Gianmaria Sannino
Global Climate Project – Ocean Modeling Unit
ENEA CR Casaccia
Bldg F19, Room 104
Sp. 91 – Via Anguillarese, 301
00060 S. Maria di Galeria (Rome)
Italy
Email: gianmaria.sannino@casaccia.enea.it
Home Page: http://clima.casaccia.enea.it/staff/sannino/
Telephone numbers: (+39) 06 3048 6799 (Work)
(+39) 06 3048 4264 (Fax)
(+39) 338 744 9208 (Personal)
Professional Experience
July – Aug 2004: Visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)- Department
of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Cambridge, Massachusetts - U.S.A.
February – Apr 2004: Visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Cambridge, Massachusetts U.S.A.
March 2000 – January 2004: Research Scientist of Physical Oceanography, Global Climate Project –
Ocean Modelling Unit, ENEA CR Casaccia, Rome, Italy.
March 1998 – February 2000: Assistant Fellow of Physical Oceanography, Computational Fluid
Dynamics Group, Inter-University Computing Consortium (CASPUR), University "La Sapienza",
Rome, Italy.
January 1997 – February 1998: Assistant Fellow of Physical Oceanography, Ocean and Atmosphere
Dynamic Group, ENEA CR Casaccia, Rome, Italy.
September 1995 – December 1997: Navy Officer (Teaching Assistant), Institute of Meteorology and
Oceanography, Italian Naval Academy, Livorno, Italy.
June 1993 – August 1993: Nautical student, Research Cruise, Ship Rigelstar, Augusta, Italy.
Education and Schools
June 2001 - The Fluid Dynamics of Coastal Seas, Closed Basins and Lakes, Grand Combin Summer
School, Course IX, St. Oyen, Italy.
September 1999 - Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics, National Summer School,
Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics (DAMPT), Cambridge University, UK. [Personal
poster]
March 1999 - Techniques of optimisation, programming languages and the environment of parallel
calculation, Inter-University Computing Consortium (CASPUR) - University La Sapienza of
Rome, Italy.
June 1997 - Ocean forecasting , Mast Advanced Study Course, Centro Marino Internazionale (IMC)
Oristano, Italy.
May 1995 - Dg, Physical Oceanography, Institute of Meteorology and Oceanography, University
Parthenope of Naples, Italy. Thesis title: Lagrangian Numerical Model in Oceanography: the
problem of the boundary conditions.
Oral Presentation and Seminars
Apr 2004 – Numerical modeling of the semidiurnal tidal exchange through the Strait of Gibraltar.
Oceanography and Climate Sack Lunch Seminars 2004, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and
Planetary Sciences (EAPS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge,
Massachusetts - U.S.A.
March 2004 – HPC parallelization of oceanographic models via high-level techniques. SCICOMP9
Cineca, Bologna, Italy. [Abstract].
July 2003 – Numerical Modeling of the tidal exchange through the Strait of Gibraltar. IUGG,
Sapporo, Japan. [Abstract].
April 2003 – Numerical Modeling of the tidal exchange through the Strait of Gibraltar. EGS-AGUEUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France. [Abstract].
May 2002 - Variability of the exchange flow through the Strait of Gibraltar: hydraulics
consideration. 2nd SINAPSI, National Conference, Portonovo, Italy [Abstract].
October 2001 - Physical processes at the Gibraltar Strait and hydrological characteristics of the
Mediterranean outflow: toward a nesting between a Mediterranean GCM and a high resolution
Gibraltar model. XXI General Assembly of the International Association for the Physical Sciences
of the Oceans (IAPSO), Mar del Plata, Argentina.
September 2001 - An hybrid OpenMp/MPI parallelization of the Princenton Ocean Model. Parallel
Parallel Computing (ParCo), Naples, Italy.
March 2001 - High resolution model of mean flows through the Strait of Gibraltar. XXVI European
Geophysical Society General Assembly (EGS), Nice, France [Abstract].
June 2000 - Parallelization of a 3D ocean model (POM). Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata e
Industriale (SIMAI), Ischia, Italy.
August 1999 - Parallelization of applications using HPF and OpenMP. The 3rd Annual HPF User
Group Meeting, Redondo Beach, California, USA [Abstract].
