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Jonathan Spinoni is affiliated with the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on Global and Planetary Change, a subfield in which they have published extensively, alongside contributions to Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Water Science and Technology, and Ecology.

The scientist's work spans several topics including Climate variability and models, Hydrology and Drought Analysis, Fire effects on ecosystems, Climate change impacts on agriculture, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, and Tree-ring climate responses.

Jonathan Spinoni has contributed to the academic community through publications in various journals. The frequent venues of their work include:

  • International Journal of Climatology
  • Environmental Research Climate
  • Nature Communications
  • Earth system science data
  • Global and Planetary Change

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Jonathan Spinoni are:

  • "Emergent vulnerability to climate-driven disturbances in European forests," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "A spatially explicit database of wind disturbances in European forests over the period 2000-2018," 2020, Earth system science data
  • "How will the progressive global increase of arid areas affect population and land-use in the 21st century?" 2021, Global and Planetary Change
  • "A revision of the Combined Drought Indicator (CDI) used in the European Drought Observatory (EDO)," 2021, Natural hazards and earth system sciences
  • "Global exposure of population and land-use to meteorological droughts under different warming levels and SSPs: A CORDEX-based study," 2021, International Journal of Climatology

Jonathan Spinoni collaborates regularly with several researchers, including Alessandro Dosio, Andrea Toreti, Paulo Barbosa, Niall McCormick, and J. Vogt, with multiple joint publications reflecting ongoing scientific partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Will drought events become more frequent and severe in Europe

    Jonathan Spinoni;Jürgen V. Vogt;Gustavo Naumann;Paulo Marinho Ferreira Barbosa

  • World drought frequency, duration, and severity for 1951-2010

    Jonathan Spinoni;Gustavo Naumann;Hugo Carrao;Paulo Barbosa

  • Global Changes in Drought Conditions Under Different Levels of Warming

    Gustavo Naumann;L. Alfieri;K. Wyser;L. Mentaschi

  • Future global meteorological drought hot spots: A study based on CORDEX data

    Jonathan Spinoni;Paulo Barbosa;Edoardo Bucchignani;John Cassano

  • A new global database of meteorological drought events from 1951 to 2016.

    Jonathan Spinoni;Paulo Barbosa;Alfred De Jager;Niall McCormick

  • The biggest drought events in Europe from 1950 to 2012

    Jonathan Spinoni;Gustavo Naumann;Jürgen V. Vogt;Paulo Marinho Ferreira Barbosa

  • Emergent vulnerability to climate-driven disturbances in European forests

    Giovanni Forzieri;Marco Girardello;Guido Ceccherini;Jonathan Spinoni

  • Pan-European Seasonal Trends and recent changes of drought frequency and severity

    Jonathan Spinoni;Gustavo Naumann;Jürgen V. Vogt

  • Climate of the Carpathian Region in the period 1961–2010: climatologies and trends of 10 variables

    Jonathan Spinoni;Sandor Szalai;Tamás Szentimrey;Monika Lakatos

  • European drought climatologies and trends based on a multi-indicator approach

    Jonathan Spinoni;Gustavo Naumann;Jürgen Vogt;Paulo Barbosa

  • Changes of heating and cooling degree‐days in Europe from 1981 to 2100

    Jonathan Spinoni;Jürgen V. Vogt;Paulo Barbosa;Alessandro Dosio

  • Towards identifying areas at climatological risk of desertification using the Köppen–Geiger classification and FAO aridity index

    Jonathan Spinoni;Jürgen Vogt;Gustavo Naumann;Hugo Carrao

  • Mapping monthly rainfall erosivity in Europe

    Cristiano Ballabio;Pasquale Borrelli;Jonathan Spinoni;Katrin Meusburger

  • Towards estimates of future rainfall erosivity in Europe based on REDES and WorldClim datasets.

    Panos Panagos;Cristiano Ballabio;Katrin Meusburger;Jonathan Spinoni

  • European degree‐day climatologies and trends for the period 1951–2011

    J. Spinoni;J. Vogt;P. Barbosa

  • Heat and cold waves trends in the Carpathian Region from 1961 to 2010

    Jonathan Spinoni;Monika Lakatos;Tamás Szentimrey;Zita Bihari

  • An overview of drought events in the Carpathian Region in 1961–2010

    J. Spinoni;T. Antofie;P. Barbosa;Z. Bihari

  • High-resolution temperature climatology for Italy: interpolation method intercomparison

    M. Brunetti;M. Maugeri;T. Nanni;C. Simolo

  • How will the progressive global increase of arid areas affect population and land-use in the 21st century?

    Jonathan Spinoni;Paulo Barbosa;Michael Cherlet;Giovanni Forzieri

  • A spatially explicit database of wind disturbances in European forests over the period 2000–2018

    Giovanni Forzieri;Matteo Pecchi;Marco Girardello;Achille Mauri

  • A high-resolution 19611990 monthly temperature climatology for the greater Alpine region

    Johann Hiebl;Ingeborg Auer;Reinhard Böhm;Wolfgang Schöner

  • Projecting North Eastern Italy temperature and precipitation secular records onto a high-resolution grid

    M. Brunetti;G. Lentini;M. Maugeri;T. Nanni

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Vogt
Jürgen Vogt European Commission
Alessandro Dosio
Alessandro Dosio Joint Research Centre
Maurizio Maugeri
Maurizio Maugeri University of Milan
Alessandro Cescatti
Alessandro Cescatti European Union
Luc Feyen
Luc Feyen Stanford University
Michele Brunetti
Michele Brunetti Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
Pieter S. A. Beck
Pieter S. A. Beck Woods Hole Research Center
Wolfgang Schöner
Wolfgang Schöner University of Graz
Cristiano Ballabio
Cristiano Ballabio University of Milan
Katrin Meusburger
Katrin Meusburger Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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