Contact Information
1301 West Green Street
M/C 104
Urbana, IL 61801
M/C 104
Urbana, IL 61801
Assistant Professor
Biography
Ph.D., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 2017
B.A., Physics, Princeton University, 2009
Research Interests
- coupled atmosphere-ocean dynamics
- climate sensitivity, clouds and radiative feedbacks.
- stochastic climate variability & climate extremes
- palaeoclimate
- statistical inference and machine learning in earth sciences
Courses Taught
ATMS 140 - Climate and Global Change
ATMS 507 - Climate Dynamics
GEOL 593/ATMS 597 - Statistical Inference and Machine Learning for Earth Sciences
Additional Campus Affiliations
Department of Geology
Highlighted Publications
- Full Publication list
- Sherwood, S. C., Webb, M. J. et al. (2020). An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence. Reviews of Geophysics, 58,e2019RG000678.
- Dong, Y., C. Proistosescu, K.C. Armour, D.S. Battisti (2019): Attributing historical and future evolution of radiative feedbacks to regional warming patterns using a Green’s function approach: The preeminence of the west Pacific. Journal of Climate. (pdf)
- Proistosescu, C., A. Donohoe, K. C. Armour, M. F. Stuecker, G. H. Roe, C. M. Bitz (2018): Radiative feedbacks from stochastic variability in surface temperature and radiative imbalance. Geophysical Research Letters. (pdf) (EOS highlight)
- Proistosescu, C., P. Huybers (2017): Slow Mode Reconciles Estimates of Climate Sensitivity from Models and Observations. Science Advances. (pdf)