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Gabriele Villarini

Gabriele Villarini

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
82
Citations
23050
World Ranking
888
National Ranking
388

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2016 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Gabriele Villarini is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and focuses research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work is situated at the intersection of climate science, hydrology, and atmospheric phenomena, exploring how environmental processes and climate variability impact water systems and extreme weather events.

The main fields of study associated with Villarini include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Key subfields within their research portfolio incorporate:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Oceanography

Their research covers a range of interconnected topics, specifically:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Villarini has contributed to several frequent publication venues, reflecting a substantial presence in relevant scientific communities:

  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • International Journal of Climatology
  • HydroShare Resources
  • Earth's Future

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Villarini include:

  • "Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes," 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Responses and impacts of atmospheric rivers to climate change," 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • "Hybrid forecasting: blending climate predictions with AI models," 2023, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • "Global Changes in 20-Year, 50-Year, and 100-Year River Floods," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Towards advancing scientific knowledge of climate change impacts on short-duration rainfall extremes," 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Frequent co-authors in Villarini's research include:

  • Hanbeen Kim
  • Wei Zhang
  • Alexander Michalek
  • Yves Tramblay
  • Felipe Quintero

Throughout the scientific career, Villarini has received recognition such as the Fellow of the American Geophysical Union awarded in 2016 and the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union in the same year.

Best Publications

  • Anthropogenic intensification of short-duration rainfall extremes

    Hayley J. Fowler;Geert Lenderink;Andreas F. Prein;Seth Westra

  • Urbanization exacerbated the rainfall and flooding caused by hurricane Harvey in Houston.

    Wei Zhang;Gabriele Villarini;Gabriel Andres Vecchi;James A. Smith

  • The changing nature of flooding across the central United States

    Iman Mallakpour;Gabriele Villarini

  • Global Projections of Intense Tropical Cyclone Activity for the Late Twenty-First Century from Dynamical Downscaling of CMIP5/RCP4.5 Scenarios

    Thomas R. Knutson;Joseph J. Sirutis;Ming Zhao;Robert E. Tuleya

  • On the stationarity of annual flood peaks in the continental United States during the 20th century

    Gabriele Villarini;Francesco Serinaldi;James A. Smith;Witold F. Krajewski

  • Rainfall and sampling uncertainties: A rain gauge perspective

    Gabriele Villarini;Pradeep V. Mandapaka;Witold F. Krajewski;Robert J. Moore

  • Flood frequency analysis for nonstationary annual peak records in an urban drainage basin

    Gabriele Villarini;James A. Smith;Francesco Serinaldi;Jerad Bales

  • Monitoring and Understanding Changes in Heat Waves, Cold Waves, Floods, and Droughts in the United States: State of Knowledge

    Thomas C. Peterson;Richard R. Heim;Robert Hirsch;Dale P. Kaiser

  • Review of the Different Sources of Uncertainty in Single Polarization Radar-Based Estimates of Rainfall

    Gabriele Villarini;Witold F. Krajewski

  • On the Seasonal Forecasting of Regional Tropical Cyclone Activity

    G. A. Vecchi;T. Delworth;R. Gudgel;S. Kapnick

  • Dynamical Downscaling Projections of Twenty-First-Century Atlantic Hurricane Activity: CMIP3 and CMIP5 Model-Based Scenarios

    Thomas R. Knutson;Joseph J. Sirutis;Gabriel A. Vecchi;Stephen Garner

  • Winter floods in Britain are connected to atmospheric rivers

    David A. Lavers;Richard P. Allan;Eric F. Wood;Gabriele Villarini

  • The nexus between atmospheric rivers and extreme precipitation across Europe

    David A. Lavers;Gabriele Villarini

  • The detection of atmospheric rivers in atmospheric reanalyses and their links to British winter floods and the large-scale climatic circulation

    David A. Lavers;Gabriele Villarini;Gabriele Villarini;Richard P. Allan;Eric F. Wood

  • Responses and impacts of atmospheric rivers to climate change

    Ashley E. Payne;Marie-Estelle Demory;L. Ruby Leung;Alexandre M. Ramos

  • Flood peak distributions for the eastern United States

    Gabriele Villarini;James A. Smith

  • The contribution of atmospheric rivers to precipitation in Europe and the United States

    David A. Lavers;Gabriele Villarini

  • On the frequency of heavy rainfall for the Midwest of the United States

    Gabriele Villarini;James A. Smith;Mary Lynn Baeck;Renato Vitolo

  • Product-Error-Driven Uncertainty Model for Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Estimation with NEXRAD Data

    Grzegorz J. Ciach;Witold F. Krajewski;Gabriele Villarini

  • Contribution of Tropical Cyclones to Rainfall at the Global Scale

    Abdou Khouakhi;Gabriele Villarini;Gabriel A. Vecchi

  • North Atlantic Power Dissipation Index (PDI) and Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE): Statistical Modeling and Sensitivity to Sea Surface Temperature Changes

    Gabriele Villarini;Gabriel A. Vecchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel A. Vecchi
Gabriel A. Vecchi Princeton University
Witold F. Krajewski
Witold F. Krajewski University of Iowa
Hiroyuki Murakami
Hiroyuki Murakami National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Mary Lynn Baeck
Mary Lynn Baeck Princeton University
Enrico Scoccimarro
Enrico Scoccimarro Central Maine Community College
Thomas L. Delworth
Thomas L. Delworth Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Fanrong Zeng
Fanrong Zeng Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Ming Zhao
Ming Zhao Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Andrew T. Wittenberg
Andrew T. Wittenberg Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Anthony Rosati
Anthony Rosati National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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