I am a PhD candidate in the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences program at Princeton University, working with Prof. Gabriel Vecchi. I am interested in how changes in climate affect extreme rainfall and temperature events. My research draws on observations and numerical models for insight into past & future climates.
I am an HMEI-STEP (Science, Technology, & Environmental Policy) graduate fellow.
Previously, I worked with Prof. Juan Lora in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University.
Scientific publications
Menemenlis, S., Vecchi, G.A., Yang, W. et al. (2025). Consequential differences in satellite-era sea surface temperature trends across datasets. Nat. Clim. Chang. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02362-6. View here.
Rush, W. D., Lora, J. M., Skinner, C. B., Menemenlis, S., Shields, C. A., & 20 others. (2025). Atmospheric river detection under changing seasonality and mean-state climate: ARTMIP tier 2 paleoclimate experiments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130, e2024JD042222. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD042222.
Raghuraman, SP., Soden, B., Clement, A., Vecchi, G. A., Menemenlis, S., Yang, W. (2024). The 2023 global warming spike was driven by El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 24 (19), 11275-11283. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-11275-2024, 2024.
Menemenlis, S., Vecchi, G. A., Gao, K., Smith, J. A., Cheng, K. (2024). Extreme rainfall risk in Hurricane Ida’s aftermath: an analysis with convection-permitting ensemble hindcasts. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 81, 1165–79. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-23-0160.1.
Menemenlis, S., White, S. M., Ibarra, D. E., Lora, J. M. (2022). A proxy-model comparison for mid-Pliocene warm period hydroclimate in the Southwestern US. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 596, 117803. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117803.
Menemenlis, S., Lora, J. M., Lofverstrom, M., Chandan, D. (2021). Influence of stationary waves on mid-Pliocene atmospheric rivers and hydroclimate. Global and Planetary Change 204, 103557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103557.