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Attilio Castellarin

Attilio Castellarin

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
51
Citations
10227
World Ranking
4717
National Ranking
76

Overview

Attilio Castellarin is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of environmental science, focusing primarily on flood risk assessment and hydrology. Their work spans several key subfields including global and planetary change, water science and technology, and atmospheric science.

Their research outputs cover a range of topics central to understanding hydrological processes and flood management, including:

  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Climate Variability and Models
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes

Attilio Castellarin has published in several notable scientific journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Water Resources Research
  • Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • Water
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Environmental Modelling & Software

Recent publications reflect a focus on flood modelling, vulnerability estimation, and statistical approaches to hydrological extremes. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Stationary vs non-stationary modelling of flood frequency distribution across northwest England," 2021, Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • "A probabilistic approach to estimating residential losses from different flood types," 2020, Natural Hazards
  • "Comparative analysis of scalar upper tail indicators," 2020, Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • "Comparison of two modelling strategies for 2D large-scale flood simulations," 2021, Environmental Modelling & Software
  • "Exposure and vulnerability estimation for modelling flood losses to commercial assets in Europe," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

The scientist has collaborated frequently with co-authors such as Alessio Domeneghetti, Simone Persiano, Juraj Párajka, Markus Hrachowitz, and Andreas Langousis, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods

    Günter Blöschl;Julia Hall;Alberto Viglione;Alberto Viglione;Rui A P Perdigão

  • Changing climate shifts timing of European floods

    Günter Blöschl;Julia Hall;Juraj Parajka;Rui A. P. Perdigão

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • Regional flow-duration curves: reliability for ungauged basins

    Attilio Castellarin;Giorgio Galeati;Luigia Brandimarte;Alberto Montanari

  • Assessing the effectiveness of hydrological similarity measures for flood frequency analysis

    A. Castellarin;D.H. Burn;A. Brath

  • A look at the links between drainage density and flood statistics

    B. Pallard;A. Castellarin;A. Montanari

  • Assessing rating-curve uncertainty and its effects on hydraulic model calibration

    Alessio Domeneghetti;Attilio Castellarin;Armando Brath

  • Comparing 2D capabilities of HEC-RAS and LISFLOOD-FP on complex topography

    Iuliia Shustikova;Alessio Domeneghetti;Jeffrey C. Neal;Paul Bates

  • Documentary evidence of past floods in Europe and their utility in flood frequency estimation

    T R Kjeldsen;Neil Macdonald;Michel Lang;Luis Mediero

  • Predicting annual and long-term flow-duration curves in ungauged basins

    Attilio Castellarin;Giorgio Camorani;Armando Brath

  • Probabilistic flood hazard mapping: effects of uncertain boundary conditions

    A. Domeneghetti;S. Vorogushyn;A. Castellarin;B. Merz

  • Optimal Cross-Sectional Spacing in Preissmann Scheme 1D Hydrodynamic Models

    A. Castellarin;G. Di Baldassarre;P. D. Bates;A. Brath

  • Analysis of the effects of levee heightening on flood propagation: example of the River Po, Italy

    G. Di Baldassarre;Attilio Castellarin;Armando Brath

  • Uncertainty in hydrological signatures for gauged and ungauged catchments

    Ida K. Westerberg;Thorsten Wagener;Gemma Coxon;Hilary K. McMillan;Hilary K. McMillan

  • Probability-weighted hazard maps for comparing different flood risk management strategies: a case study

    Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Giuliano Di Baldassarre;Attilio Castellarin;Alberto Montanari;Armando Brath

  • Application of GPR to the monitoring of river embankments

    Monica Di Prinzio;Marco Bittelli;Attilio Castellarin;Paola Rossi Pisa

  • Effects of land-use changes on the hydrologic response of reclamation systems

    Giorgio Camorani;Attilio Castellarin;Armando Brath

  • A stochastic index-flow model of flow duration curves

    Attilio Castellarin;Richard M. Vogel;Armando Brath

  • The use of remote sensing-derived water surface data for hydraulic model calibration

    Alessio Domeneghetti;Angelica Tarpanelli;Luca Brocca;Silvia Barbetta

  • Probabilistic envelope curves for design flood estimation at ungauged sites

    Attilio Castellarin

  • Testing empirical and synthetic flood damage models: the case of Italy

    Mattia Amadio;Anna Rita Scorzini;Francesca Carisi;Arthur H. Essenfelder

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Montanari
Alberto Montanari University of Bologna
Alberto Viglione
Alberto Viglione Polytechnic University of Turin
Ross Woods
Ross Woods University of Bristol
Hubert H. G. Savenije
Hubert H. G. Savenije Delft University of Technology
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Giuliano Di Baldassarre Uppsala University
Demetris Koutsoyiannis
Demetris Koutsoyiannis National Technical University of Athens
Martyn P. Clark
Martyn P. Clark University of Saskatchewan
András Bárdossy
András Bárdossy University of Stuttgart

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