CV

Education

• PhD in Meteorology (2018)

Key technical Skills

• Climate Modeling
• Computational Proficiency:
  • Python, Fortran

Appointments

• 2023- : Postdoc Research Assistant, Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Planetary Physics (AOPP), Department of Physics, University of Oxford, U.K.
• 2018-2023: Postdoc Fellow, Earth System Physics Section, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.

Research Highlights

Selected Publications and Conference Talks

• Weisheimer, A., T. Palmer, N. Leach, M. Allen, C. Roberts, M.A. Abid; CO2-induced Climate Change Assessment for the extreme 2022 Pakistan Rainfall using Seasonal Forecasts; npj Clim. and Atmos. Science, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-025-01136-3
• Raganato, A., M.A. Abid, and F. Kucharski: The combined link of the Indian Ocean dipole and ENSO with the North Atlantic-European circulation during early boreal winter in reanalysis and the ECMWF-SEAS5 hindcast. J. Climate, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-23-0703.1, 2024.
• Ruggieri, P., Abid, M.A., García-Serrano, J. et al.; SPEEDY-NEMO: performance and applications of a fully-coupled intermediate-complexity climate model. Clim. Dynamics, 62, 3763–3781. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-07097-8; 2024.
• Liu, Y., Sun, C., Li, J., Kucharski, F., Lorenzo, E.D., Abid, M.A., Li, X.; Decadal oscillation provides skillful multiyear predictions of Antarctic Sea ice. Nat. Communication 14, 8286. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44094-1; 2023.
• Ashfaq, M., Johnson, N., Kucharski, F., Diffenbaugh, N.S., Abid, M.A., et al.; The influence of natural variability on extreme monsoons in Pakistan. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 6, 148. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-023-00462-8; 2023.
• M. A. Abid, F. Kucharski, F. Molteni, M. Almazroui; Predictability of the Indian Ocean Precipitation and its North Atlantic teleconnections during early Winter; npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 10.1038/s41612-023-00328-z; 2023.
• M. A. Abid, F. Kucharski, F. Molteni, I-S. Kang, A. Tompkins, M. Almazroui; Separating Indian and Pacific Ocean impacts on the Euro-Atlantic circulation response to ENSO and its transition from early to late winter; J. Climate; 34; 1531-1548; https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0075.1; 2021.

Science Communication

• “Predicting droughts”, 2018. doi: 10.1038/nmiddleeast.2018.5.
• What Goes on in the Pacific Doesn’t stay in the Pacific, 2021 (https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2021/2/abid-and-kucharski.aspx).
• Role of ocean warming in the heatwave over the European region during 2023 summer (https://www.ansa.it/friuliveneziagiulia/notizie/2023/07/28/oceanografi-le-ondate-di-calore-non-dipendono-da-el-nino_2e84dad6-bdb6-4096-893a-d6bb6f02ef25.html
• Future of El Nino (https://www.ictp.it/news/2023/12/future-el-nino)

Interdisciplinary Experience on Climate Change