July 1999 - A sensitivity study of the circulation of the Alboran Sea and the Gulf of Cadiz: the
response to a realistic topography. IUGG General Assembly, Birmingham, UK [Abstract].
January 1999 - High resolution numerical model of Gibraltar Strait and surrounding sub-basin
(Alboran Sea and Gulf of Cadiz). MTP-II MATER Workshop, Paris, France.
November 1998 - A strait inflow/outflow circulation process study: the case of the Strait of
Gibraltar. International Conference on Coastal & Ocean Modelling, Valletta, Malta.
October 1998 - The high resolution numerical model of the Gibraltar Strait & Gulf of Cadiz and
Alboran Sea. 3rd MTP-II-MATER Workshop, Rhodos, Greece.
Poster Presentation
November 2002 – Variability of the hydrological characteristics of Gibraltar Strait and
Mediterranean dynamics. WOCE (World Ocean Circulation Experiment), San Antonio, Texas,
USA.
April 2002 - Numerical study of the hydraulics of the mean flow through the Strait of Gibraltar. The
2nd Meeting on the Physical Oceanography of Sea Straits, Villefranche, France. [Web page]
March 2001 - Nesting a Mediterranean OGCM with a high resolution Gibraltar model. XXVI
European Geophysical Society General Assembly, Nice, France [Abstract].
March 2001 - Modelling water masses and transport variability through the Strait of Sicily:
preliminary findings. XXVI European Geophysical Society General Assembly, Nice, France
[Abstract].
September 1998 - Implementazione di un modello numerico ad elevata risoluzione dello stretto di
Gibilterra. XIII Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Oceanologia e Limnologia,
Portonovo, Italy.
September 1998 - A numerical study of the Strait of Gibraltar. XXVI European Geophysical Society
General Assembly, Nice, France.
Papers, conference proceedings and reports
Sannino G., A. Bargagli and V. Artale (2004). Numerical modeling of the semidiurnal tidal
exchange through the Strait of Gibraltar, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 109, C05011,
doi:10.1029/2003JC002057.
Napolitano E., G. Sannino, V. Artale and S. Marullo (2003). Modelling the baroclinic circulation in
the area of the Sicily channel: the role of stratification and energy diagnostics, Journal of
Geophysical Research, Vol 108, C7.
Sannino G., A. Bargagli and V. Artale (2002). Numerical modeling of the mean exchange through
the Strait of Gibraltar, Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 107, NO. C8, 3094,
10.1029/2001JC000929. [PDF]
Sannino G., A. Bargagli and V. Artale (2002) Numerical study of the hydraulics of the mean flow
through the Strait of Gibraltar, The 2nd Meeting on the Physical Oceanography of Sea Straits,
Villefranche. [PDF] [PS] [RTF]
Sannino G., V. Artale and P. Lanucara (2001). An hybrid OpenMp/MPI parallelezation of the
Princeton Ocean Model, ParCo (Parallel Computing). [PDF] [PS]
Artale V., A. Bargagli and G. Sannino (2000). Study of the fluxes at Gibraltar Strait and its
parameterisation in the MPT Mediterranean OGCMs. Final report of the MTP-II-MATER project.
Artale V., P. Lanucara, G. Sannino (2000): Parallelizzazione di un modello oceanografico
tridimensionale (POM). Proceeding del SIMAI (Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata ed
Industriale).
Sannino G., R. Conversano, V. Artale (1998). Implementing a high resolution numerical model of
the Strait of Gibraltar, ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics),
34. [HTML]
V. Artale, R. Conversano, G. Sannino (1998). A Numerical Study of the Gibraltar Strait. Annales
Geophysicae - Part II - Hydrology, Oceans & Atmosphere. Supplement II to Volume 16, p.C593.
Rago V. and G. Sannino (1997). Two different ways to understand the internal hydraulic control in
the Strait of Gibraltar, Scientific Report of the First European Conference on Progress in
Oceanography of the Mediterranean Sea, Rome, November 17-19, 1997, Research in enclosed seas
series-3, EUR 18312 EN, p.163.
Personal
Born January 6, 1970 in Naples, Italy
Italian Citizen