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Environmental Sciences
Switzerland
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
101
Citations
32630
World Ranking
362
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Andrea Rinaldo is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with substantial contributions spanning related subfields including Ecology, Modeling and Simulation, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, among which COVID-19 epidemiological studies and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies are prominent. Other main topics include Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Zoonotic diseases and public health.

Andrea Rinaldo has published research in various scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Water Resources Research
  • Ecohydrology

Some of their recent papers demonstrate a range of interdisciplinary subjects and research approaches. Notable works include:

  • "Toward catchment hydro-biogeochemical theories," 2020, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
  • "The geography of COVID-19 spread in Italy and implications for the relaxation of confinement measures," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Transit Time Estimation in Catchments: Recent Developments and Future Directions," 2022, Water Resources Research
  • "Biological fluid dynamics of airborne COVID-19 infection," 2020, RENDICONTI LINCEI
  • "Assessing the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Switzerland," 2020, Swiss Medical Weekly

Collaboration has been an important part of Andrea Rinaldo's scientific work. Frequent co-authors include Marino Gatto, Paolo Benettin, Lorenzo Mari, Enrico Bertuzzo, and Mitra Asadollahi.

Best Publications

  • Fractal River Basins: Chance and Self-Organization

    Ignacio Rodriguez‐Iturbe;Andrea Rinaldo;Ohad Levy

  • Spread and dynamics of the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy: Effects of emergency containment measures.

    Marino Gatto;Enrico Bertuzzo;Lorenzo Mari;Stefano Miccoli

  • Size and form in efficient transportation networks

    Jayanth R. Banavar;Amos Maritan;Andrea Rinaldo;Andrea Rinaldo

  • Evolution of the global virtual water trade network

    Carole Dalin;Megan Konar;Naota Hanasaki;Andrea Rinaldo;Andrea Rinaldo

  • Nutrient loads exported from managed catchments reveal emergent biogeochemical stationarity

    Nandita B. Basu;Georgia Destouni;James W. Jawitz;Sally E. Thompson

  • Energy dissipation, runoff production, and the three-dimensional structure of river basins

    Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe;Andrea Rinaldo;Riccardo Rigon;Rafael L. Bras

  • Landscape evolution in tidal embayments: Modeling the interplay of erosion, sedimentation, and vegetation dynamics

    Andrea D'Alpaos;Stefano Lanzoni;Marco Marani;Andrea Rinaldo

  • Neutral metacommunity models predict fish diversity patterns in Mississippi–Missouri basin

    Rachata Muneepeerakul;Enrico Bertuzzo;Enrico Bertuzzo;Heather J. Lynch;William F. Fagan

  • How old is streamwater? Open questions in catchment transit time conceptualization, modelling and analysis

    J. J. McDonnell;J. J. McDonnell;K. McGuire;P. Aggarwal;K. J. Beven

  • Dendritic connectivity controls biodiversity patterns in experimental metacommunities

    Francesco Carrara;Florian Altermatt;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe;Andrea Rinaldo

  • Simulation of dispersion in heterogeneous porous formations: Statistics, first-order theories, convergence of computations

    Alberto Bellin;Paolo Salandin;Andrea Rinaldo

  • Self-organized fractal river networks.

    A. Rinaldo;I. Rodrigueziturbe;R. Rigon;E. Ijjaszvasquez

  • Statistical analysis of drainage density from digital terrain data

    Gregory E Tucker;Filippo Catani;Andrea Rinaldo;Rafael L Bras

  • Optimal Channel Networks - a Framework for the Study of River Basin Morphology

    Riccardo Rigon;Andrea Rinaldo;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe;Rafael L. Bras

  • Minimum energy and fractal structures of drainage networks

    Andrea Rinaldo;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe;Riccardo Rigon;Rafael L. Bras

  • Fractal River Basins

    Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe;Andrea Rinaldo

  • On Hack's Law

    Riccardo Rigon;Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe;Amos Maritan;Achille Giacometti

  • Catchment residence and travel time distributions: The master equation

    Gianluca Botter;Enrico Bertuzzo;Enrico Bertuzzo;Andrea Rinaldo;Andrea Rinaldo

  • Water for food: The global virtual water trade network

    M. Konar;C. Dalin;S. Suweis;S. Suweis;N. Hanasaki

  • Scaling laws for river networks

    Amos Maritan;Andrea Rinaldo;Riccardo Rigon;Achille Giacometti

Frequent Co-Authors

Enrico Bertuzzo
Enrico Bertuzzo Ca Foscari University of Venice
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe
Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe Texas A&M University
Gianluca Botter
Gianluca Botter University of Padua
Marino Gatto
Marino Gatto Polytechnic University of Milan
Marco Marani
Marco Marani University of Padua
Stefano Lanzoni
Stefano Lanzoni University of Padua
Andrea D'Alpaos
Andrea D'Alpaos University of Padua
Florian Altermatt
Florian Altermatt University of Zurich
Amilcare Porporato
Amilcare Porporato Princeton University
Marc B. Parlange
Marc B. Parlange University of Rhode Island

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