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Gabriele Curci

Gabriele Curci

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
6795
World Ranking
6808
National Ranking
133

Overview

Gabriele Curci is affiliated with the University of L'Aquila in Italy and has contributed to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular focus on Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Engineering. Their research spans multiple topics, including Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Urban Heat Island Mitigation, Building Energy and Comfort Optimization, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, and Wind and Air Flow Studies.

Curci's recent publications demonstrate a focus on climate, environmental processes, and building energy demand. Notable papers include:

  • Energy demands of buildings in the framework of climate change: An investigation across Europe, 2020, Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Direct Radiative Effect of Absorbing Aerosols: Sensitivity to Mixing State, Brown Carbon, and Soil Dust Refractive Index and Shape, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Estimating building cooling energy demand through the Cooling Degree Hours in a changing climate: A modeling study, 2021, Sustainable Cities and Society
  • Building a local climate reference dataset: Application to the Abruzzo region (Central Italy), 1930-2019, 2021, International Journal of Climatology
  • A global model-measurement evaluation of particle light scattering coefficients at elevated relative humidity, 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authors such as Serena Falasca, Ferdinando Salata, Virgilio Ciancio, Paolo Tuccella, and Luca Di Liberto. These collaborations reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their research.

Curci's research has been published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Sustainable Cities and Society
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Atmosphere
  • Atmospheric Environment

In the context of their scientific output, Curci's work addresses complex topics related to environmental and atmospheric science with implications for urban environments, climate adaptation strategies, and public health. This includes studies on aerosol properties, climate data development for regional assessment, and the energy dynamics of buildings under changing climatic conditions.

Best Publications

  • CHIMERE 2013: a model for regional atmospheric composition modelling

    Laurent Menut;Bertrand Bessagnet;D. Khvorostyanov;Matthias Beekmann

  • The AeroCom evaluation and intercomparison of organic aerosol in global models

    K. Tsigaridis;K. Tsigaridis;N. Daskalakis;N. Daskalakis;M. Kanakidou;P. J. Adams

  • Modeling of gas and aerosol with WRF/Chem over Europe: Evaluation and sensitivity study

    Paolo Tuccella;Gabriele Curci;Guido Visconti;Bertrand Bessagnet

  • Intra- and inter-annual variability of VOC emissions from natural and semi-natural vegetation in Europe and neighbouring countries.

    Rainer Steinbrecher;Gerhard Smiatek;Renate Köble;Günther Seufert

  • Evaluation of operational on-line-coupled regional air quality models over Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII phase 2. Part I: Ozone

    Ulas Im;Roberto Bianconi;Efisio Solazzo;Ioannis Kioutsioukis

  • Modelling study of the impact of isoprene and terpene biogenic emissions on European ozone levels

    G. Curci;M. Beekmann;R. Vautard;G. Smiatek

  • Evaluation of operational online-coupled regional air quality models over Europe and North America in the context of AQMEII phase 2. Part II: Particulate matter

    Ulas Im;Roberto Bianconi;Efisio Solazzo;Ioannis Kioutsioukis

  • Regional modeling of carbonaceous aerosols over Europe—focus on secondary organic aerosols

    Bertrand Bessagnet;Laurent Menut;Gabriele Curci;Alma Hodzic

  • Energy demands of buildings in the framework of climate change: An investigation across Europe

    Virgilio Ciancio;Ferdinando Salata;Serena Falasca;Serena Falasca;Gabriele Curci

  • Feedbacks between air pollution and weather, Part 1: Effects on weather

    P.A. Makar;W. Gong;J. Milbrandt;C. Hogrefe

  • Influence of the choice of gas-phase mechanism on predictions of key gaseous pollutants during the AQMEII phase-2 intercomparison

    Christoph Knote;Paolo Tuccella;Gabriele Curci;Louisa Emmons

  • Feedbacks between air pollution and weather, part 2: Effects on chemistry

    P.A. Makar;W. Gong;C. Hogrefe;Y. Zhang

  • Analysis of the WRF-Chem contributions to AQMEII phase2 with respect to aerosol radiative feedbacks on meteorology and pollutant distributions

    Renate Forkel;Alessandra Balzarini;Rocio Baró;Roberto Bianconi

  • Modeling organic aerosols during MILAGRO: importance of biogenic secondary organic aerosols

    Alma Hodzic;J.L. Jimenez;S. Madronich;A.C. Aiken

  • Estimating European volatile organic compound emissions using satellite observations of formaldehyde from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument

    G. Curci;Paul Palmer;T. P. Kurosu;K. Chance

  • High albedo materials to counteract heat waves in cities: An assessment of meteorology, buildings energy needs and pedestrian thermal comfort

    Serena Falasca;Serena Falasca;Virgilio Ciancio;Ferdinando Salata;Iacopo Golasi

  • Uncertainties of simulated aerosol optical properties induced by assumptions on aerosol physical and chemical properties: An AQMEII-2 perspective

    G. Curci;C. Hogrefe;R. Bianconi;U. Im

  • Biomass Burning Aerosol Transport and Vertical Distribution over the South African-Atlantic Region

    Sampa Das;H. Harshvardhan;Huisheng Bian;Huisheng Bian;Mian Chin

  • European atmosphere in 2050, a regional air quality and climate perspective under CMIP5 scenarios

    Augustin Colette;Bertrand Bessagnet;Robert Vautard;Sophie Szopa

  • Comparative analysis of meteorological performance of coupled chemistry-meteorology models in the context of AQMEII phase 2

    Dominik Brunner;Nicholas Savage;Oriol Jorba;Brian Eder

Frequent Co-Authors

Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero
Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero University of Murcia
Guido Pirovano
Guido Pirovano World Meteorological Organization
Renate Forkel
Renate Forkel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ulas Im
Ulas Im Aarhus University
Christian Hogrefe
Christian Hogrefe Environmental Protection Agency
Dominik Brunner
Dominik Brunner Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Alma Hodzic
Alma Hodzic National Center for Atmospheric Research
Ranjeet S. Sokhi
Ranjeet S. Sokhi University of Hertfordshire
Bertrand Bessagnet
Bertrand Bessagnet École Normale Supérieure
Efisio Solazzo
Efisio Solazzo European Food Safety Authority

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