professor (2009-2010)
Associate Professor (2008-2009)
Assistant Professor (2002-2008)
2013-2016: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences
Professor of Climate Dynamics
2000-2002: New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Associate Research Scientist

2019: Rosenstiel Award, University of Miami (in recognition of “outstanding contributions to atmospheric science and climate dynamics”)
2012: World Economic Forum Young Scientist, Annual Meeting of the New Champions, Tianjin, China
2010: Houghton Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2008: Science and Technology in Society Forum, Kyoto, Japan (selected to participate as 1 of 10 scientists under 40 worldwide)
2008: Discover Magazine “Top 20 Scientists under 40”
2005-2010: David and Lucile Packard Fellow
2004-2006: Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
2004: James R. Holton Junior Scientist Award, American Geophysical Union
1998-2000: NASA Earth System Science Fellow
1994-1998: Fellow of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
(German National Scholarship Foundation)

Schneider, T., Behera, S., Boccaletti, G., Deser, C., Emanuel, K., Ferrari, R., Leung, L. R., Lin, N., Müller, T., Navarra, A., Ndiaye, O., Stuart, A., Tribbia, J., Yamagata, T., 2023: Harnessing AI and computing to advance climate modelling and prediction. Nature Climate Change, 13, 887–889.
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Braghiere, R.K., Wang, Y., Gagné-Landmann, A., Brodrick, P.G., Bloom, A.A., Norton, A.J., Ma, S., Levine, P., Longo, M., Deck, K., Gentine, P., Worden, J.R., Frankenberg, C., Schneider, T., 2023: The Importance of Hyperspectral Soil Albedo Information for Improving Earth System Model Projections. AGU Advances, 4, e2023AV000910.
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Charbonneau, A., Deck, K., Schneider, T., 2023: A physics-constrained neural differential equation for data-driven seasonal snowpack forecasting. Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems, submitted.
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Singer, C.E., Schneider, T., 2023: CO2-driven stratocumulus breakup in a bulk boundary layer model. Journal of Climate, in review.
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Singer, C.E., Schneider, T., 2023: Stratocumulus-cumulus transition explained by bulk boundary layer theory. Journal of Climate, in review.
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For a full list of Tapio Schneider's publications, please visit the Publications page