From left to right: Prof. Gabriel Vecchi with graduate student Sofia Menemenlis and Chenggong Wang, associate research scholar Wenchang Yang, graduate students Maya Chung and Gabriel Rios, and undergraduate Grace Liu ’23. About Professor Gabriel Vecchi Gabriel Vecchi is a Professor of Geosciences and The High Meadows Environmental Institute, and Director, Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System at Princeton University. His research interests are climate science; extreme weather events; hurricanes; mechanisms of precipitation variability and change; ocean-atmosphere interaction; detection and attribution. In the News It was the hottest summer on record, how can we change the climate crisis? Sept. 6, 2023 Author Written by KCBC Radio: On-Demand KCBS Radio hosts Margie Shafer and Eric Thomas spoke with Gabriel Vecchi, Geosciences professor and Director of the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton on his assessment on this summer being the officially hottest on record. (AUDIO 1:32-17:38) Prof. Gabriel Vecchi has been selected as a 2024 American Meteorological Society Fellow Sept. 5, 2023 Author Written by The Department of Geosciences Director of the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) and Professor of Geosciences and the High Meadows Environmental Institute Gabriel Vecchi, has been selected as a 2024 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Fellow. The AMS recognizes outstanding leaders in the weather, water, and climate communities at their… Recent Publications Advanced Filters Year - Any -2023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011201020092008200720062004200320022001200019991997 AuthorTitleTypeYear DescendingAscending 6 Publications Hsieh, Tsung-Lin, Bosong Zhang, Wenchang Yang, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Ming Zhao, Brian J. Soden, and Chenggong Wang. (2023) 2023. “The Influence of Large-Scale Radiation Anomalies on Tropical Cyclone Frequency”. Journal of Climate. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0449.1. Liu, Maofeng, Brian J. Soden, Gabriel A. Vecchi, and Chenggong Wang. 2023. “The Spread of Ocean Heat Uptake Efficiency Traced to Ocean Salinity”. Geophysical Research Letters 50: e2022GL100171. doi:10.1029/2022GL100171. Rivera, Juan Antonio, Paola A. Arias, Anna A. Sörensson, Mariam Zachariah, Clair Barnes, Sjoukje Philip, Sarah Kew, et al. (2023) 2023. “2022 early‑summer Heatwave in Southern South America: 60 Times More Likely Due to Climate Change”. Climatic Change 176 (103). doi:10.1007/s10584-023-03576-3. Schenkel, Benjamin A., Daniel Chavas, Ning Lin, Thomas Knutson, Gabriel Vecchi, and Alan Brammer. (2023) 2023. “North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Outer Size and Structure Remain Unchanged by the Late Twenty-First Century”. Journal of Climate 36. Boston MA, USA: American Meteorological Society: 359-82. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0066.1. Smith, James A., Mary Lynn Baeck, Yibing Su, Maofeng Liu, and Gabriel A. Vecchi. (2023) 2023. “Strange Storms: Rainfall Extremes From the Remnants of Hurricane Ida (2021) in the Northeastern US”. Water Resources Research 59: e2022WR033934. doi:10.1029/2022WR033934. Zhang, Bosong, Brian J. Soden, and Gabriel A. Vecchi. (2023) 2023. “A Vertically Resolved Analysis of Radiative Feedbacks on Moist Static Energy Variance in Tropical Cyclones”. Journal of Climate 36 (4): 1125-41. doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0199.1. View All