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Environmental Sciences
Spain
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
61
Citations
14718
World Ranking
2757
National Ranking
68

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Alberto Martilli is affiliated with the Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, particularly within the field of environmental engineering.

The scientist's work spans various subfields, including environmental engineering, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, building and construction, atmospheric science, and global and planetary change.

The main topics covered by Alberto Martilli include:

  • Urban Heat Island Mitigation
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Noise Effects and Management

Frequent co-authors with whom Martilli has collaborated include:

  • E. Scott Krayenhoff
  • José Luis Santiago
  • Matthias Demuzere
  • Beatriz Sánchez
  • Benjamin Bechtel

Martilli's recent significant papers are:

  • "A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science" (2022) published in Earth System Science Data
  • "Cooling hot cities: a systematic and critical review of the numerical modelling literature" (2021) published in Environmental Research Letters
  • "A multi-layer urban canopy meteorological model with trees (BEP-Tree): Street tree impacts on pedestrian-level climate" (2020) published in Urban Climate
  • "Integrated Assessment of Urban Overheating Impacts on Human Life" (2022) published in Earth's Future
  • "Highly resolved WRF-BEP/BEM simulations over Barcelona urban area with LCZ" (2020) published in Atmospheric Research

The venues in which Martilli has frequently published include:

  • Urban Climate
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Best Publications

  • An Urban Surface Exchange Parameterisation for Mesoscale Models

    Alberto Martilli;Alain Clappier;Mathias W. Rotach

  • The integrated WRF/urban modelling system: development, evaluation, and applications to urban environmental problems

    Fei Chen;Hiroyuki Kusaka;Robert Bornstein;Jason Ching

  • The International Urban Energy Balance Models Comparison Project: First Results from Phase 1

    C.S.B. Grimmond;M. Blackett;M.J. Best;J. Barlow

  • A new building energy model coupled with an urban canopy parameterization for urban climate simulations—part I. formulation, verification, and sensitivity analysis of the model

    Francisco Salamanca;Andrea Krpo;Alberto Martilli;Alain Clappier

  • Initial results from Phase 2 of the international urban energy balance model comparison

    C.S.B. Grimmond;M. Blackett;M.J. Best;J.J. Baik

  • WUDAPT: An Urban Weather, Climate, and Environmental Modeling Infrastructure for the Anthropocene

    J. Ching;G. Mills;Benjamin Bechtel;L. See

  • A Study of the Urban Boundary Layer Using Different Urban Parameterizations and High-Resolution Urban Canopy Parameters with WRF

    Francisco Salamanca;Alberto Martilli;Mukul Tewari;Fei Chen

  • A global map of local climate zones to support earth system modelling and urban-scale environmental science

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  • A new Building Energy Model coupled with an Urban Canopy Parameterization for urban climate simulations—part II. Validation with one dimension off-line simulations

    Francisco Salamanca;Alberto Martilli

  • WUDAPT, an efficient land use producing data tool for mesoscale models? Integration of urban LCZ in WRF over Madrid

    Oscar Brousse;Alberto Martilli;Michael Foley;Gerald Mills

  • Is the Urban Heat Island intensity relevant for heat mitigation studies

    Alberto Martilli;E. Scott Krayenhoff;Negin Nazarian

  • CFD simulation of airflow over a regular array of cubes. Part I: Three-dimensional simulation of the flow and validation with wind-tunnel measurements

    Jose Luis Santiago;Alberto Martilli;Fernando Martín

  • Numerical Study of Urban Impact on Boundary Layer Structure: Sensitivity to Wind Speed, Urban Morphology, and Rural Soil Moisture

    Alberto Martilli

  • Integrated Assessment of Urban Overheating Impacts on Human Life

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  • A numerical study of the Urban Heat Island over Madrid during the DESIREX (2008) campaign with WRF and an evaluation of simple mitigation strategies

    Francisco Salamanca;Alberto Martilli;Carlos Yagüe

  • Cooling hot cities: a systematic and critical review of the numerical modelling literature

    E Scott Krayenhoff;E Scott Krayenhoff;Ashley M Broadbent;Lei Zhao;Matei Georgescu

  • A Multi-layer Radiation Model for Urban Neighbourhoods with Trees

    E. S. Krayenhoff;A. Christen;A. Martilli;T. R. Oke

  • A multi-layer urban canopy meteorological model with trees (BEP-Tree): Street tree impacts on pedestrian-level climate

    E. Scott Krayenhoff;Timothy Jiang;Andreas Christen;Alberto Martilli

  • Convectively Induced Secondary Circulations in Fine-Grid Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction Models

    J. Ching;R. Rotunno;M. LeMone;A. Martilli

  • Citywide Impacts of Cool Roof and Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Deployment on Near-Surface Air Temperature and Cooling Energy Demand

    F. Salamanca;M. Georgescu;A. Mahalov;M. Moustaoui

  • Implications of employing detailed urban canopy parameters for mesoscale climate modelling: a comparison between WUDAPT and GIS databases over Vienna, Austria.

    Kris Hammerberg;Oscar Brousse;Alberto Martilli;Ardeshir Mahdavi

  • Current research and future challenges in urban mesoscale modelling

    Alberto Martilli

  • A Dynamic Urban Canopy Parameterization for Mesoscale Models Based on Computational Fluid Dynamics Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes Microscale Simulations

    J. L. Santiago;A. Martilli

  • Trade-offs and responsiveness of the single-layer urban canopy parametrization in WRF: An offline evaluation using the MOSCEM optimization algorithm and field observations

    Thomas Loridan;C. S. B. Grimmond;Susanne Grossman-Clarke;Fei Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Fei Chen
Fei Chen National Center for Atmospheric Research
Alexander Baklanov
Alexander Baklanov University of Copenhagen
Shiguang Miao
Shiguang Miao China Meteorological Administration
C. S. B. Grimmond
C. S. B. Grimmond University of Reading
Valéry Masson
Valéry Masson Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Philippe Thunis
Philippe Thunis European Commission Joint Research Centre
James A. Voogt
James A. Voogt University of Western Ontario
Mathias W. Rotach
Mathias W. Rotach University of Innsbruck

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