Dr. Assia Arouf is broadly interested in Earth's climate system, with a focus on clouds. Her research aims to better understand the cloud radiative effect and cloud feedback. She typically works with satellite observations, in combination with radiative transfer codes and climate models, aiming to improve our understanding of clouds and climate projections.
Dr. Arouf is currently a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR), Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA GISS) in the city of New York. She is Co-President of Columbia University Postdoctoral Society (CUPS).
Dr. Arouf received her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from Sorbonne Université (Paris) and the work was conducted at Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD). She did her masters in Remote Sensing at Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) and Université Paris Cité in France and her undergrad at Institut d’Aéronautique et des Etudes Spatiales (IAES) in Algeria.